Sentences with phrase «sovereign creator god»

There is no completely sovereign Creator God who is removed from the processes of life — no oppressive authority of the wholly Other.

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fishon said — «God is the creator and sovereign and He gets to make the rules and guidelines — He doesn't need me to understand them all.

They speak so much about the Sovereign - God, but what about the Creator - God, because many of them reject the biblical account of creation in favor of Darwinism.

It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded as absent or superfluous in ordinary human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator of the world as Barth thought him to be.

If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.

Christ is the redeemer because he is the full actualization of kenotic energy; but the Creator, or the wholly alien and transcendent epiphany of Spirit, is the redeemed because an absolutely transcendent and sovereign God is finally the source of all that repressed energy which is transmuted in self - sacrifice.

To maintain his existence as the transcendent Creator, God must continually cancel or negate the world; but to move toward his universal epiphany as the Incarnate Word, he must negate his sovereign transcendence.

Indeed, Hegel attempts to demonstrate that the Crucifixion can only fully appear and be real in consciousness when God is known as being alienated from himself, existing in a dichotomous form as Father and Son or sovereign Creator and eternal Word.

Christian Scientists understand God as the sovereign creator, absolutely distinct from his creation.

Gross inequality is a direct contradiction of the will of God, the creator and sovereign over all nations and peoples.

We know God as creator of all that is because we know him in Jesus Christ as sovereign Lord.

This God was indeed creator and sovereign ruler, but also the God who would and did communicate the divine self to humankind, so that they could know God as the loving parent of those children.

Sartre has expressed the objection of many to the Christian God when he said that God is a threat to man's freedom, for if man is creative of himself, the independent and sovereign creator of his own destiny, then God is not his creator.

God is the sovereign creator of all people, and all people reflect the glory of God.

«Since we no longer see God as our Sovereign Creator and Lord, we no longer see others as fellow creatures, brothers and sisters.

Here, God appears as being absolutely sovereign and transcendent, so transcendent that there can be no human language about God, and so sovereign that God can be known only by way of the image of the Creator, and this is an «image» that negates all human vision of God, an image totally confining man to the creaturely realm, to the secular, or to the «world.»

Man has ever sought to find something worthy to offer to God, something which would express his adoration, his contrition, his love for his Creator and his sovereign Lord.

From a local, tribal god they found their way through to the sovereign Creator of the universe, in whose hands were the reins of all history, and from whose control no star and no nation could escape.

The idea of God as creator, God as philosophically sovereign, seems to be derived from the faith that he is religiously sovereign.

He was forty years old when he began to preach that Allah is the only God, the Almighty, the Creator of everything, the Lord of the Worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful, the Sovereign of the Day of Judgment.

This juggling with «days» to be got for so much monetary contribution, or so many prayers, the very idea that something one did oneself could produce a change, could cause God to act — all this would seem unworthy of one who owed a complete surrender to God, who could never be of himself worthy of the sovereign creator, but who had in fact been saved and justified by the Word of God, made one with the saints by the free act of Jesus.

That God is our Father, the creator and sovereign ruler of all things visible and invisible, material and spiritual;