Sentences with phrase «relationship with creation»

So the basic Christian affirmation is that God is both the creative energy in all things, whose sovereign rule includes the whole world in its sweep, and also the living God who can and does enter into relationship with creation.

• I believe in a God who deeply loves, understands, and desires for relationship with His creation.

Alternatively, Pope Francis» call to a cooperative (fraternal) relationship with creation highlights potential solutions to fossil fuels; «Fraternal love can only be gratuitous... That is why it is possible to love our enemies.

God knew that without a true will there could be no true love; and God, desiring to have loving relationships with His creation, decided that the gift of a true will to His creatures was worth the risk.

God is bound by love and grace; — God is bound by the conditions imposed by the act of creation by a God of love and grace; — and God is bound by the conditions imposed by a God of love and grace being in relationship with creation.

I agree in theory with what you are saying, (and with what Tony says in his comment) about the natural world helping us understand God's relationship with His creation.

Hence we have every right to think that in that dynamic life which is unsurpassable and hence divine there is, not a becoming more divine, which would be absurd, but an increasing capacity for finding occasions through which God may employ, in one way or another, that which is always remembered; and also, in this very action as it continues on in God's relationship with creation, a growing acceptance of those who have contributed to the cosmic enterprise of love at work in creation.

What is our Relationship with Creation?

Isn't the gospel, indeed the whole of scripture, the story of God's relationship with his creation, in particular humans?

I believe that God can be in control without controlling and that he desires a relationship with his creation that involves some degree of freedom.

That is an idea that is associated with ancient tyrannies and despotisms and is fallacious when applied to God's relationship with the creation.

In Psalm 104 and in Job 38 - 40 we get a glimpse of God's relationship with creation, independent of humans, and in creation itself we begin to see the depths of God's creativity.

Furthermore, when God is thus conceived, God does not have a real, but only a logical, relationship with that creation; God is not affected by it in any important way.

It is a gift of God that has to be constantly maintained by doing «justice», i.e. by keeping loyalty to the requirement of the relationships with creation, the community, the family (for instance, the jubilee).

They began with development work on cheese in September 2010 and have now decided to formalise the relationship with the creation of a dairy innovation centre at Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark.