Sentences with phrase «are themselves human constructs»

Religion is a big part of the problem there; Gods are human constructs, made to keep people down; Reward after death

Edweird69, You do not know that the soul is human construct.

Right and wrong are human constructs and also determined by society.

Religions, all of them, are human constructs.

i once suggested to a friend that satan was a human construct... not that that makes satan any less real, just different, any how it was just a thought... he only gets named as a character in the NT except in job.

Marriage is a human construct.

The world picture of the social scientist is a human construct in a double sense.

He differs from the natural scientist in the fact that the realities he studies are themselves human constructs.

But they misdirect that response by insisting that all understanding of God is a human construct projected onto the unknown.

SOC, rights are human constructs.

Alternating between a belief that absolutism lurks just behind absolutes and a suspicion that truth is a human construct, liberals are accustomed to offering opinions instead of truth.

«The Bible clearly states...» is a toothless statement, given the inarguable fact that the «bible» is a human construct, not the word of some «god».

Kaufman's theological method begins with the thesis that theology is a human construct.

Although he says that religion itself, as distinct from theology, is more than a construction and even has transcendent reference, nevertheless he states that the image of God in religion is a human construct.

Anything other definition is a human construct designed to keep us separated.

All the other churches are human constructs.

Thus, any human attempt to claim that the Spirit has chosen to give only men the «gift of leadership» and women the «gift of nurturing» is a human construct that seeks to bind the work of the Spirit in the world for the benefit of those who establish such strict categories and try to enforce them through claiming some biblical authority to do so — as men have for millennia now.

Time, as everyone knows, is a human construct.

For example, William Cronon and J. Baird Callicott, among others, understood years ago that the separation of nature and humans is a human construct.

Correct the elephant is in the room but nobody likes to talk about it and yes you are correct again when you say the elephants weight is caused by humans as weight is a human construct....

Despite our sincerest aim of using science as an objective and unbiased tool to record natural history, we are reminded that science is a human construct, often driven by human needs to tell a compelling story, to reinforce the positive, and to compete for limited resources — publication trends and communication bias is a proof of that.

6 — Remember that economics (unlike the basic life support systems of the planet) is a human construct, nearly infinitely malleable.

«Perfection» is a human construct to ostensibly be aspired to with the attendant reasonable realization that it can not be attained... because it does not exist.

No one will ever always be «right» (a subjective concept at best unless one is discussing science or mathematics etc.) or agreed with by all; that is an impossible objective known as perfection; perfection does not exist; it is a human construct.

Not exact matches

They have to alter the construct so that those trying to imitate real humans and authentic experiences will be easy to spot — and block.

Building that internal brand is becomingly almost as important as strong external communication, helping you construct a productive office environment that believes in your company's mission as well as giving you a more cheerful human shield if the zombies infiltrate the ventilation system.

The first 3 are human emotions, the last one is a social construct.

Authority is a consensus human construct and a convenient fiction to which humanity has been in bondage for millenia.

After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum

Anti-realist ideas, by contrast, consider everything as human constructs, plastic and malleable, which can be bended and altered but which inherently are unknowable.

In general, the counterproposals boast proportionality and restraint, and manage to impart a sense of grandeur without disregarding the surrounding landscape, historical context, or human visitors for whom the memorial is ultimately being constructed.

However, the typical Christian Eternal All - knowing Trinity God who happens to also have a personal interest in what you do in the bedroom just seems too ridiculous to be anything but a human construct, and a jerry - built one at that.

Quite common when the notions are constructed by human beings.

Rather, society is a never - ending work - in - progress constructed through the ongoing strivings of living and breathing human beings whose motives are psychologically complex and culturally specific.

Such gender constructs are hardly natural or «inherent» in the human condition but they become inescapable or «inherited» dimensions of our human existence.

Lindbeck is often accused of being an anti-realist or constructivist, the idea that truth claims humans make are simply ones that we make up and «construct» ourselves with no real relationship with the way things really are.

The ideal of human conduct constructed on the basis of this concept of God's will was necessarily moralistic and — the important point for our purposes — static; change was out of the question.

While arriving at what is true, good, and beautiful occurs through the particularity of human constructs, those transcendentals are not reducible to such constructs.

The basic difficulty with vague religiosity is that human beings are weak and fallible and need artificial or consciously constructed supports.

Multiculturalism that claims all truths are only cultural constructs necessarily denies the truth of the human community.

I totally agree with you that God can not be contained within human constructs and i commend and admire you for being bold enough to write it because it is not a popular opinion among many professing Christians but then i think you took Mark 13:21 out of context.

In the story of the feeding of the 5,000 we see Jesus once again addressing the most essential, physical needs of his fellow human beings - hunger, thirst, companionship - and once again, breaking down every socially - constructed barrier that keeps us from eating with one another.

Apparently, God who became Christ who became Spirit can not and will not be contained within human constructs.

They are not wholly dictated by natural necessity, but are constructed by the human community.

There is no evil in nature, it is a purely human construct and endeavor.

Isn't people's understanding of God still a «human construct»?

His celebrated saying that existence precedes essence, once it is translated into classical terms, means only that non-being precedes the essences formally constructed by human thought.

He is equally incisive in realizing that the engine of culture is driven on its evolutionary track by the stories that human beings construct.

Calvin asked whether human beings have a natural knowledge of God (his answer was yes); whether they can arrange what they know from nature into an intelligible pattern known as natural theology (his answer was no); and whether redeemed — and only redeemed — human beings can construct a legitimate theology of nature by reclaiming nature as a useful source of the true knowledge of God (his answer was yes).

Therefore, communication must be expressed as»... God's unique gift to humankind, through which individuals and societies can become more truly human» (Manila Declaration, 1980) and be constructed as a forum for dialogue with all those who are working to build that community in solidarity.