What some call the role of tradition in the formation of the Bible I prefer to describe as the gracious gift of God in sovereign control of
human affairs so as to result in the Bible - the Word of God written.
Not exact matches
So does the Accord, which I believe has been a substantial contributor to the low rate of inflation we now see in Australia: the Accord processes are not perfect but that is the nature of compromise and
human affairs generally.
This principle of the chaos theory is that just s Jesus incarnated Himself as a
human, eventually taking on the appearance of a criminal worthy of death,
so also, God incarnated Himself in the
human affairs of the Israelite nation,
so that He appears to be guilty of their crimes when in fact He is not.
Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has
so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the
affairs of
human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of
human beings.
There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church
affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not
so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all
human affairs.
Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is
so clearly a distinguishing feature of
human beings within the whole created order and because it is
so essential to the effective conduct of all
human affairs, including every aspect of education.
Our accepted exegesis of this bold denial is that it means only a repudiation of divine activity in
human affairs, since,
so it is said, the Hebrews never doubted the existence of God.
His aim is
so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in
human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.
Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of
affairs which might evoke this universal love in the
human heart, a love
so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men upon earth, all the earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.
, still God would have brought the world of
human affairs into such a relationship with Him as in Christ He did do,
so that He might crown His many comings and revealings and workings among us by this supreme and definitive act.
When I considered its divisive impact on
human affairs, as well as the hypocrisy that flourishes even among the
so - called faithful, I felt it wasn't for me.
We have spoken of what holds true among men, and there it is true
so far as
human affairs go.
As in the Old Testament, therefore, the idea of God had been progressively formulated, not
so much in the light of philosophic disquisition as in the light of his mighty acts for Israel, from the deliverance out of Egypt to the least and latest sign of his effective control over
human affairs,
so in the New Testament the idea of God was centered not in a concept but in a deed.
Just as Jesus took on
human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations,
so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the
affairs of humanity with all of our weaknesses and limitations.
Britain has never been very interested in international
affairs,
so it will have little notion of the warmth with which an attack on
human rights will be received in some of the more questionable capitals of the world.
There is something fundamentally wrong with a state that is
so grossly overcentralised (above all, when it comes to the
affairs of England) and has such an overmighty executive, restrained only by judges implementing the
Human Rights Act, unelected lords and journalists.
«While the Lord Chancellor is regularly wheeled out to defend the prime minister or the flawed
Human Rights Act, shouldn't he be concentrating on getting his own house in order at the Department for Constitutional
Affairs,
so that it delivers access to justice for all?»
Marc Wolfson, public
affairs specialist on emergency preparedness for the Department of Health and
Human Services, isn't
so confident: «We can develop the best countermeasures in the world, but if they're not there in time to help treat the patient, then they're not effective.»
The Ancient Flower That Heals The
Human Soul
So ancient a love
affair exists between
humans and saffron, that it can no longer reproduce without...
In doing
so we are changing the given geographical context of
human affairs.
The media's respectful worship of inspirational bad science best - sellers (e.g. «Mein Kampf's» eugenics pesudoscience) is based on the book's corruption to «change
human affairs», which is precisely Dale Carnegie's template for inspirational speech making, and is
so well suited to the conceited like climate reality denier Al Gore), deliberately «oversimplifies» and deceives to motivate the masses against an exaggerated immediate peril (requiring gas chambers for eugenics, unilateral nuclear disarmament, or CO2 taxation).
If the
human impact has been
so powerful that it has deflected the Earth from its natural geological path, describing the state of
affairs as «unethical» or «unlawful» seems to be some kind of category error.
FAIL He went on to say (in 1997) «The more serious question then is do we expect increasing CO2 to produce sufficiently large changes in climate
so as to be clearly discernible and of consequence for the
affairs of
humans and the ecosystem of which we are part.»