Sentences with phrase «for human free will»

EnClark Doesn't sound like you're arguing for human free will though.
Imagine a bishop putting the case for human free will with quotations from St. Maximus the Confessor against the Monothelites, going on to mention Origen and Clement of Alexandra's Stromata all in one breath!

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For now, the pilot trips will be free, and every test vehicle will come equipped with a human supervisor in the front seat — ready to take control if there's a system malfunction.
the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.
If God gave humans Free Will then broke the promise, by compelling Judas to betray (or merely, be the appointed accuser / betrayer) then, Judas would be rewarded for being a puppet in the plan and fulfilling the Will of God.
When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.
Finally, they will not understand that God allows free will for humans and therefore takes His time in assessing the need to move on to the net part of the plan.
Robert Sirico at Villanova University for a moderated discussion that will engage in important questions about free societies and human flourishing, and the economic structures that facilitate a virtuous society.
Some will thrill to the contempt for the human; some will feel a jolt of free - floating religious awe; some will decide that enough's enough (though most of those are unlikely to have started the novel in the first place).
It is effectively an article of «faith» for the materialist to believe that everything must be reducible to material laws, even when they can not explain how things such as human consciousness and free will fit into the deterministic patterns of matter.
As humans are with a clean slate when they enter through the gates of birth, for when born you are given the gift of free will which requires a clean soul that all choices are truly yours.
For me, the denial of the human's free will despite what life manifests feeds their atheism and vulgar viciousness.
Surely, this indicates the human's free will, for why would God regret something He predestined?
Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.
then there is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and evil... every one will be a good one... but because of free will we have human doing wrong things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will be accountable for others... its like you are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will be your good deeds that you have done in this earthly life...
You can say whatever you want to... Al Quran teaches that God created human in different nationality, ethnicity, language so that one can interact with other and then HE gave free will to every single one of the human... and every one of us will be held accountable for the using of this «free will»....
And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mifor certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his miFor he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
But there's a problem, even if we do pray in accordance with God's desires — for peace — that «seems» to be in accordance with God's plans (whether it actually is or not is another thing altogether) but humans have free will.
One of the essential elements in human nature, according to them, is free will and the capacity for choosing either good or evil.
With capitalistic globalization the Eucharist would be still more of a challenge to the Christians to follow the teaching of Jesus for an egalitarian, free and just human community of disciples and all persons of good will.
Without free will, morality for humans makes no sense.
Meanwhile, Moscow's support for Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has given him free rein to perpetrate human rights atrocities, Penny Mordaunt will say at an international conference this week.
Satan is supposed to be exactly like human beings, with free will but, like Mark Twain observed, who prays for his soul?
But all this must not be allowed to obscure the decisive factor: The Church herself must will a sphere of freedom for all men, because without it free human beings and also Christians can not exist.
The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of survival for the human race.
Now we have this wonderful choice (or free will): We can either believe that these desires we were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might be chosen to be forgiven for being born this way; or we can be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we were actually alive in this sinful state (that we were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).
This is thus a persistent pattern for Yahweh: order one group of humans to harm a second group of humans, then take away the free will of the second ground and force them to act in a way that ensures conflict can occur.
God could, on the [free - will] hypothesis, occasionally violate human freedom for the sake of an overriding good, or to prevent a particularly horrible evil.
And yes, there will be much chaos and many hard cases to deal with in the meantime, but we are not free to compromise the teaching of Christ for the weakness of human beings.
Jesus - fully human and fully god, why do you think God would humble himself and be with his creation (total love), when sin entered the world we were seperated from God forever, God pure, and humans tainted, the only way was for God to send Jesus to pay the price of sin, he took the sting out of death, and bridged the gap for humans and heaven, there is no greater sacrifice, God loves all of us, I was an unbeliever, but came to the truth - read the book of John and make up your own mind - so many people taint Gods word, but the Holy bible is the truth and it will set you free.
Aquinas was for them either a Pelagianizing theologian who relied too little on grace and left too much to human free will or a philosophical theologian who counted too heavily on human reason and too little on divine revelation.
And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
Now I don't want to get into all the theological intricacies here, but it can be seen throughout Scripture that while God is in complete control and has a definite goal in mind that will absolutely come to pass, he somehow is still free to be able to respond to humans in such a way that makes them responsible for their actions.
In the Bible, in Genesis 3, God holds humans accountable for their free will choices.
... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.
If you'll permit me to leave this thought: I have concluded after many years of «church hopping» to finally «no church» that what we need in the «church» is not anything «new» as stated in your last paragraph but rather a «liberation from»... I conclude that the church (organized or free) considers this return to liberty (brought about by Christ) as a legitimate «next step» in the history of «church» but that is firstly a lie and secondly opens up a door for even more destructive creativity by humans.
He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».
«Free world leaders, especially President Obama, should make it clear to President Xi Jinping that these acts of total disregard for basic human rights and religious freedom should and will be condemned by all during Xi's visit to the United Nations and the United States next month.»
It is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional free will theism, who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of human beings.
In a statement quoted by Hasker in his discussion of what he calls a «more subtle form» of the above argument (although it simply is my argument), I said that according to traditional free will theism it would have been possible for God to create «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).
Freedom for excellence is the freedom that will satisfy the deepest yearnings of the human heart to be free.
And it is traditional free will theists who have implied, and sometimes explicitly said, that the whole universe was created for evoking moral and spiritual virtue in free human (and perhaps, on other planets, humanlike) souls, so that it is only this divine - human drama that contains intrinsic value.
This has been an especially difficult problem for the traditional free will defense, because that defense is oriented around the idea that human suffering can be justified in terms of God's «soul - making» purpose of producing moral and spiritual virtues.
Griffin lists the similarities between Open free will theists and process free will theists as agreements that (a) the criteria for judging theological positions are broadly biblically based, rationally consistent, and consistent with the best knowledge of the contemporary world, (b) God is the supreme power and is perfect in power, (c) God created our universe, (d) God is active in nature and human history, (e) God is a personal, purposive being involving temporality and response to the world, (f) God is essentially love rather than power, and (g) there is salvation after death (10 - 14).
Through the long centuries in which God was seeking to prepare the way for the «incarnation» — the coming in human flesh of Himself through the «Word,» the self - expression of Himself in the creation of the cosmos — He was seeking men who would willingly respond to «the light which lighteth every man» and slowly was finding some in the small minority of His «chosen people» who were struggling to understand what His Spirit, respecting their free will, was trying to say through them.
Free will, even if humans have it, is not responsible for earthquakes, tsunamis, Hurricanes, pathogens etc., that kill and cause suffering for thousands.
For I remember very well, later... I told you that I had been called by terrors from heaven and that I did not become a monk of my own free will and desire, still less to gain any human satisfaction but that I was walled in by the terror and agony of sudden death and forced by necessity to take the vow.
Verse 31:6 talks about those who preaches to take human away from worshipping One True God (pure monothiestic) and those who purchases their stories to be misguided are the same... the one who purchases these stories are not being forced but they are purchasing by their free wills that human will be judged for this «free will» that how they have used this «free will» when it comes to The Creator OR Creators...
NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.
Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.
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