Sentences with phrase «experiences against some truth»

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Against both the foregoing views, the truth is that life in all of its dimensions occurs under the law of ambiguity; we experience it as both blessing and curse, sometimes predominantly one more than the other, but never exclusively one without the other.

In this sense Whitehead is closer to a mathematical physicist than a pure mathematician (PW 47/43); the metaphysical system must be tested against experience and «depends for its truth upon its empirical verification, and not merely upon its logical criteria» (PW 51/47).

Moreover, since God is infinitely good to all who truly seek him, I do not see how anyone's experience of grace or formation by grace can settle the truth of one confessional position as against another, and I doet want to look as if I think that the quality of my Christian experience or the strength of my Christian convictions should be decisive in persuading others to accept my views.

This absolute self - affirmation is the lie against being, for through it truth is no longer what he experiences as truth but what he ordains to be true.

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

There are, in other words, moments of both «realism» and idealism» in experience, from which follows what we may call a «moderate» or «approximating» correspondence theory of truth, such as that proposed by Charles Hartshorne in reply to Richard Rorty's polemic against the «Mirror of Nature.»

then when you know Jesus then you can experience God better and you can test all against His personality for truth.

Ignoring what the Church teaches about proper reception of the Eucharist is really a form of asserting one's own will against the experience and wisdom of the believing community — because that's what the Church is, a community of believers committed to God's truth, not just here and now, but across time.

Now I know there will be many out there who will say this is a negative view and that you should NEVER take that stance against your own club, but as well as being a dyed in wool Arsenal fan, I'm also a devout realist and finally the truth has sunk in with me, and I know in my heart of hearts that this season is going to be the longest and toughest many of us have experienced in an age.

Despite the Lagos State Attorney General's simplistic and foolhardy assertion that the State Government would «pursue the case against TB Joshua and his Church to a logical end», the truth is that what the government is dealing with is a premeditated and well - orchestrated act of terror carried out by highly proficient, skilled and experienced operatives and not one of involuntary manslaughter which came about as a consequence of negligence on the part of the Church authorities or a faulty foundation.

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I find allegations of dishonesty as a substitute for cogent arguments against climate research findings to be not only at odds with my personal experience of scientists» affection for truth but also extremely annoying.

It's true that, in my experience, holocaust deniers occupy a similar mental space to some climate «sceptics», in which anything that might be taken as evidence against their beliefs is seen as part of a grand and far - reaching conspiracy to suppress the «truth».

experience one must remember that it is the inner circle of the 7th circle where the blasphemers against truth and nature reside.

Where REALTORS may use a survey like this to mislead consumers Realty Advisors tell the truth by using the experience of real estate professionals who have studied buyers and then tested their conclusions against how the brain itself functions.