Sentences with phrase «various ideas of god»

The pioneer movement of A.A. was more certain that God was the source of their recovery, but as the movement proceeded, various ideas of God proliferated, some good, some nonsensical.

The experiences come first, and various ideas of gods or of a God emerge to summarize, symbolize, and interpret them.

Not exact matches

This view may be argued for in various ways: — first: by appeal to logical laws and metaphysical necessities; — second: by appeal to the existence and nature of God; — third: by appeal to causal determinism (Causal determinism is the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature)

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

The major Reformers were frightened by this move, and we have to sympathize with them It is too easy to confuse various impulses and ideas that arise in one's mind with the guidance of God.

Ideas, thoughts, as well as deeper emotional or «affective» states, are included in this category where the classical writers would place meditation, contemplation, and the various stages of «union with God» about which the mystics have given us reports.

Just don't let the rest of the bible passages provide cover for the various prejudices of today — including the idea that you are born broken and only get fixed by God if you stoke His ego enough (and do what the thumpers say).

In this situation how could we give meaningful content to the idea that God extends subjective aims to the various actors in the little drama we have constructed, that is, provides subjective aims which have the potential, at least, to affect the outcome of events, and have, therefore, the potential to affect the character of God's future experience?

Well, this argument states that while the Bible accurately records the thoughts, actions, and ideas of the various Biblical authors and the people to whom the various books were written, these thoughts, actions, and ideas may not actually be the thoughts, actions, and ideas that God endorses, nor the thoughts, ideas, and actions that we are to copy.

Presumably, if the idea of God is to be even minimally significant, some sort of religious experience is necessary.16 This appeal to religious experience is itself a qualified one, since Hartshorne is prepared to argue that positivism can not exhibit a coherence in its basic life principles that is comparable to a theistic position.17 So he operates in general on the assumption that the crucial issues involved in man's attempts to conceptualize God can and must be adjudicated by a rigorous analysis and criticism of the various views of God which are logically possible.

Though not directly stated anywhere, Peter Enns appears to be a proponent of the idea that the Bible is a library of books written by various authors from various theological perspectives, who are in dialogue with each other over the nature of God and what the human response to Him should be.

Such dependence is revealed in the various attributes he applies to the Son, such as the Name, Face, House, Image of God, Heavenly Man, Charioteer, Pilot, Sum of Ideas and Sum of Powers.

[44] Such dependence is revealed in the various attributes he applies to the Son, such as the Name, Face, House, Image of God, Heavenly Man, Charioteer, Pilot, Sum of Ideas and Sum of Powers.

When I read about Calvin and others ideas on what Gods Word says, the Arminian, Lytheran, Wesleyan, Unitarian and various Church denominations and their interpretations, particularly when they hang their whole idea on one part of the Bible to prove how right they are, it affirms what I have always thought since before I was saved by God as well as after that amazing act of grace on His part, that man values and honors the mind far above the heart.

There have been various attempts to show that all religions are really the same, or that there is a common essence or a central core beneath the multiplicity of external forms.5 Deism sought a universal core of ideas (e.g. the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man).

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

I especially wish that the definition for atheism was more clearly defined — as christians often view it as a positive claim that «God does not exist» instead of it being a mere disbelief with various shades of appending ideas and beliefs.

As you pray, as you spend time in his Word, you begin to develop a relationship with God, and as you learn what He likes and doesn't like, how He thinks, what His ideas are on various subjects, you become able to know with some degree of certainty what God thinks about issues that the Bible doesn't touch on.

Both the words and ideas of Scripture are inspired by God so that God partners with the human authors to record His Word in all the various parts, and the Bible in its entirety.