Just as it would be «unproductive» to attribute
the death of an individual life - long tobacco smoker from lung cancer to their tobacco smoking, since after all, some people smoke tobacco all their lives and don't get cancer, while others die of lung cancer who have never smoked tobacco.
The birth and death of the Universe parallel the birth and
death of individual life, and many of the riddles of modern cosmology seem to repeat the riddles of mythology.
Not exact matches
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For years, I watched in horror as most
of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in
life & have the privilege
of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature
death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation
of conservative religious groups &
individuals.
Fox - Genovese writes, «For although the Constitution prohibits the establishment
of specific churches and prescribes a tolerance for different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters
of life and
death to the private judgment
of individuals.»
In decisions from Roe through Casey, the Court has precisely left matters
of life and
death to the private judgment
of individuals.
To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws impressed upon matter by the Creator that the production and extinction
of the past and present inhabitants
of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and
death of the
individual... There is grandeur in this view
of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one...»
The
life and
death of Jesus — that is, the story
of God's becoming an
individual man — is an attempt to answer this question.
As to those who may have gone through
life without any feasible knowledge
of God, those
individuals would still have an opportunity to learn and choose whether or not to accept the newly received gospel as spirits after
death.
Or, put another way, I believe the sacred personhood
of an
individual begins before birth and continues throughout
life, and I believe that sacred personhood is worth protecting, whether it's tucked inside a womb, waiting on
death row, fleeing Syria in search
of a home, or playing beneath the shadow
of an American drone.
In the meantime we need to encourage medical researchers to continue in their search for greater clarity concerning what constitutes medical
death, and governments to legislate in such a way as to protect the sanctity
of life, and respect for the
individual.
A campaign aimed at saving the
life of a Christian woman sentenced to
death in Sudan has drawn global support from governments, human rights charities and thousands
of individuals.
For the Christian also accepts the passing away
of the «form
of this world» in his
individual life, in
death and the renunciation that anticipates
death, and realizes his hope even in them.
Up to now our attention has been focused on the last things in the
lives of individuals: personal
death, particular judgment, immortality, an interim state, heaven / hell, and bodily resurrection.
I agree with your over all statement that we as
individual Moslims are responsible for making sure we are portrayed accurately but I will tell you that against such a orginized movement that is a task as difficult as parting
of the sea or giving
life to a
death body.
Unchecked by respect for
individual persons and
individual initiative, these can be principles
of strangulation and
death, not
of vitality,
life, invention, and creativity.
All I can do here is to suggest that there is a place today for a general concept
of resurrection that sees permanent meaning and value in our
lives without depending upon belief in
individual life after
death.
The meaning
of the
life of any
individual is chiefly threatened by the phenomenon
of death.
In these terms, the proposition that Jesus
lives on subjectively is the supreme instance
of some more general proposition as to
individual survival after
death: to reach a decision as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept
of resurrection, which lies beyond our present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls
of the righteous»
live on subjectively.
«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea
of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the
death as simple destruction
of an
individual...
individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration
of a book he says, «
Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the
Death is the last page
of the last chapter
of the book
of one's
life... «16 And he comments,»...
death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the
death, like «finis» at the end
of a book, no more means the destruction
of our earthly reality than the last chapter
of a book means the destruction
of the book.
This possibility, he held, «establishes the validity
of the Christian doctrine
of life through
death for the collective, as well as for the
individual, organism.
The
death of the
individual was
of small significance compared with the
life of the people.
It rules out any view
of man which suggests that, in whole or in part, the
individual survives
death and continues to
live a conscious existence.
All such processes
of self - creation inevitably, however, sooner or later come to rest in
death, ideally at a point when the
life - potential for that
individual or society has been fully
lived out.
But John 5.28 - 29 suggests that in some way works are effecting the salvation
of the
individual for eternal
life and from eternal
death.
... To the
individual he comes with power to liberate him from every evil and sin, from every power in heaven and earth, from every threat
of life or
death.
On the other hand, understanding
death as a natural event may further fuel the impetus toward euthanasia and assisted suicide: if
death is merely natural — the end
of a reasonable span
of a full and meaningful
life with nothing to be feared — it may well be fully rational, completely reasonable, to end it when the capacities
of (natural)
life no longer meet the needs, goals, and wishes
of the
individual.
In a study by Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe
of the University
of Washington medical school, surveying the opinions
of 394
individuals on the amount
of readjustment required to meet
life events, the
death of a spouse had been given the highest rating.
That Man is the product
of causes which had no prevision
of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome
of accidental collocations
of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity
of thought and feeling, can preserve an
individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours
of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness
of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast
death of the solar system, and that the whole temple
of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris
of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
Scarcely any
of the billions
of living individuals have ever left their trace in an existing fossil, since the deposit
of such a preserved fossil relies on very specific climatic / geological conditions to have occurred at the time
of the organism's
death.
Heaven on Earth: Dispatches from America's Spiriual Frontier by Michael D'Antonio Crown, 422 pages, $ 20 «Religion has value when it enriches
individual and community
life, when it makes sense
of suffering and makes
death bearable, even meaningful.»
That man is the product
of causes which had no prevision
of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome
of accidental concatenations
of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity
of thought or feeling, can presume an
individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors
of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness
of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast
death of the solar system, and that the whole temple
of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris
of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
We are unable to comprehend the meaning
of death and resurrection without metaphysics — not as an intellectual discipline, but in its capacity to deepen and enrich
life in its wholeness, beyond all
of its
individual manifestations.
Iberian Catholicism with its emphasis on orthodoxy, rituals and the divinely established monarchical nature
of all society conquered physically but itself was absorbed by the pre-Colombian spiritualism with its emphasis on the cosmic - earthly rituals expressing the harmonious unity
of opposing tensions: male and female, suffering and happiness, self - annihilation and transcendence,
individual and group, sacred and profane,
life and
death.
The previous chapter ended with the affirmation that we can have assurance and hope without precise knowledge
of the nature
of the final consummation
of God's purposes in the coming
of the kingdom, even as we can have a similar assurance
of the
individual's
life beyond
death.
A story which revolves around the kind
of choice that every
individual must make to be on the side
of life rather than
death, and which understands that the seeming triumph
of the evil one must in the end be endured in love and obedience, can not be dismissed as a neopagan rave - up.
The idiom has not yet assumed any significance for the
life and
death of the
individual person.
And how does it correlate with the hope
of life after
death for the
individual?
God redeems fallen mankind through the
life,
death and resurrection
of Jesus which regenerates
individuals through the Holy Spirit and renews all
of His creation as He establishes His Kingdom.
To be clear, not a single word
of this post is meant as a veiled insult toward
individuals or organizations that seek to spread the good news that the
life,
death, resurrection and eventual return
of Jesus Christ will restore the world.
Just as each
individual must arrive at his nadir
of exhausted possibilities, at which point
of death he is united to God, so also that portion
of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find
death and
life in an ecstatic moment
of self - forgetfulness.
Baptism was both for the
individual, who was baptized into Christ's
death and died with him in order to walk in newness
of life (Rom.
Though each couple may have
individual reasons, many women prefer home births because they believe that most
of the time pregnancy and childbirth are normal functions
of a healthy body — not a potential
life - and -
death crisis that requires the supervision
of a surgeon.
Though each couple may have
individual reasons, most plan homebirths because they believe that most
of the time pregnancy and childbirth are normal functions
of a healthy body — not a potential
life - and -
death crisis that requires the supervision
of a surgeon.
Hare explains in a BBC blog discussing the series: «I'm much more interested in exploring how the
death of one
individual, who has
lived out
of the sight
of respectable society, resonates and reaches into various interconnecting
lives.»
By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the
lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable
individuals toward physician - assisted
death.