Habakkuk - Bible.org
... The only comparison we should be making is to God Himself not to other men. Isaiah wrote that we as humans do not understand God because His ways are higher than ours and His thoughts are higher than ours. Jeremiah reminds us that God’s view is this: 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I ...
... The only comparison we should be making is to God Himself not to other men. Isaiah wrote that we as humans do not understand God because His ways are higher than ours and His thoughts are higher than ours. Jeremiah reminds us that God’s view is this: 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I ...
The Ontological Meta-Argument
... argument that we have proves, or whether we know how to fix it, but what is proved by the greatest conceivable ontological argument. After all, if there is an argument to be assembled, even one we will never find, that is valid, sound and has p as its conclusion, then p is true. So consider the grea ...
... argument that we have proves, or whether we know how to fix it, but what is proved by the greatest conceivable ontological argument. After all, if there is an argument to be assembled, even one we will never find, that is valid, sound and has p as its conclusion, then p is true. So consider the grea ...
Arete - Wenstrom
... 16. It should be noted that although the concept of moral human virtue played a prominent role in Greek philosophy, it is foreign to the Old Testament’s understanding that only God has “virtue” or can do “virtuous deeds.” 17. Philo and Josephus integrated such ideas into their writings since they we ...
... 16. It should be noted that although the concept of moral human virtue played a prominent role in Greek philosophy, it is foreign to the Old Testament’s understanding that only God has “virtue” or can do “virtuous deeds.” 17. Philo and Josephus integrated such ideas into their writings since they we ...
Notes to Rabbi Jana`s Soul Class Rashi teaches that the wicked
... perform deeds with focused, unselfconscious action coupled with an awareness of the ultimate import of our deeds. In Torah, it is hard to find any specific information that shows a distinction between body and soul. The rabbis in the Talmud differed on whether a soul can exist without a body. After ...
... perform deeds with focused, unselfconscious action coupled with an awareness of the ultimate import of our deeds. In Torah, it is hard to find any specific information that shows a distinction between body and soul. The rabbis in the Talmud differed on whether a soul can exist without a body. After ...
Liturgy and Postmoderns
... of biblical community. Long believes, “The most urgent apologetic task before us is to live our lives in community in such a way that those around us will come and ask, ‘Why are you different? What keeps you going? What is the hope in your heart?’”15 He does not deny that Christians are called to gi ...
... of biblical community. Long believes, “The most urgent apologetic task before us is to live our lives in community in such a way that those around us will come and ask, ‘Why are you different? What keeps you going? What is the hope in your heart?’”15 He does not deny that Christians are called to gi ...
God Revealed Himself As Holy, Oct 14 2012
... have being. All living things except God were created by Him and derive their being from Him. In the same way, God is the only one who is holy. All other beings can obtain holiness only from relationship with Him. When we say God is holy we are referencing God’s uniqueness and His supreme otherness. ...
... have being. All living things except God were created by Him and derive their being from Him. In the same way, God is the only one who is holy. All other beings can obtain holiness only from relationship with Him. When we say God is holy we are referencing God’s uniqueness and His supreme otherness. ...
Gods Choice or Ours - The Good News ABout Predestination and
... who could make real decisions. I took what they said seriously. So did my parents, my brothers, and most of my friends. We occasionally discussed the seeming contradiction between thinking that everything has been predetermined, but at the same time seeing ourselves as responsible to make right deci ...
... who could make real decisions. I took what they said seriously. So did my parents, my brothers, and most of my friends. We occasionally discussed the seeming contradiction between thinking that everything has been predetermined, but at the same time seeing ourselves as responsible to make right deci ...
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION G581
... Mystics e.g. St John on the cross accept statements about God not accurate due to being greater than comprehension & ineffable. Rather than having no knowledge of God, negative statements can be made Language when applied to God is equivocal. By saying what God is not we can arrive in a limited ...
... Mystics e.g. St John on the cross accept statements about God not accurate due to being greater than comprehension & ineffable. Rather than having no knowledge of God, negative statements can be made Language when applied to God is equivocal. By saying what God is not we can arrive in a limited ...
The Role of Torah and of Jewish Tradition in the Messianic Jewish
... many of Paul’s converts were uncircumcised Gentiles. Contrary to much of modern practice, there is no biblical legitimacy for ethnicallybased, culturally-orientated, or linguistically focused congregations, any more than it is legitimate to separate into white and black churches, blue or white colla ...
... many of Paul’s converts were uncircumcised Gentiles. Contrary to much of modern practice, there is no biblical legitimacy for ethnicallybased, culturally-orientated, or linguistically focused congregations, any more than it is legitimate to separate into white and black churches, blue or white colla ...
The Word - The PowerPoint Apologist
... Obviously, there can be no Word of God unless God exists. With respect to existence, metaphysics (beyond the physical) concerns itself with the study of being or reality. Christianity believes in Theism, which says one God created all of reality as we know it and that this God transcends everything. ...
... Obviously, there can be no Word of God unless God exists. With respect to existence, metaphysics (beyond the physical) concerns itself with the study of being or reality. Christianity believes in Theism, which says one God created all of reality as we know it and that this God transcends everything. ...
Descartes` Epistemology
... – “Nor should I imagine I perceive the infinite . . . only by the negation of the finite, just as I perceive repose and darkness by the negation of movement and light . . . . For, how would it be possible that I should know . . . that something is lacking [in] me, and that I am not quite perfect, un ...
... – “Nor should I imagine I perceive the infinite . . . only by the negation of the finite, just as I perceive repose and darkness by the negation of movement and light . . . . For, how would it be possible that I should know . . . that something is lacking [in] me, and that I am not quite perfect, un ...
ENGLISH FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
... rebuke would be in accord with the facts and the truth. What are the three? In the first place, Lohicca, there is the teacher who has not himself attained the aim of becoming a samanna, in pursuit of which he left home and adopted the homeless life. Without himself having attained to it he teaches a ...
... rebuke would be in accord with the facts and the truth. What are the three? In the first place, Lohicca, there is the teacher who has not himself attained the aim of becoming a samanna, in pursuit of which he left home and adopted the homeless life. Without himself having attained to it he teaches a ...
why jews become messianic jews - The Evangelical Theological
... if your own family doesn't cast you out. . . . And so, should you convert again, you lose all sorts of things: not just your library and your vocabulary and your prayers, but also your family, all the people who made you their own and who made you yours. It's a good reason to only convert once, if y ...
... if your own family doesn't cast you out. . . . And so, should you convert again, you lose all sorts of things: not just your library and your vocabulary and your prayers, but also your family, all the people who made you their own and who made you yours. It's a good reason to only convert once, if y ...
Participation and Theology: A Response to Schindler`s “What`s The
... notion of the hierarchy of beings’ participating makes us wonder why there ought to be “lesser” things rather than no-things. Schindler rejects participation as fall; he wishes to say the opposite: The dog’s mode is different and as different is good. Therefore, the dog’s mode of knowing somehow ex ...
... notion of the hierarchy of beings’ participating makes us wonder why there ought to be “lesser” things rather than no-things. Schindler rejects participation as fall; he wishes to say the opposite: The dog’s mode is different and as different is good. Therefore, the dog’s mode of knowing somehow ex ...
God Understanding who and what God is
... otherwise. When reading about Christ we often must take into account whether the passage is referring to His humanity or His Deity (flesh or spirit). For example: As a man, Christ prayed. As God he answered prayers. ...Christ had a 'Dual Nature' ...
... otherwise. When reading about Christ we often must take into account whether the passage is referring to His humanity or His Deity (flesh or spirit). For example: As a man, Christ prayed. As God he answered prayers. ...Christ had a 'Dual Nature' ...
7522U MANITOULIN BIBLE CAMP - 2003 Speaker: Bro. Roger
... relationship between the Jewish people and the Palestinian people of the day. Now you need two hands for this one, so in your right hand (isn't it a wonderful thing that we have two hands available) in the right hand you need Psalm 108 and in your left hand you need 1 Chronicles 18. So here we're at ...
... relationship between the Jewish people and the Palestinian people of the day. Now you need two hands for this one, so in your right hand (isn't it a wonderful thing that we have two hands available) in the right hand you need Psalm 108 and in your left hand you need 1 Chronicles 18. So here we're at ...
ACTS 17 – PAUL: A PERSUADER
... am attracted to the idea of re-moulding him and changing him, to make him more appealing to me or to people I know. I sometimes wish that God didn’t punish sin – that maybe hell wasn’t real – that maybe it wasn’t that important for people to hear about Jesus and put their trust in him. But then I’m ...
... am attracted to the idea of re-moulding him and changing him, to make him more appealing to me or to people I know. I sometimes wish that God didn’t punish sin – that maybe hell wasn’t real – that maybe it wasn’t that important for people to hear about Jesus and put their trust in him. But then I’m ...
Cologne Theses 03-Jun-2004
... nihilism understood as the devaluation of the highest values. But Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s concept of value is thought in the third person, i.e. as the relation between Mensch und Welt. The German concept of Mensch, to be sure, is understood as a universal We, but this We is in truth merely a gen ...
... nihilism understood as the devaluation of the highest values. But Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s concept of value is thought in the third person, i.e. as the relation between Mensch und Welt. The German concept of Mensch, to be sure, is understood as a universal We, but this We is in truth merely a gen ...
2_-_Psychology_vs._Biblical_Counseling
... Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ezek 18:4b The soul who sins will die Lev 5:17 “Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and sha ...
... Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ezek 18:4b The soul who sins will die Lev 5:17 “Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and sha ...
wORlDly saINTs: The PURITaNs as They Really weRe1 Leland Ryken
... retain the calling still as well as the other, following the one still with the other.14 The Puritan goal was to serve God, not simply within one’s work in the world, but through that work. John Cotton hinted at this when he wrote, A true believing Christian...lives in his vocation by his faith. Not ...
... retain the calling still as well as the other, following the one still with the other.14 The Puritan goal was to serve God, not simply within one’s work in the world, but through that work. John Cotton hinted at this when he wrote, A true believing Christian...lives in his vocation by his faith. Not ...
Rethinking Theology: The Shadow of the
... with interesting and well-respected results. These kinds of thinkers see no difficulty in holding to two propo sitions, “Theology is the continuously revealed word of God” and “Theology is rational, dogmatic, or systematic theology.” I do not know what either Paulsen or Ostler believes regarding th ...
... with interesting and well-respected results. These kinds of thinkers see no difficulty in holding to two propo sitions, “Theology is the continuously revealed word of God” and “Theology is rational, dogmatic, or systematic theology.” I do not know what either Paulsen or Ostler believes regarding th ...
Image of God - The University of Akron
... We know that a physical body is divisible, but 'we cannot conceive of half of a mind'. 11 A person, mind, or soul has either/or existence—there are no 6 per cent, 27 per cent, 93 per cent, or 110 per cent persons. Given the existence of a person or mind, only then can the development of intellect, c ...
... We know that a physical body is divisible, but 'we cannot conceive of half of a mind'. 11 A person, mind, or soul has either/or existence—there are no 6 per cent, 27 per cent, 93 per cent, or 110 per cent persons. Given the existence of a person or mind, only then can the development of intellect, c ...
Paul and Judaism: New Perspectives
... not only untrue but have also been dangerous throughout history. One of the important new perspectives on Paul has been the effort at recovering the biblical framework of covenant and recognizing that the laws set down in the Torah are placed in the context of God‘s love expressed in creation, in hi ...
... not only untrue but have also been dangerous throughout history. One of the important new perspectives on Paul has been the effort at recovering the biblical framework of covenant and recognizing that the laws set down in the Torah are placed in the context of God‘s love expressed in creation, in hi ...
PDF - Gospel Revolution Church
... what they have both believed on will be shown for what it is just by them standing in the presence of God. God doesn't have to do anything but just be there in all His glory. The same loving God, having the same heart for all people; not desiring that any should perish but that all would have life a ...
... what they have both believed on will be shown for what it is just by them standing in the presence of God. God doesn't have to do anything but just be there in all His glory. The same loving God, having the same heart for all people; not desiring that any should perish but that all would have life a ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... XI. A priori and a posteriori arguments P The ontological argument is an example of an a priori argument for God’s existence. P A priori statements are explained by the use of thought, rather than experience. P A statement is believed a priori if our justification of that belief is independent of e ...
... XI. A priori and a posteriori arguments P The ontological argument is an example of an a priori argument for God’s existence. P A priori statements are explained by the use of thought, rather than experience. P A statement is believed a priori if our justification of that belief is independent of e ...