Sentences with phrase «world than any god»

There is no basis for your conclusion in this regard thus you have faith that Atheism will produce a better and more peaceful world than any god based ism.

Not exact matches

No less of an investment genuis / god than Warren Buffett has stuffed away nearly $ 100 BN in 1 - year US T - bills as nothing in the M&A world or stock market excites him much.

sam stone Given we are made in the image of God our core «DNA» (as evidenced by 98 % of the world population) knows there is more to this existence than chemical reaction on organic matter.

Should we not then be seeking God's kingdom whereabouts in other places than our world?

Given this belief in no god or the unknown god and the great totem pole of the atheist collective you will not experience any greater peace than we currently have in this world.

It will take a lot more than Mr. Hawking to convince the world that there is no God.

Moreover, if heaven is more like a restoration than a recreation of the world, then God must have given material bodies the potential to become one with him.

His «formal exposition of the concept of God's self - communication» in terms of four pairs of interrelated concepts, that is, (a) Origin - Future; (b) History - Transcendence; (c) Invitation - Acceptance; (d) Knowledge - Love, by his own admission is more a brief sketch than a full - scale presentation of a new interpersonal understanding of the God - world relationship.

Reason is bigger than God, unless we are so hopelessly deluded in our experience of the world that reason itself is an illusion.

God is on a different plane than our physical world.

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

The Vision document has four main elements: equipping children academically and emotionally for the world; providing places of healing for children who have mental health problems or who've suffered bad experiences; providing a welcoming place for all rather than just Christians, and; upholding the dignity and respect of each individual, who is made by God.

You see God is merciful even in the end by allowing those who rejected Him to simply cease to exist, for sadly there are many who would rather cease to exist than exist in a world created by a loving God.

In the presence of a holy people they could learn of God rather than continue in the ways of the world (symbolized by Egypt and the heathens)

Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens of millions of men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice - Holy God.

You say you will never see if you don't take your hands off your eyes and yet refuse to look at the world from any other perspective than your own Hebrew God derived universe and you will make or accept any excuse that allows you to keep believing you are right.

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

I can not look at the creations of this world and see anything other than the work of God's hand.

I remember the US being higher in the World's academic ratings back when * more * people believed in God than do currently.

Yet, Heidegger is even less congenial to Christian theology than Kant, for in an important sense Christianity is anthropocentric: «God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

But, we've got more missionaries coming into America from Korea and all other parts of the world because they're seeing more of God in their own country than they are here.

If God gave everybody what they wanted the world be even more chaotic than it is now.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

Indeed they do tend to be other worldy but at the same time — wise to the ways of the world and are no less human than what God intended.

Like all idolaters, we have so deified our culture - forming abilities that we believe we can shape our world in ways subject only to our own desires, rather than to the norms God has built into his creation.

The news and events of today are no worse than during the height of the Cold War, or during WW1 or WW2, but overall it is true that man's world gets progressively worse and will continue to do so until man's effort to deny and hide from God reaches its cl - imax.

If everyone agreed to contribute by their own sweat to the gain of the rest of the world rather than standing at the altar lecturing how God will show us «non-believers» rapture, suffering and pain is then worth wondering at that moment, how many other faiths at that moment are saying their God will do the same to you?

If these parameters were needed to define a god, should he exist, would you not say that with all of the suffering and death and disease in the world, that the existence of god through the condition of our species would be more readily disproved than anything?

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Morality has an objective aspect but that objective quality is to be measured against the world God created more so than any collection of inspired writings.

Look at the world / universe and then decide if that is true or if you could have made the universe better than god did.

Trust me, it's far more work trying to justify a delusion and rationalizing why what you believe isn't consistent with what you see in the real world than having one answer for all the questions you people flail about trying to answer and be able to rely on simple logic and facts to conclude there is no god.

I wonder if the suffering and evil in this world and the glory of God are tensions lived in more than expectations realized?

«If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion not without religion but without this my - God - is - bigger - than - your - God thing then it can be true» John Lennon

Also what a better way to show his power and divinity than to take out all the gods of the world power at the time?

Plantinga, however does affirm I2, in that he does believe that God could have unilaterally «brought about» a world containing no evil if he had chosen not to create at all or to actualize a possible world containing no self - determining individuals other than himself.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

In a time when stories were passed on verbally and people had no idea of how the world worked and so wanted their «god» to be bigger and better than the next man's god, the stories just got better and bigger and more far fetched.

(tf likening hate and murder to attraction and lust; lol — oh, but I forgot, I think I've heard that in tf's world, every time someone unmarried person imagines someone other than their spouse naked, tf's God kills a bunch of kittens somewhere...)(eyeroll)

igaftr, yes you are right cats and all the animals in the world including you is part of the universe, eveything is God, it took Him 13.7 billion years for us to arrive what we are now, meaning the true reality of our existence, you are probably less than 50 years old, so how can you expect to equate yourself or pretend to understand Him, God Who is 13.7 billion years old.

Is this perhaps a call for the world to serve Mammon or wealth rather than God?

The disciple who can pray, who can depend on God's judgment rather than the world's valuation, will not be at the mercy of popularity or fashion.

God has made us with a thirst and hunger for Him and the material world can no more satisfy our need for God than the desert can fill our stomachs or quench our thirst.

The Bible can be read as coming to its climax in an understanding of a God whose work in the world is always an expression of love rather than of force.

My hope is that when the sun rises on May 22, Harold Camping will repent of his overconfidence and delight in a God who is bigger than his expectations and whose plans for this world far exceed anything he could ever ask or imagine.

Rather than ignore them completely, we must acknowledge their presence but at the same time acknowledge that they have already been defeated and pray in the Spirit against their schemes against us, our friends, our church and this world and most importantly to love everyone like God does, especially if we think they are either demonically oppressed or possessed.

Cardinal Ruini spoke of «false interpretations» of cosmic and biological evolution which «contribute more than a little to a purely naturalistic understanding of man» and which also lead to «the denial of the existence of a personal God distinct from the world» and the denial of «the transcendence of the human subject, made in the image and likeness of God».

This is a call for the world to serve Mammon or wealth rather than God.