Sentences with phrase «damnation by»

neither do those uncertainties allow scientific closure — as long as models of the climate system's behavior decay into chaos on shorter time scales than human history, climate modeling will remain prey to misrepresentation by those well enough paid, or ideologically bloody minded enough to do so: the trouble with the climate wars is that neither political side, activist or obscurantist, really gives a damn about the science, and those presuming to speak for it invite damnation by both.

I hope you don't mind me saying, it seems like damnation by faint praise to just say that his preso makes you go «wow» because it would sure be a big deal if it was true, but then you immediately beg off any responsibility for evaluating the quality of his reasoning.

Don't interpret that as damnation by faint praise, however.

A «Christmas on earth» made it possible to endure the all - out attacks of bourgeois respectability, the harsh whips of conventional morality, and damnation by the Christian God.

For Pelagius, on the other hand, one merits damnation by one's evil deeds.

So even before you start to quibble about» by Christ» or «in Christ» or how some people being saved not by anything they do while others are not and how damnation by default slips around Augustines or Calvins problems you seem stuck with the trap of people being chosen from before creation to do something or other.

It's not easy to realize that what you've been taught is wrong — especially when you are threatened by eternal damnation by the Almighty no less.

Not exact matches

I know my parent's went to church b / c they were forced, by fear of their parents and «Damnation».

It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

Emerald... in a way though, if you believed something to be true... like really believed... no doubt, for instance, the only way for others to be happy or not suffer eternal damnation (or whatever), wouldn't you feel wrong by not trying to convince others.

Therefore if you come forward to the sacrament of penance and do not believe firmly that you are absolved in heaven, you come forward to judgment and damnation, because you do not believe that Christ has spoken what is true: Whatever you loose, etc., and so by your doubt you make Christ a liar, which is a horrible sin....

Unfortunately the exclusivist god of eternal damnation theory promoted by the fundys is only funny to those of us who have escaped the mind control and delusions.

I could stand to live in a world painted by Bob Ross... it would be mellow and soothing and no fear of damnation from our «happy accidents».

The final passage is the closest we come to a designation of «heresy» as someone condemned by God to eternal damnation in the Bible.

It is interesting to me that the notion of eternal damnation does not appear to have been accepted at all in the first 3 or 4 centuries and then as you say, by the 6th the damnation crowd had won the battle.

Yet it does not follow that he who does not believe in any of these facts would be considered a nonbeliever by Allah and would therefore suffer eternal damnation.

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

Later theology for Whitehead, hence, distorted Jesus vision of «gentleness and mercy» by an «old ferocious God..., the Oriental despot, the Pharaoh, the Hitler; with everything to enforce obedience, from infant damnation and eternal punishment,» Price (1954) 176.

Phelps: If by «love and forgiveness» you mean «unrelenting guilt, shame and eternal damnation», then you betcher booty!

Frankly, any understanding of divine sovereignty so unsubtle that it requires the theologian to assert (as Calvin did) that God foreordained the fall of humanity so that his glory might be revealed in the predestined damnation of the derelict is obviously problematic, and probably far more blasphemous than anything represented by the heresies that the ancient ecumenical councils confronted.

Yet i have to read words by fundamentalist Christians such as «Hell» «damnation» and «unsaved».

Even so, the novel leaves the dominant impression that Percy expects our world to be incinerated not by a fanatic terrorist or a games - playing Dr. Strangelove, but by a thoroughly moral man who can no longer stomach the spiritual softness which makes most of us, as Baudelaire said, unworthy even of damnation.

Next year will see at least two major theological novels: Exit 36, by Robert Capon, and Protocol for a Damnation, by Peter Berger; the Capon chronicle has already been bought as a mass - market paperback for five figures.

While I disagree with your assessment that by choosing to save some God was necessarily choosing others for damnation, I do recognize that there is a tension there that is often seen as a matter of semantics (shown by your use of quotation marks around the word «choosing»).

If all are damned from the beginning and the only way out is to be «chosen» by God, then he by default is «choosing» those who remain for damnation.

but instead by saying alound something like «Dear Jesus, please save me from eternal damnation.»

The Bible often alludes to statements by Jesuswhich undeniably allude to the fact that popular opinion and the road to eternal damnation are often one in the same.

A highly popular, widespread impression of Jonathan Edwards is the one expressed in verse by Phyllis McGinley: «Whenever Mr. Edwards spake / In church about Damnation, / The very benches used to quake / For awful agitation.»

Though you still will not come out and say it, by stating it is God who chooses rather than us you are declaring that God «chooses» some for damnation regardless of any choice or action of their own.

The only way to get admission to heaven is by joining the Jesus Christ fanclub — so here's your eternal damnation, here's your free will, and here's your get - out - of - hell - free card.

Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very loving and forgiving he will forgive every sin except one and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a sin that can be forgiven with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?

And yet she has since endured the dual damnation of being footnoted by specialists and forgotten by everyone else.

Such conflicts provoke renewed inquiry into the Koran's puzzling and apparently contradictory attitudes toward Christians and Jews, the «People of the Book»: Muslims are told in the same surah («The Table»), virtually in the same breath, that Christians and Jews will attain salvation by following their own religion, but that if they deviate from true Koranic doctrine they are subject to earthly punishment and eternal damnation.

So when we, in the Church, discuss homosexuality as though it were an issue faced by «other people» who are «out there,» when we resort to stereotypes and language about hell and judgment and damnation, we may be doing serious damage to the most precious and vulnerable among us.

A third approach was articulated by a group who came to be known as Christian Socialists, who were led by F. D. Maurice (1805 - 72), who was Professor of Theology at Kings College, London, from 1846 until he was dismissed when his Theological Essays (1853) provoked a crisis because he questioned the teaching of eternal damnation.

It speaks of the China Sea and of a captain; it also speaks of the deep and undramatic damnations wrought in the world by the dull and heavy - lidded men of good will who will not look!

Many religions espouse that the outright dismissal of the existance of God is a mortal sin punishable by eternal damnation.

Several local councils in the Middle Ages, without apparently intending to define the point, state in passing that some have actually died in a state of sin and been punished by eternal damnation.

«The only way to achieve «x» (better s - ex, happiness, eternal life, avoidance of eternal damnation) is by joining my magic sky fairy belief club.

But there is also Pinkie in Brighton Rock, who (in Sherry's characterization) «seeks with religious passion his own damnation,» cursed by a religious sensibility and able only to choose the demonic.

By the church's idiosyncratic logic, God's damnation, including the death of U.S. soldiers, is the price to pay for the country's acceptance of «sins» such as homosexuality.

However, once God opened up my eyes that I deserved damnation as a sinner, I finally surrendered and accepted the atonement of Christ as sacrifice for my sin by faith, and a heavy burden was lifted off my back, and I have a clean conscience before God, and I also felt the power of God saving me from my sins.

It stood by the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterians except that it allowed some liberty on the doctrine of God's eternal election of some to salvation and others to damnation.

Second Peter 2:1 is the closest we come to a designation of «heresy» as a doctrine or teaching condemned by God with the consequence that those who believe it are condemned to eternal damnation.

Suppress any individual thought by threatening hell and damnation, and suppress science and education.

But evangelicalism asks us to believe that God (from whom we get the concept of being courteous, gentle and forgiving) can not get past those offences and will ultimately get payback by consigning the person to final damnation for eternity (regardless if hell is full of flames or just empty loneliness).

Damnation is, likewise, sheer justice wrought by the same inscrutable will.

Upon all the damnation of the late Mills by the NPP to the extent that Akufo - Addo could even label him as «Professor Do Little» and Isaac Edumadze insult him as a «camber pot»?

This is that elections are supposed to be won in the centre ground, but the one party that occupies precisely that territory is facing damnation — meaning to be cut by about half — in next year's election.

He owes his soul to the ghastly Davy Jones unless he can cheat death - and eternal damnation - by seizing the fabled Dead Man's Chest.