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... are higher than human reason can fathom. The sovereign God commands according to God’s own good pleasure and will. This God does not need to justify the divine commands at the bar of human reason. In fact, sometimes God refuses to supply any rationale whatsoever for the directives that come our way. ...
... are higher than human reason can fathom. The sovereign God commands according to God’s own good pleasure and will. This God does not need to justify the divine commands at the bar of human reason. In fact, sometimes God refuses to supply any rationale whatsoever for the directives that come our way. ...
Christian Ethics. How Should We Live?
... are higher than human reason can fathom. The sovereign God commands according to God’s own good pleasure and will. This God does not need to justify the divine commands at the bar of human reason. In fact, sometimes God refuses to supply any rationale whatsoever for the directives that come our way. ...
... are higher than human reason can fathom. The sovereign God commands according to God’s own good pleasure and will. This God does not need to justify the divine commands at the bar of human reason. In fact, sometimes God refuses to supply any rationale whatsoever for the directives that come our way. ...
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... be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. ...
... be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. ...
Bible Handbook of Difficult Verses, The
... Explanation: There is solid evidence that the universe had a beginning (see previous Explanation), but that doesn’t prove that God gave the universe its beginning, right? And while many scientists now concede that the universe had a beginning, this doesn’t address who or what caused it. But there is ...
... Explanation: There is solid evidence that the universe had a beginning (see previous Explanation), but that doesn’t prove that God gave the universe its beginning, right? And while many scientists now concede that the universe had a beginning, this doesn’t address who or what caused it. But there is ...
Examining Objections to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness
... most of these citizens, the knowledge that such a body has issued laws that designate murder as illegal has no effect on their disposition to murder people or not. In other words, the knowledge of this governing body and the laws that it has created creates no sullen resentment for most people. In t ...
... most of these citizens, the knowledge that such a body has issued laws that designate murder as illegal has no effect on their disposition to murder people or not. In other words, the knowledge of this governing body and the laws that it has created creates no sullen resentment for most people. In t ...
Lesson 3 - God in Hinduism
... turtle, and after that as a boar. Then he incarnated as a combination of beast and man. All His subsequent incarnations were in human form. Science tells us that early life forms on earth were fish or aquatic animals. Then came amphibians such as turtles. They were followed by land a ...
... turtle, and after that as a boar. Then he incarnated as a combination of beast and man. All His subsequent incarnations were in human form. Science tells us that early life forms on earth were fish or aquatic animals. Then came amphibians such as turtles. They were followed by land a ...
International Sunday School Lesson Study Notes June 26, 2016
... The knowledge of God is “manifest in them” as well as around them. All men have evidence of God, and what their physical senses can perceive of Him their inner senses can understand to some extent. Nature and the world in which we live give us clues that God is the Supreme person, He is real, above ...
... The knowledge of God is “manifest in them” as well as around them. All men have evidence of God, and what their physical senses can perceive of Him their inner senses can understand to some extent. Nature and the world in which we live give us clues that God is the Supreme person, He is real, above ...
Supernatural Reflection: Recognizing and Understanding
... No one is exempt from becoming Christ-like or developing fruit of the Spirit Positions us to complete the most important assignment in this life (Mark 12:30-31 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your soul and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. I ...
... No one is exempt from becoming Christ-like or developing fruit of the Spirit Positions us to complete the most important assignment in this life (Mark 12:30-31 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your soul and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. I ...
Paradoxes of Omnipotence
... of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telesc ...
... of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telesc ...
1 THE NARRATIVES OF OUR FAITH: TWO STORIES OF
... challenged about a third of the way through the movie, and he must look himself in the mirror and make a change. The Reformed Jerk has a „transformation‟ of sorts, and thus is rewarded with all he truly desires. But for my mother, and myself, this transformation is wholly unconvincing. The transform ...
... challenged about a third of the way through the movie, and he must look himself in the mirror and make a change. The Reformed Jerk has a „transformation‟ of sorts, and thus is rewarded with all he truly desires. But for my mother, and myself, this transformation is wholly unconvincing. The transform ...
Descartes` Trademark argument
... unless God does, because if I created myself, I could give myself every perfection. This is because to create substance requires more power than creating properties – hence causing myself (a substance) involves more power than creating perfections (which would be properties). But I can’t give myself ...
... unless God does, because if I created myself, I could give myself every perfection. This is because to create substance requires more power than creating properties – hence causing myself (a substance) involves more power than creating perfections (which would be properties). But I can’t give myself ...
the qed of the atonement
... are often the victim of circular reasoning. If Relativists claim that all truth is subjective and therefore personal & relative, than this set, “all truth” includes their own claims of universal “subjective relativity” and the rest of humanity has no reason to give any heed to it. Their arguments co ...
... are often the victim of circular reasoning. If Relativists claim that all truth is subjective and therefore personal & relative, than this set, “all truth” includes their own claims of universal “subjective relativity” and the rest of humanity has no reason to give any heed to it. Their arguments co ...
I Love God`s Green Earth - Tyndale House Publishers
... HE WORLD IS full of ideas about God. Some are right; others are not. Some people have the mistaken idea that God created the world but then took a vacation. In other words, they think God made the universe to be like a giant machine and then sat back to watch it run down like an old clock. People wh ...
... HE WORLD IS full of ideas about God. Some are right; others are not. Some people have the mistaken idea that God created the world but then took a vacation. In other words, they think God made the universe to be like a giant machine and then sat back to watch it run down like an old clock. People wh ...
Principled Atheism in the Buddhist Scholastic Traditionpdftex
... The Buddha’s reaction to those who seek to meet the creator or who seek the unsurpassed lustre is not to deny that such things exist. Rather, it is to take the epistemologically cautious stand that even though the loveliest woman in the world may exist, one might very well see the person who uniquel ...
... The Buddha’s reaction to those who seek to meet the creator or who seek the unsurpassed lustre is not to deny that such things exist. Rather, it is to take the epistemologically cautious stand that even though the loveliest woman in the world may exist, one might very well see the person who uniquel ...
six day creation
... designed for a solid, unyielding fulcrum under their feet or bodies (as opposed to those of day five which are designed to move through yielding, incompressible and compressible fluids respectively, and those of day three which are designed entirely sessile). Those organisms of day six would therefo ...
... designed for a solid, unyielding fulcrum under their feet or bodies (as opposed to those of day five which are designed to move through yielding, incompressible and compressible fluids respectively, and those of day three which are designed entirely sessile). Those organisms of day six would therefo ...
Half Term Homework – Ontological Revision
... God is the concept of a being whose existence is necessary. Malcolm develops Anselm’s argument as follows: “ If God, a being greater than which nothing can be conceived, does not exist then he cannot come into existence. For if He did He would either have been caused to come into existence or have h ...
... God is the concept of a being whose existence is necessary. Malcolm develops Anselm’s argument as follows: “ If God, a being greater than which nothing can be conceived, does not exist then he cannot come into existence. For if He did He would either have been caused to come into existence or have h ...
Promises Lesson 1
... to hold onto a rope without letting it slip at all; if it slipped something would dump on their head or they would fall into water. They had to remain steady without slipping at all – no movement of any kind. We are just like those contestants; we have to stand firm and trust God because no matter w ...
... to hold onto a rope without letting it slip at all; if it slipped something would dump on their head or they would fall into water. They had to remain steady without slipping at all – no movement of any kind. We are just like those contestants; we have to stand firm and trust God because no matter w ...
52 Genesis 35v2-29 Return To Blessing
... Jacob at Peniel in v10. There is also the promise of ‘fruitfulness’. But Jacob is now old and his family is complete. How do we understand this promise? In terms of his descendants, who would eventually become the nation of Israel. Despite Jacob’s spiritually chequered career his was a significant r ...
... Jacob at Peniel in v10. There is also the promise of ‘fruitfulness’. But Jacob is now old and his family is complete. How do we understand this promise? In terms of his descendants, who would eventually become the nation of Israel. Despite Jacob’s spiritually chequered career his was a significant r ...
triune god vivifying ecology - Ateneo de Manila University
... clean at all times. In school, we are also taught to value cleanliness in the classroom all the time. Even poor people in our society see to it that they are clean. They even go great distances to fetch water from a deep well just to be able to take a bath. At home, some of us are taught and trained ...
... clean at all times. In school, we are also taught to value cleanliness in the classroom all the time. Even poor people in our society see to it that they are clean. They even go great distances to fetch water from a deep well just to be able to take a bath. At home, some of us are taught and trained ...
Creation, the Trinity, and the emperor without clothes
... unordered, and therefore chaos. Another way of saying this is that the facts of the universe are not where they are by design, but by chance, or some notion of random activity.6 Now here we come to a remarkable issue that can be easily overlooked. Random facts cannot be known. They are what the phil ...
... unordered, and therefore chaos. Another way of saying this is that the facts of the universe are not where they are by design, but by chance, or some notion of random activity.6 Now here we come to a remarkable issue that can be easily overlooked. Random facts cannot be known. They are what the phil ...
RationalFaithLecture - Heinz Lycklama`s Website
... Convincing evidence from Creation, History, contemporary life – there is a God and that this God can be known in one’s personal experience @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama ...
... Convincing evidence from Creation, History, contemporary life – there is a God and that this God can be known in one’s personal experience @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama ...
Seventeenth Century Philosophy and the Idea of God
... 4. Johannes Kepler: Mathematical reasons are co-eternal with God, for the rationality of mathematics is God’s own reasoning. We can understand the universe as God created it, through the use of geometry, calculation, and so on. Therefore, humans can know the mind of God. 5. Galileo Galilei: Followin ...
... 4. Johannes Kepler: Mathematical reasons are co-eternal with God, for the rationality of mathematics is God’s own reasoning. We can understand the universe as God created it, through the use of geometry, calculation, and so on. Therefore, humans can know the mind of God. 5. Galileo Galilei: Followin ...
Summa Theologica
... Reply to Objection 2: Perhaps not everyone who hears this word "God" understands it to signify something than which nothing greater can be thought, seeing that some have believed God to be a body. Yet, granted that everyone understands that by this word "God" is signified something than which nothin ...
... Reply to Objection 2: Perhaps not everyone who hears this word "God" understands it to signify something than which nothing greater can be thought, seeing that some have believed God to be a body. Yet, granted that everyone understands that by this word "God" is signified something than which nothin ...
The Challenges of Evolution and the Metaphysics of Creation
... There are three features of evolutionary biology that seem to be of particular relevance to religious belief. The first is the claim of common ancestry: the view that all living things are historically and organically interconnected. Commentators describing the publication of a kind of rough draft o ...
... There are three features of evolutionary biology that seem to be of particular relevance to religious belief. The first is the claim of common ancestry: the view that all living things are historically and organically interconnected. Commentators describing the publication of a kind of rough draft o ...
persona» in Hinduism and Christianity. A
... In the present paper we will proceed to an exposition, not as much diachronic, but one comparative, synchronic between Christianity and classical Hinduism, at the level of the concept of person, theologically analysed. De plano, act says that in this plan, understanding the Deity and man as a person ...
... In the present paper we will proceed to an exposition, not as much diachronic, but one comparative, synchronic between Christianity and classical Hinduism, at the level of the concept of person, theologically analysed. De plano, act says that in this plan, understanding the Deity and man as a person ...