Sentences with phrase «with ideas of god»

This fits with ideas of God's omnipotence that were deeply entrenched in Western Christian thought at the rime of the rise of modern science and still widely prevail.

What is striking is that reflection coming out of life experience and Biblical study in communities that have taken for granted the reality of God converge so far with the ideas of God that come from those who have wrestled with, and proposed alternatives to, the dominant philosophical views.

Since those process categories have been connected with ideas of God inspired by the Bible, process theologians believe there is a chance in the twenty - first century to bring the long separated parts of human understanding into a new, coherent relationship.

Not only does this idea solve the problem of predestination and free will but is much more in line with the idea of God.

We all approach the text with an idea of God in our minds, even if we don't believe in a god.

So if there is a God (I'm guessing from what you say you are comfortable with the idea of God) then God is above our ideas and words then not matter how glorious our thoughts these are not the Truth is what David posits.

Griffin proposes «that Whitehead began PR with the idea of God as dynamically primordial, i.e., as a primordial actuality which knows and interacts with the world.

If Yahweh is the one and only true god, how did these other people come up with the idea of god before anyone knew he existed?

For instance, we must wrestle with the idea of the God of peace and forgiveness acting as a heartless warrior who endorses the Israelite massacre of three thousand Levites and the population of Canaan.

Our final discussion in this chapter will deal with the idea of God as a Person or as personal.

This would have been irreconcilable with his idea of God, for the doubt presupposes that man in himself has a claim upon God and possesses a criterion by which to judge what is fitting for God and what is not.

The conception of the rule of Satan and the remoteness of God from the present can be unified with the idea of God only if this very remoteness of God, this abandonment to Satan, is really a determination by God Himself.

On the other side, despite the desire of many Buddhists to avoid any entanglement with the idea of God, there are developments in Buddhism that suggest an openness to the kind of deity of which I have spoken.

But my biggest problem with all these stories is with the idea of a god who generally tries to hide anything that could be seen as real evidence (because you need faith) and then slips up and shows it every now and then in very culturally and belief specific ways.

you seem comfortable with the idea of God so that how I'll comment.

Lots of people have problems with the idea of God limiting Himself for the sake of humanity.

If, on the other hand, we start with the idea of God as a «serial society,» leaving out the phases of indeterminateness in every link (so that it would become a continuous chain of satisfactions only), it might appear that we had arrived at the same view as above.

Your personal relationship with your idea of God is separate from that, I agree.

What I mean is broken up with my idea of God... the God...

It's the same thing with the idea of God.»

Like aphophatic theologians wrestling with the idea of God, we can say what it isn't.

Fifthly, the early scientists were perfectly happy with the idea of God, just not what the Pope pronounced.

Not exact matches

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

You tend to side with some idea of a personal God and idealize that God as lovey - dovey — at other times (though far less) you are clearly «Atheish».

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

Marion also says that the Christian metaphysicians relate to God too much on their own terms and on their own initiative; with this we come to one of the deepest ideas of the book.

They have no idea of other's relationship people had with God when living.

While i don't agree 100 % of everything she said, i agree with her general idea that we need to stop chasing after what's cool and what will draw the most church members and start chasing after serving the poor, following Christ, doctrine, outreach, santification, and, specifically, God.

And seeing God's love reflected in our life and relationships with others is wonderful — but the way she speaks sounds dangerously close to pantheism, the idea that God is some sort of general force of love.

All of my ideas about God suddenly didn't really matter... what mattered is that He was there with me filling the room, my soul, and my spirit.

actually the antichrist and satan succeeded in persuading the people with one idea, the idea of (the human god).

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.

Not only is explicit in challenging the idea of the locus of God's activity being in Israel and with its people, but it is also very anti-temple.

«Perfect Justice» for you may mean cutting off your wife's hand if she touches the genitals of someone ATTACKING you, but God's ideas certainly don't ALL jibe with those of most INTELLIGENT people.

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)

I think Paul is hinting the Spirit of God will lead people into the ideas of God (from the whole Tanakh) and they don't need mind themselves with Jewish rituals (ie: circumcision — then I would also say — for that matter atonement — which is a Torah ritual).

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.

Actually, the idea of reuniting with loved ones in Heaven was never a part of church doctrine until relatively recently — the afterlife was all about being united with God.

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.

(This view is abbreviated DP3) J. L. Mackie has described a crucial aspect of this position: «If men's wills are really free, this must mean that even God can not control them... «5 If one takes seriously that idea of a universe composed of actual things in real relations with other actualities, then the idea that all power is concentrated in one actuality is nonsensical.

If you feel that that you can so affirmitvely conclude that there is no God then you would at least have to have to start with very definitive idea of what God is and what are God's intentions.

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).

Almost every idea of God offered by philosophers and theologians was an exception to the respective philosophical systems and not their primary exemplification — here I agree with Hartshorne.

They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.

In this relationship, the man plays the role of Jesus, while the woman plays the role of the church, so that the world will see their covenant relationship to one another and have an idea of what it is like to be in a right relationship with God.

The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

So it is helpful to give people some ideas of the sorts of things that can be said in conversation with God.

@Kev: «If you feel that that you can so affirmitvely conclude that there is no God then you would at least have to have to start with very definitive idea of what God is and what are God's intentions.»

So he's dealing with this always in the back of his mind, this idea of morality and original sin, and also God's will.