Sentences with phrase «turned against the gods»

Didn't he choose to turn against God?

Mr Graham taught us that the bible commands we love all people regardless of race yet Mormons believe that blacks are the incarnated spirits of those people that turned against God as part of the insurrection.

God created Adam in His image, meaning with an eternal soul and freewill among other things, and eventually Adam chose to turn against God.

But man actually misuses this freedom, turns against God, his neighbor, and himself, making of his life a dark arena of anguish and greedy scramble.

Yes Jesus said,» That no man will know of the day or the hour» I just hope these poor people will be able to cope with the fact they had it wrong and don't turn against God.

But is we continue to turn against God then the end will not be good for our nation or for those who turn against him.

No, I wasted 5 hours listening to him rehash the same old and tired lines about why he believes and how everyone will burn in hell and how there is all this «real» scientific «evidence,» but the scientists and the media won't talk about it because they want us to turn against god.

Buffett and Susie were a lot like my in - laws: raised in the church, but turned against God.

One day, during a fete to praise the gods, the blades of the swordsman turned against the gods for reasons unknown.

Not exact matches

Atheists, if you are so confident that there is no such thing as God, then why are you so intimidated by Him, to the point that you feel compelled to turn others against Him?

I do know that many of these disasters that are happening lately are because some people are supporting Liberal Democrat Politicians who in turn faciliate evil laws that are against God.

If I thought it was God who killed my father when I was twelve, and some of my best friends before I was 20, if it was God who had people kidnap me, slander me, threaten to kill me, and turn loved ones against me, then I would have a hard time trusting God, if He was like that.

People do not care enough about human suffering to turn from their rebellion against God and from their sins and turn back to God.

seems a bit of a random comment actually, the prodigal son is returning to the father, where did I suggest that God will smash in the face of anyone turning to him, as for those that refuse to accept or even fight against him or not return after turning away the bible is clear they come under the wrath of God.

If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.

After all God had provided to them, they turned against Him.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

The fact that you are naming anything as sin against God and seeking his forgiveness and turning away from any other similar actions indicates that they are hearing and responding to the Holy Spirit in their lives.

When they turned away from God and sinned against him he punished them.

Adam and Eve felt alienated from God, and hid; Adam blamed Eve, fracturing their special oneness; and both turned against themselves, their minds rejecting their bodies as shameful.

In the treatment of the relation between justice and love, in which «God turns against himself,» there is something of the «paradoxical» way in which God exercises his sovereignty.

Here's the «CliffsNotes» summary: The «Watchers» helped mankind with technology; humans abused it for evil; God cursed the angels for this and turned them into rock giants; these fallen angels help Noah build and defend the ark; when they die in the battle against the bad guys, the mysterious beings go up to heaven.

This, in turn, intensified the blasphemous thoughts I had towards God and actually made me angry, fearful and resentful towards God that I found myself wanting to say bad or blasphemous things against him, out of bottled up frustration and fear that I didn't know how to get rid of.

lol.i think its great that you have written God's name in hebrew (yahweh = jehovah) you have unexpectedly (and, i'm sure unwantedly) shown that His name will be known throughout of the world... thank you!!!!!!!!!!!... even when you try to dis - prove you inadvertendly make His name known... just goes to prove, you can call believers what you want but Jehovah can turn all your blasphemy and lies against you!!!!!!!!!...

Ben, I agree with all you said, especially about turning our country over to some of the «greediest people who have ever walked God's Earth,» instead of a good man, a great man, who has done his best for us for four years against ridiculous odds.

You say your god has turned against this world due to the evil within it... so then your god is not so caring after all or it simply does not exist (the more likely explanation).

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The first function of the affirmation that I belong to God is to combat all idolatries, including religious idolatry, to oppose my innate tendency to erect a false absolute out of that which is essentially relative, and to place a «No Thoroughfare» sign against the roads which turn nature into Nature, humanity into Humanity and myself into Myself.

«Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: Rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression» (Isaiah 59:12,13).

They have turned their back against God's most important commandment - love thy neighbor as thy self.

Kant set the problem with his argument against any knowledge of the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, and Schleiermacher represents the first great attempt to accept that turn and still talk about God in a meaningful way.

When the horns of the beast attack the Lamb, he turns their hatred against the harlot, so that the horns fulfill the purpose that God puts into their hearts (Rev. 17:13 — 18).

Is that how powerful your god is; Barack Obama can turn people against him?

Elsewhere, Schüssler Fiorenza explains: No biblical patriarchal text that perpetuates violence against women, children, or «slaves» should be accorded the status of divine revelation if we do not want to turn the God of the Bible into a God of violence.

And if you reply with anything that says that Jesus is a facet or aspect or anything else of God, then you can't turn around and argue against mixing God (s)-- and the theory that Allah, or Yahweh, are other names for the same God, because you've already by < definition argued that God can have multiple aspects — why just the three names for them from Trinity theology?

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

For if evil, in Buber's conception, is rebellion against God with the power He has given man to do evil, good is the turning toward God with this same power.

Satan challenged God regarding Job and said that he could turn every man against God if given the chance, even Job.

So, in other words, a Godless society would NOT be any better than one with a God under which people with free will turn against and act like... what... Atheists?

There is a dark reality of evil which sets the creation against God's love, and turns the human heart upon itself.

The devil, who is also called «the prince of the power of the air» has turned much of the world against God's people.

Ting, If God the creator knows full well that someone is going to be against him, his enemy, who attacks his Children and knows ahead of time that this person will NEVER turn, would it not be his perogative to destroy this person rather than let this person continue to attack his children?

Jeremiah can only proclaim God's judgment against all the nations at the hands of Babylon, and then Babylon is to be judged in turn (25:8 - 14).

Momoya, If God the creator knows full well that someone is going to be against him, his enemy, who attacks his Children and knows ahead of time that this person will NEVER turn, would it not be his perogative to destroy this person rather than let this person continue to attack his children?

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

Jeremiah replied, «Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them together into the center of this city.

Religion is responsible for turning people against God.

I would give my life for any homosexual man or women — I would gladly give my life in exchange for theirs if it come to the crunch but I still speak out against the sin of homosexuality... What you must understand is that it is a judgment of God when a nation turns away from God — The whole world is turning away from God and we need to stand against the teaching of the world... it is also a sign of the times as spoken of in timothy 1 and 2.

There are Jewish thinkers, such as Rabbi David Novak, who caution Jews against turning the state of Israel into a false god.

The truly intimate God of revelation wishes dialogue with persons, and abhors a religious slavery that in turn invokes the accusation against the divine that we can observe, for example, in the writings of Nietzsche and Sartre.