Quotes About Divinity

The great monotheistic faiths declare, in full view of the apparently contrary evidence, that the present world of space, time, and matter always was and still is the good creation of a good God.

He is himself the Temple, the physical place on earth where the Shekinah has come to take up residence.

sovereignty let loose through Jesus and the Spirit and aimed at the healing and renewal of all creation.

people were affirming the divinity of Jesus—which I also fully and gladly affirm—and then using it as a shelter behind which to hide from the radical story the gospels were telling about what this embodied God was actually up to.

In most popular Christianity, "heaven" (and "fellowship with God" in the present) is the goal, and "sin" (bad behavior, deserving punishment) is the problem. A Platonized goal and a moralizing diagnosis—and together they lead, as I have been suggesting, to a paganized "solution" in which an angry divinity is pacified by human sacrifice.

Put like that, of course, it seems absurd; and yet the absurdity lies in the attempt to picture God as just like us only a bit bigger and more all-seeing.

The gospels offer us not so much a different kind of human, but a different kind of God: a God who, having made humans in his own image, will most naturally express himself in and as that image-bearing creature;

God's creative love, precisely by being love, creates new space for there to be things that are genuinely other than God.

What has been lost is the paganized vision of an angry God looming over the world and bent upon blood.

Jesus is sheer, absolute gift of God. He is not a mere product of human history; he is the humanity of the God who graciously identifies with us and shares our human condition. No less human for that, for God's solidarity with us requires his full humanity. But human as God's self-gift to humanity, as 'Immanuel

God is just a name for our wonder.

But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, "Only a God who is triune can be personal.… A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person." Therefore it "has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.

Humans are not self-existent, self-sufficient, or self-defining. They did not create themselves. They are finite, dependent, contingent beings. As a result, they will always look outside themselves for their ultimate identity and meaning. They will define human nature by its relationship to the divine—however they define divinity. Those who do not get their identity from a transcendent Creator will get it from something in creation.

Randall concludes, "When science seemed to take God out of the universe, men had to deify some natural force, like 'evolution.

Como Paulo diz em Romanos, se você rejeitar o Deus da Bíblia, irá deificar algo dentro da ordem criada. Aqueles que não honram ao Deus transcendente além do cosmos, devem divinizar algum poder ou princípio imanente que pertence ao cosmos.

De acordo com Clouser, o único aspecto compartilhado por todas as religiões é que reconhecem algo como divino – e usam essa palavra para significar a realidade eterna e autoexistente que é a origem de todo o restante. Obviamente, elas não concordam sobre o que se caracteriza como divino; concordam apenas que algo é divino. Nenhum outro fator é verdadeiramente universal entre as religiões.

When God gives people up to their idols, the result is always a reductionistic view of humanity—which ultimately unleashes harmful and destructive behavior. When we reduce people to anything less than fully human, we will treat them as less than fully human. When we define God as a something instead of a Someone, we will tend to treat humans as somethings too.

All gods are one God. Your Goddess is another way that the One has expressed Herself in the world. She came to you as She came to me, preaching compassion and hope, teaching vengeance against those who have wronged us and love for those who are close to us. Your Goddess is our Lady. They are one.

God loves all of us," she says, "and She wants us to know that She has changed Her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten. Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatima, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.

God is neither woman nor man but both these things. But now She has come to show us a new side to Her face, one we have ignored for too long.

Os han enseñado que sois impuras, que no sois sagradas, que vuestro cuerpo es impuro y jamás podréis albergar lo divino. Os han enseñado a despreciar todo lo que sois y a desear ser un hombre. Pero son mentiras. La Diosa está en vuestro interior, ha regresado a la Tierra para enseñaros, con la forma de este nuevo poder. No acudáis a mí en busca de respuestas, pues debéis encontrar las respuestas en vuestro interior.»

God loves all of us,' she says, 'and She wants us to know that She has changed her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten: Jews, look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.

No man should be told he's a god while he still lives,' he said at last. 'It doesn't promote good thinking.