You know for being
an unchanging being, your god is really schizophrenic.
Based on what I understand about the Christian God, He is a perfect
unchanging being.
How can there possibly be a true analogical relationship between an evolving process and
an unchanging Being?
If, therefore, experience is essentially temporal in structure and order, a timeless
unchanging being of the sort proposed by classical theology could not experience, could not know or love, and indeed could not exist concretely.
and at the time of jesus moses gallileo newton charles darwin, people opposed them but ultimately the same people bowed to their eternal truth, so norm is man made not natural and it changes from time to time, the only thing which is self reliant and
unchanging is mother nature, so Sikh faith is not a ritualistic dumb faith, indeed it's a lifestyle which tells to «Respect and follow The Laws of Nature and not to destroyy the beauty of nature».
Now, this formulation was significant and meaningful for the medieval mind for whom the immutable and
unchanging were of a higher value than the mutable and changing.
Absoluteness, permanentness, and the eternal
unchanging are abstractions.
Not exact matches
You might
be under the impression that intelligence
is a fixed quantity set when you
are young and
unchanging thereafter.
Many of these traditional business books have merit, of course, but your reading diet, like your nutritional intake, isn't going to serve you best if it
's made up of just one worthy but
unchanging type of fare.
That
's why innovation in Laozian terms doesn't come from seeing a given situation — a landscape, a relationship, an industry — as
unchanging, and then coming up with a fresh tactic within that stable situation to neutralize an opponent.
The CAPE
is a kind of
unchanging lodestar for the markets.
But it assumes that the disrupter has to take into account things like the actual terrain on which he
is fighting and that he must treat his adversary as stable and
unchanging.
They
are not part of the
unchanging geological landscape.
The 15 - year loan also has an
unchanging rate, and that rate
is usually about.5 below than comparable 30 - year mortgage rate.
However, when you cut through all the noise, one idea
is unchanging: content
is king.
Each of the above
is an important ingredient in ensuring the consistency of your content marketing through an
unchanging tone of voice.
The nation
is not only the third largest by race in the world, but because of the miss of
unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states
are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.
You can change your beliefs, but He and true morality
are unchanging.
With the many failings of Christians in full view of the public, it
is no wonder there
are so many that doubt there
is a true and
unchanging God.
Newton
was a young earth creationist, and said that if God
was true then the universe must reflect His consistent,
unchanging nature and therefore
be able to
be studied and reliably tested.
You say science
is about the
unchanging laws of nature.
This
was premised on the notion that standards of morality
are objective and
unchanging (therefore, «hate the sin»), but that human
beings are weak and often fail to live up to those standards (therefore, «love the sinner»).
To abandon the
unchanging in pursuit of the ephemeral
is a course doomed to fail.
While I
am no theologian, I believe the answer to this question
is simple and
unchanging: the Church's hope
is not a question of plausibility and never has
been.
Thankfully this
unchanging «rock» continues to gather moss and will eventually sink into irrelevance because of it
's stagnant views on these types of issues.
It used to
be an actual document, something written on paper, solid and
unchanging.
The important thing to remember
is stay focused on the
unchanging reality of Jesus Christ and His indwelling Spirit.
We should live by example and show others through our actions that God
is great and his love
is unchanging and ever lasting.
Morality
is grounded in the
unchanging nature of God.
Ultimately, like a lot of things, intentionally remaining unjaded — even after witnessing multiple failures — shows that our faith isn't in temporal circumstances, but an
unchanging God who promises that He
is good, and He has the power to restore all things.
If the biblical god
is perfect, ominpotent and
unchanging, shouldn't he / she / it have gotten the contract right the first time around?
Any behavior can
be ascribed to this alleged
unchanging nature when combined with the convenient explanation of mysterious ways, unknown plan, and the other horn of the dilemma, i.e. whatever the deity does
is invariably good because it
is the deity acting.
If God
is unchanging that means He has no choice other than to
be what He
is.
Regarding your second fold, God Himself
is unchanging; it
is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption
is what changed.
Again, claiming the nature
is unchanging and claiming the nature
is invariably good
are simply exercises in definitional fiat.
Your notion of a perfect
unchanging nature
is above and beyond your alleged deity's ability to choose, i.e. it
is a source of morality apart from the free will agency of the deity.
I hold that it
is grounded in the
unchanging nature of God.
Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the
unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and with the eye of my soul, such as it
was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»
Nobo, to
be sure, distinguishes the extensive continuum which in itself
is eternal and
unchanging, from the spatio - temporal continuum which
is the extensive continuum as progressively modified by actual occasions occurring in our cosmic epoch (52f).
For the God of classical theology
is timeless,
unchanging, simple, unaffected by events in the world, and absolutely independent of other, nondivine realities.
The central allegation of paradox seems to me to run roughly as follows: a nontemporal divine experience would include in itself all events in time (cf. CSPM 105); but to experience all temporal events simultaneously would dissolve any real distinction between past and future (cf. CSPM 66); so there could
be no temporal transition, no change, no contingency, and no freedom (cf. CSPM 137); and since nothing could become, there could
be no real permanent and
unchanging reality either, «for then the contrast between the terms, and therewith their meaning, must vanish» (CSPM 166).
Letting go of the concept of God as immutable
was helpful to me, even as I trust that God
is unchanging in love and faithfulness to us.
It
's about not apologizing for our transformation and change in response to the
unchanging Christ.
Here
is a consistency to which I bear witness: Jesus as the exact representation of God, Jesus as the same, yesterday, today and forever and so I
am always changing in response to the
unchanging Christ, always evolving, always curling into cocoons and
being reborn over and over again to a new and distilled beauty, smelling of the wind.
This
is an
unchanging given but how we understand that Revelation does admit of development.
The writer to the Hebrews in the NT, makes it clear that God contracted an
unchanging purpose with Abraham and that this
is «an anchor for the soul, firm and secure...» This makes it clear that God's purpose
was always the same, to redeem creation, establish the Kingdom of God in God's presence on the new heaven and new earth and bring the exiles back to the garden.
Also, it
is extremely difficult to see how one
unchanging order can provide a specific and novel aim to every new occasion.
Plato presented two orders of existence: that which
is, i.e.,
being, which
is unchanging and eternal and
is «always real» (e.g., the Platonic forms), and that which becomes (génesis) «and
is never real.»
Such a parabolic way
is in sharp contrast to the
unchanging present of mysticism and the timelessness of the «message,» both of which deny dramatic growth in time.
Kasper thinks that the Catholic theological tradition doesn't talk about mercy enough and that the classical concept of God, which sees God as perfect and
unchanging,
is «pastorally... a catastrophe.»