After all, truth aims at understanding, which comes about only when the truth is freely
accepted by the reason.
Not exact matches
His
reasons for turning his back on America are still debated
by historians, but the
accepted reasons include money, disillusionment, and personal vendettas against the Continental Congress.
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The
reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures,
by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion,
accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.
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And the
reason we
accept such low interest rates is that 1) we can withdraw our money at any time, and 2) our deposits are guaranteed
by the FDIC up to $ 250,000.
An additional 60,000 investors were not
accepted as new clients
by brokers for the same
reason over the same three months, NERA says.
«We at Malekula farms via
accepting bitcoin, look to attract and do attract the tech - savvy centric generation of investors and at the same time
by accepting bitcoin transfer a portion of our farmland real estate, an existing wealth asset into an
accepted and unrestrained international currency vehicle for exactly the same
reasons.»
rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments
by a process of logic — humans do not
reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem
by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to
reason with her, but without success» I
accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started
by random chance?
The ONLY
reason for polygamy was that Joseph Smith got caught with his pants down
by Emma, and so made up the parts in your Doctrine and Covenants (I assume as a «good» Mormon you've actually read it???) that commanded her to
accept polygamy or be damned.
After I read the article
by Evans, it occurred to me that perhaps one of the many
reasons that there is so much hate, ridicule and criticism generated
by Satan and spewed
by the non-believers on this forum is because in a small way they can witness the hope and peace of mind that believers have and for some
reason they resent those that have that which they do not have, as did Evan's mother had for his father after he had
accepted Jesus as his Lord and King and Savior.
Newly received and
accepted by the world of honest intellectual doubt and scientific achievement, the university theologian is understandably awed and impressed
by the authority and, power of its
reason and the meaningfulness of the worlds it has constructed.
Unfortunately, I'm both a realist and pragmatist
by nature,
reason seems to be a commodity that is not well
accepted here.
To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed
by liberal public
reason is to
accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.
@Robert Once a given proposition has been
accepted on faith, said proposition is no longer amenable to examination
by reason.
Nevertheless, a deeper consideration of «compulsory alternatives» would show what is at the bottom of it, namely the course of history which can not be guided
by theoretical
reason alone, but demands decisions which might also have been different and must be
accepted by all in the unity of the Church, despite their admitted contingency.
But precisely for this
reason it is difficult to know whether we
accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord
by his side.
So your work - life is guided
by evidence, analysis, logic, and
reasoning but in the rest of your life you are happy to
accept the best guess of ignorant ancients which has been proven incorrect time and time again?
Thomas Aquinas
accepted a similar claim that
reason unaided
by faith could move from a consideration of causes and effects in nature to a consideration of the existence of an unnamed First Cause or Unmoved Mover.
Modern, intelligent people are finally starting to reject the indoctrination from birth
by society and are
accepting science, logic, and
reason instead of archaic myths.
In short, a
reason for
accepting temporalism is that it makes best sense of a conception of God that is epitomized
by Whitehead thus: «God is fluent» (348).
The only
reason you
accept what is written in the Bible is because you start first
by believing what it says is true.
Once a proposition has been
accepted on faith, said proposition is no longer amenable to examination
by reason.
IF it is incumbent upon me to come the Jesus and
accept him, then I have
reason to boast since I have been saved
by the work of my will not
by the unconditional love of G * d through Christ.
This attitude is at complete variance to that behind Natural Family Planning (NFP), wherein a couple who have
reason to space their children
accept the gift of sexuality exactly as it is stamped in the human person
by God and do not treat their fertility as a problem to be expunged
by technology.
Endowment with
reason and conscience, and hence that a human person is a rational and moral being, is commonly
accepted by all peoples, whatever their philosophy, ideology or religion.
Yet for some
reason we do not dare to follow his logic even when we
accept some of his premises, such as this one of our determination
by our strongest motive.
There is no
reason to question the authenticity of these sayings, or to doubt that Jesus
accepted the current belief in the punishment of the wicked
by everlasting fire in Gehenna.
By reason of his own system and its premises, Mikhail Gorbachev was unprepared to believe, much less
accept, Reagan's offer to share any workable missile - defense system.
Before I state it, however, I must say that there is no
reason why the more traditional position, both about life beyond death as a subjective (and hence personal) reality for each of us and also with respect to the traditional portrayal of the «last things» (including an intermediate state), may not be
accepted by those who find it compelling.
In other words, he assumes that
accepting the fact of reasonable pluralism entails denying that differences on what he labels «ultimate questions» can be accounted for
by saying that somebody has made what he calls «mistakes in
reason.»
Reasons given
by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not
accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).
here's the argument to your stupid hedge bet... which is a weak
reason to believe
by the way... if there is a god, he is the all knowing, all loving, all
accepting kind of god and he will recognize those that led good lives and those that led bad ones and regardless of their religious beliefs will judge them on their actions and be allowed into this heaven.
I hope you don't find it insulting when I say that as is your arguments often require us to
accept without any
reason that the way you understand some verses is correct yet you can dismiss any verse you chose
by saying that their understanding is a «misapplication», perhaps supplying a reasonable approach to how one goes about interpreting Scripture in general could clear up that problem.
If we once
accept that the molecule is definitely determined to be what it is, independently of any determination
by reason of the total organism, of the body, and if you further admit that the blind run is settled
by the general mechanical laws, there can be no escape from this conclusion (113).
Any position can be rationalized
by the bible... like I said, that is a
reason to reject it, not
accept it as communication from a god.
It is, he
reasons,
by way of the day - to - day repetition of commonly
accepted and uniformly executed social practices that there arises a certain consistency, and thus persistence, of social order in society.
The dream of the abolition of war is given us in the Bible, but the
reason most Christians hesitate to
accept that dream and act upon it comes also from the Bible, from all the wars that are recorded and celebrated
by God's people, all the wars that are authorized and even commanded
by God.
Then, following the words of the Prophet and guided
by reason, man will search for the principles of the Imamate and of the Day of Resurrection; and since on the basis of
reasoning he
accepts the words of the Prophet and of Imams as the basis for truth, he will acknowledge the truth of the Day of Resurrection.
Pair bonding may not be the best or only way to serve our genes but then there is no
reason why we have to
accept the so called «selfish gene» theory, that we are of value only as gene carriers (the theory popularised
by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.
The second main
reason for the rejection of this form of theism is that one can
accept it only
by affirming the entire classical metaphysical outlook of which it is integrally a part.
All Shi`as
accept these four sources of religious law, but those who derive religious laws from testaments and Traditions define
reasoning as the use of analogy, or parallels from Tradition, rather than deductive and inductive
reasoning; those who follow the principles of jurisprudence do not
accept reasoning by analogy as valid.
2) the
reason they vehemently apposed to
accepting Christ and His divininty is because then they will have to live
by absolutes which they don't want that means end to their wild life style.
You appear to
accept things as true
by default and then require a
reason to unaccept it.
The Church seemed to have
accepted that the old arguments for the existence of God had been demolished
by science, and it appeared that nobody had any new
reasoned approaches to take.
True faith would be demonstrated
by accepting that since God didn't bring about the end of days then there must a
reason for it that we can not understand.
Natural law
reasoning helps deepen this altogether proper obedience
by illuminating the rational basis for moral principles
accepted on authority.
The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to
accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried
by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One
reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»
But if we are not confused
by the Enlightenment's deism, then many (but not all) of the
reasons for refusing to
accept the historic theistic perspective on the incarnation and resurrection fall away.
He came to
accept the orthodox Christian perspective not because he was convinced
by scripture, tradition or
reason, but
by experience.