Sentences with phrase «than a god who»

What could be more horrifying than a god who with the temper of an angry two year old and responds by slaughtering innocents?

I mean, I respectfully asked God this question, I also asked him does the god of this world have more power of influence than the God who created the world?

Yep, the big bang, with all its evidence, is much more absurd than a god who «speaks» everything into existence.

And above all, we should be on our guard against preaching a gospel in which the God who is proclaimed as active in Christ is other than the God who is the Lord of all creation.

The only possible textual basis for this reading makes much of the fact that it is an angel rather than God Himself who calls a halt to the sacrifice.

I have wondered this for a long time — why do they think that making God into a puppet - master makes him greater than a God who can bring about His highest good amidst our freedom?

Rather than a God who was supposedly behind everything bad that happened (dishing out punishment, judgment or whatever you want to call it), we find the God who loves, the God who freely gives grace and fellowship with himself.

And when people project this limitation onto God, they assume that a God who faced possibilities rather than a single certainty has much less control over things than the God who faces a single certainty.

Of course, in the process of writing this, I have issues with «intervene», as it points to a God who is separate from creation and who only interacts at select times, rather than a God who is the foundation for, and permeates all of creation.

The God described in the Bible is none other than the God who is already known in the framework of our traditional African religiosity.

Instead, God brought them, for the God described in the Bible is none other than the God who was already known in the framework of our traditional African religiosity.

And I know that an inclusive God certainly seems higher than a God who creates people to live for a moment and suffer eternal torture.

It seems that no one understood this better than God who, knowing that in our humanity we relate to each other by sense, sent His Son to us that we might know that our God is not far away but enters fully into the length and breadth, height and depth of our human experience.

Creation is called to love, as it is infused with the love of God, and it is fitting that the highest object of creation's love should be God himself, for nothing within creation could be a more fitting object of love than the God who lovingly created.

Whitehead's God whose action is limited to persuasion, is more powerful than a God who omnipotently determines every event that happens.

This means that a God who can grow and improve upon himself is more perfect than a God who remains static and unchanging, while other elements of reality are growing and improving.

To me it primarily matters because it sets us up to believe in a God who is angry and ready to kill somebody rather than a God who is a loving father who steps in front of the train, shoving us off the tracks in order to set us free to live.

That said, Buffett's rule has more immediate teeth (if the CEO means it, and Buffett did), and will probably get more people to comply than God who only threatens the Last Judgment, which seems so far away.

Not exact matches

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.

«God to me is a lot more of a metaphysical reality than to many people who take the concept quite literally.

It doens» t have a consistent theme or message or mission statement... the musical catalogue of Bob Marley holds together better than that mishmash of contradictions and highly unlikely scenarios written by people who although they were ignorant on ALL other subjects were somehow experts on this god... what a laugh

Yeah that's definitely crazier than thinking a God who loves us just sits back and watches people die in the street.If I lost a loved one in that shooting and someone told me it was par tof God's plan?

That's way more than anyone who doesn't know God, has.

These days, for some people, the book has been turned into an icon for worship as the literal representation of God and rather than use it as intended it is now used as both a bludgeon upon intelligence itself and a blindfold upon those who hold it up as their worldly deity.

Now men who know more than God [sarcasm] decide they don't like that saying, and it doesn't fit in their thinking, so off they go and write books and develope a following of other people who don't like the truth of what Jesus said.

There are a lot of «accepting» Christians who think, as Christine posted earlier, that eventually we gays will «see God's way for [us]», i.e., eventually we'll see that God has a better way for us than to be practicing gays and lesbians.

how brain that is in your body works zillion times better than a super computer, u can never deny of a genius God who created that brain.

Seems doubtful so I would rather not waste my time trying to convince you that God, Christ, and Christianity are all far, far, far more reasonable than you or anyone else who is blinded by the old Devil (AKA «the father of lies»)

I'm an atheist who doesn't agree with anything Dawkins says, other than «there is no God».

As Samuel would later say to Saul who saw it fit to disobey the command of God — «to obey is better than sacrifice»

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

Science may never meet God, but the intelligent scientists are the ones who will find the truth sooner than others.

The possibility that «God» is nothing more than an ancient astronaut (alien) who might have created the first «adam» and «eve» in the garden of «eden» using genetics and something that we call... science.

The leaders claim to speak for «God» when all they do is rehash archaic MAN MADE dogma attributed to a «God» who more closely resembles man's feeble mind and violent nature rather than the other way around.

Throughout the book he pats himself on his wonderfully brilliant back for being so much smarter than those idiots who believe in God.

well chutty - oh where to start - if you don't beleive in god, fine... then don't... i don't beleive in mermaids, but i don't espouse my non-belief as «passionate»... nor do i denegrate those who may believe in mermaids with derogatory labels like zionist or evangelist... if you don't believe in god, then your belief in your fellow man should be a little stronger than having to slap labels on them....

Paul Mariani's poem «Solar Ice,» which centers on a Mass, has a «preconciliar» feel, as a «clear demarcation of place and hierarchy exists between the priest, who is titled the equivalent of God rather than his profession, and the lay congregation.»

I leave it to one of the greatest minds of all time who wrote... Quote: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

If you say neither than it is satan cuz he loves people who deny God.

Worse than that, the apostles made us worship Jesus - who in reality was punished by God for his own wrongdoing!

«Religious people think Atheists are people who have been subtly convinced by the devil to believe in themselves more than believing in God...»

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

I guess those who do not believe in God have nothing better to do than spend their time writing negatively about God and those who believe in God in a blog called «belief».

more than 02 billions of christians are belive in Jesus the human god, more than 900 millions of Hidus are believe in Krishna the human god more than 300 millions of Buddahs are belive in Buda the human god, and many others are belive in the human god who will come in the end of days to save the human kind.

And when the bible say's something about the weight of the wind it was bronze age herdsmen who had felt more than a few stiff breezes describing it, not divine inspiration from God letting those herdsmen know that air has a measurable weight.

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

Friend of Brian's I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, but every major heresy that has inflicted God's people for the last 2,000 years has come from organized groups with «leaders» who thought they knew God's mind better than anyone around them.

The Vision document has four main elements: equipping children academically and emotionally for the world; providing places of healing for children who have mental health problems or who've suffered bad experiences; providing a welcoming place for all rather than just Christians, and; upholding the dignity and respect of each individual, who is made by God.

The atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless