Sentences with phrase «books were in existence»

If they were not, I conducted research as to whether these types of books were in existence elsewhere, and whether it would be beneficial for my library to purchase them.

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To be sure, * The Magic of Thinking Big * was not written strictly for entrepreneurs — I'm not sure the word was well - known in the 50s... but applying the principals from this book has contributed to the enormous growth my public relations agency has enjoyed each year of our existence.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

After 2,000 + years, there is no evidence for the existence of any god, a divine jesus or any alleged supernatural act, in The Babble or any other cult's magic book.

Here is just one quote from the book that is an example: «evil and darkness can only be understood in relation to Light and Good; they do not have any actual existence».

The Koran is the most evil «holy book» in existence today, besides maybe the satanic bible.

The fact that First Things published a long article on my book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Existence is an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» Marchis an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» Marchis a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» MarchIs,» March).

The lives of these boarding house men have been well described by Richard Stott in his 1990 book Workers in the Metropolis, which, while appreciating the many uncomfortable features of this existence, does describe the friendships that emerged among the boarders and specifically notes an absence of homosexuality.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spibook of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spiBook of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

Yes, those who like to say that there are moral absolutes inherent in people, places, or things are clearly shown to be wrong by the simple existence of an unstable and diverse and contradictory bunch of «holy books».

His 1994 book Reasonable Faith (Crossway) argues that «Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence... there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies.

While Faith continues primarily to reason for the existence of God through science, the book's salutary contribution to this reviewer's thought is the case that the moral argument is the most effective in reasoning for God's existence on university campuses.

Just because the bible mentions towns and kings that were in existence 2000 years ago, that does not make the whole book true.

This is my first book, and it explains how I went from winning the «Best Christian Attitude Award» at school every year to questioning the existence of God... all in the context of the Bible Belt.

In the following part of this book five fundamental experiences will be described as forming a basis for a religious understanding of human existence.

I only ask because it would seem you are saying that due to the nature of God we have no way to test for or verify the existence of the spirit realm, thus you have assigned those unknowable spirits superpowers the likes of which might be better found on the pages on a comic book or in ancient fairy tales.

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

In fact, the internal evidence in that Bible book shows that the word «day» is, in fact, an indeterminate period of time allowing for the millions / billions of years that facts show the earth and the universe have been in existencIn fact, the internal evidence in that Bible book shows that the word «day» is, in fact, an indeterminate period of time allowing for the millions / billions of years that facts show the earth and the universe have been in existencin that Bible book shows that the word «day» is, in fact, an indeterminate period of time allowing for the millions / billions of years that facts show the earth and the universe have been in existencin fact, an indeterminate period of time allowing for the millions / billions of years that facts show the earth and the universe have been in existencin existence.

Those books that were in existence were not yet canonized into «scripture.»

«This well - preserved item is the only one of its kind, and one of just two surviving fragments from this medieval Caxton book in existence.

Death is no insignificant incident, to be taken as it were «in our stride»; rather, it is the finality of our existence, because the book of our life will have been concluded and the final words of that book will have been written.

What this all comes down to, then, in respect to the main subject of the present book, is that all existence, and particularly for our purposes human existence, stands continually in a genuine relationship with God.

(p. 12) A large sample of Ludwig Binswanger's thought is now available in English in Rollo May, Ernest Angel, Henri F. Ellenberger, editors, Existence, A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (New York: Basic Books, 1958), Chaps.

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

The pope didn't actually mention the world - famous scientist, who argues in a book published last month that the laws of physics show there is no need for a supreme being to have brought the world into existence.

In terms of the relational categories that have been omitted from this book, this limited statement of the unsurpassability of spiritual existence can be combined with a much stronger claim for the finality of Jesus Christ.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

In this book, «Homeric existence has meant that structure of existence which was nurtured in Greece under the influence of the Homeric writingIn this book, «Homeric existence has meant that structure of existence which was nurtured in Greece under the influence of the Homeric writingin Greece under the influence of the Homeric writings.

Nevertheless, there was a profound difference between spirit in Gnosticism and in Christianity, such that by the definition of «spiritual existence» in this book, the Gnostic did not participate in it.

In the preface to the book, Niebuhr wrote that our age, confronted by so many hopes and frustrations, «is in particular need of the Christian gospel; and requires both the relative - historical, and the final - and - absolute facets of the Christian hope to maintain its sanity and its sense of the meaning of existence.&raquIn the preface to the book, Niebuhr wrote that our age, confronted by so many hopes and frustrations, «is in particular need of the Christian gospel; and requires both the relative - historical, and the final - and - absolute facets of the Christian hope to maintain its sanity and its sense of the meaning of existence.&raquin particular need of the Christian gospel; and requires both the relative - historical, and the final - and - absolute facets of the Christian hope to maintain its sanity and its sense of the meaning of existence.»

Hence, in most of the book different forms of existence have been presented with only incidental attention to comparative evaluations.

It is because of the close parallel with Christian existence, especially in the understanding of selfhood, that it is not possible to omit this brief discussion of Gnosticism from this book.

It is curious that in spite of the great optimism with which Fromm writes about man, he says in this book, «It is man's fate that his existence is beset by contradictions, which he has to solve without ever solving them» (p. 362).

It is my project in this book to show that this is so and to describe this distinctive structure of existence in its relation to the others.

Names in books are not proof of existence.

He is the co-editor (with George L. Goodwin) of Witness and Existence: Essays in Honor of Schubert M. Ogden (Chicago, 1989) and is currently working on a book on the theology of Christian worship.

Leahy is a deeply contemporary and a deeply Catholic thinker, and his first book, Novitas Mundi (1980), intends to be a revolutionary breakthrough to an absolutely new thinking, and while conceptually enacting the history of Being from Aristotle through Heidegger, at bottom this book is an apocalyptic calling forth and celebration of the absolute beginning now occurring of transcendent existence in pure thinking itself.

The book is conceived and written as a «companion» (that abused word), a knowledgeable companion whose sole reason for existence is to aid in understanding the text of the Old Testament.

The bible is the best / most selling book in existence.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

One of these two books was written by Father Ricci and was about the Existence of God, and the second one by another community formed in Seoul and in the country essentially among the literate.

Let us begin then by looking at some reasons why the Bible, in spite of the mass of printed matter that comes pouring from the presses, is still the most important book in existence and why reading it is one of the most important things that any person today can do.

Sometimes — and this is more in accord with what has been said in this book — it has been urged that every access to divine reality (however this may be conceived) which has been opened to men and women is nothing other than the working of the Self - Expressive Activity of God which in Jesus, as we are convinced, is given focal statement in human existence.

«The blood of goats and bulls» and «the ashes of a heifer» sprinkling the unclean, in words from the book of Hebrews in the New Testament, could not reconcile human existence to God; yet such reconciliation was being sought in those Jewish rites and their pagan parallels.

The connection was somewhat tenuous, it veered away from strictly «religious» issues, and only in the last chapter of the book did I venture a few comments suggesting a more «intrinsic» connection between the Christian view of human existence and the nature of human life manifest in Western literature.

In a Christian book of the second century, the Shepherd of Hermas, the first commandment is rendered: «First of all believe that God is one, who created and formed all things, who called everything from nothingness into existence, who, Himself incomprehensible, comprehends all in Himself.&raquIn a Christian book of the second century, the Shepherd of Hermas, the first commandment is rendered: «First of all believe that God is one, who created and formed all things, who called everything from nothingness into existence, who, Himself incomprehensible, comprehends all in Himself.&raquin Himself.»

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.