Sentences with phrase «given humans the power»

And if there is a GOD, then only HE will decide our fate, and if his judgement is written in a book, that by no means gives any human the power to dictate that onto another.

While recent developments in brain - computer interface (BCI) technology have given humans the power to mentally control computers, nobody has used the technology in conjunction with the Second Life online virtual world — until now.

Cats were believed to be clairvoyant, and their body parts, particularly their tails, were used in potions to give humans those powers.

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With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

He says the 360 Eye sucks between seven to eight litres of air through it per second — twice that of the Roomba — which gives it the power to pick up particles as small as 0.5 microns, or smaller than a human hair.

A breakthrough in genetic technology has given humans more power than ever to change nature.

May 2, 2018 • A breakthrough in genetic technology has given humans more power than ever to change nature.

Topic: Autonomy, Decentralization and Trust in Corporate Culture Takeaways: (1) the power of human agency that gives value to autonomy in corporate culture, (2) the logic of many specific Berkshire Hathaway decentralization decisions and how to apply the lessons in other businesses.

It essentially acts as an «electronic nose», and gives machines the power of smell by mimicking the human olfactory system.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

It really is amazing the power in giving a person simple human dignity by looking them in the eye, learning their name, listening to their story and offering to love them no matter how broken or poor they are.

The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world, for militarization of politics, economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.

We could give it the power and authority to keep the peace, submitting ourselves to international law and subscribing to international treaties designed to extend human rights and social justice.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

It is the protection, guidance, and release of the power to love in all the human ways, and the power to give love to God and the neighbour, which justifies the restraints, disciplines and prohibitions in the Christian ideal of the union of man and woman.

The proposal is an «attack on freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and the right to privacy that gives law enforcement unreasonably broad powers,» the humanitarian group Human Rights Watch told The Guardian.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

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.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

They must know the power of self - interest in human society without giving it moral justification.

And in her body she is the bearer of the most powerful of all blessings, «Be fruitful and multiply,» which leads human beings closer to divine creativity, the ability to bring new beings into being, than any other power given to humanity.

They can't see the basic human psychology in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to create heaven or hell.

And this scares you more than it would if the person with the power over extinction was someone who believed that human life was an accident representible by the 0.000000000000000000000000001 % chance that some chemicals could combine in just the right way, at just the right time, with just the right frequency to eventually give rise to sentience.

@pockets: So, what scares you is that someone who believes everyone on Earth was created for a reason, and who believes that all live is sacred, is given the power to choose whether or not to bring about the extinction of the human race.

His eagle's mask gave him super human powers.

In the «atheist version», there is no contradiction: God's love is given freely to every living being, just by virtue of being alive, and each being (in our case, humans) is free to use that power for good or ill.

What we need to do in order to grasp its meaning is to give full recognition to both elements, and the divine message will shine through with greater richness and power if we understand something of the channels of human fallibility mixed with high insights through which the message comes.

If the combinations are necessary, they give metaphysical truth; if impossible, they give metaphysical error — in both cases with the qualification that our human understanding has only fallible powers of discernment in such matters.

Given His onto - logical primacy, in his uncreated Personality and his created body and soul, it would be il - logical, in the deepest sense of the term (i.e. contrary to the Logos), if the conception of the Creator's human nature were subject to that creaturely power of co-creation by which new creatures are brought into being, for this is a fundamental aspect of human procreation.

If he had not given up everything that was part of being «God», then there would be no power in his sacrifice, there would be nothing profound about the way he lived... so, if he is fully human, the caption should read, «when a man stopped believing in God».

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

It operates in the individual «s willful yielding to the temptation to give rein to the libido of sensuality, of power, and of knowledge, and it operates even more powerfully in human institutions that in individuals.

There dwells of course within every human heart a feeling of something higher than itself, a dim apprehension of a Power ruling all that is, and giving His Law to all that lives.

As the messianic events of liberation in the Old Testament were not a result of human efficacy but rather a gift, an act of power that transcended the given possibilities of history, the Christian communities saw in Jesus an act of God's freedom... the power that creates a new future is something new, it is freedom from beyond history that is freedom for history.

Confronting the poverty, the warfare, the demoralization of human life, it has sought within itself for the wisdom and the power with which to give aid, and has discovered its impotence.

I also think that the ecological model of Birch and Cobb is superior in explanatory power to any present mechanical model because the ecological model accepts human feelings as primary givens.

It shows itself as power of love which challenges, gives life and frees human beings, at least those who hold themselves open to this offer.

All the human bitterness, the rivalry, jealousy, envy, and human hostility is transformed in him into a life - giving power that accepts abuse, endures pain, allows death, and gives only love in return.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

Once this ultimate structure of divine - human communion has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we have referred subsequent to the events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and certainty as great as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say, as great as a process - relational model of real contingency in the divine - worldly ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that ecosystem.

We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»

«In fact, the symbol, used as a means of detecting and deciphering human reality, will have been verified by its power to raise up, to illuminate, to give order to that region of human experience... «21

If God's power is perceived to be all controlling, dominating, impositional, so will humans aspire to be controlling and dominating over others in God's name, imposing their own will on others on the understanding that they are only fulfilling their God - given destiny.

Still, in light of God's willingness to have faith in his creature by intending these moral powers for man and limiting his own powers for the sake of giving man «space» in which to be more than a «robot» or a «puppet» in a «stage play,» and most especially in light of God's willingness to enter into the worst of man's human - historical condition via the incarnation for the sake of redeeming the «lifeworld» that man, by his powers, has corrupted through sin, the moral agent can ultimately affirm his or her moral nature in confidence that this «image of God» will not only not be lost but will continue to be affirmed and redeemed to the glory of God.

This notion requires much more elaboration, but the main point is that the «image of God» is not an uncorrupted one in human nature as it actually exists, and this fact prevents us from taking too sanguine a view of our divinely given, unique powers.