In
such capacity God functions as savior of the world.
Not exact matches
LOL: The Christian perspective is that
God does indeed exist, and because of that, all human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some of the gifts He's given us —
such as some
capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.
Book X of the Confessions repeatedly professes wonder at the
God who has made us with
such a
capacity:
Newton's laws do not have
capacity or pretense to apply geometrical or inverse relationships to the power of
God in effecting the natural, specifically any large body
such as sun and moon (The Principia deals primarily with massive bodies in motion).
The conceptual growth, that is, growth in the relevant
capacities, needed to apprehend
God must be guided by interests in
God rather than interests in
God's solving persons» problems or liberating them from their bondage; but that does not exclude
such interests.
And insofar as the image of Christ was shaped in relation to this view of
God, Christ too receded from man in
such a way that men doubted his
capacity for empathy.
Only «
gods» could understand such evidence and since «man» is not immortal, then «humanity» are not Gods therefore could never have the capacity to understand any evidence of the existence of a «God.&ra
gods» could understand
such evidence and since «man» is not immortal, then «humanity» are not
Gods therefore could never have the capacity to understand any evidence of the existence of a «God.&ra
Gods therefore could never have the
capacity to understand any evidence of the existence of a «
God.»
God didn't give us the
capacity (physical, mental, or emotional) to deal with
such large - scale problems.
Of course a philosopher can not in his official
capacity speak of an act of
God, for he never speaks of concrete events
such as transactions between persons.
Neither intuitive experience of
God nor
capacities for
such experience are cultivated, not even indirectly, by engaging in Wissenschaft.
But when it comes to revelation's setting forth of the ways in which
God acts to bring about the seemingly impossible,
such methods would be strained beyond their proper
capacity.
Humanity is free to love and has the
capacity to understand
God, precisely because
such a nature is desired by
God to be united in Christ to the divine nature of the Son.
Accordingly, theological education is a shaping of persons»
capacities to hear others» accounts of experiences of personal relationships and of persons»
capacities to tell their own stories in
such a way as to discern
God's presence in those stories.
«It was as if
God had decided to put to the test every
capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to
such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay,» as Garcia Marquez wrote — words that could be equally applied to the gushing deep sea oil well.