Example sentences of "[noun sg] that god be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ached with the fear that God was moving through the woods , coming nearer and nearer to him , a figure with a face he could not imagine , a shining shape , brushing past the respectful fern and pressing gently on the fallen twigs . |
| 2 | The ‘ conversion ’ was a recognition that God was God . |
| 3 | I have already drawn attention to the power there is in weakness and it is often the case that God is able to take ordinary weak things of this world and make them powerful for him . |
| 4 | Their problem was that , for all the clarity of their insistence that God was on their side , their world was a complex , not a simple place . |
| 5 | What happens next is a reminder that God is the Ruler . |
| 6 | On St Patrick 's Day , 1966 , Lawrence Durdin-Robertson had a revelation that God was a woman . |
| 7 | The moment we realize our need and cry out , that is the moment that God is able to respond . |
| 8 | For the early Church , however , water was not just an image , but a dramatic and essential element in the blessing that God was going to give . |
| 9 | We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed . |
| 10 | The trouble with atheism was that it was no more susceptible to proof than the notion that God was a bearded gentleman of advanced years . |
| 11 | A nod across the classroom , a wave across the street is evidence that God is doing the hard graft . |
| 12 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 13 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 14 | We need penitence for these , and a determination to set them right , and above all the confident belief that God is always at work to bring blessing out of everything , however seemingly tragic and hopeless . |
| 15 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 16 | The early Church used the miracles to express the belief that God was working among people through the Messiah . |
| 17 | In the Middle Ages , and even for some Christians today , the idea of reconciliation was based on the belief that God was offended by the sins of people . |
| 18 | The blessed assurance that God is present in every event , that he is present in every circumstance , that he is working with us to save to heal to forgive to reconcile to restore . |
| 19 | In fact , the verse says in the Greek that God is able to do all that believers can ask for or think of asking . |
| 20 | Classical statements about the Incarnation begin with the assumption that God is anything but a particular human being … . |
| 21 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 22 | His position is such , however , that it does produce the paradox that God is described in the same context as an impersonal force and the essence of life , and also as omniscient , omnipotent , and benevolent . |
| 23 | It 's telling , the way that God is described as our source of peace . |
| 24 | Just as the third principle , which rejected the idea that God is an object ‘ outside ’ the universe , clarified what we mean by ‘ transcendence ’ , so the first principle clarifies what we mean by ‘ immanence ’ . |
| 25 | The idea that God is good might owe a great deal in those traditions to a view that God has done good things in the world Himself — that God Himself is in some way an actor on the world stage . |
| 26 | Other Evangelicals rejected the idea that God was constantly ordering men 's lives . |
| 27 | Any theist committed to the view that God is omnipresent must by definition believe that there is evidence of God 's presence in the reality observed on earth . |
| 28 | Behind the differences — which are often more of language and emphasis than of substance — there may be a common view that God is One , present in the world and yet transcending it , personal lord or saviour or protector and yet impersonal reality . |
| 29 | What we can clearly recognise , however , is that it is a religion committed to a view that God is personal in a different manner from that in which individual human beings are personal . |
| 30 | And does not the fact that God is love mean that when His creation suffers He suffers too ? |