Sentences with phrase «as mere humans»

All I know is that GOD has infinite Wisdom and Knowledge and we, as mere humans, can never know everything about The Only True and Living GOD that created everything by His word.

If you tell me, as a mere human being, to «make peace», then my best bet might be to become Secretary - General of the United Nations and learn to negotiate very well.

You, dear Muslims, regard Jesus as a mere human being, or as one of many prophets, even lower than Muhammad.

Jesus would have been left alone, as a mere human, to carry those sins.

If God did the things Scripture says He did, but as a mere human, He would be the most hated person in all of history.

they no longer operated as mere human beings Their strength and influence were the strength and influence of almighty God.

Will the superheroes prevail, or will they be forced to meet their demise as mere human beings?

Not exact matches

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Leaders who are guided by faith, not fear, demonstrate through their actions, not mere words, what their core values are as a human being.

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

Yet having encountered this fantastic tree with human features, readers can no longer look upon real trees as mere objects meant only for our manipulation.

Wrongly, current thinkers see the human body as just an instrument or a mere tool for some function.

Thus we can be tempted to treat humans as mere animals, e.g. though slavery or abortion, and to sentimentalise animals as if they were human.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

Rather than mere merchandise, the human person stands as a wonderful existent.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

One need merely approach it with an open mind to see that its authors were no mere robots, but human beings endowed with their own particular insights, virtues, customs, faith, and — as with all people — their own misconceptions and misunderstandings.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

Given a really deep insight into the concept of collectivity, we are bound, I think, to understand the term without any attenuation of meaning, and certainly as no mere metaphor, when we apply it to the sum of all human beings.

Therefore, let us see what happens if we regard religion as the outcome of a long preparation, as a new dimension of the evolutionary process, and not as heaven - sent or as a mere projection of the human mind.

If God is as the Calvinist insists, then they are right: we mere humans can not question God's judgment or challenge His choices from eternity past to choose some for redemption and others for reprobation.

God literally became a man in order that the human categories of spirituality could be recognized as truly divine, and not the mere invention of a frightened race seeking some means of converting a miserable and ephemeral existence into a dignified and permanent purchase upon the existence of the universe.»

Religious beliefs and practices are observed and discussed, but treated as states of mind and social customs, mere human constructions unsupported by any transcendent reality.

As this vocation is lived in the sober unity of scientific knowledge and human achievement it is prevented from becoming mere humanitarian twaddle.

Using Berdyaev and Whitehead as support, he castigates a «mere spectator God» who surveys human suffering while remaining in a state of happiness.

It's a further mockery to imagine that humans need to / should reproduce... As if... The (impending) thermonuclear war that prolifer's drool over, in greedy anticipation of the next corporate - profiteering - adventure, (in Iran), has already occurred / mushroomed from a mere corporate profiteering crime to the Unthinkable!!

All of those things that would have made a mere human being mad as hell were treated with Grace and Serenity and He got worked up enough to turn over the tables on the «money changers» using a place of worship for profit.

As a meditation on human origins as somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a wholAs a meditation on human origins as somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a wholas somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a wholas a whole.

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

For we shall then be all too likely to dismiss death as a mere incident, to think of judgment without due seriousness, and to regard heaven and hell (our possible human destiny, for good or for ill) as nothing more than «fairy - tale» talk.

The phrase «the image of God» means more than mere reflection as in a mirror; it means the active and energizing capacity given to humans, as created entities, to live with integrity as the «created second» of the God who is making them.

And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting as though it were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.

Its sociality, as a result, becomes largely «technical dialogue» with the social understood either as an organic, objective whole or as the mere communication and interaction between human beings who may in fact relate to each other largely as Its.

At this point, we can and should speak of human freedom as something of utmost importance and distinctiveness in relation to mere unconscious self - determination.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

According to Kant, to say nothing of common moral sense, human beings are subjects and as such should never to be treated as mere instruments or objects.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

They are certainly recognised in Western legal systems and... worldview (s); however... (human) consciousness... can not itself actively determine what is good and what is evil (and)... these freedoms are essentially thought of as mere individual prerogatives.»

In Conscience and Obedience, William Stringfellow has it right, I think: «The principalities (governments, institutions, and even the church) are autonomous in relation to humans; they are created beings in their own right, not simply projections of human life, and their demonic character as fallen powers is no mere consequence of human sin either personal or corporate.»

In Jewish literature, mere humans were often referred to as «Messiah.»

But these differences do not warrant viewing everything that is not human as mere things at the disposal of human beings.

Meanwhile, there have been thousands of gods and all but a few have been abandoned as mere myths, human creations.

What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.

Ever since the quarrel over artificial birth control in the 1960s, wayward Catholic theologians have led the way in dismissing Catholic sexual morality as mere «physicalism», this [dismissal] being an attitude which ignores the dual character of human nature as a union of body and soul.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

We seek to subdue and master the world so that it can serve our needs and desires, thus treating «other living beings as mere objects subjected to arbitrary human domination.»

Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.

To dismiss these cultural phenomena as mere insanity is to miss out on some very important truths regarding what it means to be human.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...