Sentences with phrase «actual event in the history»

2) The bible is a work of fiction, or at least it's not a fully factual account of actual events in history.

Incarnation is an actual event in the history of Spirit: God «empties» himself completely of his transcendent form and is now becoming totally incarnate in the world.

Not exact matches

The books of the New Testament were closer in time to the actual event than most histories of that time or earlier that are generally accepted as true.

But we maintain, on the contrary, that we know the Jesus of history very well, even if we do not have a precise and photographic account of his day - by - day activities; and the unique claim of Christianity is that in and by those events in the actual realm of historical happenedness, God is revealed — revealed, of course, in and under the conditions of history and human life, but revealed nonetheless.

To confess the death of God is to speak of an actual and real event, not perhaps an event occurring in a single moment of time or history, but notwithstanding this reservation an event that has actually happened both in a cosmic and in a historical sense.

If God foresees the actual details of the future, events in nature - history are nothing but the unfolding of a previously written scroll negating creaturely freedom.

Thus if «I» do something like «deciding upon a course of action,» that «deciding» is not» to be attributed to an «I» which is to be regarded as in some way distinct relatively to the actual spatiotemporal events comprising the occurrences of my life - history: it is to be attributed to those occurrences themselves.

Such a problem would lead us to suggest that the only consistent alternatives would be either a radical, a historical translation as mentioned above, or — if the historical framework of biblical thought were to be retained — a systematic theology where the bridge between the centuries of biblical events and our own time was found in the actual history of the church as still ongoing history of God's people.

Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts, events, natural moments, or actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

It seems to me that we have enough integrity in our historical scholarship, even if we rely on the secular canons of historicity, to be clear that much of what the Bible records is history or is based on reminiscence of actual events.

I regard a Christology as modern if it uses every relevant insight of modern knowledge to differentiate the historical element in its interpretation of the event Jesus Christ from the mythological, and remembers that the actual event comprises only history and the ontological reality of God's presence and action within that history — whilst the mythology expresses that reality in ways which may indeed convey deep truth, yet have in themselves the status not of ontological reality but of poetry.

It pertains not to history as a firsthand description or recording of actual events (Historie) but to history in the sense of the phenomenal life of humankind in the world (Geschichte).

The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life.

Mark is interested in theology — a very elementary theology, but a real one — rather than in history; that is to say, a theological idea is more important to him than the actual course of events in the life of Jesus.

The actual redemptive presence of God in the world is discerned less in God's taking the sovereign lead in events and more in God's picking up the pieces after history has misfired.

But whereas for Hegel as for Mill feeling is actual in the sense that it is an event in the history of the mind, for the later Bradley feeling is not an event or occurrence of any kind.

I'm curious how and when (in a «history or sociology» way) the unexpected events are taken into consideration in public discussion by the actual working scientists — specifically.

Koei, the developer of Mystic Heroes, is well known for making games based on actual events from the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, with a few fantasy elements thrown in.

The author brought this dark time in history alive with her engaging story based on actual events.

Working across various media in portraits, interiors, nudes and landscapes, Marshall conflates actual and imagined events from African American history and culture and integrates a range of stylistic influences to address the limited historiography of black art.

There are so few data observation points anyway, that water level data is surely as anecdotal as when I make references to actual historical events demonstrating sea levels over extended periods in mans recent history?

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»