Sentences with phrase «treat god like»

I think we treat God like a genie because this is the prayer model we're shown as small children.

I look back and can't help but see how much people treat God like he's a genie in a bottle.

To expect quick and tidy answers to prayer, he observes, is to treat God like a gumball machine.

In this they really do treat God like an Americanized Santa Claus — and it's no wonder that they deride this «version» of God and rightfully dismiss him as unreal.

Not exact matches

God is invisible and doesn't care to be as obvious as math or gravity; we should honor his decision and treat him like he does not exist.

If we atheists treated other people like the god - fearing population does, there would be another war!

Atheists don't treat him like god, so if there are errors in his theories, we don't say «well Darwin is All knowing and All wise, so it MUST be true».

I know some people that treat science as if it is their religion; they believe they have a better understanding of it — like that is disproves God.

I also wish you the same — which you will do irregardless of what you write back — cause I do believe God's Spirit will lead you into ideas like «love your neighbor as yourself» and even «treat other how you want to be treated»... or am I sadly mistaken?

The most important «God - like» rule is to treat others the way you would want to be treated... with kindness, love, and compassion.

Treat people like the image of God that they are, even if that image is buried beneath months of unwashed grime and the smell of urine.

The root of the word «dominion» means to treat something in a God - like manner.

This always seems a convenient little story for the theist, because otherwise you have to accept that a person could feel a god's presence and then become aware that it was all a delusion, much like the awareness that many feel about the voices in their heads when treated with antipsychotics.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

The only truly dangerous prayer here is Wendy's: ««God treat me tomorrow like I treated everyone today.»

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

If «God Almighty» is really so petty as to require people to incant the correct name (whether it's Jesus, Mohammed, Bodhisattva, etc.), eat the «right foods», dress the «right way», treat women like dirt, etc., then God has a lot of growing up to do.

Why does anyone need to believe in a god to treat others with dignity and respect, the way they themselves wish to be treated (you know, like «The Bible says»).

The supplicant asks God to treat those in the circle of intimacy preferentially, to act like a legislature that passes a private bill or like a president who occasionally suspends general laws to intervene in a special case.

I said judgment of sinners is for God, humans should love each other and treat them as we would like to be treated.

What sounds more God - like than «Treat others the way you want to be treated.»

Though I do believe in God and follow Jesus, I am not a «normal» Christian, and when I meet «normal» Christian, they often treat me the way it sounds like they treat you.

To me, it seemed like God declared that no one could treat me like an immature, young brat just because I was an immature, young brat.

At least the Christian God in the sky tells people to love one another and treat people they way you would like to be treated.

Even when, like the characters in The Story of the Night, they seem to have fallen away from treating themselves, or their fellow human beings, with the appropriate respect, Jews and others in today's counterculture committed to the mystery of human responsibility before God, and charged with the task of pursuing our own unique individual and communal destiny in a conformist, uncomprehending world, need such reminders.

We may well chortle at Coyle's belief that God actually urges faithful dieters to abstain from fattening treats, or at Shamblin's insistence that the deity «is too smart to let somebody like Weight Watchers or Jane Fonda be your savior and get all the credit» and so «will not let other diets work.»

I feel the Church treats God The Father and God The Son and God The Holt Spirit like an aging relative who has gone a bit deaf and daft, so we placate them as there may be an inheritance coming our way in the not to distant future.

You and your God and all that believe like you can have full reign for all eternity in your particular conceptualization of your afterlife but here on Earth we like people to be treated equal before human law.

Kaplan would have agreed wholeheartedly with M. Scott Peck, who contends that it is fallacious to think of God as a discrete entity that is metaphysically locatable.3 Kaplan calls this the error of reification or hypostasis — of treating a process like a thing.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

It must be addressed as a result of the fall, like Cancer, which is treated though God's working through human agents and rarely through miraculous intervention.

When we approach God like that, we are treating Him like Santa Claus.

When women are seen and treated as co-heirs in the Gospel, we will begin to see a world that looks less and less like a locker room and more and more like the Kingdom of God.

It's a shame that the fear of god and social stigma have created a situation where the very education that might save lives is treated like a dirty secret.

To believe otherwise is to denigrate God's generous provision and treat God's people like a vending machine.

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

I want to prove it to people who think critically, but cant, so i wont even try Things happen, so I ascribe it to a gods plan I treat non-beleivers like crap and call them names

We saw a lot of ministers showing up on the Ashley Madison hack, and John Oliver shined a light on some people who treat the Kingdom of God like a pyramid scheme.

As a Christian I want to treat all men as equal before God, I believe that if Jesus was here today he would definitely associate with gays & be criticised for it, but, like the woman that was caught in adultery, he would not condone what they do.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

There are many reasons why this has happened; this is no place to discuss them, but among others we may mention scientific constructions, psychological discoveries, awareness of sociological conditions, and all that Bonhoeffer summed up in saying that man has «come of age» (by which he did not mean that man is an entirely mature and adult creature who now can take the place of God, in a fashion not unlike the claim made by the Provost of King's in his recent utterances; but he did mean that we now know our own responsibility and that God treats us, not like slaves nor like little children, but like sons to whom He entrusts such responsibility).

but i will not sit here and say anything bad because god said treat everyone like i want to be treated so go head and make fun of me that is fine people toile me i would finish school and i did and people told me that i would get marry and i did people told me i would have kids and i did so i think u are just like everyone else that told me i would do anything so i hope u understand u have hurt my feeling but i will let it go because god said to forgive everyone just like my mom gave me i forgive her to so i hope u ae happy

How sad is it that we think we can put a collar around God's throat and treat Him like our dog (s)?

Your children will not learn about God if you «go to church» but then treat them like crap the rest of the week.

Man is in the world not God doing thing like slavery, treating women unequally and discrimnation.

«I too would have liked — liked,» [Oblomov] murmured, blinking with difficulty, «something like that — has nature treated me so badly — no, thank God — I've nothing to complain of» — There followed a resigned sigh.

It always seems to me like they treat God as some sort of carnival act.

Especially when we think how God will treat us (like how we can treat each other).

Just throw it away, treat it as it is, a work of fiction, like ANY other book written about Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Odin, or any other «god».

They make billions, but don't want to be treated as every other business... Their tax exemption is disgusting in my eyes, profitable to tell people how to live their lives, profitable to act like god appointed them, profitable tax evaders.