Sentences with phrase «distort the understanding of»

The pill gives many a false sense of who they are and how God made them, it distorts their understanding of their purpose in life.

Thus, as Paul says in Romans 1, the primary reason we fail to give honor to God is that we suppress the truth of God; we worship a distorted understanding of God; an idol.

Terrorists reactively point to our corruption, our debauchery, our history of exploitive meddling in Middle Eastern affairs and their vision of a civilization under their distorted understanding of divine law, to say, «Of course, God is on our side.»

When claims to rights are severed from the just requirements of morality and the common good, the inevitable result is a distorted understanding of human rights that all too often leads to the violation of the rights of others.

This addition does, in principle, guard against a bibliocentrism that may distort our understanding of the biblical message itself.

It's so important to have the correct perspective, as the world is constantly trying to twist the meaning of the Bible so that people don't recognize, or have a distorted understanding of, God's love and mercy and grace.

But I worry that the question of pets in heaven could distort our understanding of eternal life as described in Scripture and Christian tradition.

Akande said, «Attaching monetary values to these contracts is an arbitrary act that completely distorts understanding of the situation.»

How can fictional tales sometimes distort our understanding of natural consequences for behavior?

Daniel Arsham employs elements of architecture, performance, and sculpture to manipulate and distort understandings of structures and space.

In a widely cited study, Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle claimed to expose a vast network of organizations executing «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect debate and distort the understanding of climate change.»

In a still widely cited study Brulle claimed to expose a vast network of organizations executing «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect debate and distort the understanding of climate change.»

Rather than disaggregating resource consumption within countries, using national per capita GDP calculations and projections provides a distorted understanding of the distribution and characteristics of resource use and waste generation.

This report shows how the media are producing a deeply skewed and distorted understanding of our civil jury system.

For decades, this omission distorted our understanding of law.

Not exact matches

They understand QE distorts markets, so they want to normalize before things get out of hand.

Through our research, we've devised a framework for understanding and transforming comparison from an unconscious habit that can distort our view of ourselves and others, into a more self - aware and compassionate perspective.

It has all the hallmarks of globally distorted economic incentives forcing yield - starved investors to take risky bets they don't understand.

There are some things in those [epistles of Paul] that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own [a] utter destruction, just as [they distort and misinterpret] the rest of the Scriptures.

2 Peter3: 15 - 16 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they also do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

I'm not American, so I do nt really understand your myopic and distorted political views, and how irrelevant that is to the heart of God.

Regarding Meyer's 2013 Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, paleontologist Donald Prothero asserts that Meyer, not a paleontologist nor a molecular biologist, does not understand these scientific disciplines, therefore he misinterprets, distorts and confuses the data, all for the purpose of promoting the «God of the gaps» argument.

Do you covet [the hope, O believers], that they would believe for you while a party of them used to hear the words of Allah and then distort the Torah after they had understood it while they were knowing?

The attacks of the Nixon administration on the capitalist media in the USA reveals its understanding that their reporting, however one - sided and distorted, has become a decisive factor in mobilizing people against the war in Vietnam.

The difference that Paul points out is that Jesus had a true understanding of God, and thus Jesus trusted God's faithfulness leading to obedience in contrast to the distorted view of God that Adam had which resulted in disobedience.

Some interests driving a school's practices of governance and self - maintenance will tend to distort ideologically the practices through which it seeks to understand God..

For all of their being situated, interests guiding the effort to understand God have consequences that work to countervail the tendencies of situatedness to distort understanding.

This is because the standard the Bible is burning their conscience and they can not stand it and rather than change, they change the standard this is the understanding that the devil counterfeits everything of God and is not happy till all that God has setup is destroyed or distorted.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson once said that Obama distorted the traditional understanding of the Bible «to fit his own world, his own confused theology.»

Richard, I understand your response — but sadly, the humanity of Jesus has been so distorted by the right - wing and their zealous blindness to the real Jesus, that sane people have tuned him out.

The bearers of our deepest understanding of the gospel inevitably both capture and distort it.

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

One may spend time asking God to help one understand the distorting role of one's own ego even in such prayers.

This perspective distorts the principle of the sacredness of life to a point where it threatens life itself, for it does not understand that one species supporting or being supported by another is nature's way of sustaining life.

In classical philosophy it is possible to understand how a form is present in a human being without distorting or destroying his humanity, but it is unintelligible how one substance can enter into another without displacing some part of that other substance.

If we want to see and understand those forces as they truly are, then we must look not to reason (which acts as a distorting lens), but to our more immediate, primordial ways of knowing, that is, aesthetic intuition (the divine inspiration of the artist) and action.

The philosopher Rousseau distorts Locke's intention by attempting to make his understanding of who we are by nature more consistent.

The story of how the «God as we understood Him» phrase came to be inserted in the Big Book and Twelve Steps; and the truth seems to have been much distorted by the claim of an AA.

Sadly these misunderstandings about nature and grace distort people's understanding of Christian life, raising questions such as: Is grace at odds with our humanity?

The understanding which an affirmation of the Divine is supposed to convey is distorted by the affirmation itself, but understanding may dawn like an eklampsis (illumination)-- as Plato says in the Seventh Letter — when the affirmation is coupled with its negation.

Suppose one sees that the Israelite prophets understood how the demand for relevant religion distorted Israel's faith into the worship of God as a means of guaranteeing prosperity.

Giant organizations have not helped, and have in fact obscured and distorted this for people who may be of simple intelligence but who would be totally capable of understanding.

Clergymen must understand that not all individuals can achieve total spiritual health — there will be cripples, some with distorted behavioral patterns, who must be accepted without hope of change.

Dobson accused Obama of «deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology.»

Knowing that God is using me in some small way to demonstrate Jesus to those whose knowledge and understanding of Him have been distorted or destroyed is an incredible blessing for which I do not deserve.

But all of us necessarily view the Bible through the lens of our own experiences and prejudices, and we must be very careful to ensure that lens does not distort our vision or understanding of God's sacrosanct word.

Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

You cant fight in real ways and come to a true understanding of what you are doing and talking about but choose to distort the Bible and to lie and bend the words and meanings and side with anyone that would do the same.

So all the distortions only address maybe one sentence when you start to get the big picture of how God really set this world up you understand that what God has made man can distort but it will never be acceptable to those with a heart after God.

«And that use has distorted the historical understanding of Fawkes.»