Sentences with phrase «generations of man which»

These guidelines targeted the final generations of man which includes us.

Not exact matches

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

The fear of the authority of the sacred writings of the past effectively prevents the honest souls of today from accepting the new light of the gospel, the light which these very God - knowing men of another generation so intensely longed to see.

121:8.14 — While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking.

As R. H. Tawney, a British socialist of an earlier generation, wrote: «It is the condition of economic freedom that men should not be ruled by an authority which they can not control» (The Acquisitive Society).

My ruling motive has been to prepare a record which will not only be enlightening to the generation of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all future generations.

Obviously, men could not pass through the experience of death and out again into a resurrected life in masses; death in any generation is not like a wide thoroughfare but like a turnstile, through which men go one by one.

With a certain simplification of the state of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation of a man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from generation to generation again and again.

It is essentially a way of faith, by which man, in whatever generation he lives, is summoned by the Word of God to concern himself with the human scene, for this is God's concern.

Jud 1:14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, «Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, Jud 1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.»

2 Given this author's care and demonstrated reliability, as well as his contact with eyewitnesses within the first generation after the events, this man can be trusted when it comes to matters in the life of Jesus for which we do not enjoy independent confirmation.

It is this which gives Jesus his central place and role, and it is from this centrality, or particular «importance,» in our understanding and in our living, that the evaluation of Jesus himself, his significance in the total scheme of things, his continuing impact on successive generations of men and women, takes its rise.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

All men were thus dependent upon the heritage of divine revelation which the church preserved from generation to generation.

He does not... destroy my faith, but he forces me to re-examine my faith and to re-discover its power in the contemporary scene which he seems to understand in clearer terms than I do... The real significance of the sermon lies in the fact that Bishop Pike is aiming to revive the new generation's lagging interest in religion and to have religion speak in terms modern man can understand.»

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

«In language intelligible to every generation,» we read, «she should be able to answer the ever - recurring questions which men ask about the meaning of this pres ent life and of the life to come, and how one is related to the other.»

To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».

Adolescence is being stretched all the way through the twenties, which creates a generation of men who still think like boys.

Thus the Holy Catholic Church is both a society of men and women, hence susceptible to study in a sociological fashion, and also the Body in which Jesus (now taken into God's everlasting life) is still made available to succeeding generations down to our own day.

In previous generations God has left the gentiles without revelation, only intimating his power by his gift of rain and of the seasons which produce food and consequent gladness for men (Acts 14:15 - 17).

The extent to which men of this generation are absorbed with themselves and permit that absorption to filter the accumulated masses of human experience and utterance is a formidable fact in teaching and in preaching.

Belief in a God who is all love and no wrath, all grace and no justice, all forgiveness and no condemnation is idolatry (worship of a false god invented by men), and it inevitably leads to universalism - which, of course, is what many liberal churches have been preaching for generations.

Writers of the Talmud use Γενεὰ for race of men or combine it with οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ to be the greater part of a generation which would time it with 70AD fall of the Temple and those Jews present.

Suppose e.g. that a man possessed an explanation of a heroic life which explained it in a sorry way, and yet a whole generation reposes securely in an absolute belief in this hero, without suspecting anything of the sort.)

For the faithful can not embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents.

This is illustrated by the comment made in the previous generation about Blandina, «through whom Christ proved that the things that men think cheap, ugly, and contemptuous are deemed worthy of glory before God, by reason of her love for him which was not merely vaunted in appearance but demonstrated in achievement.»

This situation comes pretty close to Tolstoy's description of historians of his generation: they were like deaf men answering questions which no one had put to them.

The question is whether a generation which has lost its faith in all the gods of the nineteenth century, that is, in «history,» or «progress,» or «enlightenment,» or the «perfectibility of man,» is not expressing its desire to believe in something, to be committed somehow, even though it is not willing to be committed to a God who can be known only through repentance, and whose majesty judges all human pretensions.

He proclaimed a new way of faith, by which man, in whatever generation he lives, is summoned by the Word of God to concern himself with the human scene, for this is God's concern.

Space does not permit elucidation of the specific principles on which they worked, but it may suffice for our purpose to note that the law, the shari`a, as built up by the founders and generations of commentators, embraces all the rules of God's prescription for the conduct of men — domestic life, political and social activities, religious and ritual duties.

(Against Tödt [Son of Man, pp. 224, 50], who accepts the saying as representing a warning by Jesus to «the present generation, [which] though living before the end, does not watch the signs of the times... in the way Noah did» [p. 50,] and Colpe [TWNT article, C I 3a], who can find no ground for rejecting the saying in its earliest form.

(d) A double saying which compares «this generation» unfavourably with the queen of the South and the men of Nineveh in the matter of repentance.

You act as though it were a negligible matter that for innumerable generations forward - looking men, paying a price in sacrifice which no imagination can compute, have been building up the decencies, securities, and opportunities of civilized life.

13:30) or, as some scholars think, to the Transfiguration which follows almost at once in the Marcan narrative; it is only the editorial juxtaposition of the two sayings, falsifying their original contexts, which turns the whole passage into a prophecy of the return of the Son of man within a generation.

Parents make the critically necessary sacrifice without which society would collapse like Jeb Bush's presidential campaign: We shell out vast sums of money on everything from diapers to chess camp to prepare the next generation of taxpayers, who will be funding the retirement of people like the childless / childish Meghann Foye, whose pay - me - even - if - I - didn't - do - anything attitude says not «imaginative social thinker,» but «squeegee man.»

In the UK, the Prize will also entice and enthuse a new generation of men and women into the wide variety of engineering roles that provide rewarding careers for many — and which is vital to the robust health of our economy.»

To ensure that the data include both sexes and two generations, Willett and several colleagues also launched the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study, which includes 52,000 men, and the Nurses» Health Study II, a survey of 116,000 younger women.

As a young man he thought his generation of the 1930s could change the world, but half a century later he has settled for changing those bits of it which are susceptible to the force of his intellect.

what is happening to our over 40 generation???? are the mens expectations too high, are woman expecting too much from a man...... like love and committment, do men just want easy sex and see which woman they eventually get a feeling for??? Do any men out there have an answer from a guys point of view... please share how you feel about women.

The over 50's generation is leading the pack with the highest divorce rate these days which means there are an abundance of men out there for you to date so you don't have to settle.

A generation of readers and filmgoers has grown up with the bespectacled, wand - waving wizard and saviour of the world from Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and the appearance of the final film coincides with the birth of a fourth Beckham child, suitably given the middle name «Seven» which could as easily be the number of books in the sacred text as her father's former Man Utd shirt.

With the Marvel Cinematic Universe introducing a new generation of superheroes in its third phase — which also includes the debuts of the Wasp and Doctor Strange, the reintroduction of Spider - Man into the fold, and the upcoming solo Captain Marvel film — and Black Panther officially revealing Wakanda to the world, there's no reason a genius black girl with infinity tricks up her sleeve shouldn't assume the role of its most brilliant ambassador.

It kicked off in 2008 with Iron Man, which gave birth to one of the most popular franchises in modern movie history and introduced a new generation of fans to classic comic book characters.

We know he can play the innocent young man or the reluctant hero, but seeing Lerman play someone with edge, someone who is at times a bit of a prick is a delight — this guy could be on track to become one of the best actors of his generation, provided he's given the material with which to shine.

(The script is loosely based on Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Old Man Logan arc of the Wolverine comics, which Vulture calls «the most influential single X-Men story in a generation.»)

YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle - Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual.

Ten years ago Hollywood graced the world with their Tobey Maguire led rendition of Spider - Man which helped pave the way for a generation of super hero movies to litter our

«Education,» Paolo Freire wrote, «either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.»

Cecil's affair with George is the primal tale at the heart of the novel, a narrative Garden of Eden, which - as years pass and the fact that he had relationships with men is lost and suppressed - the following generations yearn to recapture.