Sentences with phrase «tribal god»

It is the story of a Middle Eastern tribal god.

What worked in 8th grade had to be abandoned... the Angry Tribal God had to be removed... the God that would stop the Normal Course of Nature (just for me) had to be released....

The «God of the Bible» (yahweh) was a small tribal god who punished and rewarded according to a certain idea of «justice.»

Given the awesome might and splendor and triumphs of Assyria and then Babylon, was it not obvious that the shepherd - god of Israel was but a local spirit, a petty tribal god who was hardly a match for the likes of Marduk, god of Babylon?

An angry and defiant tribal God.

Really great podcast, I'm on the same page as you wrestling with this text and how it matches up with Jesus (Jesus really complicates things and makes us rethink old tribal god logic).

The angry Tribal God that demands much... evolves into the God that selects Kings based on their heart; to a God that protects His remnant; to a God that «so loves the world that He gives His Son... not to condemn the world, but to save it.

In the end, Yahweh was no longer a tribal god in the old sense of caring solely for the social group; he was a personal god as well, in the sense of caring for and bringing interior sustenance to individuals, one by one.

From seeing God as only a tribal god that approved of slavey and ethnic cleansing we see, in the end, a universal god emerge — a god that favors mercy and justice.

Rather, the «god» documented by the Bible's authors, seems to move from Creator, to Destroyer, to Tribal God, and so forth.

Buber's work of Biblical interpretation, accordingly, is principally devoted to tracing the development of this idea from its earliest expression in the tribal God, or Melekh, to its sublimest development in «the God of the Sufferers.»

The way I see it, I am not too busy relating to my «tribal god» to be in «dead - end» relationships with people that don't see value it a personal relationship with The Creator.

@ David Hayward, I could really use that app — it would help me make friends easier and avoid dead - end relationships with people like Sam who is too busy relating to their tribal god.

The early Muslims who were the true sons of the desert preferred to think of God after the pattern of a tribal God with unlimited authority, a conception from which they derived their ethical theory of determinism.

Members of the Jewish community either had to worship Yahweh as their tribal god,.

@magnus, Didn't the tribal god YHWH put an angel with a flaming sword to guard the Garden of Eden?

In an age when people learn of an infinite or expanding universe, these preachers depict a tribal god on a heaven - made throne in an immensely big city!

It seemed to them that the cult actions of the tribe in worship, in ceremonial and rite, the dance and the incantation, were ways in which the tribal god, or whatever other deity was the object of the action, was coerced into obedience to the desires of those who participated.

As for the Bible verses you included in your reply, they in no way change the fact that Yahweh, though a god who supposedly created the entire universe and all life within it was obviously originally a tribal god.

But the Old Testament passages make it clear that Yahweh was originally a tribal god of the Jews who focused his attention on the Jewish tribes and was seen as a protector for those tribes.

The observance of tribal taboos and ritual ceremonies, along with such restraint on daily conduct as would protect and further the interests of the tribe, constituted a man's duty, and every detail of this complicated obligation was regarded as the will of the tribal gods.

From a local, tribal god they found their way through to the sovereign Creator of the universe, in whose hands were the reins of all history, and from whose control no star and no nation could escape.

Involved in such a beginning is the further fact that Yahweh was a tribal god.

The chief obstacle to it was not doubt springing from «science» but doubt springing from the inveterate association of nationalistic hatreds with tribal gods.

When the name of their tribal god became so sacred that they refrained from saying it aloud, they substituted the equivalent of our word «Lord».

This tribal god is to have an exclusive claim upon the tribesman's allegiance and devotion.

The «Yelling Coach God», the «Angry Tribal God», the «Nationalized God», the «You must do X God»....

Many of them are simple people who believe in the Science of Genesis which is based on the Earth being flat and having been created six thousand years ago in a six day period by a Jewish tribal God.

They refused to offer sacrifices to the tribal gods.

Seventhly, the Uganda people and king Mwanga feared the wrath of God as they had an animistic philosophical idea of wrath from God if they displeased their pagan and tribal gods.