Sentences with phrase «belief in absolute»

Turturro plays a college professor who finds himself in an affair, stuck in a rut with a belief in the absolute, and the irreversibility of one's actions.

Traditional theology has always had a difficulty reconciling this belief in the personal nature of God with its belief in his absolute otherness, precisely because persons are relational realities and never absolutely other.

It seems to do violence both to his affirmation of the divinity of Jesus and to his belief in the absolute immutability of God.

The diffusion of political responsibility that results from popular sovereignty, the belief that every group has a right to its own state, and the decline in the belief in absolute human rights have together fostered a hospitable intellectual climate for terrorism.

Sometimes that religion is something really silly, like the belief in the absolute righteousness and truth, of the words of one man, like a powerful leader.

But the belief in absolute autonomy is quickly shown to be ill - founded.

BTW VPN — If my lack of belief in absolute inerrancy is the reason you choose to ignore my comments... you will soon find yourself talking in a vacuum in this forum as there are very few who accept that premise here.

Not exact matches

In a famine, the best thing we can hope for is a population with a virtuous character and a belief that the duty to feed the poor is absolute.

If you still are unable to grasp, after my previous post, the absolute lunacy of attempting to make these examples analogous with belief in God, there is nothing more I can say to help you.

Perhaps when my earthly work is «done», I will have the capacity to understand, accept, even revel in the absolute love that my beliefs tell be my Heavely Father has.

Now, hypothetically, if you personally maintained belief in a supreme being (one in which you had no verifiable proof of its existence, but yet what you considered ample evidence to place your faith in) and that being had communicated morality in absolute terms, would you define that morality as subjective or objective?

The reality is that any absolute belief in any ism, without ability to challenge and change based on new evidence, is formula for disaster.

Since, apparently, the ISIS members who do such things as kidnap and behead noncombatants act with the conviction that it is what God wants them to do, it's relevant to ask of believers in general if absolute commitment to doing God's will as they think they know it is a feature of true belief in God.

Their belief in God and Bible is cradled in their system of absolute certainty that allows no deviation from an absolute standard of doctrine which is presumably based on a singular understanding of the Bible.

The main issue in the Belief Blog is that atheism is Absolute, Complete and Total NONSENSE»

I was a Christian that became an atheist, but i did not abandon morality or the belief in moral absolutes.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

Now while you may choose to dismiss this, and that's your absolute prerogative, as mythology and not «true», it is not a belief in a God of my «own making.»

This is true in the sense that belief relates us to the Absolute Future, makes us recognize it, but not in the sense that in belief we attain a religious experience of God.

This is so even if previously, in earlier times, it had not been taught with the same absolute requirement of belief.

So if all the links in that chain are switched «on» then you can be said to have absolute certainty in that belief.

Human temporality therefore tries to divine what the future may bring; it takes the whole of itself (past, present and its future) and puts its whole destiny in an Absolute (ideology, deity, even the self) in the hope and belief that it may be reborn to a new space - time dimension, the eschatological, and thus possess the fullness of time.

There exists, therefore, and must exist, a teaching of the Church which possesses an importance and binding force for the faith and moral conscience of the individual Catholic, although in what it directly states it can not and does not intend to make any claim to the absolute assent of faith, and although it is not irreformable but is still involved in the elucidatory development of the Church's consciousness of its belief.

- But, remember, beliefs don't necessarily = (absolute fact) here especially in relationship to these as yet unanswerable cosmological questions.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

This assumption does not require any belief in «absolutes» in the ordinary sense of known values that are independent of time and circumstance.

The problem for many believers is that they seem to stow absolute faith in their own beliefs while belittling anyone who thinks differently.

The problem for many atheist is that they seem to stow absolute faith in their own beliefs while belittling anyone who thinks differently.

And no a belief does not mean actual knowledge, so when one proclaims a belief, it something that by definition can not be proven, so no I don't have to present evidence in order to declare a belief, but if one is saying outright that angels do not exist as being the absolute truth, then one should present evidence.

Only way to cracken ism is abandonment of that stupid mechanical owl in the original Clash of the Titans movie Zuesism, filthy medusa ism, denial of stop motion visual effects absolute ZUES by that stupid mechanical owl in the original Clash of the Titans movie perseus, ignorant Poseidon harry hamlin s, or lightening will keep giant scorpions on their feet as long as that stupid mechanical owl in the original Clash of the Titans movie and their belief in andromeda ism, hind harry hamlin ism is around.

Based upon the absolute belief in the primacy of the spirit, it taught that only spirit is truly real; consequently such things as evil and pain really do not exist.

«Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely» Whether it's in the name of religion, government, or comercial enterprise... Corrupt Islamic leaders manipulate people's beliefs the same way Hitler and Stalin did with propaganda... Ridding the world of religion wouldn't stop it.

I appreciate your blind faith and I'm sure that your life is filled with grace and happiness, in fact, I'm sure you have absolutely no problems at all with your absolute belief in me!

Whereas the moderns believed in «truth» so long as it could be scientifically verified, the post-moderns have given up on truth altogether and eschew belief in any kind of absolute.

Provine blamed the scientific establishment itself for misleading the public about the absolute incompatibility of contemporary Darwinism with any belief in God, designing forces, or absolute standards of good and evil.

I can get along with, and I have good friends, who have different absolute beliefs, belief in God.

Religion is based in delusion (dictionary: A delusion is a false belief held with absolute conviction despite superior evidence).

Most atheists tend to not have a hypocrisy problem because very few of them profess a belief in moral facts and moral absolutes (I'm a rare breed of atheist who believes that moral absolutes and moral facts are both existent as well as accessible, and that they are not mere personal opinion) and look upon all of it as mere opinion.

The strenuous and absolute character of Jesus» ethic is explained as owing to his belief in the imminence of the great catastrophe: it was an «interim ethic.»

But here we shall be content only to show how even the possibility of mobilizing such critical consciousness requires beliefs or assumptions that correlate well with faith's claim that reality in its depths has the character of absolute trustworthiness.

What baffles me about belief in god is the absolute contradiction between a jealous and violent god and a god of love and forgiveness.

First of all, one can differentiate among religions by comparing their cognitive assertions and belief systems, and by defining absolute religious truth in propositional statements.

Suppose e.g. that a man possessed an explanation of a heroic life which explained it in a sorry way, and yet a whole generation reposes securely in an absolute belief in this hero, without suspecting anything of the sort.)

I find the theological alternatives to my belief in God's absolute sovereignty to be (paradoxically) more rationalistic and simplistic, and I've grown content living in the light of God's mysterious ways.

Atheists overstate the case when they accuse organized religion of all or the bulk of humanity's true mass evils, but organized religion forms a natural class with other fanatical belief systems that demand unwavering faith in absolutes.

My proof that a belief in Gods is not justified — is the absolute failure of theists to produce a single shred of hard verifiable, testable evidence, even after thousands of years of desperately trying to do prove God's existence.

You're another prime example among many in the Belief Blog of the Absolute, Complete and Total NONSENSE of atheism / evolutionism / cultism / paganism and idolatry.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kinIn addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kinin physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

For me, however, what makes Spinoza the emblem of a fascinating but dubious outlook is his axiomatic belief that there is only one way for the world to be, namely, in accordance with absolute reason.

Hegel started from the belief that, as he said of the French Revolution, mans existence centres in his head, i.e., in thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledgin his head, i.e., in thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledgin thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledgIn his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledge.