Sentences with phrase «from mere humans»

you're mostly right but this is a natural reaction from mere humans??

why does he even need security from mere humans.

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It is something from which animals are exempt, except those who have the misfortune to be harnessed to human enterprise, and it is something unknown to a creature of mere needs.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

But Lazarus, the ultimate human witness to the way, the truth and the life, is called forth from eternal life... to mere everyday life.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

The Church also believed that these gods, for all their bluster and ongoing involvement in human affairs, could not answer the deepest human need: deliverance from our enslavement to sin and death, not mere solidarity and fellowship in the midst of that enslavement.

And scientifically, since what characterizes the development of the animal species from its beginning is the struggle for life, how can we expect, mere humans that we are, to escape from this essential biological condition without which there can be neither growth nor progress?

If God is as the Calvinist insists, then they are right: we mere humans can not question God's judgment or challenge His choices from eternity past to choose some for redemption and others for reprobation.

Or was the human being who typed these words a mere organic robot simply obeying programming from God or fate?

The question of the nature of such visions is more difficult, for it involves criteria by which visions are to be distinguished from invented ones or those due to mere subjective human conditions.

As this vocation is lived in the sober unity of scientific knowledge and human achievement it is prevented from becoming mere humanitarian twaddle.

In this view, Baptist churches were the only true churches that had ever existed in the world, all others being mere human «societies» or apostate deviations from the Baptist norm.

Hartshorne connects the ideas of relative and absolute in the act of knowing: «Unrestricted or literal relativity; so far from being the mere de facto character of our inferior human knowledge, is rather the precise ideal of knowledge in its most absolute meaning» (DR 10).

It's a further mockery to imagine that humans need to / should reproduce... As if... The (impending) thermonuclear war that prolifer's drool over, in greedy anticipation of the next corporate - profiteering - adventure, (in Iran), has already occurred / mushroomed from a mere corporate profiteering crime to the Unthinkable!!

In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same - sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously about.

At the level of human experience we do find fatigue from the mere repetition of cycles.

And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting as though it were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

Highly significant for Christology are these two quotations from Hartshorne's The Divine Relativity10 In the first he refuses to allow «paradox» to cover up illogicality: «A theological paradox, it appears, is what a contradiction becomes when it is about God rather than something else...» In the second he applies this to the relation between God's power and our human decisions: «For God to do what I do when I decide my own act, determine my own concrete being, is mere nonsense, words without meaning.

Your flawed book claims humanity is a mere few thousand years old while actual evidence from cave art to DNA show humans origins are much much older by a factor of 10.

What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.

It was Bernard of Clairvaux who said that God would draw the believer toward Himself away from mere (physical) erotic love, which human beings know, to agape, which is only found in Him.

Augustine also thinks that pursuing some scientific questions can be mere idle curiosity and a distraction from the more serious moral and religious purpose of human life.

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

It assumes that Truth is to be found, and that God is not hiding it from us, that the Church is no mere human institution, that God is bigger than human mistakes.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

Do a bit of study regarding genetic drift, population bottlenecks and the impossibility of the entire human race having come from 3 breeding pairs of humans, with all the males being 1st order relatives, a mere 4,000 years ago.

Instead of «explaining» change, they all essentially deny change by affirming that it is unreal or mere appearance or «being» viewed from the finite human perspective.

(2) THE HOLY SPIRIT First we ought to be baptized with water by a mere human being, then we will be baptized by Jesus with the Holy Spirit (Mk 1:8) «who proceeds from the Father» (Jn 15:26 ESV).

This human form is no mere projection; it radiates from the divine essence.

Recently, holograms that are mere hundredths of the thickness of a human hair have been made from metal deposited onto materials such as silicon.

Proposing that human ancestors made the switch from gestures to speech quite recently — he puts the date at around 50,000 years ago, a mere yesterday in evolutionary terms — Mr. Corballis believes that language itself, and the sophisticated mental capacities necessary to produce it, are far older.

Although the newest edition of the authoritative textbook, Vitamin D, claims that in humans calcidiol binds with equal affinity to the DBP whether it is derived from vitamin D2 or vitamin D3, 37 the citation for this statement is the author's own PhD thesis, in which he reported results obtained from testing the DBP of a mere two people.48 Since the gene for the DBP is one of the most polymorphic known (meaning it exists in many forms), existing in three common alleles and 124 known rarer alleles (alleles are specific forms of the same gene), each allele itself having many polymorphisms, 37 a sample size of two is rather unconvincing.

To us humans the gargoyles seem to be mere decorations on old cathedrals, but in fact their dwindling forces are the only thing protecting humanity from the demons.

While this may hold true for humans equipped with a mere 5 million olfactory receptors, things are drastically different from a dog's standpoint.

Although advancements in technology have made androids nearly indistinguishable from humans, they are still treated as mere objects.

Plato (who wrote artfully while hating art) saw time as the nature of being — a mere human's falling off from the eternal.

Sited a mere 97 miles from Trinity, location of the first atomic bomb, the exhibition outlines an expansive framework within which viewers can meditate on two increasingly relevant antipodes of human experience: the quest for aesthetic expression, and the threat of global apocalypse.

She references a legacy of traditional techniques of sculpting, firing and glazing to transform her works from mere vessels into animated human forms.

The photograph of the earth taken from outer space reminded us that political boundaries, not visible from space, are mere human constructs.»

This, and then following, a mere month later, Ms. Xiong's assertions and papering of an opinion that there are no ill health effects possible from industrial wind, specifically the Shirley project, where there has been an almost Biblical recording of human suffering.

Building a city from scratch is a monumental task, beyond the reach of mere human strength.

It follows that there is real human and corporate risk from the mere fact of revelation of the cartel.

Somewhere in that life insurance policy must be something written so small and obscurely that it can never be found by a mere human that excludes my family from being paid no matter how I die.