Sentences with phrase «human meaning of death»

In fact, I think that is the human meaning of death.

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This marks a major shift in the meaning of death, from ineffable human destiny to legislated human right.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

All I am saying is that religions were created by humans as a means of explanation of life after death.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

Haught can not explain what happens at death, nor the meaning of the sacraments as taught by the Church, nor the human need for true interior life.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

Human beings naturally cling to life, and the witnessing of the death of others, especially those near and dear, and the anticipation of one's own passing away compel reflection upon the meaning of these events.

Serious social scientists have no professional vocabulary to deal with the mystery of death, the human search for meaning, the moral struggle, the primacy oflove or the drama of salvation.

Does the New Testament, in asserting that Jesus is risen from the dead, mean that his death is not just an ordinary human death, but the judgment and salvation of the world, depriving death of its power?

From his birth to his death and beyond... Jesus translates the logic or meaning or pattern or heart of God into terms we humans can understand: skin and bone, muscle and breath, nerve and action.

To think about our death means also, of course, to think about our life — what it means to be a human being, what sort of nature and life we share.

If this is what it means to be human, it may be no surprise that bioethics — concerned as it is with Bios — should, especially at its most philosophical, focus so much attention on the beginning and end of life, on birth and death.

Christ manifests the divine will by his obedience unto death, which means by denouncing human passions and strivings, revealing in this way God's eternal thought concerning the salvation of humankind.

We live in a world where many of the things the Bible says — God made everything, human beings are responsible for the world's problems, God chose Israel as his special people, sex is only meant for one man and one woman in marriage, Jesus is the only way to God, the wages of sin is death, God is going to judge the earth one day, and so on — are profoundly unpopular.

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

When we speak of the «resurrection of Jesus» we do not mean that his death was cancelled out and he became again, and continues to be, a conscious historical human being.

Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of evil, human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.

The meaning of this passage has been a matter of dispute among New Testament experts, although it is quite obvious that if it does nothing more it asserts that the Apostle believed that there was some connection between the fact of death and the reality of human sin.

The Incarnation (God's assumption of human nature and flesh) and Atonement (the meaning of the death of Jesus) are the two traditional doctrines for expressing this faith.

When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.

Incarnation means that God assumes our frame of reference, entering into our human situation of finitude and estrangement, sharing our human condition even unto death.

The new self of each moment partly includes the old experiences through memory, although Hartshorne does not exclude as inappropriate some talk of an old self with new experiences, provided it is clearly understood that the old self is contained within the new experiences and not the converse.4 Furthermore, he reasons that, if human experiences were the properties of an identical ego instead of the ego's being the property of the experiences, then to know an individual ego would mean to know all its future; and, therefore, we could not really know the individual in question until his death.5

Rather, individualism and autonomy have seduced the meaning of human life, and therefore, the meaning of human death.

This argument» in the mouths of death penalty opponents committed to the sanctity, or at least equal dignity, of every human being» comes perilously close to suggesting that we should use an execution of one of our fellow citizens as a means to desired ends.

In fact, in the Gospel the preservation of human life in society has the fundamental meaning of death...

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

That is, might God he anticipating human death — which He had just mentioned as the inevitable consequence of gaining knowledge of good and bad — against which He will now provide the means of perpetuation?

We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

While life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are valuable human ideals in themselves, they are by no means «God - given rights,» are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such values are divorced from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some of the greatest instruments of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

Bob... I'm not really sure if yr response to the Bonhoeffer quote is becuz you think it unreasonable or simply,» too doctrinaire», or as you say» religious speak» But, I take the statement to mean that the only hope for true community is the death of the «human wish for «community and therein lies the same paradox that is at the heart of the Christian message..

That is, the meaning of Jesus» death can be understood only in light of the prototypical «good bad thing» in human culture: scapegoating sacrifice.

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DiChristina: It really does, I mean, I think when we kiddingly call it the death issue in internal editorial conversations, some of us really might have liked to focus more on that aspect of human endings.

Of course, there are also many religious or spiritual people who understandably wonder about questions related to death and who worry whether meaning, beauty, and other deeply human qualities can survive the cold scrutiny of rational inquirOf course, there are also many religious or spiritual people who understandably wonder about questions related to death and who worry whether meaning, beauty, and other deeply human qualities can survive the cold scrutiny of rational inquirof rational inquiry.

If the project moves forward (the script is still being written), the drama will center on a scientist and her former mentor as they battle for control over the human genome, the culmination of which could mean life or death for the entire human race.

GPS may mean many wonderful things, but it may also mean yet another death for the powers of human observation.

More lightning strikes mean more human injuries; estimates of people struck each year range from the hundreds to nearly a thousand, with scores of deaths.

Joshua - Tor's lab continues to work on Argonaute, which has eight structural variants in the human system alone and whose ability to fine - tune the output of our genes can mean the difference between health and sickness, even life and death.

In fact, the mystery of it is essential for the film to work, as it explores life, death, the existence of God, what it is to be human, and even further, what is the meaning of life.

Of course, in a movie like «Happy Death Day» this sort character detail of what should be common human decency means Carter is the nice guy love interesOf course, in a movie like «Happy Death Day» this sort character detail of what should be common human decency means Carter is the nice guy love interesof what should be common human decency means Carter is the nice guy love interest.

He is excited about being a part of it and has given no thought to the pain of eventual death nor is he afraid of what being human will mean to him.

Indeed, the authors occasionally surprise readers, particularly with their recurring interest in the subtle institutional dynamics - from state charter laws to the nitty - gritty of making these human - scale organizations actually work over time - that mean life or death for fledgling charter schools.

Whenever human beings become what they were meant to be, when even death can not finally hold its prisoners, then we can truly speak of power.

A novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.

... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy.

A debut unlike any other, Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human.

Other chapters discuss such concepts as death, the afterlife and heaven; the human soul; the mystical experience of the divine; and the meaning of life.