Sentences with phrase «based upon man»

It's a question that has bewildered women since the dawn of time, though the answer will change based upon the man you ask.

«My endorsement is based upon a man who for the last seven and a half years who delivers,» Bishop Edwers says at the presser

We are a nation based upon man's law, not someone's interpretation of what they think God says.

The Christian faith, like all religious belief systems, is based upon man's flawed understanding and attempts to explain something way beyond his capacity to understand.

Not exact matches

He is, in my opinion, an honorable man based upon what we know of his lifestyle.

As a gay man, based upon the BLACK communities response to GAY RIGHTS, YOU ARE ARE YOUR OWN.

Barth gathers the questionings of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not upon the conscious will of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will of God.

Isn't it quite obvious and apparent, based upon hearing about all the children, women, and men dying tragic deaths everyday in the news that God does not exist in the form the Bible claims?

Your opinions are based upon the depraved assertions of men.

By denying that the value in nature is static, Camus wishes to insure man against the possibility that a theocracy, for example, could assert rules based upon «eternal principles» to suppress freedom.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

They are secondary because historically and philosophically they have a different pedigree, being based upon a few preconceived ideas concerning the nature and processes of the universe, and of man, upon which the whole concatenation of objections hinge.

I think the reason why I asked the question of you is partly because of the fundamentalist background I came from which places value on women based upon their child rearing, homekeeping, and service roles, basically serving men.

Thus the universal value of food is based upon the common biological nature of men.

The entire world view is based upon a self absorbed mans eye view.

There is, for instance, the conclusion to a C. S. Lewis Lecture on Christian apologetics: «This means, of course, that we need to rethink the Christian basis for a liberal society, in which the rights of individuals and communities are founded upon a Christian understanding of man which is widely shared by non-Christians.

Upon what basis do we teach a different hope, a different substance of man, and a different form of personal eternal life?

Only recently has it been discovered that inorganic compounds in the manufacturing process can cause disease and death and the greatest explosive weapon ever devised by man is based upon the reaction of atoms which can not be seen by any conventional microscope.

The case for freedom is based not upon the absence of any reason for preferring one ideal to another but upon the positive conviction that men have the right and the duty to follow their consciences and to promote the common good.

I want to vote for a man with enough integrity to be himself, the real him — not an reated image based upon what what polls say we want.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

The assumption that women are not really related to other women, the absence of understanding men in relationship to women, the refusal to acknowledge the homo - relational basis of heteroreality, the ignorance of connectedness with nature all attest to the relational naivete of hetero - reality in comparison with a worldview based upon internal relations.

Tyranny is the most common lot of man and a democratic - republicn form of government based upon Biblical principles of limited government and balance of powers is unusual and requires the greatest degree of protection than any other.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

Only occasionally does some piece of personal description raise our hopes that it may conceivably be based on a true reminiscence, e.g. that Justus Barsabas (cf. Acts 1:23) was flatfooted, and that Paul was «a man short of stature, thin - haired upon the head, crooked in the legs, well - built, with eyebrows joining, and nose somewhat hooked, full of grace» (Acts of Paul).

Hence, the whole hierarchy of evaluations based upon law and obedience was overturned as the initiative was seen to be in the hands of the loving Father rather than with the ethical striving of man.

Sometimes it takes the form of a logical argument — a syllogistic proof or an argument based on analogy — but more often it adopts the rhetorical style, calling on man to reflect upon himself and the wonderful world around him so that by means of such reflection he might know his Lord.

It is not based upon one man's personal insight - his subjectivity - but on the real Life and Faith of the Church which is the handing on to each person of real transforming and divine life in Christ.

The corrective I would like to urge upon Schubert Ogden, then, is not that he abandon his method of process theology based upon analogical thinking, but that he consider some means by which he might avoid the inevitable drift of such thinking toward a closed rationalism, in which only man and his formulations speak forth.

«Upright men can even better convince themselves of the solid grounds on which the teaching of the Church in this field is based, if they care to reflect upon the consequences of methods of artificial birth control.

It is based on the fact that in the Church among all human communities men can most directly appeal to the reigning Christ's judgment upon the community itself.

He also concludes that women are not allowed to teach over men and that they bear the burden upon their sex of being uniquely deceived and being «THE transgressor» in a unique appeal to a special kind of sinfulness based solely upon gender.

If you read the Bible, which the everything Christian is based upon, what we may expect from a «man of God».

The second conviction is that any enduring hope must be based, not upon man alone, but upon the fact that God is present in human history, and is there creatively and redemptively at work.

Upon his return the first two men were rewarded based on the returns the ruler received from their investments.

«People do not wish to know that the whole human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 164).

He seems to interpret the positive tone of the Cardinal's reply as implying an acceptance of an «intrinsic dimension» based upon the inner spiritual nature of man called to love the One God and our neighbour, as proposed by A Common Word.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

Thomas» distinction was based upon the necessity for God to restructure the divine plan in the aftermath of man's sin.

In the course of time he has made it clear that, from the beginning, his main intention has been directed toward the development of a new biblical theology, based upon the recognition of the unique claim of the Bible that God, who must never be understood in the terms of man, has disclosed himself in Jesus Christ.

18:21 - 22) That means, if forgiveness is to be real, there is no question of commensurable achievements upon which the petitioner depends and bases a claim; the petition for forgiveness must be made by men who wholly renounce all claim.

A man has to work purposively to invent the complex upon the basis of the antecedent simple; he requires also a unity, the concept of the nature to be produced, which controls and directs the purposive work of his hands.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Therefore it can be exploited by theism, and hence theism need not make morality dependent upon metaphysical beliefs except in so far as the mere sociality of man is in fact not a sufficient basis for morality....

Perhaps sufficient will have been said if I point out that process thought is based upon wide generalizations made from those experiences of fact, and those facts of experience, which demonstrate to us the dynamic, active, on - going «creative advance» of the world; and which, in recognizing and accepting the patent reality of such a world, sees man as part of it sharing in that movement, and a principle of ordering and direction, which may properly be called God, explaining why and how the advance goes on as it does.

The previous May the Institute's Chairman HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammmad of Jordan welcomed the World Economic Forum C - 100 meeting by stating that dialogue based upon moderate religious «orthodoxy» and the scriptural «love thy neighbour» was necessary to win over the Arab Muslim man - on - the - street.

The true sciences of man are based upon concepts and methods appropriate to their human subject matter.

He labels as «self - righteous» Euro - centrism the Pope's claim concerning the uniquely coherent Greco - Christian emphasis upon man's logosas intrinsically and evidently based upon God's Logos.

Before we get to the trickiest sexual questions, based upon what many people are already doing, our book deals with marriage in the context of friendship, men's and women's roles and responsibilities and how to deal with sin so that marriage gets better rather than bitter.

Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».