Sentences with phrase «modern man does»

Modern man does not do this anymore because it's too much of a hassle.

Perhaps modern man does not have the same view of «sin» as did Iron Age sheep mounters

A well - known New Testament scholar has expressed the opinion that «the modern man does not believe in any form of salvation known to ancient Christianity.

Modern men do not believe that it is necessary to improve their possession of the epistolary genre, they say, it's not that life now, to write long letters, trying to charm a girl in this way.

Not exact matches

Lewis and Klein — no friends of global capitalism — portray the workers as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an end - run around the evils of modern business.

You're assuming that at some point in the history of the world NEW genetic information was added to a living thing (which doesn't happen) and then it happened over and over together with the power of natural selection until we arrived at modern man.

For modern men and women, nothing else remains of the high moral project of modernity: these attacks are the only good thing left to do.

Well, the concensus of most modern NT exegetes is that said simple, preacher man did not rise from the dead so bottom line it is time to admit to the fraud and to return our money.

Becoming more tolerant to gays, more left leaning, hipper, modern, or whatever else you want to throw out there still doesn't change the fact that Christianity is based on a lie about a man who supposedly walked on water, reincarnated, was born from a woman who claimed to a be virgin, and changed water in to wine.

In doing so, it highlights another fact that is incredible, immovable yet also inconvenient for many moderns: all men are called to fatherhood.

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

A man may be an expert able to pass an examination on all Christologies ancient and modern, but the real question is not what Jesus Christ meant to Irenaeus or Origen, Anselm or Aquinas, Luther or Calvin, Ritschl or Macleod Campbell, Barth or Aulen, but: «What does the Gospel mean to you?»

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

They did, however, make it exceedingly difficult for sincere men honestly to relate the Christian faith to modern life.

In the case of Abraham Lincoln, for example, it was not only the things that Lincoln did, but it was also the things that he said and (in this modern instance) the things that he wrote in letters and state papers, which make it possible for us to know the kind of man that he really was.

we don't know 5) Which species are the ancestor of modern man?

When you look at the New Testament model, Jeremy, as you have done in this series... one cultural difference that I think most people fail to really account for is that those men, Paul and others who worked, generally worked in a modern day trade equivalent.

We need much thought and practice before we can preach the mystery of the incarnation of the eternal Logos in Jesus of Nazareth in such a way that this message does not sound almost like a myth in which modern men can no longer believe.

That said, if it brings someone to Christ then that's good — one trait of a believer is a sincere desire for the word, and it is very likely that the Christian will eventually gravitate toward a more accurate translation, just as many of us have done who were initially enamored of Good News for Modern Man (TEV) and other such paraphrases from the past.

But he knew more than Barth did about what was actually in the mind of modern man — or perhaps he was not so dismayed by it.

Is it altogether faithful to say, as Cox does, that they «conjure the figure of a huge man, in presence if not in stature, who lived his life devotedly, even compulsively at times, on all the frightening boundaries of modern life»?

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

It is alive and not dead and does not need modern man to distorte it to suite his convenience.

Maybe modern science is wrong and the world really is only 6,000 years old... maybe God created primates to turn into humans, and the first to become man was Adam... maybe the Big Bang theory was God on the first day creating the heavens and the universe... the fact is, I don't know.

The historian may still question the soundness of southern leadership, but he will remember that men whose opportunity in the Modern World was one of producing its raw cotton did not deliberately choose to do so on plantations with Negro slavery.

«We do not here advocate an unheard - of modern understanding of Jesus; we ask rather that the implications of what the church has always said about Jesus as Word of the Father, as true God and true Man, be taken more seriously, as relevant to our social problems, than ever before.»

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

Even the modern man can know that, and many of the clever and learned do know it.

If modern liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.

We need cult christians who do nt abide by the dead, wet noodle, dishwater Christianity of modern man, we need BOOK OF ACTS, Christians.

cit., «Religion and Modern Thinking,» p. 100 f.; Images of Good and Evil, p. 82 f.; The Way of Man, p. 44 f.) He has, accordingly, real freedom — the freedom of a separate person to go the way of his own personality, to do good and to do evil.

Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other Modern Prophets of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.

What new attitudes toward evil do these typically modern manifestations of evil evoke in the modern man?

We can not escape the kind of question that we as modern men and women put to material like this; and «did it happen?»

People seem to conveniently forget that most modern science exists as a continuation of the work done by men and women who believed in a creator God.

He does not treat modern hymns and songs that can only be sung by men who are comfortable with entering into a Platonic (one hopes) homosexual relationship with Jesus or a feminine receptivity towards God.

Is it a shock to our modern sensibilities that the man who wrote the «neither slave nor free» line does not strike out at the institution of slavery when Onesimus is a legal «prisoner» of his master Philemon?

If we want to know how the mind of man, working on its own and from its own human psychology would deal and does deal with the Divine in Christ, we have it in the presentation of many modern and Rationalist thinkers.

Or look at some article titles that are fairly typical of Christianity Today: «The Lusts of Modern Theology» and «Six Modern Christologies: Doing Away with the God - Man.»

We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.

He does not... destroy my faith, but he forces me to re-examine my faith and to re-discover its power in the contemporary scene which he seems to understand in clearer terms than I do... The real significance of the sermon lies in the fact that Bishop Pike is aiming to revive the new generation's lagging interest in religion and to have religion speak in terms modern man can understand.»

When one appeals to «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» as the common basis for understanding man and his world, do we not have to be more definitive and discriminating within scientific imagery itself than either Bultmann or Ogden appear to be?

Such denunciations would very likely be done in the name of justice and humanity — because, in the weird confusion that is modern Britain, there has to be a pretence that it is inhumane to suggest that marriage can only between a man and a woman.

Modern man destroying information from the ancients down through the ages, and from other cultures sure don't help matters.

«The trouble of the modern age,» he said, «is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did.»

So Niebuhr advised: «If it is not possible for modern man to hold by faith that there is a larger meaning in the intricate patterns of history than those which his own virtues or skills supply, he would do well to emphasize fortune and caprice in his calculations.»

Niebuhr said that modern culture does not have a principle of interpretation that adequately takes into account the unity of man's self - transcendence and his physical life, the meaning of individuality, or the origin of evil.19

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

Unlike most modern Western males, I read in various sources that men of the Ancient Near East didn't feel «weirded out» by sharing a bed with another man.