Sentences with phrase «other than the revelation»

The question as to whether or not the Prophet performed any miracle other than the revelation of the Qur» an thus depends on the definition of a miracle.

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The revelation, then, is that the Silver Snail is much better positioned for the future than HMV or a host of other pop culture purveyors — see Borders, Blockbuster and so on.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.

I realize Jimmy that there is a huge argument whether or not revelation is other than who he is.

Thus we see that during the Prophet's lifetime there was no source of legislation other than the Qur» an and the Prophet's interpretation of it either through revelation or discretion.

The last alternative could be an affair with one you love, with whom you share many things, an affair discreetly carried out with no threat of revelation, with no demands other than the beauty of those special moments together.

Any one, therefore, holding a religious rather than a materialistic philosophy, will think of the process of Biblical development as dual — seen from one side, a human achievement; seen from the other, a divine self - revelation.

Once more Paul was relating the trouble he had with speaking to his being perceived as a fool; yet on the other hand he «saw» more things than others, he had revelations and visions in abundance, and for him that was the ultimate sanity, a thing to boast about.

Other than that, we aren't going to have any special «gnostic» revelations.

A self - limiting God, the humble God of revelation, makes more sense within an evolutionary framework than in any others that have been proposed so far by science.

These «revelations» (and they are precisely that) need to be treasured, because that is the gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we can not discover any other way than through our enemies.

The overall suspicion, in other words, is that somehow Christian faith has lost its «transcendent» element, that It has been «reduced» to «horizontalism» at the expense of «verticalism,» that it has become nothing more than «ethics» (and left - wing ethics at that), that «social analysis» has replaced theology, that revolution has replaced revelation — and that Karl Marx is the source of all the difficulty.

How far he can move in these directions, as in exploiting others to one's own gain, driving a shrewd deal or pursuing an advantage, stretching the truth, «having a little affair,» or drinking in moderation, depends for most persons less on the will of God or the revelation of God in Jesus Christ than on what is and what is not done in one's community.

There has as yet been no collection of these revelations, other than scattered selections published by a follower, Walter C. Lanyon, in England.7 But, here is a scripture in the making.

Jesus, then, may be viewed as a unique revelation of God in that more than any other human his will is attuned to God's so that his actions disclose God's purposes.

2) You can maintain your position from a faith perspective, and say this, but then I'd have to seriously question [a] your historical integrity (for example, the historical position of Revelations as canon, although more of a debate than the other texts, was still NOWHERE NEAR contestable enough for you to draw this sort of conclusion) and [b] your philosophical integrity (for example, if you dismiss Revelations because it doesn't support your position, i'm going to ask: by what authority do you think you have the right to discern this?

These are only a few of the many authenticated examples of miracles, other than the great miracle of receiving the revelation of the Qur» an, which were performed by the Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of God.

(2) Those which recognize no other basic scriptural authority than the revelation brought to light by their founder.

Christian theology needs to have a special treatise on revelation if for no other reason than to emphasize the indispensable biblical doctrine of the prevenience of God's promissory vision for our lives and the world.

But if Jesus is the sacrament of God's own reality, as Christian faith teaches, we must conclude once again that the essential content of revelation is nothing other than the kenosis of God that opens up the future to an all - inclusive vision promised in the resurrection.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

Searching for distinctiveness, however, need not imply looking for ways in which Christian revelation might be better than others.

Indeed, a faith in revelation may release our desire to know and reinforce the spirit of criticism in a much more radical fashion than rationalism, scientism, or adherence to other ideologies would by themselves allow.

He refers to Hans Urs von Balthasar, who explains in The Theology of Karl Barth that although the truth of those councils «will never be overtaken or even relativized, nonetheless there are still other views and aspects of revelation than those expressed there.

I think James Cone is right when he says: «Theologians of the Christian Church have not interpreted Christian ethics as an act for the liberation of the oppressed because their views of divine revelation were defined by philosophy and other cultural values rather than by the biblical theme of God as the liberator of the oppressed.»

Esthetic truth is another kind of revelation of what is so, through symbolic forms other than those of literal fact.

The otherness, the contradiction and the undreamed of implications of revelation are nowhere more obvious than in the shocking disclosure by Jesus of a love whose bestowal does not depend upon moral, spiritual or any other type of achievement on our part.

Updike's world view is other than that of historic Christianity, which affirms that humanity is not left with general revelation alone — with motions of grace.

Second, when one turns to anthropological study of primitive cultures, one discovers a somewhat startling revelation; namely that the economic factor of life more than any other factor has dictated the ethical behavior norms, particularly those norms which relate to the various generations.

H. Richard Niebuhr, more clearly than any other modern theologian, has articulated the difference between internal and external history and its importance for understanding the idea of revelation.

On one side you have Tolstoi saying, «Where love is, there God is also»; and on the other side is Joseph Wood Krutch, one of the finest nontheistic humanists of our time, who, seeing in goodness no revelation of the Eternal, says about man, «There is no reason to suppose that his own life has any more meaning than the life of the humblest insect that crawls from one annihilation to another.»

With the other top Gunner Mesut Ozil also in talks over a new contract you would expect the German international and his people to be looking at a similar sort of deal to keep them happy as well, but revelations last week showed that such a huge pay rise for two of the players already on more money than their club colleagues would have put us in a precarious position.

We've bought Gabriel, Chambers and Debuchy giving us quality and depth at the back and of course Sanchez who other than probable fatigue of late has been a revelation in the PL.

The weekend will yield no golf - related revelations, other than this: All revenues expended by me on clubs and lessons might as well have been flushed down the toilet.

«Orwellian» is the word used to describe the Snowden revelations perhaps more than any other.

If voting for a party other than Labour was a hard decision for many, it was also a revelation — even a liberation.»

Several of the Democrats interviewed said that they've hardly had a chance to weigh the possibility of supporting someone other than Clinton because, as one put it, «until the revelations involving her emails last week, Hillary's nomination was just taken for granted, seen as a fait accompli.»

IPCC faces more criticism from politicians than ever: In the wake of the revelations about the Himalayan glaciers data, the U.K. director of Greenpeace called for Pachauri to step down; so has Senator John Barrasso (R - WY) and others.

If Agents of SHIELD doesn't pull itself out of the slump, now that its actually free of the need to keep major revelations in check so as not to intrude on its big brother Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it's hard to see a renewal order as anything other than an acknowledgement, by Disney, that the show is what many fans feared: an hour - long commercial for the Marvel movie universe.

I see no point to this other than what console can do already: stream games to PC, so this is not exactly any sort of revelation.

In fact, if Brotherhood seemed to pull back the story a bit, you'll be happy to know that Revelations actually feels more like AC2 than any other title in the series.

The studio - mandated epilogue stuck on the original theatrical cut shows Deckard and his sweetheart driving off toward a brighter future (actually leftover footage from The Shining), buoyed by the revelation that she would live longer than the other replicants in her cohort.

While main - line titles like Resident Evil 5 and 6 struggled to make a lasting impression in anything other than sales, the Revelations spin - offs offered long - time series fans more of what they wanted.

The updated Fiat 500 has been revealed at the Chicago Auto Show, and as far as revelations go, it didn't really reveal anything of importance other than the hatch getting a standard 1.4 - liter turbocharged engine.

The huge revelation is that it might be a unit - body built somewhere other than Toledo, Ohio.

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But up until the revelation of these practices, Wells Fargo earned a higher satisfaction rating than most other mortgage providers and registered fewer CFPB complaints per origination.

mong the many other less - than - desirable features of the mortgage modification program known as HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) is the revelation that, according to this AP report, your credit score will probably be lowered soon after you apply for help.