And the religious response to this suspicion is in each case the same: the formulation, by means of symbols, of an image of such
a genuine order of the world which will account for, even celebrate, the perceived ambiguities, puzzles and paradoxes of human experience.
Not exact matches
When Constantine became a Christian he created a golden opportunity to unite a wholeheartedly universalist religion and its abundance
of scriptural authority and missionary impetus with an empire's forces
of political, military, and economic expansion in
order to create a
genuine world empire.
In
order for the
world to be independent
of God and to possess its own existence, or to undergo a
genuine self - transcendence in evolution, its creative ground would in some way make itself absent from that
world instead
of overwhelming it with divine presence.
This is especially the concepts that good works must follow and accompany faith in
order for the faith to be considered
genuine, the understanding
of repentance as turning away from sin and as necessary for assurance and «final salvation,»
of the Kingdom
of God referring to God's final salvation for the redeemed and punitive judgment for the wicked, and God's punishment
of Jesus for the sins
of the whole
world to satisfy His wrath.
Again, the insistence on the societal nature
of the
world, and on man's
genuine participation since he himself is organic to that
world, illuminates the Christian belief that man belongs to the creation and that the whole natural
order, as well as human history and personal experience, is integral to the purpose
of God.
The establishment
of the innocent and
genuine character
of this benevolent moralist (Jesus), and the rescuing it from the imputation
of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems [E.g., The immaculate conception
of Jesus, his deification, the creation
of the
world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity, original sin, atonement, regeneration, election,
orders of Hierarchy, etc.] invented by ultra-Christian sects, unauthorized by a single word ever uttered by GOD!
Emphasis upon it has been necessary in
order to insure it adequate attention as a
genuine phase
of the total
of Hebrew thought and to show the measure
of ultimate attainment; for the conviction that Israel regarded the
world and all within it as dependent upon the will and activity
of God has become axiomatic in our minds to the exclusion
of other possibilities.
It also allows people the space they need to operate as a successful think - tank in
order to come up with some
genuine ideas that will help shift the climate conditions
of the
world to a better spectrum.
If the exchange is covered by the guidelines, and if the comments expressed by Lee are
genuine and part
of an April Fools joke by himself (as opposed to being fake comments created as part
of an April Fools joke by Bitcoin Magazine, or real comments about an actual new new
world order on the part
of Bobby and Charlie), Lee says, «then I am so screwed.