Sentences with phrase «from modern man»

This weekend brings us our first big baity film of awards season, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a supposed Scientology allegory that truly explores crises erupting from a modern man's lack of structure and authority.

There are many transitional fossil that show the progress of evolution, but due to the conditions necessary for fossilization it is unreasonable to expect a complete chain of fossils from modern man back to a previous ancestor.

Christ's insistence on destroying our conceptions may elicit a certain reactionary aversion from modern man, but this is exactly why he is lovable.

Not exact matches

Well, the concensus of most modern NT exegetes is that said simple, preacher man did not rise from the dead so bottom line it is time to admit to the fraud and to return our money.

In his later interview on the occasion of the Jefferson Lecture, he speaks of modern man as deranged, the literal sense of that term most appropriate to the Cartesian dislocation of intellect that has effected our displacement from the proper range of our being in the world.

Evolutionists line up the most promising choices to present a gradual progression from monkey to modern man.

What's the difference??? Modern Man — This genius thinks we came from apes...

Becoming more tolerant to gays, more left leaning, hipper, modern, or whatever else you want to throw out there still doesn't change the fact that Christianity is based on a lie about a man who supposedly walked on water, reincarnated, was born from a woman who claimed to a be virgin, and changed water in to wine.

CT's coverage of terrorism against Christians includes the viral video of a 10 - year - old Iraqi girl forgiving ISIS, how modern - day «Monuments Men» are trying to save Biblical - era artifacts from ISIS, and the death of the first American volunteer to die fighting terrorism in Iraq and Syria.

everything from how the Bible said the earth is round before Galileo or any of the other modern discoveries, all the way to how relationships work in the sense that men crave respect and women crave love, and everything in between.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

For apart from the difficulties inherent in the sources, modern man is too rudely awakened to his problems to be lulled by the winsomeness of the charming personality which may (or may not) have been Jesus».

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Kamlah also is aware that self - commitment is not the natural disposition of modern man, but a demand continually imposed upon him from without.

Inevitably and necessarily this has changed the approach of modern philosophers to man, and to the universe from whichbackground he can not be divorced.

To establish true community man must rise in rebellion against the illusion of modern collectivism: he must rescue his real personal self from the domination of the collective.

That said, if it brings someone to Christ then that's good — one trait of a believer is a sincere desire for the word, and it is very likely that the Christian will eventually gravitate toward a more accurate translation, just as many of us have done who were initially enamored of Good News for Modern Man (TEV) and other such paraphrases from the past.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

Not the «historical Jesus» but the Spirit that goes forth from Him and in the spirits of men strives for new influence and rule, is that which overcomes the [terrible modern] world [p. 401].

And the difference in genetic divergence among MODERN MAN around the world and the genetic divergence seen in apes blows a HOLE in theory that we evolved from apes.

Modern man takes the products of civilization for granted, as if they were dropped from trees in a tropical paradise.

Thus, individuals and societies need a system of values by which to live; the nature and pace of modern cultural transformations have cut men adrift from the security of established ideals.

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

Modern man is insecure and repressed — isolated from his fellows yet desperately clinging to the collectivity which he trusts to protect him from the might of other collectivities.

Modern study of the Bible has brought the discovery that the Christian hope is not at all exclusively tied to an other - worldly form; indeed, as we have seen, that is just what it had started to lead men away from.

Modern man is sick in his very soul, and this sickness springs, in its turn, from his sickness in his relations to others.

The «central significance of repression and sublimation in Freud's system,» derives from the pathological condition of modern man and is valid in terms of it.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

When we think of his exile from Northampton and his more inclusive exile from the company of all right - thinking modern men, we must apply to ourselves on this occasion the indictment that Jesus made of «hypocrites» who «build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, «If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets»» (Matt.

Modern man has taken his cue from the Renaissance and feels that man is both good and self - sufficient, thus rejecting the Reformation idea that man is finite, corrupt, and in need of God's grace.

Within two centuries, men of the caliber of Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Galileo, Gilbert, Newton and Boyle all arose to cut a path which enabled the modern world to emerge from the ancient one.

Another characteristic aspect that process theology derives from Hartshorne is its decisive rejection of humanism as a satisfactory option for modern man.

If we want to know how the mind of man, working on its own and from its own human psychology would deal and does deal with the Divine in Christ, we have it in the presentation of many modern and Rationalist thinkers.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

This confidence of modern man in the power of intelligence to free humanity from its ills and for the fulfillment of its purposes is reflected in the universal commitment to education.

The problem of modern man is not that of finding deliverance from the unseen powers of evil, or from the burden of guilt, but is the search for meaning in human existence.

Earlier liberalism saw in the proclamation of the Kerygma itself a stumbling block to modern man, and thus sidled away from its eschatological message, preferring to center upon the ethical dimension of Christian faith as this was expressed in the life and teaching of Jesus.

In «Christianity and Myth» Cobb again considers the possibility of Christian theism for the modern mind.120 The profane spirit of contemporary man finds it impossible to talk about some «reality radically different from all other reality...,» i.e., to speak mythically.

Modern man destroying information from the ancients down through the ages, and from other cultures sure don't help matters.

Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

How is it possible that two such mutually exclusive concepts of man could be championed from ancient until modern times — man, an animal; man, a God?

Modern man wants to be secure from annihilation by atomic bombs and economic loss.

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

Modern man views himself in only one dimension (either nature or reason) and attempts to derive evil from some specific historical source such as religion (Holbach and Helvetius), autocratic government (Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith), or economic organization (Marx).

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

All the talk of certain modern schools of theology about the lost condition of man apart from God would have been to the Hebrew thinker just so much crackling of thorns under a pot.

You tell us that even when Christianity has been emancipated from myth modern man continues to reject it because it speaks of an act of God and of sin.

Not only does it appear free from the theoretical incoherence of the older theism, but it also removes what we saw to be the major stumbling - block to modern man's ever really hearing any witness to the reality of God — namely, the implication that this world of time and change is ultimately unreal and lacking in significance.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.