Sentences with phrase «future rewards and punishments»

For Hartshorne, eliminating everlasting life altogether releases us from the «future rewards and punishments» bind, and therefore frees us as well to love in and for the beauty and goodness that loving presently creates.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

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Without freedom of the will and personal responsibility, retribution, punishment and reward, and the Future Life with its.

Apocalyptic speculation with future punishments for the wicked and rewards for the virtuous played no part in Jesus» teaching.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2: No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

Mixing the two types of training (punishment and reward) might seem like a good idea, but as some of these studies have shown the history of the way the handler has treated the dog at any given point in time, will affect the way that the dog responds in the future (thus punishment in the past has an adverse effect in the future, even if the handler is now using rewards)

Future rewards await those who strive for them, and punishment awaits those who don't work hard or break rules.