Sentences with phrase «whose omnipotence»

So, Jesus» depiction in the Gospel story is that of «a God Whose omnipotence consisted not in coercive force but in enduring love.»

Now, when God's enemy stands before Him, He cries to God, whose omnipotence He knows: «All things are possible with thee; let this cup pass from me» (Mark 14:36).

Not exact matches

It is only when we turn to Irenaeus of Lyons that we encounter full blown a philosophical defense of divine omnipotence, but precisely in Irenaeus we are dealing with a leading Christian thinker of his time whose influence was extensive.8

«The experience of absolute control over another being, of omnipotence so far as he, she or it is concerned, creates the illusion of transcending the limitations of human existence, particularly for those whose lives are deprived of productivity and joy.

God appears to me in another form besides that of love; in the form of omnipotence, of a severe power not bound by love... So long as love is not exalted into... an essence, so long there lurks in the background of love a subject who even without love is something by himself, an unloving monster, a diabolical being, whose personality, separable and actually separated from love, delights in the blood of heretics and unbelievers, — the phantom of religious fanaticism.»

We have subordinated the larger vision of universal beauty to the monotony of our own moral assessments of cosmic order and have invented for ourselves a God whose essential function is that of upholding our ethical orders by way of an omnipotence modeled on physical strength.