Sentences with phrase «than god owns»

They think that they own god, rather than god owns all of us.

Not exact matches

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

But I believe God is so much bigger than something I may say that is not quite right as I walk out my own personal spiritual journey.

It means God is not dependent on a nature other than himself, because he is identical with his own nature.

For me as a Calvinist, that suggests that rather than spending a lot of time defending the doctrine of total depravity or of election I would do best to share my deeply felt sense of my own unworthiness, and to point people to the way in which I have experienced God's gracious workings in my life.

Could submitting ourselves fully to God's power over us rather than relying on our own skills and perceived gifts be the key that unlocks the door to discernment?

In other words, «Rather than consider the wisdom and authority of God, I'll be my own ultimate authority.»

You are supposed to love this god more than your own family!

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

It is as if they place their faith in their faith (which is scarier than placing it on our own efforts) and not on God.

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

The human desire to be perfect means we push God to the side, opting to tap into our own limited power resources rather than drawing from the fountain of life.

these extremists are perverting God to thier own means rather than actually following his teachings.

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

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...

His «formal exposition of the concept of God's self - communication» in terms of four pairs of interrelated concepts, that is, (a) Origin - Future; (b) History - Transcendence; (c) Invitation - Acceptance; (d) Knowledge - Love, by his own admission is more a brief sketch than a full - scale presentation of a new interpersonal understanding of the God - world relationship.

Philippians 3:8,9 «More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,»

You say you will never see if you don't take your hands off your eyes and yet refuse to look at the world from any other perspective than your own Hebrew God derived universe and you will make or accept any excuse that allows you to keep believing you are right.

The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart loves God above all things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy God and use created things for God's sake, rather than attempting to «use» God for the sake of created enjoyments.

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

But, we've got more missionaries coming into America from Korea and all other parts of the world because they're seeing more of God in their own country than they are here.

Like all idolaters, we have so deified our culture - forming abilities that we believe we can shape our world in ways subject only to our own desires, rather than to the norms God has built into his creation.

Bible: Deuteronomy «Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own.»

If everyone agreed to contribute by their own sweat to the gain of the rest of the world rather than standing at the altar lecturing how God will show us «non-believers» rapture, suffering and pain is then worth wondering at that moment, how many other faiths at that moment are saying their God will do the same to you?

Well, it seems to me that you're interpreting the Bible for your own reasons rather than in terms of God's will.

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desirGod to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desirGod has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desirgod of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

To exclude violence completely, especially from God's expressions of love, would be to make his care for us less passionate than our own parents, who disapline us for our own good, and protect us as needs be.

For God would be less than perfect — that is to say, less than God — if either his holiness or his love had come into being at a certain point within God's own divine life.

I think his inability to take accountability for his own life and destiny (rather than «placing it in god's hands») has a lot to do with what he has «lost.»

Over a little more than 2000 years man has developed his own idea of a religion that he claims pleases the God represented by the Bible.

If the church would encourage it's members to be charitable on their own, then they could be giving glory to God, rather than letting the Federal Government get it for their taxation and redistribution.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

I grew up with more faith in God than I do have in people, even people in my own Church!

At first glance it might seem appealing to argue that the mystery of God outstrips our capacity to delineate it, that every theology in its own way must fall so short of the truth that no position can, however seriously maintained, be markedly any more or less true than any other.

Lower beings exist for the sake of the higher — grass for cows, cows for hungry humans — however, men and women exist for no other reason than God's own delight.

No, it is something that happens as a result of choosing our own way rather than God's.

Then why do we believe that God, who we say is infinitely more loving than we are, could do that to God's own children?

Lamenting that there was almost any amusement he would rather take up than dwelling on God he cried out «Give me grace, my Father to be utterly ashamed of my own reluctance.»

But more than just pray for them, and more than just believe that God will give them food and clothes, why don't you actually be an answer to your own prayers and your own faith, and give them food and clothes!?

Cain becomes angry when God accepts Abel's sacrifice rather than his own (Gen 4:5), and after he kills Abel, claims that it is not he who is supposed to take care of Abel, that he is not his brother's keeper (Gen 4:9).

This full view of God lifts up a God who is more than a Creator who made the world out of nothing, more than the God of the big - bang theory who began the universe and then left it to run on its own -

There can be no better work for us than — in our own way, in our own place — to testify to the fact that God rules the world; nations do not.

To think that my patient, kind, and tender father who loves God and people more than anyone I know, served as a supportive deacon to these scumbags, and began to question his own observations when they put their spin on the situations... SICKENS ME.

Wright criticizes Reformers for failing to stress «the great narrative of God, Israel, Jesus, and the world, coming forward into our own day and looking ahead to the eventual renewal of all things» so that their readings of the gospels «show little awareness of them as anything other than repositories of dominical teaching, concluding with the saving events of Good Friday and Easter but without integrating those events into the Kingdom - proclamation that preceded them.»

Much better to say there is no God or, as Abraham Lincoln did, «The Almighty has his own purposes,» than to flatter ourselves with knowing what those purposes are.

Examples are common enough — individuals and congregations whose vision is no bigger than their own interests, whose personal agendas have displaced God's bigger, scarier and less manageable purposes.

Rather than insisting that scripture make the doctrine of the Trinity explicit, perhaps we should allow the Trinity to remain implicit and affirm it out of our own experience, our own living with God.

In order to truly know that there is no God, or believe it as true (as vehemently as some Atheists do, verily defining a religion of its own), an Atheist has to know a lot more than all of the rest of us on this world.

And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable» servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to serve him.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.