Sentences with phrase «apart from the existence»

Prayer would be meaningless apart from the existence of human freedom.

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Apart from transmitting a positive signal, the act of liking something is evidence of existence in the online realm.

Thousands of years ago, the Buddha taught that no individual enjoys a separate existence; that no action exists apart from its reaction.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

Not only does reality depend on God for its initial existence, but it is dependent upon him for its continued existence: «No being is there, whether moving or unmoving, that exists or could exist apart from Me» (X. 39; cf. IX.

That said, those who ARE looking for something apart from empiricism and existentialism, those who are looking for some purpose and meaning to existence, need to see authenticity and integrity in the church i.e holiness.

Apart from his spiritual significance, he was not an emperor or king and was not mummified, so its about as likely as you being able to prove the existence of my ancestor from 4000 years ago.

Apart from God nothing comes into existence.

The new event includes the past events, and it has no existence at all apart from this inclusion.

Both believe that human existence apart from «grace» can only culminate in despair, and thus both have developed a fundamentally hostile attitude toward the modern consciousness.

This first breath - soul of man never involved so clear a discrimination between the physical and the nonphysical that its existence apart from a physical organism was conceivable.

The law and commandments of God are revealed through these common created structures of existence and function apart from and in tension with the special revelation of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is possible, as we have seen, to restate in nonmythological terms the New Testament teaching on human existence apart from faith and in faith.

In The Source of Human Good he acknowledged the existence of a creative event apart from human beings, but declined to spend much time on it, making it clear that his real concern lay with the creation of human good.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

Since the Christian Word is neither timeless nor primordial, it has no existence apart from its movement.

Paul's theology, although it failed to assume a systematic form, revolved about a response to the advent of a New Creation, a New Aeon or New Being that delivers its participant from the Old Aeon of sin, the Law, and the «flesh» (sarx, or existence apart from grace).

By being «present in a subject» I do not mean present as parts are present in a whole, but being incapable of existence apart from the said subject.5

(3) Similarly, substance enjoys a kind of independence of existence from its accidental qualities; it becomes a kind of «thing» even apart from those qualities.

It insists that thinking that occurs apart from critical involvement ends up in constructions of theories about existence that keep us from the real world.

An animal can not see its companions apart from their common life, nor ascribe to the enemy any existence beyond his hostility.

For the latter not only is it the case, as Hartshorne would agree, that every finite individual owes its existence to the free creative activity of God, in the sense that apart from that creative activity that individual would not exist; in addition, it is wholly due to the free creative activity of God that anything other than Himself exists: it is contingent, and contingent on the will of God, that any created world at all exists.

This understanding has been destroyed, he believes, by the pestilence of legal positivism, the idea that right and wrong have no existence or meaning apart from the provisions of law.

Similarly, Christian existence could not have arisen apart from that responsibility for one's acts before God that constituted personal existence.

Socratic existence could not have arisen apart from the prior distancing of the world and the discovery of the forms it embodies.

From the moment of its creation nature, too, even apart from human existence, has felt the promise of From the moment of its creation nature, too, even apart from human existence, has felt the promise of from human existence, has felt the promise of God.

If there is no existence that is not bound up with others, then there can be no salvation apart from the salvation of others.

Among Lutherans there was a drift toward natural theology in which the existence of God and the moral law were treated apart from the special revelation of God in Jesus Christ In Reformed circles, there was both a fascination with natural theology and a concentration on the eternal decrees of God.

In brief, history and cultures are expressions of life, not realms radically apart from human biological existence.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 208) These latter comments demonstrate the trap that lies in wait for anyone, even Whitehead, who thinks in terms of the Platonic soul because almost inevitability the thought turns to the existence of the soul apart from the body.

Until my own unplanned pregnancy was confirmed, I had unknowingly considered myself to be apart from the mainstream of feminine — perhaps even from human — existence.

Moreover, it is doubtful that we would be very concerned about revelation apart from its fortifying our own personal existence as well.

In this context, the question of the metaphysical reality of God, that is, of God's existence prior to, and apart from, human language can not even arise.

The emergence in Jesus of that structure of existence in which the human self coalesces with the immanent Logos is the recovery at a new level of the structure that predominates in all things apart from human beings..

The classic detective story can not exist apart from the principles of the existence of good and evil and of poetic justice.

Yet as objects they could have no existence apart from human experiences.

Hence it is not only possible but necessary that we affirm «that authentic existence can be realized apart from faith in Jesus Christ or in the Christian proclamation» (CWM 144).

A challenge for Billy Craig: show that «creating the universe» and «existence apart from the universe» have any sort of real ontological meaning.

Cobb names God as the ethical, historical, and personal ultimate, that is, where this God is a particular actual entity A good case can be made that ethical principles, historical existence, and personhood can not exist apart from the specificity of some concrete and particular being.

Because it constantly portrays mystery in the form of a gracious promise, the Bible forbids our searching for meaning, salvation, or fulfillment completely apart from historical existence.

However, they do not have an independent or ideal existence apart from the actualities in which they are manifested.

But equally persons have no existence apart from community.

We are so intricately connected with our universe that any «simple location» of our own existence, any setting it apart from the totality in which we are embedded, will surely skew our self - understanding.

One of the questions is: Has religion an independent existence — apart from the human being and society.

Representatively, then, and symbolically, and apart from the vagaries into which the unenlightened intellect of former times may have let it wander, asceticism must, I believe, be acknowledged to go with the profounder way of handling the gift of existence.

When we say that faith alone, the faith which is aware of the divine encounter, can speak of God, and that therefore when the believer speaks of an act of God he is ipso facto speaking of himself as well, it by no means follows that God has no real existence apart from the believer or the act of believing.

James seems to show that genuine, saving faith has no existence apart from works, cf. Ja 2.

Even if we extend the term individual to its usual designation of personal existence from birth to death, the idea of an individual apart from community is meaningless.

If then it be true that we can not speak of an act of God without speaking simultaneously of our own existence, if such an act can not be established apart from its existential reference, if it dispenses with the objectivity attainable by impartial scientific investigation (e.g. by experiment), we inevitably ask whether divine activity has any objective reality at all.

Hippypoet If God, genetics or some bio neurologic event allows me to see Spirit and Soul apart from my physical existence, that does not translate into not understanding basic science.