Sentences with phrase «same god carrying»

Not exact matches

Nineveh was due to be demolished by God for the same reason so God sent Jonah to warn them what would happen if they carried on — but THEY listened and changed their ways and were SAVED.

To imply that this was suggesting «monogamy / fidelity» as the only standard for believers is reaching well beyond the text... even if we were to accept that Paul's mandates carried the same weight as God's.

The God who is Judge in the New Testament, the God who appoints his Christ to carry out his judgment, is the same Yahweh who showed himself as God by hearing the cries of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Of course, there are other occasions in which Christians could properly be gathered — for prayer, for the Gospel, for Bible study, etc.; however, these gatherings are not the same as the Lord's Supper and don't carry the same worshipful circumstances (of course, Christians should always be worshipful of God — as should all men).

I can replace «God» with «Easter Bunny» in your post, and it would carry the same authority.

I suspect most Americans are Deists... which in and of itself carries several variations The short list is strict Deist; no involvement by God in daily things (wind the clock and let it tick down), Christian Deist; believeing in the goodness of Jesus Christ and following his ways, but not acknowleding his divinity (same could be said for any number of historical figures), and those Deists who believe God does intervene on occasion in the world.

Mike, not me has just used your abhorrence at the idea of carrying out an act that his god specifically commands as an argument that you have instilled in you an objective sense of right and wrong... of which that same god is the source.

In Metz's words, political theology «tries to carry out the same task that Christian theology has always carried out — that of speaking about God by making the connection between the Christian message and the modern world».

Do I simply shrug my shoulders with everyone else and say «Oh well, it wasn't the will of God then» and carry on with the same set of beliefs, unrefined, same preconceptions and do the same the next time?

The phrase «Son of God with power» there carries much the same ideas as the phrase «Lord and Christ» in the Jerusalem kerygma, for its significance is Messianic rather than properly theological.

In reality the highest concepts of her neighbors are so fully carried over that one could easily confuse the situation and regard Yahweh as a God of mountain and earthquake and storm and fertility in just the same sense as for the others.

I don't see how God could have carried them out, but at the same time, I don't see how to understand the text if He didn't.

The incident with the man carrying the bedroll is the exact opposite to the woman caught in adultery her issue was sin the paralysed mans issue is something completely different.The incident of the man carrying the bedroll gives it away jesus highlights it because it is rediculous they have turned Gods laws in to petty man made laws.so the danger for him is self righteousness to become like they were followers of the law but not followers of God that is the danger that we all face either to come to terms with the sin in our lives and or come to terms with our pride and self righteousness the answer to both is the same deny the flesh and walk by the spirit and go and sin no more.That way we evade these traps of the flesh.

«Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God.

Even as God's work as Creator is in the deeper interest of every creature in a cosmic order that frees it to realize its own interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all its fellow creatures, so right actions toward others and, even more so, right structures of social and cultural order are byway of realizing the same deeper interest, thereby carrying forward God's own work of creation.

Carried to the extreme, this objection renders utterly irrelevant the question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God (which, it should now be clear, is not the most helpful way to pose the issue).

Because your rationalization for your faith is exactly the same type as the Muslims and Hindus use, no god belief ever comes out on top — it's the belief that carries the placebo effect, not the specific religion or god..

I was recently talking with someone about the violence of God in the Bible and I pointed out that we Christians have no problem condemning the violence that Allah commands Muslims to carry out in his name... why is it okay for God to tell His people to carry out that same sort of violence?

These writers believed themselves to be inspired by the Spirit and called as teachers, and their writings, argues Wright, «were not simply about the coming of God's Kingdom into all the world; they were, and were designed to be, part of the means whereby that happened... Those who read these writings discovered, from very early on, that the books themselves carried the same power, the same authority in action, that had characterized the initial preaching of the «word.»

A famous compromise was agreed: «The Electors, Princes, Estates of the Empire and the ambassadors of the same... while awaiting the sitting of a Council or a national assembly, agreed... each one to live, govern, and carry himself as he hopes and trusts to answer for it to God and his Imperial Majesty.»

Moses descends the mountain carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the Decalogue, presumably («the writing was the writing of God,» v. 16); sees what has occurred (Joshua suddenly appears again, cf. 24:13); and in fury breaks the tablets, symbolizing the covenant which Israel has in the same way just shattered.

«That modern secular individuals are prone to cling on to beliefs about science, in the same way that their ancestors turned to the gods,» they write in their paper, «carries no judgment on the value of science as a method but simply highlights the human motivation to believe.»

However, according to medical research this kind of spiritual approach is effective only when combined with a sincere faith in a powerful but at the same time loving and carrying God.

(our younger 3 kids are Haitian; ages 16, 17 and 18) With our 1st adoption it was so significant to read in our son's medical history that the week his birth mom's pregnancy was confirmed was the very same week we began to pray for the baby God would give us and the woman carrying our baby.