Sentences with phrase «become human persons»

There is in the long run no room in the solar system, or even in the known universe, for all human eggs — even all fertilized eggs, as things now stand — to become human persons.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

The greatest value is its potential to become a human person.

But it does not draw the conclusion that before the fetus becomes a human person it has no intrinsic value.

Nor in becoming a man does the Word of God become a human person, a human being.

4:14) Although we may never agree on the point at which a developing life becomes a human person, we are compelled to take nascent life seriously and to ask when it is no longer morally acceptable to experiment on or discard human embryos.»

Athanasius» treatise On the Incarnation refuted Jewish denials that Jesus was the expected Messiah and Greek philosophical doubts that divine being could in any way became a human person.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Defy Ventures is a program that aims to educate people in prison to become better humans upon graduation.

If we think of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an instrument or technology by means of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights») of different kinds of corporate persons depend not on what kind of entity they are, but on the the demonstrable goals of the human beings involved.

He then became director of human resources, where he set the tone for Facebook's culture and drove the development of its mission, values and people strategy.

But I believe human nature is transformed when we use nice things (or even the Target and Wal - Mart knockoff versions) to become the people we were created to be.

At the centre of our faith is this reality that in order to be understood by those identified as His people and perhaps more urgently to be understood by those who weren't yet His people, God became human.

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

The real question is «When does a religious person stop being an ideologically - blinded drag and start to become a human being?»

Whenever there occurs in humans a new change, for the changed human He becomes a new God, dealing with them on the basis of fresh manifestation, that person witnesses a change in God in proportion to the change in itself - not that there occurs any change in God, He being Eternal, Changeless and most Perfect in Himself; but with every change in human for the better, God also reveals Himself to (them) humans in a fresh and clearer manifestation.

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

In recent times it has become evident that these cruel practices were neither necessary for public order, nor in conformity with the legitimate rights of the human person.

In conscious human experience this becomes a very significant factor, so much so that we hold a human person accountable for the consequences of his acts and do not do the same for microbes.

The maternal face consequently becomes the material manifestation of the infinite longing for each human person, the visible reminder of each human person's being wanted and desired, of each person's infinite value and worth regardless of output or production.

It is not the result of the free will of creatures, as is normally the case with the begetting of a human person, but the result of God's own Will, His free decision to become one of us.

Our culture (through social media, reality TV, celebrity gossip, etc.) has so profoundly commodified people — actual human beings — it's become a phenomenon we hardly even notice anymore.

Dr Saunders affirmed that such experimentation was «unethical» because: ``... from a Christian perspective human beings... are made in God's image... God became a human being in the person of Christ.

Although it took the sensitivity of John Paul II to draw out the role of woman here more explicitly, this is nonetheless the key anthropological insight of the Second Vatican Council: the human person has been created so as to become a gift of self.

These texts «remind us of the kind of monstrous people we always have the potential to become in the name of some land, some ideology, or some god» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 232).

Human beings become persons only by living...

What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a human person — with the capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».

And the proof of this is that today, in order to remain human or to become more fully human, all the peoples from end to end of the earth are being inexorably led to formulate the world's hopes and problems in the very terms devised by the West.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Because once you become a human resource, and you are no longer profitable, people will ask you why you have the right to exist.»

The «persons» of the trinity, in Christian thought, became analagous to the way people thought of human persons as independent entities, that is to say as substances.

The major contribution of interpersonal psychology to a comprehensive philosophy of human nature is that what a person becomes is decisively influenced by his relationships with other persons — chiefly those in his family in the first few years of life.

Now a call for the remaking of the human spirit has become a familiar theme of scientists, journalists, statesmen, and people of many diverse interests.

However it occurs a ministering person needs to achieve something of a fellow feeling for the mentally ill person — to get beyond the labels he has been given and become aware of a suffering fellow human being.

The Vatican II document Dignitatis humanae states: «This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognised in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right.

It automatically becomes a serious offense to injure or exploit other people, not because of some vague humanist values but because God has done man the unspeakable honor of identifying himself with the human race.

Historical deed means the surmounting of the suffering inherent in human being, but it also means the piling up of new suffering through the repeated failure of each individual and each people to become what it was meant to be.

People are becoming more and more evil, warped in their hearts and minds, and so unlike human beings, yet more resembling beasts, without a conscience....

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

He became a Life Peer because of his work with disabled people and is a passionate advocate of ending global human trafficking.

Instead, it is much more important that we help our spouse to be the person he or she should be — by helping each other become mature, loving Christians, realizing our fullest human potential, becoming what we can and ought to be.

Jennifer Roback Morse of the Acton Institute points out on their website that, in the very first paragraph of the encyclical we discover that «Benedict's perspective on Truth has its own view of human freedom as well as of the human good: «Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, -LSB-...] in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free.»»

The revelation consists first and foremost in the person of Jesus Christ himself, but this can become material for theological use only as it is given in human language.

Even people of other religions don't flinch in the slightest when I say «communion reminds me that God became human as Jesus, walked among us, and died for us on a cross» and that «we are followers of Jesus.»

Ogden's own view is to look upon God as Process, as a social reality that interacts with human persons in a relational way, and who is temporal and historical because he grows, matures, evolves and becomes, while at the same time being God because he is likewise infinite, eternal, unchanging and immutable.

When a person takes the stories of the Bible as simply metaphorical with underlying lessons, then it becomes a bit more relevant in our human process.

For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»

-- People give you space to be human... in most clerical professions, you are forced to become «like Jesus» too soon... you are no longer allowed to be human.

The new reality which broke into human experience in the person of Jesus becomes more distinct not through new conceptions about a transcendent reality, but through the growing experience of the power of that reality to bring transformation and healing in daily life.

A bible - believing Christian should know through the Bible (and much of world history) what becomes of a nation, a country or a people that remove God of the human equation and scream from the rooftops, «You don't own us nor do you exist!!!»