Sentences with phrase «think of god»

While I agree that the image of parent stooping to look a child in the eye and talk to a child on his or her level is helpful when some people think of how God interacts with us, I also think that this image or idea does some damage to how it is that we humans actually think of God.

You think of God as a vengeful creature in the sky ready to smite on a moment's notice.

In fact, it is by no means clear why «kingdom of God» should be retained at all for world - negation — unless one is willing to think of God and world in Marcionite terms.

I believe Paul is saying that although Greek philosophy uses the concept of «form» to think of god as this perfect, unchanging, unfeeling deity, this is not what we see in Jesus Christ.

When we think of God stooping, we think of a God who is so far above us, He is almost beyond reach.

One reason why we have emphasized so much in this chapter the need of content for meditation is that it is a psychological impossibility to think of nothing for very long, and if one does not think of God or one's relation to him, one is sure to think of something else.

JOHNSON: «Can you think of God (as consequent) as a «society»?»

In his essay of 1957 «The Onto - Theological Constitution of Metaphysics,» he even argued that his own refusal to think of God in received philosophical terms perhaps made room for the truly «divine God» — the God before whom one could sing and dance, to whom one could make offerings and pray — to show himself anew, outside the determinations to which Cartesian rationalism would confine him.)

That is to say, they think of God in accordance with the model of a «society,» and more precisely in accordance with the model of that «society» which consists of one temporal thread of successive actual entities (a «route» of actual entities).

And since now in our enlightened age when people find all anthropomorphic and anthropathic conceptions of God improper, yet do not find it improper to think of God as a judge in likeness of an ordinary civil judge or solicitor general who can not get at the rights of such a prolix affair — they conclude then that it will be exactly so in eternity.

And it learned to think of God as one who continually holds out a fresh promise for the future, as one who calls us to hope in a vision yet to be fulfilled.

How does it feel to think of God as Mother as well as or instead of Father?

It is not possible, therefore, in the biblical context at least, to think of God without simultaneously thinking of liberation.

We are God's offspring, and we ought not to think of God in terms of gold and silver objects, which we have designed and made.

I can see that you think of God as more than a cosmic vending machine.

Then there are those, far more interesting, who think of God as, at best, a construct of the social psyche.

Change the «you» to «I» (me, myself, I, etc), and now, it is a much less True Believer statement: «When I think of God, I think of Jesus.»

Therefore it is proper to use that image of love - in - the - making when we think of God himself.

Our earlier Christian forebears could think of God dwelling in the upper regions, which were themselves part of the created universe.

However, Let's try your first comment, «When you think of God, we should be thinking of Jesus.»

If we think of God's Kingdom as where what God wants done actually is done, then there are many more places where God's Kingdom needs to take hold than at church.

Of course it is not possible to think of God apart from the fact of order since some kind of ordering is essential to the very being of entities.

Parts of the talk engage in some philosophical reflection on what it might mean to think of God «intervening» in our world.

Try not to think of God as a human king kind of thing, but really really really big and really, really, really small.

Usually, we think of God as being the God of light and Satan being the prince of darkness.

But to Muslims, who compose the other 90 percent, it is abhorrent to think of God in...

Folks like to think of God as safe...... like you said, He is not what we think He is.

Think of God as a parent, and we are his children.

We can now think of God not as the threatening judge but as the waiting father, and we can come to him in heart - broken penitence but nonetheless in childlike confidence and trust.

It is not only philosophers who have tried to think of God through human analogies, it is the way of the biblical witness.

If Tillich meant by this merely that today we can not think of God in just the way the biblical authors thought millennia ago, his distinction of his view of God from that of the biblical authors would be of little importance.

I think that with people like you, you only think of God in terms of the form of religion you endorse.

Yet, given the logical problems connected with the notion of a finite actual entity somehow prehending the objective integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God (as indicated above), it makes sense to think of God's influence on the concrescing actual occasion simply in terms of divine feelings vis - à - vis objective possibilities already present in the world as a common field of activity for God and all finite actual occasions.

To affirm God and to think of God as in any way explanatory of events in the world is to place oneself outside the university ethos, the ethos accepted by so many of the theologian's colleagues.

Suffice it to say that when we think of God as the contemporary cosmic event — stressing his relative pole — the system seems rather pantheistic; but when we stress the abstract pole, and conceive of God in his function as the cosmic memory and container of the past, the distinction comes into greater relief.

These are the ingredients of personeity (to use a word of Samuel Taylor Coleridge); and that is why we can not think of God as less than personal, to be conceived not as «It» but as «He,» and to be addressed as «Thou.»

by Edward T. Oakes Eerdmans, 471 pages, $ 44 We think of God as glorious and magnificent, the creator and lord of all things.

To think of God as similarly located at one point in the cosmos would be absurd.

The Greeks are crazy for wisdom, they think of God in terms of the supreme philosopher and mathematician.

We must not think of God as watching in transcendent holiness while children's bellies swell and their arms and legs shrink and their lives dry up under an Ethiopian or Bengal or Iraqi sun.

We might think of God... as exercising three sorts of causality....

In the midst of fierce weather, I don't first think of God's power and majesty.

Do you think of God in terms of how well He can perform for you?

Not everyone finds it easy to think of God as «King of Kings and Lord of Lords».

He argues, however, that we ought not to think of God's love this way; it is impossible, in principle, that God has a reason to choose Israel that derives from some attribute of superiority.

In fact, I say «He» but I don't think of God as gender specific.

think of god as an elusive subatomic particle they you have to look for... THEY NEVER STOP LOOKING FOR SUBATOMIC PARTICLES AND SUCH BUT THEY SURE WILL DISMISS GOD QUITE QUICKLY WITH NO SEARCHING WONT THEY?

Perhaps nowhere does the character of this promising mystery present itself more graciously, extravagantly, and surprisingly than in Jesus» exhortation to think of God as «abba.»

When I think of God's true ministry I think of how Jesus just found people.

Thus he can no longer think of God as the Power over what is (as Jesus conceived Him), but only as the Power over what ought to be, that is, only the personification of what the law of his own being demands of him.