Sentences with phrase «ways we think about god»

The assumption is that the vision of faith always has a particular and determinate form which materially conditions the way we think about God.19

i am undergoing such a change in the way i think about God and religion and reading some of your articles has been very refreshing — right now i am part of a very fundamental church and i need to get out - i am tired of the judgement and looking at people as «saved» and «unsaved» (we recently had a church event where if you brought an «unsaved» friend they got to rollerskate for free - i wanted to vomit)- i just want to follow Jesus - do nt know where to go but i do want to stay part of a church (for the sake of my children)- i saw somewhere on your blog that you too are in the hudson valley — are there any churches you can recommend that fall in line with your way of thinking?

Do we, as Christians and Muslims, despite the many ways we think about God, pray to the «same» God?

If I go back and look at the themes I wrote about 20 years ago, the words I used, the way I thought about God, the names I used for God, and a whole host of other ideas, the «me» of 20 years ago writes nothing like the «me» of today.

LaBeouf later says, «I don't believe in God,» but suggests that the conversation did possibly change the way he thinks about God: «But did I see God?

This book will challenge the way you think about God, and will also give you insight into how the incarnation of Jesus Christ was not a late development in God's plan for the world, but was something God has been doing all along.

Not exact matches

The way I think about it, God did it and through science we are learning how he did it.

Speaking for myself, although the same would be true for most of the others, I was working within a broadly Augustinian way of thinking about these matters» a tradition that sharply distinguishes between the city of God and the city of man, and insists that the one can never be transformed into the other.

And, as the normal way of thinking about moral obligations was to understand them as the commands of God, the first defense or justification of this belief was an attempt to show that this is what God commanded.

Think about it this way; We «interfered» with the Morman's teachings that polygamy was «God's way» too.

I don't think a woman ought to be doing that to a man because it's direct, it's forceful, it's authoritative, it compromising something about the way a man and a woman were designed by God to relate.»

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

Steven, you're right, a god's existence would be empirically untestable, unless it manifested itself in our universe in some way and demonstrated that it can bend the natural laws etc.... But, what gets me, is that you're saying that it is a waste of time to think about things that are empirically untestable.

I don't think about it at all and you can't offend God in any way, whatsoever.

Assuming we're all taking about the same sin (Adam and Eve), in their own stories the entire population was wiped off the face of the Earth once (except for Noah's family, who apparently «God» had forgiven for the sin or he wouldn't have saved him); and then absolved of all Old Testament sins by «God» letting his own son (or himself if you think that way) get tortured and killed.

Always needing to be right, always needing to be in charge and control, always too busy and self - centered for others and always trying to figure out ways that you can profit from God, the Bible, church and religion tells me who you are, in which case I care not what you think about what the Bible says, whether or not it is without error and so on.

My praying at a time of need and having an experience that felt like a thunderbolt going though me has lent to me to thinking that God does exist and an epiphany about having a choice whether to continue with a life that left me pursuing my own desires only to be frustrated with what I had, always wanting more lent me to think that life is not about «my way» but «God's way».

But God does not want you to go around bragging about what He has given you, and demanding that people honor you and look up to you the way you think they should.

If there is one thing we learn from the Lord's prayer in Luke 11:1, it is that the best ways to think about prayer is to view it as simply having a conversation with God.

There is no way to think about the future realistically without thinking with faith in the fact of God's loving grasp on the future.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

I call this alchemy «narrative theology» because I'm usually just wanting to write what I think and experience about God and the best way I know how to do that is through story - telling.

In planning creation this way, in God's one Thought about creation, Mary stands as the peak of evolution, the highpoint of the Universe, the first of all creatures under Christ.

Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality of human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of other human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»

And while she could be an atheist and think of that source as a non-god, the way she writes about it clearly shows she's always been quite open to the idea that it may be a god as well.

People that do nt know the Lord would think that way, read the bible then u will know what God is about, God cares about your soul in the name of Jesus, he wants to save your soul from hell if u would surrender your life to him and live for him, he is not concern about no football game or worldly things, he wants u to come to him and get saved thats what God is about, learn of him read the Holy Bible.

We are trying to think in an as - if fashion about the God - world relationship, because we have no other way of thinking about it.

When we think about the ways that we say God interacts with the world, can we truly call those love?

It is the intentional, yet not coerced, effort to read or think about, to read and think about, some significant incident in God's way with men as reported in Scripture or in some other piece of writing.

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.

My concern here is that WTS and other Reformed institutions are elevating Calvin's theological interpretation of God to the point that it is understood to be a comprehensive explanation of God, the only «right» way of thinking about Him and worshipping Him.

A non-religious interpretation would call men to participate in the suffering of God in his life of the world,» not in the first place thinking about one's own needs, problems, sins and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up into the way of Jesus Christ, into the messianic event, thus fulfilling Isa.

While in some ways this is a new and unfamiliar way of thinking about God, it is consistent with one key part of the scriptural tradition: in the Bible, God is the one who makes things new.

The biblical witness brought forth a way of thinking about the nature of God as a living and interacting God who is predominantly and even essentially love.

Just be artistic in a way that inspires others to think about truth, feel the love of God, and live in a way that promotes freedom.

At the very least, substantial interaction between Christian theology and evolutionary biology is prompting new metaphors and new ways of thinking about God.

I think we would all agree that if I had a friend who was interacting with children in inappropriate ways (I don't, but hypothetically) that I would be remiss to not step in and stop that behavior; we would all also agree that there are minor doctrinal differences that are not only not destructive but can be help us to think about God in new and different ways.

When we think about the role of reading in our spiritual formation, we generally think of non-fiction books that help us understand scripture and theology, but fiction powerfully shapes the ways in which we think faithfully about God and the world.

All of a sudden the Jews started believing in YHWH, wrote scrolls about this belief, and you think that this is somehow different than the way the Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, or Norse gods came into being?

He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.

The second is to show how Buddhism, particularly the Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism, can contribute to an understanding of that ethic and that way of thinking about God.

The shorthand phrase for this way of thinking about God is supernatural theism.

They think they're the ones who have this little secret about God and heaven and the devil and such and oh, how stupid are we for not simply believing it the way they do.

As Birch and Cobb would put it, can Christians develop ways of thinking about God and the world that encourage ecological sustainability and social justice?

Indeed, beliefs relative to the sovereignty of God, Christ's conquering of the principalities and powers, or the transforming power of God in individual lives have profound - implications for the way in which we must think about politics.

This way of thinking about God sees God as another being, to use Karen Armstrong's phrase, in addition to the world of beings, in addition to the universe.

For different reasons and in different contexts Christians throughout the world have been rejecting atomistic ways of thinking about God.

The second element in this older way of seeing God is an interventionist way of thinking about the relationship between God and the world.

Perhaps the best way of thinking about this is to distinguish between the loving unity that the three divine Persons experience, on the one hand, and the loving unity that defines God's eternal essence, on the other.

What is needed, she says, is a way of thinking about God that enables Christians to accept responsibility for protecting life, and that provides us with images of shared power, not dominating power.