No single moment is ever going to capture
the essence of a human being.
«Look» the theist would say «within the very biological
essence of human being we strive to find something greater.»
According to this the essence of religion is
the essence of the human being.
This means that the essence of religion is
the essence of the human being.
If, in practice, the individual and work have replaced the Christian and prayer, theoretically
the essence of the human being must replace the divine.
Marx never gave up his concept of
the essence of the human being.
«Qigong» translates from Chinese to mean, roughly, to cultivate or enhance the inherent functional (energetic)
essence of the human being.
How do you effectively describe
the essence of a human being in just a few paragraphs?
Let's then move to
the essence of the human being.
Not exact matches
In
essence and in theory, the
human brain
is capable
of solving and computing problems much quicker than a computer.»
Think about the implications for the
human race, if technology
is destined to
be the
essence of who we
are as a species, if it
's developed largely under the leadership and guidance
of a single gender.»
Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO
of Ruder Finn, wrote a compelling article in Fortune about how the healthcare industry
is slowly losing the very
essence of healthcare:
human connection.
Friendship, and that includes friendship with God, comes from a deeper level in the
human person, deeper than feelings, deeper than logic, from the very
essence of what it means to
be a person.
The all out denying
of ID puts
humans in line with the animal herds giving humanisms as
being but animalisms without a cause to
be any different in the habitualized
essences.
The
essence of all religions
is to
be good and do good but sometimes people get carried away by
human frailty that results in undesirable actions.
Basically, God
is a relational
being within himself and that «community»
is illustrated in the family and in the
essence of every
human.
Third, it
was the tradition
of Christian humanism which led the White Rose to see the
essence of the anti-humanism
of the Nazis in their disregard for the sanctity
of individual
human life.
That
is the
essence of human life here on Earth.
If a person thinks that nature
is wholly corrupt, that there
is no natural morality knowable by
human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis
of morality
is the divine command and not the
essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly
be read as having said such things — then all bets
are off.
To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account
of experience must
be compatible with the fact that there
is no one thing which
is what experience
is or
is the
essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account
of what experience
is can
be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience
of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in
human experience
is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality
is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization
is necessary to support the claim that experience
is essentially temporal.
I have contended further that one can not know what the
essence of experience
is, or whether temporality
is a part
of it, merely through generalization
of features found in
human experience.
The value
of human dignity, which takes precedence over all political action and all political decision - making, refers to the Creator: Only He can establish values that
are grounded in the
essence of humankind and
are inviolable.
The sophisticated response to this string
of questions
is to assert that there
is no such thing as a
human totality or
essence, and leave it at that.
Without ceasing to
be itself charity enlarges its scope to become an upward - lifting force, a common
essence, at the heart
of every form
of human endeavour, whose diversity tends in consequence to
be drawn together in synthesis into the rich totality
of a single operation.
The
essence of Jesus
is the daring moral imperative, the universal goodness
of human members, the spiritually catalyzed proletarianism which spread to the West, civilizing humanity and liberating the slave, man and woman.
There would
be no need to «make» God share in man's adventure or
be affected by
human actions according to Whitehead, for such
is the nature
of God: «Decay, Transition, Loss, Displacement belong to the
essence of Creative Advance» (Al 368 - 69).
Both saw their systems as falling within the general framework
of psychoanalytic thought, but both rejected Freud's fundamental assumption that the
essence of human development
is the working out
of biological drives and impulses.
In very personal language, I believe that all things
are progressing from the same divine source; that that source
is the ground
of all
being and its
essence is love and interdependence; that all
human beings (all
of life, really)
are equal and beloved in its sight; that in response to that overarching, boundless love which ensures that no one
is ever truly alone, I have a responsibility to assist in the creation
of just and loving community here on Earth.
As late as 1931 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
was saying that «the
essence of religion
is belief in a relation to God involving duties superior to those arising from any
human relation.»
The secret
of all spiritual religion
is the union
of the
human soul with the divine soul, the belief that man's spirit and God's spirit
are in their
essence one.
To the extent that the man - made setting
of man's life and the setting which
was naturally antecedent to
human freedom
are specifically different, the latter
being characteristic
of earlier times and the former
of the present, we
are now living in a setting which almost in its very
essence is more complicated and intractable and inaccessible to the understanding
of the individual than
was ever the case before.
The second point
is that it has
been of the very
essence of the Christian faith to have brought to light the role
of faith in the
human situation.
It
is of the
essence of human existence that man lives not by knowledge, but by faith.
The
essence of human behavior
is the interaction through which one individual exchanges information with one or more other individuals. . . .
Did you ever think when you
are typing words, gathering your thoughts, deciding / choosing what to say, and using the best intellect you can find in your brain; that you
are conscious in these thoughts / decisions, and that your eyes / hands / brain synapses,
are all part
of the lense (
of the
human body) that you
are able to see and control to the limitations inherent in its
essence?
It
is also a sign
of how thoroughly contemporary culture has misunderstood the
essence of human flourishing.
The fact that
humans inflict harm upon themselves and others
is in no means a reflection
of the
essence of the religion they follow especially if they
are not PRACTICING!
For evangelizing, in its
essence,
is taking the authentic Christian gospel (albeit with the limitations
of human understanding) through word or deed to those who need it and
are at least prepared enough to take a look at it.
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.
Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality
of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all
of our powers; (2) it
is adequate to genuine pluralism, both
of the «Christian thing» and
of the worlds in which the «Christian thing»
is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can
be the unifying overarching goal
of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there
is a universal structure or
essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to
be the universal common denominator to which everything may
be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths
of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types
of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?
Wood neither assumes nor implies any claims about an «
essence» that
is universal to all
human beings in every time and place and that
is constitutive
of our humanity.
Yes and that observation with
essence of the wonder
of that which
is human is how I know there
is God.
It seems the most likely scenario
is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning
is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made
of one blood all nations
of man to dwell on all the face
of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women
was a relative and
of the same bloodline
of Adam and Eve.The importance
of this
is that sin entered through one man Adam and
is past through the bloodline so redemption
is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the
human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents
of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type
of alien in
essence and would have not
been able to have
been redeemed by the blood
of Jesus as it wasnt fully
human.This
is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the
human race as they couldnt
be redeemed by the blood
of Jesus.Interesting?
What Scripture says
of the first
human being would then
be simply the permanently valid statement concerning man in general, even if this
were also «historical», in the sense that it does not express a necessary
essence of man but what always happens, although it need not have done so.
But the experienced quality, the «
being of worth,»
is not itself a matter
of human decision, for the
essence of value, as distinguished from desire,
is precisely the power
of evoking devotion and
of transforming persons in conformity with its own pattern.
Yet such assumptions, in themselves, contradict the method
of economic development and defeat its purpose, which
is, in
essence, the extension
of human choice.
For the talk about the natural changes
of human life over the years, together with what externally happened there,
is not in
essence any different from talking
of plant or
of animal life.
The central thought in The
Essence of Christianity
is that the supposedly superhuman deities
of religion
are actually the involuntary projections
of the essential attributes
of human nature.
The
essence of the message
is that in and through the Cross, where all
human hope
is silenced and all
human dreams
are vanquished, God speaks the Word
of life in death.»
«The
essence of being human,» he wrote, «
is... that one
is prepared in the end to
be defeated and broken up by life, which
is the inevitable price
of fastening one's love upon other
human individuals.»