In such passages from Jeremiah and Habakkuk we face the perennial glory of the true prophets — their courage in
acknowledging facts of experience that contradict accepted theories.
Not exact matches
How truly well put, stunningly beautiful... not only did you express your
experience perfectly but you have offered many
of us who wander and wonder a sense
of the greater peace through the door
of love and forgiveness...
acknowledging the
fact that a steeple, a sermon, nor an offering plate are a requirement in finding God at the heart
of us all...
@fimilleur from time to time mankind
experiences the presence
of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence
of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations
of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse
of God but not the fullness
of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the
fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we»
acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations
of God made by men throughout history.
Every present can be viewed in its innocence, but the point
of view
of innocence is important chiefly because it
acknowledges the
fact of immediate
experience.
The unique aspect
of experience is a measure
of the concreteness
of God for us, and is «irreducible, incomparable, incommensurable to any parameter
of understanding»; it is, as Eastern and Western faith traditions all
acknowledge, a manifestation
of the
fact that «religious truth is existential and non-objectifiable.»
Let it be
acknowledged then that Josephus is not a first - class historian; but the failure to recognize the validity
of his
facts, especially in that part
of his work which lay largely within his own
experience and recollection, and the truth
of his interpretations, as far as they go — he is never exhaustive — is surely responsible for the neglect
of his writings by too many interpreters
of the New Testament at the present time, and for the rise
of theories which leave not only Josephus but likewise the New Testament out
of the reckoning.
(52) In
fact, Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic Christians had precisely this
experience in the concentration camps and gulags
of our century: Rarely has this
experience been
acknowledged in this way in an official document.
From my
experience, 1 keep emotions out
of the exchange, 2 discuss, don't attack (no ad hominem and no ad Hitlerum), 3 listen carefully and try to articulate the other position accurately, 4 show respect, 5
acknowledge that you understand why someone might hold that opinion, and 6 try to show how changing
facts does not necessarily mean changing worldviews.
This progressive shift
acknowledges the
fact that an artist can
experience a breakthrough in their work at any age and that the new ways
of saying and doing things often arrive over years, if not decades.
«With this new work, I'm really
acknowledging the viewing
experience as part
of the creative process, rather than this culminating gesture that comes after the
fact,» Metz has explained.
In
fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect
acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these
experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues
of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number
of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance
of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part
of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.
The
fact that indigenous women in Canada
experience institutional and structural inequalities resulting from entrenched historical discrimination and inequality is
acknowledged by the Government
of Canada and by civil society organizations.
Further, it is critical for blockchain companies to
acknowledge and account for the
fact that they will have stratified customer bases with different levels
of technical
experience and expertise.