Sentences with phrase «understand sky god»

I am yet to hear of a prisoner or other loser who does not grasp for the lowest common denominator, the simple, mindless, easy - to - understand sky god, who will magically solve all their problems, in this life or the next.

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Dr. Streett argues that the concept of the Kingdom of God is not how it is taught or understood in most churches and Bible studies, namely, as equivalent to going to heaven when we die... as a pie in the sky in the bye - and - bye.

If you take the time to look up into the sky at night, or amaze at life itself, or think deeply about black holes, or try to understand how complicated something as simple as a tree leaf is, and NOT think there is the possibility of there being angels, demons, God, and Satan... well, then I say you are missing something big.

Maybe if I read the book I would understand... I DO understand it is childlike / childish to believe in a man - in - the - sky - god that solves all our problems.

Our biologists have catalogued the species of life on Earth and found no monsters or kraken, our doctors and psychiatrists have penetrated the human mind and found no evil spirits in the heads of the mentally infirm, our meteorologists now explain the whether in terms of barometric pressure, not angry sky - gods, our geologists understand earthquakes in terms of plate tectonics and continental drift — no angry deity is shaking the ground.

Practically, however, you all recognize the difference: you understand, for example, the disdain of the methodist convert for the mere sky - blue healthy - minded moralist; and you likewise enter into the aversion of the latter to what seems to him the diseased subjectivism of the Methodist, dying to live, as he calls it, and making of paradox and the inversion of natural appearances the essence of God's truth.

Most of the time they are the ones who say there is no God because they find it ridiculous to believe there's an old man up in the sky with a robe on looking down on all of us but they at the same time they don't understand how that belief is very limited because my friend, it's a lot more than that.

But he had felt that night, while his wife kept the children over by the road — he had rushed them from the house when he saw that the barn was on fire — as he watched the enormous flames flying into the nighttime sky, then heard the terrible screaming sounds of the cows as they died, he had felt many things, but it was just as the roof of his house crashed in, fell into the house itself, right into their bedrooms and the living room below with all the photos of the children and his parents, as he saw this happen he had felt — undeniably — what he could only think was the presence of God, and he understood why angels had always been portrayed as having wings, because there had been a sensation of that — of a rushing sound, or not even a sound, and then it was as though God, who had no face, but was God, pressed up against him and conveyed to him without words — so briefly, so fleetingly — some message that Tommy understood to be: It's all right, Tommy.