A Christian's faith is nothing but «participation in this being of Jesus» Transcendence, thus, refers to the transformation God effects
upon humanity in its entirety.
God's wrath is poured out
upon humanity in the fact that by the very zeal we exert to do our duty and excel in our vocation, we contribute to the dynamics of sin and death in the world.
Not exact matches
Based
upon you description of
humanity, we should cease to exist as a species as I doubt the history is clean of any abhorrent act
in any surviving family.
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing
in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever
in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide
humanity based
upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
The Jewish basis for this hope lies especially
in the Noahide Laws, a set of seven laws binding
upon all
humanity that were, according to rabbinic tradition, given to Noah.
presents a powerful alternative
upon facing this reality: We can find hope
in humanity itself.
If the very laws of matter are aligned
upon the Body of Christ and
humanity finds its identity and fulfilment
in the Incarnation, this does not distract from the drama of redemption but rather gives it a fuller context.
He replaced it with an understanding of transcendence which is focused
upon the
humanity of Christ and the participation of the disciple, through Him,
in the life of the world come of age.
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in their hindu Judaism, filthy secularism, denial of truth absolute, created to hind, fool
humanity to subordinate to hindu Jew's, criminal secular s of Egypt and Persia, Prophet Moses, Anointed son of blessed Mary and Mohammad, spirit of truth, peace be
upon them, condemned hindu Judaism, self center ism and command to obey truth absolute, or way of truth absolute.
Of his own free will He walks naked and alone into the heart of the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak
upon his innocent
humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image of God
in their own souls.
The heavenly powers, strong and wise and filled with heavenly glory, were looking
upon Christ, even
in the flesh, as a mighty one, thoroughly invincible, who manifests his divinity as well as his
humanity to them.»
It is Mankind as a whole, collective
humanity, which is called
upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act
in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.
In main of late a decade of republicans in govt / / having a extreme right wing agenda spurned on by their halfbaked crackpot religious ideas / beliefs / having brought upon humanity a river of blood a river of tears / great sufferin
In main of late a decade of republicans
in govt / / having a extreme right wing agenda spurned on by their halfbaked crackpot religious ideas / beliefs / having brought upon humanity a river of blood a river of tears / great sufferin
in govt / / having a extreme right wing agenda spurned on by their halfbaked crackpot religious ideas / beliefs / having brought
upon humanity a river of blood a river of tears / great suffering.
Thus Solzhenitsyn believes that to remain intellectually honest,
humanity must find some way of understanding its place
in history without basing that understanding
upon any world - historical absolutes.
But
in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus
humanity that Christ finds
in each of the members of this his body is called
upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate
in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.
The traditional view holds that Jesus took the sin of
humanity upon Himself and thereby paid the price (satisfied the debt) or
in your terms «purchased the forgiveness of sins.»
If ever a man is tempted,
in a low mood, to give up hope about
humanity, let him think
upon the courage which human life on every side of him exhibits — the quiet, constant, sustained heroic courage
in obscure and forgotten places where nobody sees!
It was only then that «the fundamental and persistent character of the Messiah, as of one rising from
humanity and clothed with power, was displaced by... a heavenly being, who came down to the world, sojourned
in it, left it, ascended to heaven and now enters
upon the dominion of the world which originally belonged to him.»
Dear heavenly father, I give thanks for torturing and killing your son to end the eternal curse of your wrath & vengeance you put
upon all of
humanity because,
in the beginning, two people wanted knowledge.
He replaced it with an understanding of transcendence which is focussed
upon the
humanity of Christ and the participation of the disciple through him
in the life of the world come of age.
If we feel that the concept of Jesus intensifying his obedience to God's call does not adequately express the divinity of Jesus, then we must seek to express this
in ways that neither compromise his
humanity nor rely
upon contralogical paradox.
It is strikingly close to the Christian emphasis
upon the overflowing love of God: «So immense is this love and compassion that God has intervened to guide and save
humanity in a perfect way many times and
in many places, by sending prophets and scriptures.»
We worship God who took
humanity and suffering
upon himself
in order to heal and transform it from the inside.
In a planetized
Humanity the insistence
upon irreversibility becomes a specific requisite of action; and it can only grow and continue to grow as Life reveals itself as being ever more rich, an ever heavier load.
I believe that what is now being shaped
in the bosom of planetized
humanity is essentially a rebounding of evolution
upon itself.
but i am a human, i lie, cheat, steal, gamble... i think the appearence of
humanity in ones savior is so frowned
upon because of the claim of divinity — yet the morals
in the bible are that of men....
But the epistle is quite unlike the Fourth Gospel
in the emphasis it places
upon the reality of the
humanity.
There's a lot of information about the moon
in that rock, and even if there wasn't, the simple fact that
humanity left earth and stood
upon the moon to get it makes it amazing.
To be sure, the Fourth Gospel insists strongly
upon the formal fact; there is an emphatic repudiation of Docetism; not even Paul affirms the
humanity so bluntly and unequivocally as does the Fourth Gospel
in the sentence, «The Word was made flesh» [John 1:14].
The principle here, you see, is the very sound Christian principle, although often forgotten by Christians, that God works
upon us and
in us by working through our
humanity.
Any such vision will need to draw both
upon classical politico - religious conceptions and
upon religious insights preserved
in the traditioned communities concerned, while responding to the new challenges which beset
humanity on this planet.
If modern day Talibangelical Christians were to go back
in time and meet a smelly dark skinned, bare foot, sweaty, nappy haired guy carpenter who claimed to be the son of god and had come to save
humanity they would spit
upon and look down their nose at him.
Now if
humanity's transformation through relationship to Christ truly depends
upon the human response of faith, then the expansion of the effects of God's redemptive presence
in Christ will be processive
in nature and have a time - space extension.
Teilhard,
in his remarks
upon the future of
humanity in The Future of Man says:
By his exemplification of the divine will which presents the best of all aims to every worldly occasion, Christ exercises a supreme attraction
upon humanity, and by his entire preservation
in God's everlastingness, without the dilution of «negative prehension,» his vision is ever with us as God is ever with us.
In this passage there is emphasis is placed, by Paul,
upon the salvation that Christ brings to
humanity.
We should add at this point that even as the earth shares
in the ruin attendance
upon the sin of
humanity (cf. Gen. 3.17 - 18), so the world «waits» for the apotheosis of
humanity in which it too shall be renewed and glorified (cf., Rom.
Your's is just another
in a long line of deitys that were proposed as the true God's who were allowed to pass judgement
upon humanity.
«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend
upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found
in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure
in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for
humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.
It seems, then, that we have two opposed evaluations of this process of the
in - folding of
Humanity upon itself; a process which is clearly apparent and which nothing can prevent.
If it is true, as I suggest, that salvation lies
in the direction of an Earth organically
in-folded
upon itself, it is then surely evident that, though a reciprocal mechanism of action and reaction, the vision and prevision of this ultimate end, this outcome of History and of Life, may be made to play an essential part
in the building of the future, if only by creating the atmosphere, the psychic field of attraction, without which it will be impossible for
Humanity to continue to converge
upon itself.
It is not three different people God himself came
in the flesh
upon Earth and
humanity chose to kill their own God for unjust reasons.
At times God appears violent, not because He is violent, but because, just as Jesus on the cross took the sin of the world
upon Himself, so also God
in human history, took the violence of
humanity upon Himself.
According to Bonhoeffer «Man's
humanity is not based
upon himself or
upon nature but is only possible
in obedience to his Lord.
In other words, if all that God could do in the flood event was rescue as many people as possible from the waters when they threatened to take the life of everything that breathes, how can God guarantee that humanity will never be so sinful as to invite the same destruction upon their heads agai
In other words, if all that God could do
in the flood event was rescue as many people as possible from the waters when they threatened to take the life of everything that breathes, how can God guarantee that humanity will never be so sinful as to invite the same destruction upon their heads agai
in the flood event was rescue as many people as possible from the waters when they threatened to take the life of everything that breathes, how can God guarantee that
humanity will never be so sinful as to invite the same destruction
upon their heads again?
It is clear that an ethic which is based
upon the ideal of man or
humanity could present concrete requirements of how love must be practised, what one must do — at least under particular conditions —
in order to make man or
humanity happy.
Paul takes this theme of how
humanity has been delivered from violence and death through the blood of Jesus and expands
upon it
in Ephesians 2.
The impact of Wieman
in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth
upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from
humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.
While preoccupied with my own and others» physical safety, I became momentarily «lost»
in the multitude of
humanity pressing
in upon me, shouting and struggling for their slice of bread.
In the beginning Man invented god and ignorance and intolerance fell
upon humanity.