Example sentences of "say [conj] god " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 2 | They say that God intervenes directly in a supernatural sense in what goes on in the world . |
| 3 | Thus one might , said Dionysius , say that God was ‘ good ’ but it was necessary to qualify this in the same breath : he was Goodness itself but he was not ‘ good ’ in the limited way that human beings understood this quality . |
| 4 | She says that God spoke to many people in the Bible through their dreams , like Jacob , Joseph and Nebuchadnezzer. so why not her ? |
| 5 | Indeed Psalm 7:11 says that God is angry with the wicked every day . |
| 6 | Verse 20 says that God can do what believers ask in prayer . |
| 7 | On the contrary , God gives men so many reasons to have lack of trust ( calamities , uncertainties , loss of hope ) that it could be said that God actually illustrates that trust in something or someone beneficial is not to be erected on happiness or good experiences alone . ’ |
| 8 | Some misunderstood him to have said that God hates infants and when this was passed around , it produced much ill feeling towards Baxter . |
| 9 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
| 10 | As Christian doctrine developed , and it was said that God in Christ took on humanity , in both Greek and Latin the inclusive term for humanity was used , not that specifically for a male human being . |
| 11 | Now if it could be said that God in Christ took on specifically ‘ male humanity ’ , then women would be outside the scheme of salvation — and that has never been suggested . |
| 12 | Jesus , in such a statement , is held to be unique , if only through the fact that this is the human of whom it must be said that God raised him . |
| 13 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
| 14 | Kronecker had said that God made the integers and the rest is the work of man . |
| 15 | We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism . |
| 16 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 17 | In other words , it could be taken as saying that God 's presence is universal and complete , ours is partial and incomplete . |
| 18 | The third principle tells us that when we call God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not saying that God is ‘ above ’ , ‘ outside ’ or ‘ beyond ’ the universe . |
| 19 | By saying that God ‘ transcends ’ the universe we are saying that none of the limitations that apply to finite life — such as being in a particular place — applies to God . |
| 20 | George Herbert took up this image by saying that God 's ‘ silk twist ’ links earth to heaven . |
| 21 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 22 | In this act , Luke is saying that God , who sent Jesus to do his work on earth , now consecrated him for that work . |
| 23 | Jesus is saying that God forgives the sinner absolutely . |
| 24 | Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins saying that God is like a good woman . |
| 25 | At Firbank , where the chapel proved too small , he went out on to the fell to preach to the people , saying that God 's church was not made of stone but of the air and the countryside around . |
| 26 | Are we saying that God has absolutely no imagination at all ? |
| 27 | Next you 'll be saying that God favours women more than men because he created Eve in Paradise , rather than before , as He did Adam . ’ |
| 28 | Jesus said that God 's kingdom would come in the future , at the end of time , when all evil would be destroyed . |
| 29 | ‘ He said that God Save The Queen was an inspiration for that . ’ |
| 30 | In the letter quoted above Wordsworth reiterated that he never said that God is Nature , or that Nature and God are the same ; what he ( and Hopkins ) stressed was ‘ the indwelling spirit ’ . |