Sentences with phrase «death most human beings»

Its point is that at death most human beings are hardly fit for heaven or bound for hell.

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The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

For example, advocates of autonomy might defend euthanasia as death with dignity, while most Christian teaching judges euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide to be actions beneath and against human dignity.

To be on the threshold of death and then to come back may be the most significant single event after birth that a human being can experience.

If that is true of the gospel's most counterintuitive claim — that it is through the unjust death of a just man that the world is redeemed — it is also true of his claim to be the truth that is the way to authentic human life, and to eternal life.

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 spider.

Most are just enjoying a fun day with the family (a wonderful Christian practice), and many others of us are remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (the most important event in human histoMost are just enjoying a fun day with the family (a wonderful Christian practice), and many others of us are remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (the most important event in human histomost important event in human history).

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Personally, the existence of the death penalty, which is supported by most «godly» people leads me to believe that we humans are just one more animal species living in a godless jungle, although having ruled out the existence of God, I can't yet rule out the existence of Satan.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

Learning that it was a human who said, «these are the four,» (in reference to the Gospels), and shutting out many of the other Gospels, most of which did not have as strong of a focus on the death and resurrection of Christ, was the turning point for me.

If this is what it means to be human, it may be no surprise that bioethics — concerned as it is with Bios — should, especially at its most philosophical, focus so much attention on the beginning and end of life, on birth and death.

That is why the most human reaction to adversity is to say that «my kin have abandoned me, and my fellows have forgotten me» (Job 19:14); that is why at the moment of death the most human reaction is to cry, «My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?»

This was the most severe influenza outbreak of the twentieth century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, possibly the most devastating epidemic in human history.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

He argues that birth, breeding, and death are the features of life that most offend this sense of dignity, and as such are the central battlegrounds for those attempting to help us become more than human.

If Philip Larkin's fine words about An Arundel Tomb (that what remains after death is our loving) are the truth — and something deep in human existence affirms that they are — then what matters most of all about any one of us is the way in which and the degree to which we are enabled to contribute, however imperfectly this must seem to us, to the delight of God and the implementation of God's will and way in the world.

(CNN)- The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the ultimate punishment for the most serious crimes.

Both I and St Thomas consider that the soul continues to exercise thought and understanding (and indeed will, which is intellectual appetite) after death, and, as St Thomas explains, this can not be in synergism with the imagination in the way it is during human life, but is made possible in ways God provides, and in this way the life of purgatory allows the purification that most people need, while the Saints pray for the living and the dead of whom God gives them knowledge through their vision of Him.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

It can be construed most narrowly as a fear of death, but more richly as a longing for a different vision of life's possibilities — a life that does not end, that remains engaging and fulfilling, and that unites us once and forever with those we love, whether divine or human.

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

Omnipresence tells us that the divine Love is everywhere and always present and at work to augment the good, often in very surprising places — a Christian would point especially to a humble human life, to a man born in a manger, and to that same man rejected and put to death, as the place where such active presentness is most clearly seen.

«A sign of unconditional acceptance and forgiveness, it was doled out and rationed to insiders; a sign of unity, it divided people; a sign of the most common and ordinary human reality, it was rarefied and theorized nearly to death.»

They derive from some of the most basic approaches to the riddle of human existence imaginable, Each of these options and their variations have sustained and continue to sustain vast segments of the human population in their attempts to cope with life and death, and are living options today.

With all of God having been said to order the murder of nations, who drowned an Egyptian army and sent an angel of death to kill children, and so on, it's easy to say that most every religion's gods encourage «action» based on their deities being all too human.

This stage of that life - death cycle can last weeks, months or years and is the most dreaded of human experiences.

Religion is the single most dangerous thing that has ever existed on earth and it is responsible for more death and harm to human beings than any other thing throughout history.

For example, most animal protectionists will argue that the mere death of the animal (unless to end suffering not induced by humans) is by definition cruel, as the animal will have lost its expectation of life.

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

The section then affirms the Word - word conquest of hunger and thirst and war - although in human existence these continue to be the most prevalent and dreaded agents of death.

I think one goes on because life is stronger than death: it is the most common universal value of being human.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

Only then will they see the need to extend the most basic right of all to every human being, from conception to natural death.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12

And for years, there have been accidents resulting in horse deaths and human injuries, the most recent occurring just last month when an SUV collided with a horse, which I hope you read about.

Yet today — more than 60 years since Einstein's death, despite living in possibly the most celebrity - filled and fame - obsessed culture in human history — where are all the celebrity scientists?

That's likely because the city birds never came into contact with human hunters, who accounted for most of the bird deaths in the wild.

The most scientific approach one can take to death, he says, is to treat human beings like any other species.

For most animals, including humans, an instinct for suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and death.

But the most popular scenario is simpler and bloodier: The megafauna were hunted to death by bands of humans that crossed the land bridge behind them.

Indeed, the countries that have invested most in dog vaccination are the ones where human deaths from the disease have been virtually eliminated.

Steve: You know, today is also the anniversary of the death of Darwin, speaking of the human evolution with Kate, and just to finish up — am I wrong, but isn't the place you're most likely to find a fistfight at a conference, one of these human evolution anthropology conferences where people are arguing over whether that bone represents a new species or just an example of a known species or whether some artifact is again a new species or some kind of pathological example of an old species?

Globally, leptospirosis is the most important bacterial disease transmitted from animals to humans, with more than 1 million cases annually and 60,000 deaths.

TIMP - 1, previously described as being able to protect against cytokine and STZ ‐ induced β cell death [5, 6], was one of the most enriched factors in co-culture experiments using mouse and human islet cells, and the authors found that TIMP - 1 was induced by pro-inflammatory factors which are commonly associated with T1DM.

In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»