Sentences with phrase «not affirm»

We do not attend the groups, and can not affirm the quality of their content.

For too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, health services do not provide a sense of belonging, they do not affirm us and our identity.

However, the Court did not affirm the trial judge's decision to strike down the fees altogether.

In my view the ECJ does not affirm that the use of average incremental costs instead of average variable costs to be applied as a general rule for dominant undertaking entrusted with a task of general economic interest, contrary to what the AG had suggested.

I also note that the description does not affirm that current temperatures are rising.

He rightly says that the divine in Christ is something transcendent, something affirmed by faith, something we should not affirm unless it came home to us in our present existence.

It does not affirm, however, that the harvest is already here.

We can not affirm the traditional transcendent prophetic God.

The law does not affirm assisted suicide so much as tolerate it, a recognition that a significant plurality of contemporary Germans think suicide assistance morally licit.

She assumes that the abortion license is guaranteed by the Constitution, and it therefore follows that anybody who does not affirm that license is «obeying» some authority other than the Constitution.

One can not affirm less about Mary and still believe in the full deity of her son, as orthodox Christians of all traditions have always taught.

If the self that acts or thinks were a part of what is experienced, then Koestler believes we could not affirm human freedom.

But since faith in Christ was just the cause of our previous condemnation of those who did not affirm Christ, we have to think through afresh who Christ is.

Hawkins's official response to the college, which she posted on her website, quoted part of Wheaton's questions, including a request to «clarify how it is that we worship the same God if Muslims can not affirm that God is the Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; or that God the Father is indeed the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; or that the Father did not spare his only begotten Son; or that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit coexist as a Trinity in eternal and self - giving love?»

And maybe one reason orthodox culture has lost its standing in the world's ongoing conversation about how to live well is that it does not affirm this instinct as it should.

I refuse to join any one religion and will not affirm the existence of god or gods, saints or Satan, nor will I deny them.

Ford is correct that Hartshorne can not affirm a primordial decision without rendering inconsistent his notion of time, and his notion of possibility as well, since such a decision would presuppose the modal framework it would impose.

Finally, there was Harold O. J. Brown, commenting in Christianity Today:» [Francis] Shaeffer asks whether Evangelicalism can tolerate in its fellowship those who are unwilling to condemn abortion on demand; [likewise] the inerrancy group is asking whether it can tolerate within its leadership those who will not affirm inerrancy» («Assessing the Church of the 1970s: A Decade of Flux?

Literalists: I can not affirm what you say because the way you've said it could be misinterpreted as not in agreement with our faith tradition.

With many dying patients, especially those who can not affirm a life after death, he will expect to share what he considers to be their justifiable anger and pain.

All three religions claim to be monotheistic, but Muslims do not affirm the same covenant that Jews and Christians affirm as the locus of their relationship with this One God.

It does not affirm a mere dualism.

Presumably, a liberal society is one that does not affirm any vision of the good life, but only affirms each individual's right to seek his or her vision of the good life.

But I also again deny that this offers strong support for Griffin's claim that FWTs can not affirm a plausible theodicy.

Be that as it may, it is clear that this need imposes a constraint upon theoretical reason: Our theoretical reason must not affirm epiphenomenalism.

Although the number of divine occasions in a second would have to be incredibly large on this accounting, there is no reason in principle why Hartshorne could not affirm it.

Panexperientialists certainly can not affirm this maxim in the sense in which it is intended by materialists, namely, that any difference in the mind's experience would depend upon a difference in the brain but not vice-versa.

It seems like sheer superstition to expect that by affirming belief in Christ one can gain a happy eternity, while those who do not affirm it must suffer everlasting torment in hell.

Live counterculture when the culture does not affirm truth, love, faith, mercy, and justice.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

If one can not affirm it to be understood on a deeper level, it may be better not to speak of a second coming but to accent Christ's living and continuing presence.

It should be emphasized, to be sure, that Peirce does not affirm an anancastic teleology.

From a feminist perspective, why not affirm this mutuality of relationship and re-vision the divine eros?

The most decisive and interesting condition, as reported, consisted in the principle that if the woman did not affirm the man's self - image then no courtship ensued or was possible.

But we should not affirm that this self - knowledge, or any aspect of our knowledge of the physical realm, is hermenetically a priori to such encounter with the physical.

The witness can not affirm great truths lightly.

But at this present time I can not affirm a difference in kind between Jesus and other men; indeed I find important religious reasons for wishing to deny this.

If we have not done so, we can not affirm the truth of Christian faith.

Brunner considers systematically and historically the options that have been tried and concludes with the church that no statement is satisfactory that does not affirm both Jesus» full manhood and his full deity.

In itself, while it does not affirm everything that orthodox Christian faith affirms, Madison's vision is sufficiently impregnated with Christian faith to be not only unconvincing but even unintelligible without it.

We tend to think that all enterprise is of a piece, that the small business that produces a useful product and creates needed jobs exists in some sort of inviolable continuum with global corporate entities of every kind, and that we can not affirm the former without defending the latter.

We agree that Whitehead did not affirm regional inclusion with respect to the standpoints of actual occasions.

maybe yes or maybe not, but you could not affirm that something behind our understanding happened before the beginning of the universe.

Another woman, who was straight, was not even granted an interview for membership because she could not affirm the church's stance on homosexuality being a sin.

dare not affirm that we all work sufficiently for her according to our calling.

It does not affirm a God whose existence is problematic, so that belief requires the support of arguments whose foundations are vulnerable to scientific advance.

Cobb's main objection to Hurtubise's formulation is that it seems to imply that Ford thinks that his textual analysis indicates that Whitehead himself did not affirm the efficacy of the Consequent Nature in the world.

My objection to Hurtubise's formulation is that it seems to imply that Ford thinks that his textual analysis indicates that Whitehead himself did not affirm the efficacy of the Consequent Nature in the world.

Probably more people have rejected «God» because they could not affirm the «God» who causes such suffering than for any other reason.

But Plantinga, of course, does not affirm «I» omnipotence.