and heres the real radical stuff as they are in complete disobeidince jugding everyone and their brother, they are assuming not only His rightousness, they are assuming His word, the only time they are speaking the truth is when they are
repeating Gods word.
Not exact matches
Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the
word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by
repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in
God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a
God, I don't think
God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were
God is, also I think that
God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?
And since I'm not perfect, I fall pretty often, not always with big things but little things too, But if, as you describe, you are simply
repeating the
words with no heart behind it,
God certainly knows the difference.
In other
words, you would need to
repeat the experiment using the Son of
God.
Our English
words «tempt» and «temptation,» as a matter of fact, were used in that sense when the KJV was made, as in the
repeated statement that the Israelites tempted
God (e.g., Ex 17:7), or the story of the lawyer (Lk 10:25) who tempted Jesus (RSV «put him to the test»).
In our daily prayer for ourselves and for our people, let us
repeat the
words of Gregory and grow in hunger for this perfect union with
God:
The author encouraged people to
repeat a short phrase or single
word to foster loving attention on
God.
It involves stilling the mind by focusing on a simple
word or phrase that is
repeated with every breath, such as «maranatha», «love», or — Shaun's preferred focus — the Jesus prayer: «Lord Jesus Christ, Son of
God, have mercy on me, a sinner.»
The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the
word «
God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply
repeating an archaic form of
words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.
I am
repeating some of what others have already said in this blog but also including scripture which I think is always important when we voice an opinion based on
God's
word.
Imagine that instead of praying to «Father
God» two men, Theo and Andrew are having a conversation where Andrew
repeats Theo's name every few
words.
Now the same story is being
repeated against the Seal of Prophets of
God and the
Words of the Message of
God which was this Prophet only miracle that
God has sent him with if compared with the line of Prophets and messengers that came before him..!
Through every man's sin, sin comes into the world; that is, through every individual's failure to respond in faith to the creative
Word of
God, the sin of Adam and Eve is
repeated once again.
«you are here / for now and future / change as I understand the
Word of
God / institutional answer / no listening, and more institutional answer / entrench and reject, or entrench and create co-dependence /
repeat as needed.»
Still, it is not wrong theologically when the synagogue chose to
repeat the promise of 66:23 after v. 24 in order to bear testimony that the worship of the one true
God by his faithful has the last
word.»
The text that encloses the truth of the
Word of
God is never so exact that it only bears
repeating.
All it takes is to
repeat your own
words back to you, just with the
word «
God» replaced with «other minds and evidence», which are simply 2 examples of things you believe with blind faith.
Man has been so created by
God that he can become man only by perceiving
God, by receiving
God's
Word and — like a soldier
repeating a command —
repeating God's
Word.
Hence the priest who preaches must give attention not only to the
Word of
God as though
repeating sacred
words would in itself be efficacious, but also to the
words of man.
And he called it thus not only when beauty and hope helped him to overcome the incomprehensibility of existence in this world, but also when he met the darkness of death and the cup in which was distilled all the guilt, vanity - and emptiness of this world was placed at his lips and he could only
repeat the desperate
words of the Psalmist: «My
God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me!»
We were told, in big letters and
repeated signs, that one could either start with «Man's Reason» or «
God's
Word.»
I'm seeing a pattern of double speak, instead of glorifying Christ you are
repeating words like He is the Son of
God, then «double speak» say it carries no weight that He is the Messiah, is the Son of
God, shed willingly His GodDNA blood to once for all cleanse us from sins.
One becomes a Muslim by
repeating the
Word of Witness, «I witness that there is no
God but Allah and that Muhammad is His Prophet,» and accepting the Fundamentals: belief in the existence and oneness of
God, in Angels, in the Qur» an as the revelation of
God, in the Prophets, in the Day of Judgment, and in the Divine Order.
He begins with the
words of the Bible, and as these
words are
repeated they become our
words and free us to speak to
God out of our deepest self.
And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the
repeated encounter of the
Word of
God, which proclaims the act of
God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.
It is bound to
repeat in its services
words and actions which recall the great divine Event out of which it arose; and these have proved their power, even in its worst periods, to shake men with the sense that they are confronted by
God in His judgement and His mercy, and to drive them to a decision.
The explanation of Isaac's name (from a
word meaning «laughter») is thrice
repeated (17:17, 18:12; 21:2) as is Ishmael's («
God hears» 16:11; 17:20; 21:17).
In the last analysis we must simply
repeat the familiar
words of St. John's Gospel: «There was a man sent from
God whose name was Giovanni.»
Mbaga Tuzinde, the seventeen year old, son of the chief executioner, remained faithful to
God,
repeating the
words «I am a Christian» when his kinsfolk wanted to save him.
In fact, the
words of a prophet were seen as having the very authority of
God himself as seen by the oft
repeated words, «Thus says the Lord...» It was taken for granted that a prophet who spoke for
God did not lie and if he did, in such a case he clearly wasn't a prophet of Yahweh.
The stunned author is so jolted by the fact that Ruby materializes out of thin air that he endlessly
repeats the
words: «Oh, my
God, Wow, What's happening?»
To
repeat myself, many people want certainties to persuade them, and those science does not to have to offer; science is a human project, not the
word of
god.