Sentences with phrase «affirm first»

Chiefs, Elders, youth and Hereditary leaders had discussions on how the Government of Canada can change their approach to affirm First Nations rights and title, including inherent rights, and treaty rights.

On April 12, 2018 over 100 Chiefs in BC met to discuss the development of a strategy and unified position regarding their interests in seeing changes to both provincial and federal laws to recognize, implement and affirm First Nations inherent Title, Rights and Treaty rights.

The Student Data Principles affirm first and foremost that student information should only be used to support student learning.

The UK should therefore follow the example of other parliamentary democracies and affirm the first principle of all caretaker conventions: a caretaker government can not resign until an alternative government has taken office because the country can not be left without a functioning executive.

For Nash, presuppositionalism was simply a way to affirm first the presence of forms of human knowledge in the mind and second the beliefs that emerged from those forms.

Rather it affirms first and always that God, the determining Power governing my individual life, can be rightly called omnipotent only if I experience this power in my own life, only if God allows me to realize it as fact, if He reveals to me His omnipotence.

What is editorially — and theologically — affirmed first by the Yahwist and tacitly by all subsequent handlers of the tradition (since they do not see fit to make any radical alteration in the Yahwist's outline) comes about not from the heavy - handed use of the red pencil, so to speak, but by the much more subtle editorializing achieved by the selection, arrangement, and juxtaposition of stories originally independent of one another.

Even though there was very little difference in the cases from my perspective, the Court affirmed the first decision but reversed the second.

Not exact matches

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For buyers who have used Affirm and first order was above $ 250, 36 percent have come back and made a second purchase using Affirm.

Tonsing was the first angel investor in Sapho and also invests in Affirm, Docker, Color Genomics and many others.

Ahead of Facebook's annual F8 conference, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday in San Jose, California, the company's earnings from the first quarter of the year affirmed that its bottom line hasn't suffered from recent data - privacy scandals.

The first consists of the claim, affirmed in a December 23, 1988 Vatican press statement and quoted in the bishops» statement, that «the supreme pontiff... is deeply convinced that the two peoples have an identical, fundamental right to have their own homeland in which they live in freedom, dignity, and security in harmony with their neighbors.»

Before saying anything to the pastor, you must first affirm to him that every single thing he is doing is smart, right and good.

In Rahner's practice, one first establishes the general transcendental conditions for the saving import of any particular; then one is in position to affirm such import, categorically, of the particular Christ.

From first to last, the Bible affirms that anger is sometimes right and fitting.

This is not to say that we shouldn't carefully vet refugees, but let's get the facts first before making generalizations and shutting down a program that has literally saved thousands of lives.To turn our backs on refugees now would betray our nation's core values to provide refuge for the persecuted and affirm the very message those who perpetrate terrorism would seek to send.

The same could be said of logic; you can get numbers and logic to dance any way you want and come out to affirm whatever view you believed in the first place.

If a first reason for legally protecting the sacred interplay has to do with all those who approach it - whether to engage in that interplay or affirm it otherwise - a second reason has to do with those new human persons who result from that interplay.

He believes that it requires that Christians «must first clearly affirm the continued validity of the Jewish covenant apart from what Christians may believe about the coming of Christ.»

Note first of all that the intelligible content of the faith is affirmed: «the teaching and realities signified by the words».

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

The first is to retreat into pure individualism, denying the necessity for culture and affirming the essential autonomy and independence of the solitary person.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

In the first instance, the Law, affirmed as the fixed and immutable expression of God's eternal will, and spelled out in theological and ethical formulas, was the sole and sufficient guide for man's conduct.

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

As to whether or not we must affirm that the flood encompassed the entire orb of the earth, the text would seem to teach this and subsequent texts would tend to corroborate this, but there is some flexibility with regards to the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis, as expressed in the encyclical «Humani Generis» of Pope Pius XII:

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

Hence, a first cause of being must be affirmed.

The first is affirming in an unparalleled way; the second is all too often exploitative.

Nature is good, I readily affirm, and is itself the first gift of grace.

4 Affirming this question, the thesis will be presented that, first, Whitehead knows of, or at least implicitly enables us to understand, a genuine claim of revelation which can not be justified metaphysically (without being metaphysically irrelevant); and that, secondly, metaphysics becomes relativistic in the view of a genuine revealed theology.

It first affirms it's own premise and in the end disaffirms it.

First, I will reflect on the non-metaphysical nature of revelation, its uniqueness, and some hypotheses affirming the project of a genuine revealed theology in the context of process theology.

Like untrained gardeners going into an overgrown garden, successors to the Reformers hacked about with machetes, slashing unknowingly through material that had been affirmed for the first thousand years: the sacraments, the honoring of Mary, the eucharistic Real Presence.

He affirms that the first man is of the dust of the earth, but contrasts this with the second man from heaven.

For the record, contrary to kermit's claim of a single witness to the miraculous plates delivery, the first 3 of the 11 witnesses to Smith's plates claimed they also saw the plates delivered by an angel while hearing the voice of God affirming that Smith's translation was indeed an act of divine revelation.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

The first is expressed in two hon mots: we «live in the space age with Stone - Age brains»; and we are «hunter - gatherers in pinstripe suits» Both sayings affirm that we were not designed to be alone, our brains evolved as social brains; but at the same time they indicate that this social brain still bears traces of having evolved in the context of surviving in a Stone Age world.

I would be glad if you could consider the substance of this lecture a kind of commentary on the first paragraph of your own «Call to Covenant Community,» which reads: «We affirm faith in Jesus Christ who proclaimed the reign of God by preaching good news to the poor, binding up the broken - hearted and calling all to repent and believe the good news.

«It's not a perfect movie but it has so many affirming messages,» said the Rev. Warren H. Stewart Sr., pastor of Phoenix's First Institutional Baptist Church, which organized an outing to see the movie.

Thus, by unnoticed but inexorable depletion, Vanderbilt lost the ability to affirm in the first person plural that it was Methodist.

This, then, is the meaning I would assign to the subject of the first sentence of the Nicene Creed [«I believe in one God»]: The solitary «I» is here affirming this belief, the «I» over and beyond all collective or communal assignments - the «I» alone with reality and alone with God.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

The first is to affirm that «every word of the Bible» is «literally true».

«Imprecatory prayers,» which ask God to harm another person, have been affirmed as acceptable speech under the First Amendment, according to a story from Religion News Service:

My theology, at first, seemed to affirm the medical language.

In affirming God, he first rejected the blandishments and lies of the wilderness, just as in the baptismal liturgy the candidate says yes to God by first saying no to Satan, the evil powers of this world, and all sinful desires.

In the first round of conversation, we affirmed that, despite serious disagreements, we who recognize one another as brothers and sisters in Christ are called to the missionary task of proclaiming his lordship to the world.

Yet, like the son in the parable who hesitated at first and in the end did as his father had asked, Jesus affirms three times: «Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.»