Within
the human race the people of Israel pioneered the way of faith which is our heritage, and there is no more powerful myth than the story of the Christ of faith.
Not exact matches
The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by
people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few
people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the
human race to eternal suffering.
This is not a reflection on the Muslim
people or their faith, but a reflection on the way of all the
human race and their religions, including Christianity.
Why then is it so bad for
people to believe in that... its the
human race who perverts the teachings of God.
The Bible is full of stories of God interacting with His
people in particular, and the
human race in general.
This is why the
human race will not survive, not due to
people not procreating, it will be that we will destroy ourselves with our own selfishness and hate toward our own
people.
The truth is that
people of faith, any faith, stand in the way of the complete perversion of the
human race.
I don't follow religion, but it seems to me, WD, that you spend a lot of time condemning religious
people while thinking you're actually helping the
human race yourself... and yet, I don't see how your anger is doing anything good...
It is all so outdated for the
human race... I don't understand why so many
people need such strong faith in a biblical text to carry out their lives happily and productively.
Moreover, the suffering that can be inflicted through disturbance within the
human body indicates the extent to which general biological health and «material» security constitute happiness, although the fact that these ends dominate the lives of most
people in the contemporary world indicates how far short of its possibilities the
human race remains.
These gifts combined with a free university education to so many
people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the
human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.
Removing all corrupted flesh from the earth and ensuring the
human race could continue through 8
people was an act of love, mercy, and compassion for mankind.
On question: if sin was not imputed to
people living during the time from Adam to Moses, why did God destroy the entire
human race by a flood in Noah's day?
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the
human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious
people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)
First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of
human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of
people of every
race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.
The WHOLE
human race of currently 6 + billion
people could not just have come from 2
people.
i accept all
people as
human regardless of
race, creed, national origin or se - xual orientation.
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling
persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of
race or nation; it set
persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and
human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
In its contemporary form, it forces the majority of the
human race into strategies for abject survival, denying tens of millions of
people even the right to live.
But they do disclose to us certain important truths, upon which the attainment of our eternal salvation depends, and they do also give a popular description of the origin of the
human race and of the chosen
people.
It automatically becomes a serious offense to injure or exploit other
people, not because of some vague humanist values but because God has done man the unspeakable honor of identifying himself with the
human race.
«Islam is not just for certain
people,» he contended, «it is for the entire
human race.
The article is describing how
people are finally waking up and realizing that yes natural disasters MIGHT be caused by a celestial being but that again does not mean in ANY way that it is because the
human race has sinned or committed some specific act that warrented a natural disaster as punishment.
For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the
human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little
people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white
people and dark
people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»
As a science - fiction reader I am always amazed that some
people will say that a book brings into focus
human nature and future trends and a possible scheme for the salvation of the
human race from our own self - destructiveness.
This anxiety is a stifling, paralyzing force unless one has developed a functional philosophy of life; a life style of «generativity» (Erikson), i.e., self - investment in the ongoing
human race; and relationships of trust with at least one other
person and with the Ground of Being.
At the Lord's Table
people of all classes and
races are welcome — surely a model of coexistence that is by no means common in the
human city.
It's time for the Catholic church to be dismantled in order for the
human race to prosper, grow, and reach its true pinnacle where all
people are held in equal regard.
Sometimes the only comfort I find is that as part of the
human race I am only one
person among many over centuries and centuries who find themselves in dire circumstances and suffer almost unbearably.
«Heal the world, make it a better place For you and for me and the entire
human race There are
people dying, if you care enough for the living, make it a better place for you and for me»
Like us
humans can produce,
people's of all
races and features!
Furthermore, breeding across
race lines has been practiced throughout
human history; that is how we came to have such a motley assembly of
peoples on the earth today.
It can be argued... and it is an argument I listen to... that
people such as monks and hermits who remove themselves from the crowd in order to explore new spiritual territory or to pray for the world are actually benefiting the
human race vicariously.
Would you proclaim to believe that all
races of
humans came from the 8
people on Noah's Ark and without the process of evolution?
It's
people like you that insult the
human race.
Taking into account that Jesus wasn't just claiming to be some kind of guru here to teach
people how to get along, that the claimed for himself the name «I AM» which is the very name of God in the Hebrew language, calimed that he is «Lord of the Sabbath» and Judge of the
human race, one must come to one of three answers: a) Jesus is the Son of God b) He isn't.
Rome may have laid a heavy hand upon turbulent
peoples, but the Roman peace was a boon to a large part of the
human race.
Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other
persons in history, who together make up the collective
human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.
Back then
people married young, if it was disallowed back then, then you are basically CONDEMNING 60 % OF THE
HUMAN RACE.
Psychologists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, in The Caveman and the Bomb:
Human Nature, Evolution, and Nuclear War (McGraw - Hill, 1985), express this view with their useful observation that «the nuclear arms
race goes on because
people allow it» (p. 22, their emphasis).
I shall later write a few more words explaining all this; but right now we must remember that ultimately every
human race, every
people, every religious, political, and social group has its own style of thinking and speaking.
Another suggestion for how the rainbow flag originated is that at college campuses during the 1960s, some
people demonstrated for world peace by carrying a Flag of the
Races (also called the Flag of the
Human Race) with five horizontal stripes (from top to bottom they were red, black, brown, yellow, and white).
While every
person deserves respect and dignity simply due to their membership in the
human race (even those who are delusional), we do not have give their beliefs respect or dignity.
religion has done far too much damage to the
human race and
people are starting to wake - up from the misery and realize humanism definitely outweighs scripture of any kind.
There was no global flood, the entire
human race didn't come from two
people in a garden who ate a fruit and got kicked out, there is no archaeological evidence of an exodus of over 1 million Israelites coming out of Egypt and wandering the desert for 40 years.
In this latter, we are concerned with the fundamental rights of the
human person for freedom and equality irrespective of gender, language, culture,
race, caste, creed or anything else.
Believing that two
people 6000 years ago got busy and made the
human race is an equally stupid literal interpretation.
The awareness that we men also are exploited — by the present «success» system — and that we're also depriving ourselves of much of our
person - hood (by the male rat
race) makes it obvious that the basic issue is
human liberation.
It is fallacious to think that each of us is an entirely separate
person; as
human beings we are members one of another in the solidarity of our
race.
World citizenship can be widely extended among all
people through the application of the principles of mental health... the problem of world citizenship in relation to
human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light of new knowledge about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments,
race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereotypes.