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In connection with this Jehovah's Witnesses also believe the Holy Spirit is not an actual person but rather is God s divine breath, God's power in action.
# unaided by the Holy Spirit, no person is able to respond to God s will ;
Pastor and theologian Dr. Brian Abasciano claims " What Paul says about Jews, Gentiles, and Christians, whether of their place in God s plan, or their election, or their salvation, or how they should think or behave, he says from a corporate perspective which views the group as primary and those he speaks about as embedded in the group.
Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God s ways in history .”
Franklin agrees that Luke s work is apolitical and believes that Luke s main concern was the “ triumph of God in Paul s arrival in Rome.
St. Bonaventure s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.
His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.
Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Alexander advances the idea that it is would not be God s fault to create a being that would bind the ‘ corrupt with the ‘ clean ’.
Alexander is also known for rejecting the idea that there are many things in God s mind, instead claiming that it is more perfect to know just one thing.
But it s a godly conceit, really, playing off a godly name — Joachim means ' God s determination ', something like that — that also happens to have a rustic ring to it.
It was in Adrianople that Bahá u lláh referred to his son as " the Mystery of God ".
* Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 ).

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* For a utilitarian analysis of religion, see The ( F ) Utility of Religion: Who Needs God ( s )?– A Prospective Bible for Non-Believers at http :// bradmusil. kramernet. org
Judeo-Christian literature positioned blindness as a flaw ; only through a cure could God s love be made manifest, when the scales would fall away from the eyes of an afflicted individual upon contact with a holy man or relic.
Mitre worn by an Eastern bishop with icon s of Christ, the Theotokos ( Mary, Mother of God ) and John the Baptist | Forerunner ( John the Baptist ).
Daniel 7-12 focuses on God s plan for the future in regard to the fate of world kingdoms being replaced by His kingdom.
Chapters 7-12 contain four visions of Daniel that parallel Nebuchadnezzar s dream in Chapter 2 where the fate of four great empires meet their downfall and are replaced by God s kingdom.
In Chapter nine, Job recognizes the chasm that exists between him and God: “ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together .” Job s regret is that he has no arbiter to act as a go-between ; that Job cannot reconcile himself with God anticipates the need for the Messiah to become incarnate.

God and personal
He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.
I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.
You can receive God into your heart and life by a step of personal faith.
Accept the sinless Son of God, Jesus Christ, as your own personal Saviour.
The more canvassing I do, the more I note how far most people are from their personal God ''.
According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.
Ebby Thacher, Wilson's former drinking buddy and a Grouper who followed the evangelical bent and sought out other alcoholics, presented himself to Wilson telling him he had " got religion " and was sober, and that Wilson could do the same if he set aside objections to religion and formed, instead, a personal idea of God, " another power " or " higher power ".
The Bahá ' í writings describe a single, personal, inaccessible, omniscient, omnipresent, imperishable, and almighty God who is the creator of all things in the universe.
He writes that his spiritual experience followed considerable struggle and hesitancy to have a " personal encounter with God.
Individual members believe that they can also receive personal revelation from God in conducting their lives.
He believed in " the immortality of the spiritual individuality, in a personal permanence after death, in a last order of things, in an eternal, righteous, omniscient and omnipotent God ".
Following a near shipwreck he vowed to find out the truth about life and God through personal Biblical study.
Among the Children of God, the judge argued, Flirty Fishing was not understood as prostitution but " as a personal contribution to the humanitarian aims that the sect always claimed to pursue ".
The distinguishing factor of this philosophy as opposed to Advaita Vedanta ( monistic conclusion of Vedas ) is that God takes on a personal role and is seen as a real eternal entity that governs and controls the universe.
Some modern deists have modified this classical view and believe that humanity's relationship with God is transpersonal, which means that God transcends the personal / impersonal duality and moves beyond such human terms.
According to Taylor, by the early 19th century this deism-mediated exclusive humanism developed as an alternative to Christian faith in a personal God and an order of miracles and mystery.
These religious also struggled for a deeply personal, intimate relationship with God.
Profession in Dartford Priory seems, then, to have been made based on personal commitment, and one's personal association with God.
English Dominican mysticism in the late medieval period differed from European strands of it in that, whereas European Dominican mysticism tended to concentrate on ecstatic experiences of union with the divine, English Dominican mysticism's ultimate focus was on a crucial dynamic in one's personal relationship with God.
Mayr was an unconventional atheist, stating he was an atheist towards " the idea of a personal God " because " there is nothing that supports "
He also gleaned there the importance of a personal relationship with God but eschewed the harsh rules and strict methods of the religious brothers and educators.
Rasputin had a considerable personal and political influence on Alexandra, and the Tsar and Tsarina considered him a man of God and a religious prophet.

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