Sentences with phrase «death matters as»

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As Nardi, the senior from Richmond said, «This is literally matter of life and death.»

Unfortunately, fear of death, no matter how effective as a tool for social engineering, is not the proper moral grounds for virtue...

Talking about where you go after death doesn't matter nearly as much as what you'll leave behind — how you've made your mark on the world.

Postponing doing so until the advent of death emerges on the horizon proves to be futile, at which point, as highlighted by the respective article, talking about family matters takes precedence... empirically validated by the related professionals in this particular field.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

It's time we, as a nation, stop looking at abortion as merely a political issue and see it for what it is - a matter of life and death.

Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.

Um nope let me believe there is life after death it is much easier for me to get up in the morning and not commit mass murder because it doesn't matter we are all going to die anyhow and no one is going to punish me once I'm dead anyhow might as well take a bunch of you with me.

Neuhaus looked almost the same as he had before death, only now the oxygen mask and IV were off and, no matter how hard you looked, his chest never rose.

The two halves of ancient premodern Europe had essentially known only one next - door neighbor, with whom they had to negotiate as a matter of life and death: the Islamic world.

Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); (ii) fraud; (iii) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or (iv) any liability which can not be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Such a distinction has, as a matter of fact, been drawn by Ernst Fuchs «What is still lacking for Jesus is now supplemented as a consequence of Jesus cross: the problem of sin expands to the problem of death as a whole.

Hence it is sin, rather than matter as such, which is the cause of corruption and death.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

Again, what matters most about Jesus is his death as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of the world so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven.

As a matter of fact the staff is scared to death to say anything.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

These are matters of divine revelation, however, and as the Church has long believed and taught, revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.

Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spirit.

No matter how hard you work at self - preservation, you will not be able to stretch out life so as to avoid death.

As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixioAs Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixioas «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.

«Red» is all that Morrison need say, for she shows us what it means to know color as a matter of life and death.

To Christians, even to theists, the particular form or moment in which death comes... surely can not matter very much; except in so far as it gives... an opportunity to «die well.»

As a matter of fact — and I know that no one knows exactly when Christ will return — I don't think he will even think about bringing about that corporate ascension of his spiritual body, otherwise know as the Rapture, until we do go through this much needed death, burial and great awakeninAs a matter of fact — and I know that no one knows exactly when Christ will return — I don't think he will even think about bringing about that corporate ascension of his spiritual body, otherwise know as the Rapture, until we do go through this much needed death, burial and great awakeninas the Rapture, until we do go through this much needed death, burial and great awakening.

... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself.

As material evolution becomes living matter, entropy at this level of life becomes death, which is the cessation of life through the dissolution and decomposition of the living parts.

In short, man is sometimes regarded as a cosmic being, sometimes as an independent «I» for whom decision is a matter of life or death.

But this time in Oregon, the home state of the Hemlock Society, physician - assisted suicide was presented as a matter of personal autonomy, an act of Socratic dignity, the gentle embrace of death.

The reason this effect followed upon Jesus» life and death was a matter for reflection and speculation, as we shall see; but the effect itself was a fact of immediate experience.

We cling to a fragment of a grain of sand until such time as the chill of death shall return us to primal matter.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

Here the person has discovered what the philosophers call the ontological question as a matter of life and death for the self.

As we have noted, the exact meaning of these words has been a matter of dispute, but worshippers believe that in making a memorial of what Jesus said and did, they share in his death and resurrection.

As they accepted willingly for themselves any kind of death, so also was the murder of relatives and friends a matter of indifference to them, if only they need not call any man their lord.

Then, when death comes, it as a matter of nature taking its course.

Doubtless it is absurd to dwell on death as such; it is equally absurd to attempt to deny it, to cover it up, to pretend that it is not there — one thinks of the pathetic way in which contemporary funeral customs so often try to disguise what as a matter of obvious truth a funeral is all about.

But, as in a battle or accident situation, first aid sometimes can be a life - and - death matter.

Panvitalism, according to Hans Jonas, was the common view.20 Where there was an apparent absence of vitality, as in a corpse, there was a tendency to deny the reality of any dead matter and to look upon death itself as an illusion.

In us, matter is brought into direct synthesis with spiritual mind... [it] is subsumed and transformed into a more perfect state by direct union with the Godhead... It is this destiny and this environmental harmony that is lost by sin in the first generation... this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.»

When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to gossip and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable of forgiving to the point of death, to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.

Theologically, we shall seem to have gone absurdly far in a Pelagian direction; and all the more so if our descendants have been driven the other way by the grief and pressure of events, and have come to remember that this religion of the Resurrection starts with the Cross, has evil and suffering and death as its raw material, its prime subject - matter.

Now I live with death, not with horrible loathing, but using it as a criterion to determine what is important in my life; as a stimulus to cheerfulness, for through it I shall recover those I love; and as a way of giving meaning to my work, since my efforts, no matter how minor and unimportant, may serve God's final goal [John Knox, 1974, p. 63].

The Schempp - Murray decisions were made in the era of the death - of - God theology, when, moreover, religion was viewed increasingly as a private matter.

Such a projection of future possibilities for the individual after bodily death is a matter of faith rather than something finite minds can affirm as if we had the wisdom of God.

It would then be entirely natural for a preacher or teacher or writer, reporting Jesus» predictions of his death, to add almost as a matter of course, «and after three days rise again.»

That said, it would be a mistake to ignore the much - greater impact of increased death rates on lower - achieving whites (and the even yet higher, although still decreasing, absolute death rates among African - Americans) as though changing death rates matter all of a sudden because they also affect more highly - educated whites.

The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».