God rules and governs all events, including
the free acts of men and their external circumstances, and directs all things to their appointed ends for His glory.
My evidence here is purely anecdotal, but I suspect that people generally value being handed the opportunity to engage in small, reasonably pain -
free acts of kindness or generosity.
Those are tacked on extrinsically through
the free act of the agent.
Hence the Catholic doctrine of justification does not profess a semi-Pelagian synergism according to which salvation would be divided up into God's gracious act and the independent
free act of man.
It has to struggle to combine creation by
a free act of will with the absence of alternative possibilities for God, and to combine the contingency of the world with the necessity of God's act of creation and with the necessity of God's knowledge of that world.
Creation ex nihilo by
a free act of will.
But unless
the free act of liberation moves rapidly toward an act of institution or constitution, an act not of throwing off the past but of establishing the future, then even the liberation itself turns into its opposite.
It can mean what it says by «
free act of will,» by «contingency,» by «knowledge,» and so on.
The god of the philosophers sustains the orderliness of the world, but does not give it being in
a free act of love, and thus is not personal.
The «Claim» upon God So, does this not undermine
the free act of Revelation?
Over against such a view, the biblical perspective stresses the contingency of natural order, as it is dependent on
the free act of creation.
Since humanity is the pinnacle of the creative and
free act of Almighty God, Christ is the primordial figure in the entire creation.
What Barth is saying is that the transcendent reveals its true power in
the free act of humble accommodation to worldly reality.
Every free act of one person changes the objective possibilities of the free act of his neighbour, it enlarges, changes or limits the sphere of the other's freedom before this latter can freely intervene.
But all this is even today
the free act of the individual, for which he must be trained and formed, to which he may not, indeed can not, be compelled.
Though every individual free act risks total self - commitment, it always surrenders itself into the whole of the one
free act of the one finite human life, because every such act is performed within the horizon of existence whence it receives its weight and proportion.
This radical mystery of freedom continues in
the free act of the subject as such.
Of course, the one
free act of man in which he realizes himself once and for all is dispersed in space and time in his many free actions, in which the one fundamental decision of the one man is enacted.
However, in the present case the separation is to be conceived somewhat differently since it results at the same time from
the free act of the individual.
He wanted it to be
a free act of worship and thanksgiving.
In that case, the actual entity's
free act of creating its own identity would entail that the actual entity also gives precision and determination to that potentiality.
This juggling with «days» to be got for so much monetary contribution, or so many prayers, the very idea that something one did oneself could produce a change, could cause God to act — all this would seem unworthy of one who owed a complete surrender to God, who could never be of himself worthy of the sovereign creator, but who had in fact been saved and justified by the Word of God, made one with the saints by
the free act of Jesus.
With
the free act of doodling unimpeded by any conscious inhibitions, the cave will be born out of immediate artistic impulses that flow directly from the unconscious.
Not exact matches
Critics argue that the ruling is a broad assault on protections Internet companies have long enjoyed under the Communications Decency
Act and could threaten the
free exchange
of ideas online.
An
act known as the «unboxing,» wherein the mattress, cut
free from its compressed wrapping with the help
of an enclosed Casper - branded slicing tool, expands to full thickness (10 inches) in one minute.
But
act I did, and want two - and - a-half weeks packaging -
free before buying my first packaged food again (a mesh bag
of onions, which, looking back, I could have avoided by buying loose onions).
«Together with other provisions
of the Recovery
Act, ARC loans will
free up capital and put more money in the hands
of small business owners when they need it the most,» SBA Administrator Karen Gordon Mills said in a press release.
However, the landscape has changed as sections
of The JOBS
ACT — legislation intended to
free up small business capital — rolled out to the public over the past year.
He's been propagating the «day 1» mantra for decades, and it's meant as a reminder that Amazon should never stop
acting like a startup — even though the company now boasts more than 560,000 employees and more than 100 million members
of Amazon Prime, the company's paid service for
free shipping on select items.
The mandate for
free contraceptive coverage was one
of the most contested polices under the Affordable Care
Act and generated many lawsuits by employers that cited religious objections.
In an
Act of Kindness, a Starbucks Employee Brought
Free Coffee to Chelsea Explosion First Responders
On their surface, the latest batch
of Religious Freedom Reformation
Act (RFRA) laws, which have passed in 20 U.S. states, not including Arkansas, appear to protect the
free exercise
of religion.
The stable outlook reflects our view that
ACT's strong market position in North America and Scandinavia and its continued operating efficiency will insulate it from margin pressure in this highly competitive industry, contributing incremental earnings and generating strong
free cash flow for debt reduction that should result in leverage declining quickly to about 3x by the end
of 2013.
King wrote that when
acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the
free exercise
of the vote by black citizens.»
The trial judge said the law is at odds with Section 121
of the Constitution
Act, which reads «All articles
of the growth, produce, or manufacture
of any one
of the provinces shall, from and after the union, be admitted
free into each
of the other provinces.»
More importantly, they
free me from stress
of wondering what I have to do to
act on what I want to do.
Dropping out
of Reed College; early encounters with LSD and Indian mysticism; selling, as his first business, the Little Blue Boxes used in the 1960s to make
free phone calls, then an
act of counterculture rebellion.
Republicans balked at renewing elements
of the Healthy, Hunger -
Free Kids
Act in 2015 and the House
of Representatives introduced legislation that critics say would dial back access to the program.
As the U.S. businessman has gone from long - shot Republican presidential candidate to the party's nominee for the White House, fears that Mr. Trump will
act on some
of his campaign statements — like renegotiating the North American
free - trade agreement and pulling the United States out
of the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement — have spooked some Canadian small - business owners with U.S. interests.
But it also includes measures that the Opposition Parties may not want to support; for example; the increase in annual Tax
Free Savings Account contribution limit; changes to the sick leave provisions
of federal employees; and retroactive legislation to protect the RCMP from possible criminal charges with respect to the destruction
of data under the Access to Information
Act.
The Democrats, meanwhile, were not against selective
acts of protection for industries from areas they represented but generally stood for low tariffs and
free trade.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs
Act approved expanded use
of 529 plans to include tax -
free distributions (after December 31, 2017)
of up to $ 10,000 per year per student to pay for tuition at elementary or secondary public, private, or religious schools.
In September, Roskomnadzor warned CNN International over alleged violations
of Russian media law.101 In October, the Ministry
of Justice warned Radio Svoboda and Nastoyashcheye Vremya — the Russian - language outlets
of U.S. - funded Radio
Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL)-- about the possibility
of being designated as foreign agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration
Act (FARA).
I am not a big fan
of schadenfreude — that is, the
act of getting joy from the suffering
of others — but you can feel a little bit better about your own financial problems when you realize that few people are
free of money stress.
The wealthy and the powerful want everyone to believe that we all live in one big
free marketplace, perfect in its» distribution
of wealth and opportunities, and selfish, self centered
acts will upset it all.
Plus, if you're an American, you can take advantage
of the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion
Act and receive up to $ 104,100 annually in tax -
free income.
The
act is consistent with provincial legislative reforms urged by the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Association
of Physicians for the Environment, Toxic
Free Canada, the David Suzuki Foundation, and the Union
of B.C. Municipalities.
Others counter that under Section 125
of the Trade
Act of 1974, Congress delegated to the president the power to terminate obligations under
free trade agreements.
Rena Pacheco - Theard is CEO and co-founder
of Prepify (www.prepify.me), a startup offering
free, online college guidance and SAT /
ACT prep for high school students to increase economic diversity.
The monetary measures serve as
free - standing counterparts to similar provisions and goals
of the comprehensive Financial CHOICE
Act passed by the House earlier this year.