Sentences with phrase «sky god from»
Why do white people in 21st century America think a middle - eastern sky god from 6,000 cares about them?
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It's almost as if the music gods came down from the sky and said «Autotune users will be jailed,» or city bureaucrats posted a «Skateboarders will be prosecuted» sign on my driveway.
Have those mushrooms fall from the sky like mana from the gods!
Q. 4 It is only acceptable as an adult to believe childish Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine by magic, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:
«Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures of which man was the last created then God rested from creation.
The order of creation reads better as spiritual poetry which rings true yet I assume your issue is related to current physical and cosmological order: Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures of which man was the last created then God rested from creation.
Let me get this straight: You believe that a couple of thousand years ago an invisible man in the sky impregnated a virgin girl in the middle east, had a half - god / half - man son who traveled around doing magic tricks, and then rose from the dead and is now constantly watching all of us to see if we'll get pie in the sky when we die?
LIE; god made the earth and sky in seven days... LIE; manna rained from heaven... LIE; moses parted the red sea... LIE; the bible is all true because it says so... LIE.
A devastating question if we think of God as an old man in the sky with a long white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»
When a President (Bush) utilizes his military to invade another country (Iraq) and cause the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians all because he believed his god told him it was the right thing to do... yeah, I think we have a right to bash people who take direction from invisible sky fairies.
Most of the gods are transparent to their natural origins: Agni from fire, Soma from the wine, Usas from the dawn, Dyaus and Varuna from the sky, Surya and Savitri from the sun, the Asvins (twins) from the twilight, and so forth.
Dirt, if quoting from your bible and sincerely interpreting what it says is a crime in the eyes of your nasty sky fairy, and if your god is as murderous and evil as your folklore shows him to be then I feel that I can fairly call your «god» an ASS HOLE.
But when Elijah called the only and true God fire fell from the sky and they all recognized that jehova was the only God it was too late for them.
Notice the size of this text: it moves from the revelation of God in heavens, sky and sun (vv.
For god so loved the world that he said «I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.»
While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).
From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable; for he will never feel himself sufficiently dominated by the powers of the earth and the skies to be brought under God's yoke as completely as he would wish.
just raise your head 45 degrees into the sky and be stunned from the creator, God, seeing the vast universe around us and how everything is calcuated in a precise way such that the whole universe is sustained.
For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?
First, young Christians are increasingly turning away from the supernatural nonsesnse of religion (immortality, mind reading, sky - gods, talking snakes etc.) and no longer buy into the core morality of the evangelicals on important issues like gay rights and $ exual mores.
Pretty simple for me, I could easily believe in gods existance with just a few miracles performed, big booming voice from the sky, ect..
I, The Lionly Lamb do respond and write, «Faith is this «make - believe» and your «sky - god (s)» thru which the Lost might find their Way from the depths of hurt and despair, oh well intended and kind Colin.
If you want more precision, I believe the Sumerian's history about «Gods coming from the sky».
I mean sure if you look at the bible there's direct intervention, but we haven't seen a spiral of fire come from the sky in over 2000 years so its pretty safe to as.sume at this point god is working «behind the curtain» right?
Oh, and a supernovae that appears suddenly in the sky, and remains for several months, is a sign from God!
We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the sky, plagues and pestilence.
Some such secondary goods may follow from worship, but if these become the aim and purpose of worship, the worshiper instrumentalizes God to other ends, thus diminishing God to what God is not, the great slot machine in the sky.
Never mind all that data collected and analysis done by scientists over the last 300 years, I choose to believe in a magic invisible sky man who created the Earth in 6 days, one who keeps me under surveillance 24 hours a day 7 days a week from the time I'm born until the time I die because I'm just that important to him, a god who will convict me of thoughtcrime, even while I'm asleep, if I should ever doubt his existence.
Our problems don't go away unless we get help from other humans or take action for ourselves... there's no God in the sky that does a dam thing about our prayers.
Keep looking, though; don't stop at: «Lightning just * has to be * a display of anger from a god in the sky, and there's absolutely no other way to explain it».
I wonder if we will ever get to the point as a nation where the vast majority of us DO NOT believe in Iron Age myths from the Middle East about sky - gods and evil ground spirits.
When I took questions, the first one was from a pastor in the back of the room who said, «Yes, Professor Fredriksen, but now that Saddam Hussein is raining nerve gas down on Israel, now that he's the power from the north raining fire from the sky on God's elect, isn't it clear that now is the time of the Second Coming?»
Sitting next to a soot - covered survivor on a bench who was screaming hysterically as bodies rained from the sky, a pastor's wife (who had just escaped from Tower One) takes her hand and quotes Romans 8: «Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.»
Wow people still drinking blood from a sacrificed child of «god» (Jesus), mutilating little boys d1cks and little girls cl1ts all in the name of their made up bearded man in the sky.
I've often envied those folks scattered through the scriptures who find their operating instructions from God full - formed in the sky above.
If you get pleasure from calling me out for my beliefs and calling God a sky fairy, I hope it helps you through your day, but it won't change how I think or act.
Jesus Christ is the Master who can comfort and strengthen a man, a laborer and working man whose life is hard — because he is the great man of sorrows who knows our ills... and God wills that in imitation of Christ, man should live humbly and go through life not reaching for the sky, but adapting himself to the earth below, learning from the Gospel to be meek and simple of heart.
4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.
We don't want to take your beliefs away from you, quite the contrary, we don't really care if you believe in the mythical sky god, what we care about is when you want to force your beliefs on everyone else.
When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.
What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:
Yeah, so you're an average American «feeling» the presence of a middle - eastern sky god giving you love and the promise of eternal life if you blindly belief he «sacrificed» his son so he could resurrect himself to save his creation from an eternal damnation he created.
The sky was a love sonnet from God, etched for the entire world to see... and I was alone.
Q. 4 It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:
Because a real Science person would not think animals can talk, wearing robes means something, lighting candles does magic, a god in the sky listens to peoples praying, that magical rituals can affect something, and that we decend from inbreeding (adam and eve's kids scr3wed each other)
It is believing that our goodness come from ourselves, not the mythical belief in a sky - god.
God could have made us Angels with a Heavenly voice But He made us special He gave us a choice We could be stars in the sky He controls But He wanted true love that comes from the soul
«Far from being a tolerant grandfather rocking in his chair somewhere far away in the sky, God most often seems dangerous, demanding, and ruthless as he makes clear that he is taking our homoerotic feelings and actions with the utmost seriousness.»
From this we must deduce a magic sky fairy by the name of god willed it to be
What Christian would willingly surrender the appearance of the angels to the shepherds and the «multitude of the heavenly host» singing a hymn never heard before on land or sea, or the star dropping low from the skies to guide the magi from far away mysterious lands to the Judean village and the stable who God himself lay a tiny baby in the arms of his mother?