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God is supposedly a mind, but this mind differs radically from the human mind, because, first, it has the ability to create physical objects out of nothing, through thought alone ; and, second, it does not have any series of thoughts at all, but remains in the same mental state, apart from time, or as it were throughout eternity.
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My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
The steady purpose of our society is to assure justice, before God, for every individual.
It is not the authority of God Himself which makes them true.
Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.
Forgiveness is the door through which a person must pass to enter the Kingdom of God.
His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.
Then he thought of Aaron Blaustein standing in his rich house saying: `` God is tired of taking the blame.
It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man ( or woman ) than on God.
I pray to God that he may be spared to us for many years to come for this is an influence the United States and the whole world can ill afford to lose.
This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.
Believing that God is the Author of this law and of all laws of nature, Roman Catholics believe that they are obliged to obey those laws, not frustrate or mock them.
The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.
Since the will and word of God are for them concentrated in Christ-like love, it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance is quite another thing.
But of course the paterollers won't be of any help, not with everything so upset and that Yankee cavalry outfit they say is running around, God knows where ''.
Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??
There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.
In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.
God and supposedly
In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed " The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world " ( an invention of Taxil ), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.
Natural theology, thus, is that part of the philosophy of religion dealing with describing the nature of the gods, or, in monotheism, arguing for or against attributes or non-attributes of God, and especially the existence of God, purely philosophically, that is, without recourse to any special or supposedly supernatural revelation.
There are some extremely important differences, but God's mind is supposedly enough like our minds that we can make good sense of the claim that God is indeed a mind.
Another common response is that since God is supposedly omnipotent, the phrase " could not lift " doesn't make sense and the paradox is meaningless.
Robertson supposedly received this revelation from God during an annual personal prayer retreat in January.
Cædmon's only known surviving work is Cædmon's Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of God which he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream.
Dystheistic speculation arises from consideration of the problem of evil — the question of why God, who is supposedly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, would allow evil to exist in the world.
The first book involves a discussion between Poimandres ( also known as Nous and God ) and Hermes, supposedly resulting from a meditative state, and is the first time that Hermes is in contact with God.
One reason, she held, was that conscience, as we understand it in moral or legal matters, is supposedly always present within us, just like consciousness: " and this conscience is also supposed to tell us what to do and what to repent ; before it became the lumen naturale or Kant's practical reason, it was the voice of God.
Surprisingly, God will supposedly consider, for example, someone's woe filled thoughts for the suffering of mankind as a prayer for help toward them even though one or both are " unbelievers ".
Yog-Sothoth is an Outer God and is coterminous with all time and space yet is supposedly locked outside of the universe we inhabit.
When asked by a Crusader how to tell Catholics from Cathars once they had taken the city, the abbot supposedly replied, " Kill them all, God will know His own "-" Neca eos omnes.
For example, the prohibition on eating pork is not to be taken literally, but rather forbids the people to live like swine, who supposedly grunt when hungry but are silent when full: likewise, the people are not to pray to God when they are in need but ignore him when they are satisfied.
They insist that there is but one eternal God, the Father, and that alleged progression to godhood ( a doctrine supposedly taught by Joseph Smith ; Strangites reject that assertion ) is impossible.
The phrase also crops up in philosophy of religion, as an argument against God's omniscience-here it is questioned whether God could genuinely know everything, since he ( supposedly ) cannot know what it is like to sin.
* Since the Divine presence ( or possibly an appearance of God ) can supposedly be called simply by pronouncing His true name correctly, substitute names are used.
Meykandar's twelve-verse Śivajñānabodham and subsequent works by other writers, all supposedly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, laid the foundation of the Meykandar Sampradaya ( lineage ), which propounds a pluralistic realism wherein God, souls and world are coexistent and without beginning.
Some believers in Abrahamic religions try to derive their native languages from Classical Hebrew, as Herbert W. Armstrong, a proponent of British Israelism, who said that the word ' British ' comes from Hebrew brit meaning ' covenant ' and ish meaning ' man ', supposedly proving that the British people are the ' covenant people ' of God.
The conspiracy theory of " Vicarius Filii Dei " ( Vicar of the Son of God ), supposedly considered an expansion of the historic title " Vicarius Christi ", is a term used in the spurious " Donation of Constantine " to refer to Saint Peter.
Charles supposedly cried out " God save the Earl of Burford!
As the American line continued to hold steady under British artillery fire, Riall realized his error and supposedly exclaimed his famous phrase " Those are regulars, by God!
Michael would supposedly stand alone in the Kingdom of God for a time, only to be suddenly recognized by the world, which he would then rule with his " rod of iron.
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