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For that which is long looked for is sweeter when obtained; but that is held cheap, which comes at once. Ask then and seek things righteous. For by asking and seeking grows the appetite of taking. God reserves for you those things which He is not willing to give you at once, that you may learn greatly to desire great things.
Some people think it is easy to refute any argument from reason just by appealing to the existence of computers. Computers, according to the objection, reason; they are also undeniably a physical system, but they are also rational. So whatever incompatibility there might be between mechanism and reason must be illusory.
The sovereignty (autonomy) of God, existing within a free agent, provides strong inner compulsions toward a course of action (calling), and the power of choice (election). The actions of a human are thus determined by a human acting on relatively strong or weak urges (both from God and the environment around them) and their own relative power ...
Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc.
The people he has talked with say they believe because that is what their parents taught them, and their parents would not lie to them, or because that is what it says in their book of wisdom. [ 1 ] Of the fifty reasons, Harrison concludes that the most common reasons people believe are because it is just obvious to them, because everyone is ...
The family understands the power of prayer, and they know that Samy is in God’s hands,” Marcio Sierra Jr., senior pastor at Lighthouse Church in Madison wrote in a post on Facebook.
So asking "Can God create a rock so heavy that even he cannot lift it?" is just as much nonsense as asking "Can God draw a square circle?" The logical contradiction here being God's simultaneous ability and disability in lifting the rock: the statement "God can lift this rock" must have a truth value of either true or false, it cannot possess both.
The vision of the manifestation of God is a recognition of God's power to address these issues; God as a warrior will fight for his people; The song of triumph says the faithful will prevail by holding to trust and hope. [40]: Intro, Chapter 3 Joel and the other minor prophets demonstrate that theodicy and eschatology are connected in the Bible.