william, setting aside «the whole human race is responsible for climate change», there are clearly some subsets of
the human race which are more responsible than others... with those who have profited off it, and used those profits to deceive the public about it, being at the top of the list.
Insure modest gains for the next generation, having great faith in your eventual resurrection rather than selfishly gambling everything on yourself and risking the survival of
the human race which is supposed to play a role in your eventual resurrection.
Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of
the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.
It was that part of
the human race which pioneered in understanding the vanity of idol worship and in obeying the law of brother - love.
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.
Rather, itis the reality of the union of Christ with
the human race which is the template for the meaning of the sexes: the sexes were made for this, they point to it, they mirror it.
Not exact matches
And we're at a point at
which, in the next 10 years, we're going to take all of the
human race out of extreme poverty.
«If you're going to have a bad night's sleep, it's more likely because you're stressed out or your mind is
racing,» Chapin says, «
which are obviously more complex
human problems.»
And I believe understanding this element of
human nature —
which I'll discuss in the next section — is key to building a life that: a) involves ambitious striving toward goals and having impact in the world,
which contributes to a sense of meaning, and b) gives you a shot at realizing true happiness by avoiding a soul - sucking competitive rat
race.
I do not choose to be a
human being to the exclusion of my
race and all that it entails including history and culture (both of
which are rich, I might add).
Our present day bully - pulpit abusive religions stem from the Neolithic Revolution,
which, as Jared Diamond put it, was The Worst Mistake in the History of the
Human Race.
His isn't a pessimistic view of the
human race, but one
which demanded the exacting exercises of contrition and love.
His successor, Pius XII, issued an equally powerful encyclical, Summi Pontifactus (1939),
which condemned totalitarianism, and openly challenged Nazi racial theories by defending the unity of the
human race.
Process thought does not make a distinction between suffering endemic to the entire
human race and suffering
which is meted out by one ethnic group to another.
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.
For all his ground - breaking insights, among the bolder statements of John Paul the Great was his insistence that woman «is the representative and archetype of the whole
human race: she represents the humanity
which belongs to all
human beings, both men and women» [1] and, again, «all
human beings — both women and men — are called through the Church to be the «Bride of Christ.
«If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body
which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin,
which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole
human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, «Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned» (Rom.
This was because the fallen angels (sons of God) existed before creation (before man) had intermarried with the
human race (daughters of man) as a devil's plan in order to stop, corrupt man's seed
which was God's plan to that seed will bruise Satan's head.....
«the enemy of the
human race... has thought up a way, unheard of before now, by
which he might impede the saving word of God from being preached to the nations.
63 When bloody flooding killed the
human race And brand - new oceans put man in his place, Except for those who carried mankind's seed, I, first of creatures, snubbed what law decreed, While I mocked yielding to the Lord's command, For
which, I think, a poet would declare, «The sin....
Thus, if in dealing with the problem of the various
human races, their appearance, their awakening, their future, we start from its purely biological roots, it will lead us to recognize that the only climate in
which man can continue to grow is that of devotion and self - denial in a spirit of brotherhood.
For he is determined finally and forever to be reconciled with the
human race, and the enmity
which exists can only be overcome if he takes all wrath — his as well as ours — up into himself.
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.
This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact of God with our
human race, and precisely by virtue of this penetration of the divine into our
human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension of our natural capacities
which we call «grace».
He belongs to our
race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our
human responsibilities and enduring our
human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness
which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.
So then perhaps it is no poem, or at any rate not one for
which any
human being is responsible, nor yet mankind; ah, now I understand you, it was for this reason you called my procedure the most wretched act of plagiarism, because I did not steal from any individual, nor from the
race, but from the God or, as it were, stole the God away, and though I am only an individual man, aye, even a wretched thief, blasphemously pretended to be the God.
The
human imagination needs to be set free among all ages, all
races, all classes, all nations to dream dreams of things that never have been but
which could be — dreams so real that they stir up passionate commitment that strives for their embodiment sometime, somewhere, somehow.
We have already noticed the Rio Declaration
which claims environmental paramountcy if the
human race is to survive.
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.
Or is the
human race an infallible one so that any idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith of its truth no matter the reality of things and then acted on without concern of the real truth
which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?
My final say as a
human to
human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all
races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces
which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?
Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit
which has to be overcome if the
human race is to regain some control over its destiny.
The Incarnation was intended to bring about the perfection of the individual and of
human society through the integration of the whole
human race as a family
which takes its name from God the Father.
The whole Judeo - Christian heritage, from whose roots the new world has sprung, may be regarded as the medium by
which God the Father has been leading the
human race to its coming of age.
Mankind has just passed through a period in
which the influence of Jesus has been more widespread and has done more to shape the
human race as a whole than at any previous time.
True, St. Paul seems to agree with the Gnostics as regards the effects
which he ascribes to the fall of Adam as the ancestor of the
human race.
So soon as the
human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in
which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.
He is the Saviour because he is God reaching out to a broken
human race desperately in need of transformation
which can come only by us using our freedom to allow him to change us.
True, it desires that most legitimate civilizations should be preserved, yet it approves of the development of «a more universal form of
human culture... one
which will promote and express the unity of the
human race» (art. 54) and favours a powerful international organization
which, despite the United Nations, does not yet exist (art. 84).
BTW... the «babies» Jesus drowned in the flood were nephilim: angel (or celestial beings in general) and
human hybrid
which created a
race of barbaric giants wreaking destruction upon the earth.
«Thus, devotion to the truth about man, regardless of the consequences for traditional preconceptions about the
races, leads the scientific inquirer to facts that sustain the grand democratic vision of a ground for fundamental
human unity
which is simultaneously the source of personal variety and singularity.
You Said...» @ Peace2All, Gays could end humanity, a man + a man = no kids
which means a decline of population, eventually causing over a thousand or so years the decline of the
human race.»
Each sees the existence of the
human race as just one particular episode in a vast non-
human immensity and is hostile to the hubris
which would tailor the universe to the
human scale.
Its great systemic purpose is to break the immemorial chains of poverty
which had held the
human race in serfdom for millennia.
And
which is better for 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.
The only «ism» that is we should all focus on is «HUMANism»
Which deals with what is best for the entire
human race.
But Christ has given them a right to claim a history
which goes back to the creation of the world and of the
human race, and they know now that their history is the history of the new Israel
which is connected with the old Israel in and through Christ» (Tribal Awakening, Reprint, p. 221).
Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods
which are even less than
human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language,
race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign
which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.
By means of the story of the great flood, in
which things were described as being so bad that the
human race was all but annihilated, Israel was taught to see in the rainbow a sign that God would never again send such a catastrophe to blot out mankind.