Sentences with phrase «belief about the creator»

Thus, in the acts put forth by Mason and Jefferson, the concept of natural right is argued for in the language of Jewish and Christian belief about the Creator, who wishes to be worshiped in spirit and truth.

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Even when I was a believing and practicing Christian, I realized that regardless of their beliefs, doctors still saved lives, made discoveries, scientists still learned more about the world we live in... the idea that all knowledge has to be attached to the «creator» or it is somehow tainted or suspect, just doesn't pan out when you look at it logically.

It is not about «Religion» it is about the one that is our creator and whom we adhere our fundamental beliefs around.

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.

They prefigure Blinky Palermo's Stoffbilder paintings, begun in Germany in 1966, and raise questions about the assumptions of painting that would come to the fore in the following decade in the West: the relationship between support, frame, and picture plan; the notion of surface flatness; the implication of readymade, found, or commercial form; and the belief of artist as creator.