Armageddon, (probably Hebrew: "Hill of Megiddo"), in the New Testament, place where the kings of the earth under demonic leadership will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history.
"I worry sometimes about the use of religion and, 'God is on our side!' and, 'Can we sort of channel the forces of God to help us be better athletes and help us win this game?' That's sort of idolatrous," said Rev. Thomforde, who was host to a conference on sports and religion at St. Olaf in June 2004.
This declaration of triumph over the shadowy forces of gods and demons became his last, and most moving, display of defiance. . Gordon leaves behind his wife Luciana, six-year-old daughter Cleo, his second family at Hyperdub, and a lasting mark all over the world. .
Social law collaborates in the punishment, but there's an element of implacable and impersonal fate — the force of God — in the downward drift of these two.
For instance, she said, "When you connect these threads to the pots, you're providing a channel to connect the force of God into the idol through that medium.
The very notion of a supernaturalist creed, with its devoted faith in the permanent solutions of the afterlife, is, to Johnston's way of thinking, idolatrous — it is the forcing of God (whom he calls "the Highest One") into the role of ally and patron, instead of letting God appear as "the wholly Other, the numinous One who transcends anything that we can master by way of our own efforts".
The infinite force of God (the father) would burn the finite matter of the world if it were not for some "transformer" that adapted the divine force to the finitude of matter (the son).
He spoke of the force of God, and he was a force for good his entire life.
But the force of God's love as articulated by Jesus does raise the question of why hell is so incredibly important to so many Christians?
Contrary to Ms. Scaraffia's derogatory use of the word "utopia," I embrace an image of Utopia that bears witness to the beautiful and error-free creative force of God.
But before anyone starts to freak out about lightning striking them clear out of the air with the force of God, having lightning hit a plane is really no biggie.
