We all know what happens when you mess
with Gods creation.
This was not a new idea from Jesus as care and compassion began
with Gods creation of man in the first place.
Many here prove to have alot more to learn and not only get held back as the rest graduate but get pulled back a grade or step down a rung because heaven is when we are so intune
with gods creation and god that we are one and you cant be one with someone whos not at your level.
Not exact matches
It has nothing to do
with the facts all around us that demonstrate the truth of
God and His
creation.
God's ultimate design for all of us involves connection — connection
with Him, connection
with one another, connection
with creation, even connection
with ourselves.
As
with politics, those that are entrenched in the belief in a
God will not be persuaded by any scientific findings; they can always say that
God was behind the
creation of those physical laws or principles, chemical reactions, etc..
= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between
God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance
with the plan of
creation for the salvation of souls.
Creation and redemption both find their origin in the Incarnation.Far from pushing the view that
God suffers, I follow a version of monophysite Christology by arguing that even before the Resurrection, Jesus had a body
with at least some of the signs of incorruptibility.
Whether it is 15 minutes in the morning where we read the Bible and pray, an hour - long jog while appreciating His
creation, or a weekend retreat spent worshiping Him, consistent, intentional time spent getting to know
God is one of the foundations of a deep relationship
with Him.
They can not be our ways and it is surprising that
God would even interact
with creation.
What i mean by this is that if u read the
creation story in the bible, there is no mention that
god created the solar system
with the sun in the center,
with the other planets,
with us in the milky way galaxy, and all the other billions of galaxies.
Reality, This is precisely what Scripture reveals about Jesus: «He is the image of the invisible
God, the first - born of all
creation» (Colossians 1:15)... which fits nicely
with what you said the Saint Ignatius of Antioch said, the bishop is typos tou Patros: he is like the living image of
God the Father».
Transformed into something that becomes praise of
God for the joy of being alive, the joy of love, the joy of being created male and female in his image and being given, in our
creation, this stunning and amazing invitation to eternal ecstasy and union
with God.»
In the restricted sense that we had showed
with this experiment how
god was unnecessary for the
creation of new life, I suppose we were,» Venter writes in hi new book.»
If you show me a
God who regards his / her entire
creation with the same love and compassion, and doesnot discriminate to say — it is okay to hurt this plant or animal etc etc...
Beginning
with the
creation of all matter and energy known to man down to the Garden all was created for the redemption of souls to the glory of
God.
However, The difference between myself and those who profess to be
God's chosen is that I don't delude myself
with the anthropocentric nonsense that humans are masters of all other creatures on this planet (as well as all
creation), we are merely and momentarily at the top of the food chain.
It is observed that every heresy is a truth that has lost its balance, and at present, as well as in the past, flirtation
with heresy and heresy itself have attended much thinking about the relationship between
God and his
creation.
Genesis 6:5 - 6
God was not pleased
with his
creation.
And here is where the Church's great communal story offers its aid: for it is the responsibility of the «many members of the one body,» who collectively celebrate and enact that story, to guide each individual member into paths, into life genres, that harmonize
with the great melody of
God's redeeming work in His
creation.
If
God would appear to me and instill me
with the belief that I was his
creation, sure.
Chris: Darwin was fearful of his big idea because he still believed in the existence of the Christian
god, and was extremely uncomfortable coming up
with something that went against a literal interpretation of the
creation story (I think.
@fimeilleur
God delights in sharing His secrets
with His
creation, just in the last century
God has provided man
with the ability to reattach severed body parts and if I'm not mistaken we are on the verge of regrowing organs and limbs even as we speak.
Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the
creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion
with God for which the whole
creation waits
with eager longing.
Genesis 1:31
God was pleased
with his
creation.
But since he endowed all of his intelligent
creation with free will, they were free to choose
God as their Ruler, and live forever, or sin and reject
God and lose eternal life.
Hamann critiqued this as a pathetic, prideful parody of
God's fiat in
creation: «For what is the highly touted reason
with its omnipotence, infallibility, effusiveness, certainty, and evidence?
How does the lack of evidence
with Noah's Ark, the birth of Christ, the
creation story and so forth actually prove that there is no
God who wants us to rely on faith instead of assured knowledge.
3) you speak of «
God creating a world
with sin» but Judaism & Christianity share a common view of
creation — namely, that
God made the world perfectly good but * humanity * ruined it.
My decision not to intervene in the already completed election by his fellow parishioners of Florian Stangl to their parish council — the results of which do not need approval of the Archbishop in order to be final — was inspired by my genuine desire to help a young man find his way towards a life in union
with God's plan for
creation (see my attached sermon of April 2nd which explains this in further detail).
I also believe in
God, and I respect the Bible as a work of inspiration, and a source of inspiration, but I don't believe it is necessarily historical, and I certainly don't believe its
creation stories should be taken literally, since the various stories conflict
with each other.
What is «different» about the contract
God made
with humanity, and through us
with * his *
creation is that it is kept in force by * his * Unconditional Love and faithfulness, not on human performance or fidelity.
The Biblical accounts of
God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting
with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating
with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»
As per the quote, what we do in comparison to
God is «like filthy rags» and rightfully so — we are comparing
creation with the Creator — I am also guessing we all feel like Isaiah in that presence of the Creator «not worthy» to even look upon it or speak.
You will probably decide that means your
God will be able to hold on a bit longer as the Creator
with humans as its special
creation.
Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the
Creation of universe, life and guidance,
God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue
with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;
The intention behind the law simply is: caring about others as you care about yourself — this is pleasing an idea to
God — Creator of the
creation — and basically the scriptures only want us to deal
with this delicate balance of «treating others» kindly.
Fish and other sea creatures were created on the 5th «creative» day, while land animals were made during the 6th «creative» day,
with man being
God's final act of
creation on the earth.
Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of
God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of
creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities
with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.
It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of
God's interaction
with his
creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.
For some it may mean that «there is an orphaned state required for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, in which a man who like all others is the child of his parents must symbolize
with his being and action the present but hidden
creation which is not a mere prolongation of the old, but the new
creation in relation to which the old has already passed away...» This is, therefore, the first word that must be spoken: of discontinuity between the kingdom of
God and any earthly order, even one as significant as the family.
With all the emphasis on
creation or evolution coming out of the first few chapters of Genesis, we often miss some of the most important ideas about our humanity and how
God created us (not physically, but spiritually and psychologically).
Instead of creating a false
god in your mind to mock, perhaps you would do yourself a favor to spend your mental energy considering the type of outside and eternal power that is required to create anything, why that power would create anything, why that power would give its created beings a will and ability to ponder existence, how that power would communicate
with its
creations, and how anything less than that power could co-exist
with it in eternity.
God does not arbitrate
with man, and most certainly can not be «tamed» by His
creation.
But there is evidence — beginning
with Genesis 1, where we are told that
God looked at the whole
creation and saw that it was good — that biblical thinking is not nearly so anthropocentric as many interpreters of the Bible have supposed.
Additionally,
creation does not imply an initial temporal
creation out of nothing: «
God is not before all
creation, but
with all
creation» (PR 521).
My attempts on declaring
God's Kingdom Domains to be inside all of Life is reaching deaf ears
with many perhaps all who remain in sedintary conditionings never to righteously understand
God, the Father of
Creations» Celestial and all
creations terrestrial of living manifestations everywhere possible within the grandness of the Cosmos of Celestialness!
In what sense does nature have a role in the sweep of
God's history
with God's
creation, as it is depicted in the Bible?
Yes
God is all powerful and loving, but he is also totally sovereign and has just reasons for all he does, even if he chooses not to share his reasons
with his
creation.
Calvin agreed that the world should be treated
with contempt to the extent that it is not
God, and is too easily mistaken for Him; yet, it is the
creation of
God, to be affirmed at least to a degree.