Sentences with phrase «free creatures who»
But if (5) is true, then it appears that God could have created a world inhabited by free creatures who perform moral good but no moral evil.
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If it were possible to have creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free, should not God have brought into existence such creatures instead?
Why should a corporation be able to oppress the people and other living creatures who depend on the Concord River's running free?
As Benedict XVI has said, God wants to be worshipped by creatures who are free.
Not a few men today experience their dilemma as that of creatures who were born to be free but are everywhere in chains.
Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.
Many can now understand such judgements as that of Loren Eiseley, who did not speak of human difference from other creatures in the glowing terms of the Enlightenment: how we are «rational,» capable of «free will», and so on.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»
Man, the free creature of God, who misuses his freedom, must know God's forgiveness.
Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»
But there is certainly nothing inherent in the standard free - will perspective that requires the FWT to hold that God's primary purpose for creating free creatures was to make it possible for God to «enjoy the value of knowing that those of us who developed moral character and spiritual virtue... did so freely» (ER 18).
It is the free person, God's creature, facing the ultimate issues of life and death, but facing them in their final dimensions, and making decisions which arise from the creative courage of one who has faced and accepted the conditions of real life.
People permit their selves to sin because they are free will creatures like animals who eat each other.
But the claim that I had made, which Hasker quoted, was that the God of traditional free will theism could have created «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).
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).
An egg - free and dairy - free frittata?!?!?!?! Who knew such a magical, mythical creature could exist?
They also threaten Homo sapiens, that poor creature who lately has begun driving six miles out of his way to buy phosphate - free laundry soap, all the while turning his back on poisoning programs that are directly and specifically contaminating millions of acres of his country.
Bahrain's national airline, Gulf Air, not only offers kids» meals and entertainment, but also has diapers on hand, free bassinet - booking, and the mysterious, magical creature known as the Sky Nanny — who helps out at Bahrain's airport but also on - board on Gulf Air «s wide - bodied long - haul routes.
Ignoring the warnings of the terrified researcher who maintains that the chimps are infected, they begin to free the animals and are immediately subjected to a bloody attack from the enraged creatures.
Michael Shannon plays a mad scientist who torments the creature through hellish experiments, and as the trailer shows, Hawkins» Elisa attempts to free the intelligent monster from its captors before it's dissected.
Longtime del Toro collaborator Doug Jones brings the creature of mystery to life who also must find other means of communication beyond speech which only draws more similarities between him and the maid who frees his soul and so much more.
To all of you out there who have opened your hearts and homes to bunnies, and who are certainly sick and tired of hearing how dumb and stupid these beautiful creatures with the twitchy noses and long ears are, feel free to share this true story!
Contented Traveller is aimed at the fit, free and financial traveller who wants to have experiences when they travel, but also wish to have the creature comforts that we have earned.
For those new to the Gears of War franchise, the series follows the story of Marcus Fenix, who after being broken free from prison by his closest friend, Dom Santiago, leads delta squad to fight the ongoing war against the Locust horde, reptile - like creatures who thrive underground.
The characters in Banerjee's paintings and sculptures are creatures who take ownership of their identity, metamorphosing into surreal forms, free to do so as a result of the city's celebration of self - invention.
Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the goodness of creation, the drama of sin, and the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power of the sacraments, and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance.