Sentences with phrase «find justification for»

He struggles to find justification for letting go of Rick, who had turned out to be very popular and beloved within the sales department.

Where, then, did the majority find its justification for striking down the court - fees regime?

My reading of the trial documents makes me think that the judge in the appeals case would be hard pressed to find a justification for reducing the settlement; what would the new settlement amount be based on?

I have read that protein requirements should be based on the patients acutal body weight (as per the TranTasminDietitan Wound Care Group Guidelines for Pressure Ulcers), though I can not find justification for this especially in our obese patients.

Group renewal and mending should be done, but it is so easy to deflect personal teshuvah that we might do best not to try to find justification for it by including corporate teshuvah in Rosh ha - Shanah.»

But people are violent and will always find justification for their actions.

Most of those who engage in street preaching find justification for it in the pages of Scripture.

Just as those who dissented from Humanae Vitae were able to use a seeming openness to their point of view in the process that preceded the encyclical to legitimize their view, so too will dissenters find justification for their positions in the debates at the Synod.

Many who engage in street preaching find justification for it in the pages of Scripture, where Jesus, Peter, Paul preached in marketplaces and streets.

Even though his writings were characterized by often bewildering flights of the imagination, I find no justification for regarding them as inflicted with mental disability.

Read it, and you will find no justification for the church to spread the gospel by the sword.

The resolute proof - texter can find justification for both genocide (Deut.

Nowhere do we find any justification for this omission, but doubtless for Mays the idea of an actual entity carries with it too much of the idea of a subject.

In fact, if you go by his direct words you will not find justification for divisions or leadership other than his directly.

Yet decades» worth of research hasn't found any justification for our pill - popping habit.

In 2009, the European Food Safety Authority reviewed the science and found no justification for claims about the health risks from BCM7.

Theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the «truth» of the theory lies.

As we learn more and more about Howard, he emerges as a Navy trained, Alex Jones - styled conspiracy theorist, who in being able to put his doomsday shelter to use, finds justification for his wildest musings, with his already borderline personality now reaching a delusional state.

The study found no justification for the BSL.

I believe there are several rational, scientifically well - founded justifications for such a belief.

Not exact matches

For most of Christian history, the «curse of Ham» found in the OT gave justification for enslaving blacks, rigFor most of Christian history, the «curse of Ham» found in the OT gave justification for enslaving blacks, rigfor enslaving blacks, right?

Why did all those good Christians, the ones that people nowadays like to point to as being so like the Founding Fathers, point to their OTs as justification for owning slaves?

As if I'd give ANY credence to a mouthpiece for a so - called «church» which was LITERALLY founded for the purpose of providing Biblical justification of slavery.

Give me an activity or attitude that appeals to you and I will — after some sensitive, caring, pastoral reflection — find theological justification for it.

For Gold hagen's thesis is virtually the opposite of the usual justification for Zionism, namely, that anti «Semitism is found, not in one nation, but in every society where there are JeFor Gold hagen's thesis is virtually the opposite of the usual justification for Zionism, namely, that anti «Semitism is found, not in one nation, but in every society where there are Jefor Zionism, namely, that anti «Semitism is found, not in one nation, but in every society where there are Jews.

One can concede that the tendency of two - kingdoms theology to subordinate political concerns to a lesser realm made it easier than it should have been for Lutherans under Hitler to ignore or rationalize the regime's moral evils, but the Nazis» anti-Semitism and their exaltation of the State to idolatrous heights could find no justification in legitimate Lutheran doctrines of morality or church - state relations.

The biblical justification for the doctrine is sometimes found in Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2 and Isaiah 6:3, but none of these passages speak of a God who is eternally three in one.

That is, the big question about justification for Paul was not How do I find gracious God?

Of course, if you did find biblical justification for meeting on Sunday (as you might), you can still ask «What if we didn't meet on Sunday?»

But not once in the gospel accounts can we find a single justification for God being an advocate for wealth.

It is the generality of both the physical and the conceptual feelings involved in religious experience which establishes the common basis for the kind of integration in which emotional experience illustrates a conceptual justification, and conceptual experience finds an emotional justification.

God's act of justification by grace enables persons to switch worlds, to leave that culture of death and to enter a world always intended by God for people (the new creation), founded on the total and entirely free gift from God (justification by grace).

A non-Marxian and more insidious justification for reliance on minimum wage legislation to achieve distribution equity is founded on a twisted interpretation of traditional scholastic teaching on economic justice.

But whatever the reason, these two fundamentally different descriptions and justifications for one's non-work on the Sabbath found their way successively into the inspired biblical texts.

The justification for these evils actions are found throughout the Koran and hadith.

The root of the doctrine of free will is to be found in the Qur» an itself and there is no justification for seeking an external source for it.

Notice how, inside and outside the Church, people are loudly denunciatory of the evil behavior of their political, religious or cultural opponents, and yet, when the same thing is true of their allies, they are muted or even found attempting justifications for the behavior.

Religion is also unbelief because it is man's attempt to find justification and sanctification for himself on his own terms.

(Christian slave - owners had to work somewhat harder to find scriptural justifications for holding Africans in servitude.)

Right or wrong will seldom be a factor as justification can be found for those as well.

To attempt to change a teaching about swift and sudden judgment to become a teaching on sexuality is grasping at straws to find — some / any — justification for homosexuality.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

Though the objects of study for each of the two disciplines are different, nonetheless both should be answerable to the same philosophical scheme, and appropriately enough we find in the very opening chapter to Process and Reality just such an assertion on Whitehead's part — note the justification which Whitehead offers for his cosmology.

Those claiming biblical justification for their homosexual bigotry are finding themselves ever more in the minority and will soon be relegated to nutjob status just like those still clinging to their biblical justifications for misogyny and racial prejudice.

Apart from those justifications, no solution could be found for the most obvious question that occurs to one at once on examining any historical event; that is, How did millions of men combine to commit crimes, murders, wars, and so on?

You'll use things like «faith» and find all kinds of justifications for your belief, but in the end, you lack any concrete evidence that your story is true.

Said pens were called concentration camps, I imagine he also found some religious justification for his actions.

The two Catholics found these principles in their religion, intelligently interpreted, but Humboldt, a Protestant, in whose worldview Hellenism strongly colored Christianity, looked to metaphysics or philosophy for justification.

They had been kicked out of the synagogues and sought justification for the founding of a separate Church.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»