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In matters of life and death, such as the effectiveness of screening for cancer, women are more responsive to negative presentation (how many people will die) as opposed to positive (how many will survive).
How might Christians begin to rethink what it means to be the body of Christ
in matters of life and death?
Bearing in mind that we are speaking not of isolated statutes, but of authoritative renderings of the fundamental law, such laws would be laws (1) that deny protection to the weak and the vulnerable, especially
in matters of life and death, and (2) that systematically remove the legal and political ability of the people to redress the situation.
«Mad scientist» narratives can also show us the dangers of giving in to self - idolatry and attempting to supplant God
in matters of life and death, creation and destruction.
6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,»
in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.
No one can be forced to donate a kidney, even
in a matter of life and death, yet you think that somehow women be forced to remain pregnant against their will?
Doctors are among the society members who help others
in matter of life and death, as police officers and firefighters do.
Not exact matches
Pinkerton urges us
in no uncertain terms that «building your village — building it
and sustaining it — is a
matter of life and death.»
In doing so, the court failed to address a recurring question, one that's often a
matter of life and death for police officers
and the public.
According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work -
Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die soo
Life Balance Could Be a
Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die soo
Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School
of Business found that people who work
in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work
life were 15.4 % more likely to die soo
life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.
The Wall Street Journal
in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea
and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a
matter of life or
death,
and at that point, what happens
in the stock market is meaningless.»
One
of the few instances
in which I have ever seen logic
and rationality overpower the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is
in instances
in which
life or
death matters immediately dominate the discussion.
But
in contrast to the internet giants, who could weather this additional burden, for smaller retailers it could be a
matter of life and death.
I said to her «Mom you can go if you need to»
and she just slipped away... she had Alzeheimer but the last two weeks
of her
life she was very lucid
and talked
of my father (they had been married 59 years but she had spoken
of him
in the last four years after his
death... family, bio, adopted, inherited... no
matter what we all strive to get to them when we leave this earth.
In decisions from Roe through Casey, the Court has precisely left
matters of life and death to the private judgment
of individuals.
Apparently you just ignored the whole point that there is a difference between the concepts
of «immortality», where everyone will be resurrected
and become immortal no
matter who you are since physical
death came abut through Adam
and the fall,
and «eternal
life», which is
living with God or
in other words it deals with the quality
of that immortal
life.
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...
Dealing with the
death of a loved one really puts things
in perspective
and makes you realize the love
of family
and and friends is all that really
matters in this
life.
These questions define the subject
matter of the study
of divinity,
and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses
of God's self - revelation
in the
life,
death,
and resurrection
of Christ.
At the very least,
in the
matter of life versus
death, the compelling evidence [
in videos]
of responsiveness to commands
and of puberty warrants giving
life the benefit
of the doubt.
To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws impressed upon
matter by the Creator that the production
and extinction
of the past
and present inhabitants
of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth
and death of the individual... There is grandeur
in this view
of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one...»
Um nope let me believe there is
life after
death it is much easier for me to get up
in the morning
and not commit mass murder because it doesn't
matter we are all going to die anyhow
and no one is going to punish me once I'm dead anyhow might as well take a bunch
of you with me.
Because, Lord, by every innate impulse
and through all the hazards
of my
life I have been driven ceaselessly to search for you
and to set you
in the heart
of the universe
of matter, I shall have the joy, when
death comes,
of closing my eyes amidst the splendour
of a universal transparency aglow with fire...
society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out
of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure
of the educational system, baptism reminds us that,
in spite
of Gestalt
and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness
and pride are
life -
and -
death matters, that Christians are made, not born.
Thus, Wieman was convinced that
in the
matter of the empirical nature
of this creative process, «We are discussing, not logical inconsistency, but
life and death» (SHG 31),
For babies
and young children selfishness
in that context can be a
matter of life and death.
This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work
of academic moral philosophy On What
Matters, by Derek Parfit,
in which problems concerning the switching
of trolleys from one rail to another
in order to prevent or cause the
deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence
of moral reasoning
and its place
in the
life of human beings.
However what does your
life matter to you after you are dead if your soul (assuming the soul is mortal
and simply vanishes with a
death of physical body) is no longer
in existence.
Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual
life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spi
life according all
matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness
and death as nothing
in contradistinction to the
Life, Truth and Love, of Spi
Life, Truth
and Love,
of Spirit.
The care
of souls was a
matter of personal admonition
and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend
in penitence
and confidence the forgiveness
of sin, the great love
of God extended toward them, so that
in life and death,
in sin
and sorrow, they knew they were
in the hands
of a holy, loving God.
As Dom Gregory Dix,
in a now famous section
of his book The Shape
of the Liturgy, put the
matter, Christians through the ages have known
of no better
and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating
in the offering
of the Eucharist as «the continual memory»
of his passion
and death — which also means,
of course, the
life which preceded Calvary
and the knowledge
of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.
It is a
matter of life and death to our civilization that we recover what it means to possess freedom
in community.
Religious believers are dismayed by evolution theories because, by locating the origin
of all things
in the brute indifference
of matter, these theories seem to destroy the eschatological hope for that perfection
and perpetuity
of life beyond the grave
in which we are reunited with loved ones
and freed from the curses
of sin
and death.
When I'm listening to something that is Word, it is a
matter of life and death and I take it all
in like a hearty meal saving me from the brink
of disaster.
Suddenly, not only are you coping with that tragedy, but you find yourself
in a dispute with doctors or other family members over your loved one's care, a literal
matter of life and death.
Every organism,
in its activity, its potential, its joy - seeking
and its limitations, its
life and death - indeed every thinkable system or sub-unit
of matter, every «thing» - is defined
and administered from that vast, dynamic Unity.
but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't
matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words
and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this
and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years
and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away,
and revised everything he has set previous to jesus
and after his
death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding
of the book —
and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding
of or consideration to real
life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief
in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision...
and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!
In thanks to God it goes: «Your hands made from clay a more excellent likeness, which a holy fire quickened within,
and a lively soul brought to
life throughout its idle parts... You snatched us from perpetual
death and the last darkness
of hell,
and gave mortal
matter, put together from the liquid mud, to your Son
and to eternity.»
On one page, Gordis lauds Begin's father for telling his daughter to write on the Sabbath because getting an education,
in his opinion, was a
matter of life and death and justified violating the sanctity
of the day.
In a part
of the world where religious
and political identities are
matters of life or
death, the world
of the gospel, so familiar
and yet so distant, has never seemed more immediate.
In Milton's day, suppression
of truth was a
matter of life and death.
When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is
in it for me, to give up my grudges
and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once
and for all, to care for the poor
and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to gossip
and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no
matter the cost, to be capable
of forgiving to the point
of death, to
live as Jesus
lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.
Abortion is one
of the most controversial issues
in our culture, because it is, quite literally, a
matter of life and death.
I gave a talk some years ago
in which I mentioned that the Christian faith was a
matter of life and death.
Now I
live with
death, not with horrible loathing, but using it as a criterion to determine what is important
in my
life; as a stimulus to cheerfulness, for through it I shall recover those I love;
and as a way
of giving meaning to my work, since my efforts, no
matter how minor
and unimportant, may serve God's final goal [John Knox, 1974, p. 63].
The Resurrection is the real indication
of Christ's power over
death and sin,
of course, but also
of His power over
matter:
matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time
and space as before, an indication
of our own future bodily
lives in the state called «heaven».
As for number 3, it is ethically suspect to exaggerate the benefits
of breastfeeding, pretend that that breastfeeding is a
matter of life and death in the US, mislead women on the state
of the scientific evidence
and above all, to shame
and scare women about formula feeding.
And although it's not the same matter of life and death in the United States, women who choose to breastfeed know how challenging successfully nursing after birth can
And although it's not the same
matter of life and death in the United States, women who choose to breastfeed know how challenging successfully nursing after birth can
and death in the United States, women who choose to breastfeed know how challenging successfully nursing after birth can be.
The mayor adopted what has become a rallying cry for demonstrators
in protests
and on social media following the
deaths of unarmed black teens Trayvon Martin
and Michael Brown — «black
lives matter.»
Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make
and the operations he then undertakes —
in both cases, often quite literally a
matter of life and death.