Sentences with phrase «genuine human freedom»

Due to genuine human freedom, God can not stop all the pain and sorrow that comes from our bad choices, but He does do what He can to protect us from it.

The reason for the pushback you're getting is that the Bible is opposed to «fatalism» (which makes our actions inconsequential for changing things and leads to resignation in the face of such powerlessness) but teaches and presupposes «compatiblism» (that God's absolute sovereignty is compatible with genuine human freedom and responsibility).

Demystification is essential to secularization, and a necessary step in clearing a space for genuine human freedom.

Justifying divine foreknowledge has always perplexed believers in genuine human freedom.

Not exact matches

Semicompatibilism abandons regulative control (the sort of freedom that involves genuine access to alternative possibilities) and asserts that humans have only guidance control.

God has given humans genuine freedom, so much so that if they choose to reject Him, He honors their choice, including the painful consequences (for them AND for Him) that their choice entails.

But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.»

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

Yet because God created a world where people have genuine freedom and can behave in ways that are contrary to His will, God can not take away human freedom when they try to use it in ways that He doesn't like.

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

God is ceaselessly creative: the world is continually «being made» and we humans are part of that «being made», with our own genuine freedom, our own dignity, and our own responsibility to play our proper role in the enterprise.

It will be much harder to do that in the future unless the college administration reverses its present course, calls the faculty and students who have been brutalizing Professor Esolen to order, and reaffirms Providence College's commitment to genuine academic freedom and to a Catholic vision of the human person that challenges the tribalism and identity politics eroding our culture and our politics.

But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

Quite to the contrary, God used His immense power to give genuine and real freedom to humans, and often, the evil things that happen are a result of our misuse and abuse of that freedom.

Just as human friendship depends on freedom - we choose our friends and willingly spend time with them - so, too, does a genuine relationship with God require willing involvement.

The possibility held before us is a new freedom in human relationships and a greater capacity for genuine concern and sensitivity.

But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.»

In order not to suffer this personal loss of value, Hick's deity gives human beings genuine freedom — freedom vis - à - vis God, which I have called theological freedom (Evil 17)-- so that their love and trust for their creator, when it develops, will be authentic.

But we should grasp the obvious truth that in a society where what is supposed to be good and right is imposed either by some supposed divine fiat or by required conformity to «what the Joneses do,» there is, in fact, no possibility of genuine moral principles involving both human freedom and human accountability.