This means He exercises conscious reflection and determines His actions from within. God is not a vague force or higher power. God, as a Person, is rational. God, as a Person, is resolute. God, as a Person, is relational. God is not a force or power. God is not a philosophical ...
Of course the length of day one practically determines the length of all the six. If it was a solar day, then they must be considered such. But as the present sidereal arrangements for the measurement of time were not then established, it is clearly gratuitous to proceed on the assumption...
• You accept what the Universe determines for you. • You shift your self-identification, your selfhood, from the Ego to the Higher Self. • You offer your love to the Higher Self (here, the merging of the two paths—the long and the short—can be seen most clearly: the path ...
Christians leaders often argue that the entire Bible is divinely inspired by God. Since they believe God is perfectly moral, the Bible then is their basis for morality. It must be claimed the Bible isentirelydivinely inspired, or humans can only guess what passages are inspired. The biggest ...
It’s that little island that must be exercised when God does his thousand steps of reaching out to us, but in the final analysis it’s that one step that we take that determines whether we go to heaven or hell — whether we exercise that little righteousness that is in the core of ...
simmering fear or anxiety that often so seems to affect us that it strips us of our free will. It determines the decisions we make in life about work and family. It alters the way we view strangers. It prevents us from taking the risks in life that would give us life. It leads us ...
my spending hasn’t reached the point where I am in debt or can no longer afford to tithe in my local church. However, it still concerns me. God is teaching me that I should enjoy the things that He has already blessed me with and not take them either for granted or, to other ext...
Proverbs 16:9 (NLT) says, “We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps. Our thoughts and plans are sinful and self-centered at worst, and short-sighted at best. We will never be able to fully understand the vastness and depth of the thoughts God thinks towards us, not...
the God of Jacob is our fortress.’ The LORD Almighty. The LORD All Mighty. Wars may come, rulers may rise, but the LORD determines their end—all over the earth. And He takes every weapon of warfare in hand, rending them powerless. He says, ‘Be still—everything and everyone. Cease...
In essence, the gods embody the totality of values, ideals, ideals of human existence, that is, beauty, strength, eternal youth, glorified and brilliant life. The presence or absence of gods in a society determines the fullness of goods, perfection, acceptance or non-moral values such as hos...