Sentences with phrase «tell god things»

Since God sees everything, prayer can't be to tell God things he doesn't know about,...

We are so verbal, especially in the Protestant tradition, that it's hard for us not to imagine prayer either as monologue, in which I tell God things and God listens, or as a conversation in which I tell God things and God answers back.

So many of us are used to the kind of prayer where we tell God things He already knows, as if Jesus needs a reminder kids are dying in Sudan.

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His op - ed says what priests or nuns tell parochial school pupils who ask about how God can let so many bad things happen here on earth.

I am so sorry that you have been told / taught such awful things about Jesus, but whether or not you believe He is fully man and also fully God, there is more than enough proof historically and in present scripture to show that labeling Him as a mysogonist and an advocate for murder is a drastically false account of who He is and what He stood for.

Mostly it is because from the Sunnah of the Prophet (and possibly the Quran) we are told that a faithful muslim should not have his eyes set on this world and should not celebrate the things in this world save those that bring one closer to God and help one gain entrance into heaven.

I can tell you how God is right, but you won't catch on until you want to know God, truely want to know him, and he knows if you really want to know him... it's the same thing.

Could it have been god telling us how to protect ourselves from disease, germs, and bacteria?Couldn't you see a scientist from today's time, going back to the bible days, and trying to explain, the things we as the human race didn't know till modern times?

Close, but it's more fun to have them start talking and you say the «Yes God came wrapped in flames and surrounded by singing angels and told me that exact thing!

Sorry JW,... «God» doesn't tell anyone a damn thing... You are dellusional and apparently sick... Please seek help...

I just lost my soul mate this last Monday, he told me «I will love you forever» in a text message I was the last one he talked to... he wasn't sick he just died @ 49 The strange thing is he believed in God, but also he believed in true love!!

I can question them (which I often have), I can get pissed that God's way of doing things means makes my friendships difficult, and I can tell God «I wouldn't have done it that way» to which He shrugs and says, «I know.

Yeh man, like he told me the same thing... God appeared to me at the bowling alley the other day and told me not to vote for Perry»cause he's an idiot.

By choosing to believe in one thing and not another and still call yourself an X type of christian (whether it be catholic or protestant) aren't you just defining god in your own head and not the way the bible is clearly telling you?

It tells us that God is a good God, who gives only good things to His children.

You won't believe me or anyone else telling you much the same thing the bible tells you, and really, it's best if you get it direct from the bible, or God if you can convince him to do such for you... which is not likely if you reject him and don't believe anything he says or does.

His «mother» reaches out to him and he smiles with his peroxide - white teeth and tells her not to cry and that «with god all things are possible».

And in that tack of semantics, of loving God above all things, of obeying him and blindly doing his will, we will continue to discriminate and to fight holy wars and to hear men with two faces tell us that they are His middlemen and to pander for politicians and to condemn science, which is merely the study of His design, as we have for centuries.

It tells you how to get specific confirmation of these things from God, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

religion empowers folks to do bad things as they have been told their god is superior to the others and is the true on..

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The sixth thing I don't know, when a child did He tell His playmates He was the son of God, not his father?

I agree with you that some things are not to be taken literally, they have to be interpreted but it is Him who gives the interpretation, He is the one who gives the wisdom needed to know what it really means (Some people lie and say that God told them this or that and it's not true, but that's another subject...).

Oh ok that makes sense and that's a hard one to know if it was God or his own voice, there are many times God speaks to people and tells them to do things that we may not always like or approve.

I remember getting real cross with my little sister when she told me that she went out to see the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose, but when she started asking me questions about God and all that, I was kind of thinking, «You know Olga, maybe this is a good thing that Hollywood is spending some money on making horror movies.»

the shortest answer to your question is the cross, where God tells us two things clearly: 1) we are much worse off than we want to admit (that's what I deserve)... but at the very same time... 2) we are much more loved than we ever dared hope (Jesus takes what I deserve)

I am proud to say I believe in God, I did have the choice to belive or not to believe just as anyone else does, just because I choose to believe in something doesn't mean I have been brainwashed, I could say the same thing about you, but I won't, people can believe what they want to believe, I don't need anyone telling me what to believe, if I believe is because I have seen what He has done in my life and in other lives too, and that's more than enough for me to believe in Him.

Pray for that, and if it doesn't come pray for it again and again, and whatever good does come don't make a big show of it but keep your goodness a secret for God, and tell someone you trust the things you do that are the most wrong and shameful.

God is right there by you right now, can you seriously tell Him that you have all of the worldly things that you insist on putting above Him?

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

The document criticizes those who «tell the weak that all things can be accomplished with God's grace.»

All I'm trying to say here is that when I'm told to love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»

He even told us to pay our taxes (sorry Tea Partiers) «pay back Caesar's things to Caesar and God's things to God».

The need to deny this is so strong with many Christians they delude themselves into believing atheists are inherently incapable of enjoying the good things Christians tell themselves are in their lives because they believe in God.

My concern was mostly with Dustin's comments, specifically with the unsupportable sweeping assertions that were being made («most Christians who say... are deceived or delusional or mistak [en]», «usually people who say God told them things are egotistical»).

And the answer to that question in Quran is; God told us these mythical stories in Torah, Bible, Quran so that we can learn some lessons from our previous generations and do the right things.

In conclusion, metaphysics can not tell us the most important things we need to know about God in order to be saved.

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.

Usually people who say God told them things are egotistical.

If you feel like God is telling you to leave, before doing that, there are always opportunities to, as you said, to do things like «personally loving our neighbors, hanging out with «sinners,» spending time with societal rejects, defending the cause of the weak, and a variety of other ways of living that look just like Jesus.»

Why does God have to tell you people everything... maybe he wants you to figure out on your own that these aren't the days of the flood any more, there are plenty of things to eat besides killing one of his defenseless creatures.

you guys have to understand, we as followers of christ (not christians) it is our job to tell you (society) that god exist and that he loves us and is willing to forgive us for the f @ # $ up things we do to each other daily, not prove he exist, b / c he sent prophets through out the ages to do that, some listen (hebrews, muslims) some didn't (pagans, atheis, new agers), then you have those who have had their souls violated (gays) who feel lost and confused.

Although I am not a Christian, I have studied the Bible and know this; the only thing Jesus ever told people they absolutely had to do was love God, and love each other.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

We tell each other how each other's book has changed each of our lives and how God is in the business of miracles, of using obedient yeses from the weak and unlikely to do the impossible, and how heat like this does crazy things to our hair.

Among other things, this means that when we sin, he tells God, «Yep, I died for that one too.

I like to think that my God (no other word for him) reached down in his mercy and told me these things to give me a chance at life.

You said, «To tell people they are ok before God when they aren't is about the most evil thing one could do.»

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

God Jr. has many spiffy adventures, like getting angry at a fig tree and killing it, and telling his followers to do a bunch of things they are supposed to do like be nice.