Sentences with phrase «as means to»

The two arguments may be combined into one: All evils in Whitehead's world view must be judged as apparent because God utilizes every evil as a means to perfect the world and the divine experience.

Only when God is truly the center of man's life, can man escape the insecurity that tempts him to curve in on himself, or to lean on others as means to his own safety, and to be faithless toward God.

The sinful MAN (and satan) uses religion as a means to do wicked in the world.

It can cause leaders to see people as a means to an end.

To use scripture that is intended to inspire and explain as a means to sanction is to misuse it.

I'm not voting for anyone who claims divine intervention as a means to making decisions — they are either delusional or liars.

Peace remained a fundamental Christian aspiration, but ritual and sacrament gave way to persuasion and instruction as the means to achieve it.

Whereas Jesus has turned down selfish individualism, power, control, riches, fame, recognition, and glory as a means of accomplishing His mission, the church fully embraced such things as a means to spread the Gospel, fulfill the Great Commission, and expand the Kingdom of God on earth.

I find it quite interesting in the current debate about waterboarding and «enhanced interrogation techniques» that many of the same people who are condemning the practice of waterboarding as a means to learn information about what our nation's enemies are planning, are the same people who, after 9 - 11, demanded to know why our nation's intelligence did not know that the 9 - 11 terrorist attack was coming.

The yyarn, the traditional mask dance form of dalits in Kerala, was used as a means to rebuke, ridicule and to some extent question the atrocities and injustices done to them.

Schulweis argues that all the evils in Whitehead's world must be viewed as apparent because God perceives every evil as a means to perfect the world.

God often uses tangible physical expressions as a means to teach us spiritual realities.

The strategies differed as well, with Graham and company focusing on the conversionism that had been central to evangelical awakenings as the means to transform society and the liberal Protestants rallying behind an all - out assault on social ills.

Before his conversion, he would deny himself as a means to salvation.

We shall be speaking of a focus in a theological school on questions about «particular Christian congregations» as a means to understanding God Christianly.

Proof is a concept developed by science as a means to an end.

For Catholics, the Rosary has played an analogous role as a spiritual «rope» as a means to enter heaven and as a means of fortification against adversaries, spiritual and temporal.

I still look to live processes like the Isha Kriya as a means to stay connected to Christ in an experiential way.

Presbyterian polity has been understood historically and philosophically as the means to secure, if not full agreement, at least a willingness to live with the outcome of the polity's operations.

Insulting folks as a means to an end seldom reaches anyone, and even IF your points are valid, introducing them with arrogance and disdain, only causes those you wish to reach to shut down or to search for ways to disprove what you are saying.

Accordingly, they have treated these other creatures only as means to their ends.

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

Instead, pedophiles see and use the priesthood as a means to gain access to children to satisfy their depravity.

The only viable vehicle of conservatism in modernity is a market - oriented liberalism that regards freedom within law as the means to the common good.

The majority of Christians believe in the false notional hypothesis of evolution as a means to species now, as it is central to their racism.

In reply to steve88, Religion has been around for many years and was infact used as a control method to an extent to keep power over its people and as previously stated as a means to generate revenue.

Implicit in this faith is confidence in education as a means to the desired consummation.

Even when Pharaoh and his army are drowned, I see God using this as a means to a great and glorious end for Pharaoh, his army, the Egyptians....

Evolution as a means to species is racist nonsense, not science.

Some acts of omission are lethal, because they are adopted precisely as a means to bring about someone's death.

This argument» in the mouths of death penalty opponents committed to the sanctity, or at least equal dignity, of every human being» comes perilously close to suggesting that we should use an execution of one of our fellow citizens as a means to desired ends.

Or will they be sent to some monastery as the means to hide them?

As the very history of this word itself testifies, however, it too can lend itself as means to highly questionable ends.

Griffin, of course, might wish to argue that FWTs must, or at least should, believe not only that all structural aspects of the world are somehow sanctioned by God as a means to produce moral and spiritual growth but that this is also true for each specific occurrence.

In Islam the purpose of the five daily prayers and the month of fasting is to purify oneself and to decrease desires as a means to the practice of self - control.

Is there one goal to which all other goals are subordinate, not necessarily as means to end, but as proximate objectives that should be sought only in relation to a final purpose?

If most of science used the scientific method there would be no black holes or evolution as a means to species as theories.

It's an American organization, using billboards as means to communicate to other americans who may feel alone in their belief.

John P. Tarver said: «The scientific method is not used by most of science, otherwise there would be no big bang theory or evolution as a means to species in science, no black holes either.

Therefore politics and economics should be seen as means to social development as the end, rather than reverse it as modern politics and economics tend to do.

The scientific method is not used by most of science, otherwise there would be no big bang theory or evolution as a means to species in science, no black holes either.

This rational relationship between the means of violence and the ends of foreign policy has been destroyed by the availability of nuclear power as a means to these ends.

By doing so, he violates a basic tenet of Western morality: To respect man as an end in himself and not to use him as a means to an end.

Those who use it as a means to accomplish something more lofty will either deceive themselves or fail.

If people are using this as a means to hate others, then that is their problem.

Fasting is used as a means to develop detachment.

Perhaps people use their religion as another means to promote their polical party rather than the other way around.

Racism occurs when one ethnic group uses its distinctions - values, skin color, communication patterns - as a means to prevent one or more ethnic groups from flourishing as God intends.

In preparation for Super Bowl LXVI in Indianapolis, 11 congregations of Catholic women joined the fight against human trafficking in a unique way: They decided to use their investments as a means to address human trafficking with Indianapolis area hotels.

He is not the origin of evil nor does God «use» evil as a means to justify some cosmic end.