It is quite fun to play and provides a decent challenge, but once everything is completed there is little else to do apart from really
test yourself with the God Hard campaign mode.
Put that same thinking to
the test with god.
Not exact matches
Let's see... believe in our
God or you will be tortured for eternity... Believe in our
God even if science and the fossil record refute our conclusions... Believe in our
God who can do anything, it doesn't matter what you come up
with, he can do it and don't you dare call it magic or fantasy... but don't
test him either, he's not a performing monkey who does tricks to convince us he's real, we just have to have faith, but he could do anything if chose to...
Praying for your child to be healed through a miracle may be answered
with, «Do not put the Lord your
God to the
test».
The LORD your
God is
testing you to see if you love him
with all your heart and soul.
You've turned a son of
God sharing his struggle
with a particular sin into a pass / fail
test for entrance to the pearly gates.
I actually listened to a preacher a while ago (can't recall who) who postulated that «
God», in his infinite wisdom, deliberately confused the issue
with the fossil record to
test human's ability to just believe!
Fundamentalists must turn religion into a conspiracy theory: any fact or figure, however simple or reasonable, not in accordance
with the story must be part of a conspiracy by sinners, a trick by a demon, or a
test from a
god.
Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but
test the inspired expressions to see wether they originate
with God, becouse many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
To illustrate: A recent study, still in its «draft for
testing» stage and titled Living in Covenant
With God and One Another, was prepared for the World Council of Churches.
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
I would go further and say that to dismiss sin as something that
tests «
God's patience
with your underestimation of his love and this is not a good thing to do in your walk
with Christ» demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of who
God is and what he expects of his children.
You can however
test God's patience
with your underestimation of his love and this is not a good thing to do in your walk
with Christ.
Also, it is fairly easy to conceive of any number of
gods that have no interest in the universe, earth, or humanity, and thus neither interact
with the world nor leave evidence of their own presence - how would you
test for the presence or absence of such
gods?
But for one thing, this is tantamount to saying, «I believe that
God has a good reason for
testing us because I want to believe this, regardless of how it fits
with reality or reason?»
So unless we are to substitute wishful thinking for careful thinking, we need to ask what would be the possible reasons for
God to
test us
with suffering, and are these in keeping
with God being good and loving?
if
god wasn't so inaccurate
with details and events maybe there would be more credience... but since in the new
test.
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness
with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us
God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the
testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a
testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of
God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of
God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
Why can't we just say that
God tests us
with suffering for a perfectly good and loving reason, and we just have no idea what this reason could be?
And as other people have observed, the way the Satan acts in Job is almost in cahoots
with God, as
God's agent of
testing.
Why would
God «lead» us into temptation or «put us to the
test» to begin
with?
Any strong intuitive conviction must be subjected to two
tests: First, does it square
with what we know of
God through Jesus?
Theologians interpret that to be a «
test of faith» by
God for Cain and Abel where Cain gave his offering in pride and self - righteousness while Abel gave his
with faith and humbleness as a sinner; therefore,
God accepted Abel's offering as opposed to Cain's.
But Jesus answered scripture
with scripture, using again a verse from Deuteronomy (6:16): «You shall not put the Lord your
God to the
test.»
Whether He is equipping you
with a new skill or
testing your faith,
God can use this time to deepen your relationship
with Him and to shape your character.
No one laughs at
God in a hospital No one laughs at
God in a war No one's laughing at
God When they're starving or freezing or so very poor No one laughs at
God When the doctor calls after some routine
tests No one's laughing at
God When it's gotten real late And their kid's not back from the party yet No one laughs at
God When their airplane start to uncontrollably shake No one's laughing at
God When they see the one they love, hand in hand
with someone else And they hope that they're mistaken No one laughs at
God When the cops knock on their door And they say we got some bad news, sir No one's laughing at
God When there's a famine or fire or flood
If he is detectable and evident then he can be
tested and that is what pretty much any religious person will tell you not to do
with their
God, most likely because they have a sliver of doubt in them and really don't want to be proven wrong.
With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any
God - talk, and
test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.
Equating the concept of «
God»
with well - substantiated and
tested scientific theories is just inaccurate.
With god, you can't physically
test or investigate it's existence,
an egg laying mammal
with a bill and a beavers tail, second eyelids for swimming and a poisonious barb on the males right rear foot... now science
tested and found it is a kin to the mole; what does your
god say it is?
About half of each book is on method, the other on
testing the method
with substantive theological issues (
God, revelation, Christ).
@ Mark — well, considering that the US was founded as a secular nation, and our consti.tution guarantees we can tell any version of any
god to take a flying leap, and that same doc.ument says you caanot impose any type of religious
test for any office, and we have treaties
with other nations specifically stating we are not a christian nation --
As in the story of Jacob's wrestle
with the angel, it is the perilous
test that the wanderer must pass before he enjoys the final grace of
God.
If you believe
God has called you then that has to be
tested, and not just
tested with your local church, but also in the wider Church.
I throw a challenge to you guys, If the pastor got the courage to
test his life without
God to weigh the evidence of both world, why do nt you guys also try not for one year, just ONE WEEK a life
with God by putting your trust in him, then you will be in a better position to see whether he really exist or NOT.
In life i am a puzzle solver, i annalize, deduct, and produce a theory and
test the theory, all i did was take words said within the catacism and turn them into something that people can understand, I understand your confusion
with the word proof, but i believe in
god and i believe that his works are true, do i agree
with some of the teaching of the church?
It is the abiding Word of
God alone that
tests and accompanies all study of Scripture; it challenges and encourages us to continue on this road, critically weighing all human words about
God's Word,
with the expectation and certainty shared
with the church of all ages that the «jewel» of the gospel will not be lost in a new and still unknown future.24
On the other hand, every propositional formulation of the truth that is disclosed, even that through which we come to the meeting
with God in Christ, is subject to human error and must be
tested against the revelation itself.
Yet the persistent tendency of conservatives to rely on doctrinal
tests raises the question of whether they agree
with the Reformers» insistence that the church itself must submit to the judgment of
God and must avoid an imperial and authoritarian stance.
To sum this up, there are no litmus
tests to prove someone is going to heaven you can pray to
God, and ask him to save someone if you are not sure, but ultimately it is whether they believe that because Jesus died for their sins they are going to heaven, but what can effect how well they live their life on earth is how in tune
with the Holy Spirit which only happens when you read his word, and listen to GOOD preachers, thankfulness for your salvation which is not mandatory to have it in the first place will bring the passion to live for him out.
We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship
with God, there are no litmus
tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.
how would that float
with believers, «oops sorry guys, you failed my
test so i replaced you» message from
god to humans after finding alien life.
How often we seek to apply an untenable «litmus
test» to satisfy ourselves on issues related to faith which have absolutely nothing to do
with true fellowship
with God.
With 7 billion people on our planet and only 2 billion who believe in your
god, it is safe to say the bible is not standing the
test of time.
So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that
God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a
God who would not joke around
with Abraham just to
test him.
Keep in mind that this life is «
test,» and that its trials come
with the territory, let alone «Free Will» that
God gave to man, which impacts the course of this life by the choices man makes, and that
God does not interfere
with it.
So kindly pray for us to pass this
test in safety
with out hatred, bloodshed, destructions, looting wealths among population... Sorry if I had been a trouble for any of you on these blogs... In
God Speed.
It begins
with a rationalistic assumption about the attributes of
God — as though we know what omnipotence and goodness mean — and then we put that concept of
God to the
test of our experience of evil.
Instead, Paul's only point in writing Romans 8:28 - 30 is to encourage Christians that no matter what happens to them,
God is
with them, will not abandon them, and just as He has had them in mind since before the foundation of the world, He will not abandon them to the trials and
testing they are facing.