Sentences with phrase «traditional names of god»

Missionary translations of the message provided the primary impetus for this new form of Christian agency, preserving indigenous cultures by fixing them in written texts and preserving the traditional names of God in translating the Bible into new cultures.

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I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

What the Girl Scouts decided was that if the girl in question believed in something that allowed for the same traditional Scouting function of religious education — religious and spiritual self - cultivation based on the principle of a moral order of which the Scout can be a part — she could substitute her preferred name for that instead of using the word «God.»

The traditional way of handling the difficult question of whether or not it is okay to call God Allah is by comparing Christianity and Islam, and then saying that since the religions are so different, it would be wrong to name the Christian God Allah.

Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but God's own name.

American radical theology, or the death - of - God movement, is generally seen as a negation of traditional Christianity in the name of honesty and modernity.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

If gays begin burning infants in the name of Ba'al there would be that traditional conflict with the people of God.

(4) 2:19 --»... in the garden of Eden God saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system [of education] children named the animals before they saw them» (SMW 285).

We shall see, as we proceed with our narrative, that the way the Scriptures picture God as dealing with man characterizes the history of Christianity, not only in the preparation for the coming of His Son in the flesh and in the reception of His Son, but as well in the subsequent record of the religion named after the traditional designation of His Son.

Dear Deepesh sir I planned my insurance portfolio almost based on your recommendations, avoided traditional insurance plans and already bought a health insurance plan, for me and my wife (Religare care, 5 L SI), although a bit late, I am 35 now nad my wife 29 yrs old., Now I was finalizing the vanila term plan, thought of ICICI, HDFC, Max.But I was confused about an issue, if God forbid, my wife passes way sooner than me, as she is the nominee in all my investments, what will happen to my term insurance?Will I get the SA in anyway, by including my name somehow as beneficiary may be.Plz help