Sentences with phrase «error of many»

No, he is using poetic hyperbole to point out the error of their ways.

Harold Lindsell, former editor of Christianity Today, has made the point clearly: «No one should succumb to the error of viewing prayers as a means of changing the individual and his attitudes rather than changing events, circumstances, and history itself Certainly «prayer changes me» — my outlook, orientation and my attitudes.

That the concept of space similarly is not entailed by matter is frequently not appreciated because of the strong tendency nowadays to confuse the concepts of extension and space, an error of which Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and also Kant were not guilty.

«And, they have seen and felt the error of their ways and they are expressing that in this letter.

If we are right in these assumptions, the best explanation is that only the name of Goliath is an essential error of the present story and that it is a later addition to the narrative in the only place where it appeared in the original story, namely, at 17:4.

The great attempt of Arnold Toynbee in his interpretation of world history does not escape the error of the axiomaticians.

Johannes Weiss dismissed the Galilean tradition as an old error of Mark, but this solution is inadequate.

According to many Shi'as, Husayn undertook his desperate battle because Muslims had strayed so far from Muhammad's teaching that only the shocking murder of his grandson would jolt them into realizing the error of their ways.

The error of liberal humanism is its too great reliance upon the human capacity for transcendence over self - interest.

But the formal error of the last generation in eliminating the quest has been to ignore the relevance for the Christian dialectic, paradox, and offence, of seeing Jesus causally bound within the historical reconstruction of first - century Judaism, and yet encountering in him transcendence: «born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law.»

In his first radio broadcast since his doomsday prediction failed to pan out in a spectacularly public fashion, the California preacher insisted his was an error of interpretation, not fact.

The error of the argument is that organisms evolve to fit the environment and not vice versa.

That you will see the error of your ways.

This last aspect of Altizer's eschatology is not clearly developed in his essay; however, it must not be lost sight of if we are to avoid the error of thinking that he proposes that the present immanence of the Incarnation process is the final condition of God's dying to transcendence so as to be all in all.

If we keep explaining, with love, the error of the sinner who keeps doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, eventually we will break through.

You have extended the hand of fellowship and cited the error of their ways.

The error of the majority was and is to adhere to the neutrality mythwithout paying attention to the fundamental anthropological stakes of these questions.

Having just read the book of Jude, I found it interesting that Jude assumes his audience has an understanding of «the way of Cain,» «the error of Balaam,» and «the rebellion of Korah.»

Yes, but to riff on Paul... if I know what it means to speak of the way of Cain, the error of Balaam, or the rebellion of Korah, but have not love, I am nothing.

We need not fall into the error of idealizing this real self.

It is the error of legalism.

Wherever or whenever we place Adam and Eve any such speculation must remain free from the error of polygenism.

You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

There may even have been commentators in these pages who strongly argued — in the name of life's sanctity — the error of allowing someone to die by removing nutrition and hydration.

most «contradictions» are due to the error of the one claiming a contradction..

They were only 7.5 % off on the presidential election with a margin of error of 3.5 %.

While we ought not to continue to commit the error of so many people, especially religious people, that is, «kidding ourselves» about the likelihood of a bright future; we can not, on the other hand, commit the error of the totally disillusioned, which is to give themselves over to the darkest outlook and see no chance for anything but the gloom of night in a world where all ends in nothing, and nothing is the price of it all.

Otherwise, the descendants of the Reformers would find themselves in exactly the error of which Karl Barth so relentlessly accused the Church of Rome — not permitting the Bible to remain free, sovereign over all ecclesiastical interpretations of it, so that the church may be always and only a hearer, not the master, of the word of God.

Heck, let's just kill everyone and swim in their blood — oh, wait, there wouldn't be anyone left but God to see the error of his ways.

And an error of a few thousand years is trivial when we're talking about millions.

23 The notion of the complete self - sufficiency of any item of finite knowledge is the fundamental error of dogmatism.

As I contend in a forthcoming book, Death on a Friday Afternoon, this falls far short of an encounter with the God of Israel who accepts defeat by our definition of the game in order to expose the error of our definition.

Indeed, I prefer to ignore the very category of «psychological fiction» as an error of judgment.

Free - market conservatives, such as those who often write for the Wall Street Journal, make the error of saying that all we need to do is cut taxes and deregulate and the growth stimulated by «job creators» will somehow obliterate all our pesky relational issues — those connected with pathological families, the exploding number of single moms, seeming superfluous men, and so forth.

To say this is not to make the error of moral equivalency because compartmentalizing behaviors may differ in degree, but that variation does not make any particular degree right.

The article is a massive error of judgment that will infuriate many Catholics.

If it is an error of dogma that I should deny Christ to alleviate the torture and death of the innocent, then, like Kichijiro, I must trust in the forgiveness of Jesus.

Second, Berlinerblau commits the not insignificant error of referring to dispensational premillennialism as «premillennial dispensationalism.»

Grew, Stimson, McCloy, and many men in uniform who were familiar with Asia, such as Zacharias [the man in charge of psychological - warfare broadcasts to Japan], came to feel that a grave error of our surrender policy was in not negotiating about the Emperor and conditional surrender sooner that we did.6

The error of the Pharisees has its counterpart in our own day and time, and even in many of our churches.

First they make it clear that what Whitehead in another place referred to as «paying God metaphysical compliments» is for this sort of philosophy a basic error of method.

I have only fairly recently come to see the error of that belief, and how hurtful and unchristian it is to treat LGBT people as second class.

The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

The error of neo-orthodoxy in its various forms can now be summarily stated.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

C. H. Dodd from the angle of realized eschatology and his conviction that Jesus believed the kingdom had already come in his own person interprets them as originally spoken by Jesus to refer to the crisis connected with his own death and resurrection.9 Others who believe that Jesus could not have said these things attribute them to the early church and the error of the evangelists in presenting them as his words.

First, in declaring that the grace of reconciliation moves through the political order, however tenuous its hold there, we must avoid the error of identifying the political order with the whole of the human community.

Remember, «let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.»

On the other hand, such tricks by the charlatans should not effect the error of the opposite.

I find atheists tend to get angry when unable to convince me of the error of my ways (strictly my experience).