To require people to live according to scripture creates admirable human beings, but it does not
create free human beings.
In this post you have suggested «To require people to live according to scripture... does not
create free human beings... it is really just a religious form of bondage... [And] the bible is not to be used as an instruction booklet on how to follow the proper steps to salvation».
Providing funding for local Waldorf schools like ours sustains and furthers the ultimate goal of providing an education that
creates free human beings.
Not exact matches
Does the Machiavellian version of «necessity
is all there
is»
create an unbounded or at least unjustified confidence in the malleability of
human nature by the
free or astute man.
That
is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing
free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of
beings with some power of self - determination would
be possible» and thus that God could have
created a world containing no evil simply by
creating a world containing no self - determined
beings (GPE 271).
He has also
created spiritual
beings, angels and
human souls, which have
free will; they
are also governed by God's laws — His commandments — but they
are free to decide whether or not to obey.
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».
Given the freedom to sin,
human beings have of course taken abundant advantage of the opportunity, and the only way to
create a productive and
free society
is to cater to selfishness.
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it
created a religion to
be entered by
free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and
human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
In what you quoted («He
creates us in the curse, that
is, frail and
human»), I
was quoting * you * — you said, «we
're weak sometimes and
human», obviously meaning (although feel
free to correct me) that we
're weak, frail and limited.
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done (Gn 2:2 - 3): In establishing and blessing the Sabbath, God
created «
free time,» time for the activities that befit
free human beings.
According to the opening chapters of Genesis, humanity and all the world
are created good — but
humans repeatedly choose, as they
are free to do, a course which yields disruption, alienation and chaos.
You can say whatever you want to... Al Quran teaches that God
created human in different nationality, ethnicity, language so that one can interact with other and then HE gave
free will to every single one of the
human... and every one of us will
be held accountable for the using of this «
free will»....
Human freedom
is surely the antithesis of an all - powerful God, and yet God
created us with
free will.
To expound a bit on this definition, the open view of the future holds that God chose to
create a cosmos that
is populated with
free agents — at least
humans and angels (though some hold that there
is a degree of freedom, however small, in all sentient
beings).
... you can claim
free will and by so cover all of the
human actions done to the world but how can say that god
is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god
was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why
create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone
was a VERY devout believer....
Human beings are free and responsible agents; they play the major role in
creating the social world in which they live.
The key to
human nature therefore lies in both the organic inheritance of evolution through the brain, which
is instinct with natural law, harmonic order and finely tuned mutual balance, and in the
free, dynamic seeking of truth and values and their
free administration by the directly
created spirit.
But this brings Thomas full circle to the contradiction of a wholly necessary
being making a contingent decision to
create its own objects of knowledge — only now there
is the further problem of reconciling God's causative knowledge with
human free will.
Now we have this wonderful choice (or
free will): We can either believe that these desires we
were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome
human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might
be chosen to
be forgiven for
being born this way; or we can
be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we
were actually alive in this sinful state (that we
were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).
Obzekhan argues that a «normative» approach
is required in which the
human imagination
is set
free to
create images of a desirable
human future that can
be invented.
Though Barth failed to see how completely God's
free love entailed
human freedom, he did powerfully realize that
human liberation
is possible only if the God who
creates and sustains this universe has the all - sufficient freedom and love to sustain that liberation.
Though Barth failed to see how completely God's
free love entailed
human freedom, he did powerfully realize that
human liberation
is possible only if the God who
creates and sustains this universe has the all - sufficient freedom and love to sustain that Liberation.
lol, yes clay i
am an atheist... i
created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives
free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the
human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet
is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it
is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only
be the person's conscience that dictates what
is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure
is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to
be part of the group instead of an outsider — that
is sadly
human nature to
be part of the group.
Christ came to unveil what it means to
be fully
human, and to reconcile us with our Father, and to save us, set us
free, heal us, to walk us out into our
created purposes and wholeness.
And this advocacy for resisting forces of dehumanization and for strengthening the potential for becoming the
free and complete
human beings that God
created us to
be was central to Jesus» life and teaching.
(3) Evil
is not an inherent or necessary part of existence or
human nature (creation
was created good), but neither
are humans wholly
free to choose the good at any given moment.
But if we reject the materialist, utilitarian vision and instead define our goals in terms of
human values, then we
are freed from the entropy trap and can
create alternative futures to improve our quality of life.
About 3000 years ago, the author of the book of Sirach had this to say: When, in the beginning, the Lord
created human beings, he left them
free to do as they wished (
free will)....
But the claim that I had made, which Hasker quoted,
was that the God of traditional
free will theism could have
created «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we
human beings enjoy, except that they would not really
be free» (Process 74).
It
is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional
free will theism, who
created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of
human beings.
In a statement quoted by Hasker in his discussion of what he calls a «more subtle form» of the above argument (although it simply
is my argument), I said that according to traditional
free will theism it would have
been possible for God to
create «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we
human beings enjoy, except that they would not really
be free» (Process 74).
And it
is traditional
free will theists who have implied, and sometimes explicitly said, that the whole universe
was created for evoking moral and spiritual virtue in
free human (and perhaps, on other planets, humanlike) souls, so that it
is only this divine -
human drama that contains intrinsic value.
Griffin lists the similarities between Open
free will theists and process
free will theists as agreements that (a) the criteria for judging theological positions
are broadly biblically based, rationally consistent, and consistent with the best knowledge of the contemporary world, (b) God
is the supreme power and
is perfect in power, (c) God
created our universe, (d) God
is active in nature and
human history, (e) God
is a personal, purposive
being involving temporality and response to the world, (f) God
is essentially love rather than power, and (g) there
is salvation after death (10 - 14).
... you can claim
free will and by so cover all of the
human actions done to the world but how can say that god
is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god
was just and comp@ssinate why send the tsunami that killed 300 thousand, why
create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone
was a VERY devout believer....
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human being • Moving from «doing» to «
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being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to
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Free Vocational and Technical education system
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In a few brief years millions of creative people,
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