As Loisy saw it, the Gospel was not a message set
in unchangeable words which were equally applicable to people of all centuries.
Thus if it be taken that the sub-atomic entities are not
in themselves unchangeable — which surely is one definite outcome of contemporary physics — but rather that they are acting entities, then clearly we have a kind of change, i.e., that which is involved in «acting,» which is not reducible to, or derivative from, change of place, locomotion — though change of place could be derivative from it.
3 The Supreme Godhead «is One
in an unchangeable and super-essential manner, being neither a unit in the multiplicity of things nor yet the sum total of such units.»
I believe that Muller's mistake is rooted in a too facile assimilation of Hume and Burke (Burke attacked metaphysical politics and not metaphysics per se, and assuredly believed that custom as «second nature» was deeply rooted
in an unchangeable human and social nature) and in a general failure to confront fully the important conservative critique of relativism and historicism.
What is past, present and future for us is known to God all at once
in his unchangeable vision.12 St. Augustine acknowledges that what he says about time in God is beyond human understanding.
Not exact matches
The psychologist Carol Dweck at Stanford University
in California has shown that if you believe intelligence can be developed through experience and hard work, you're likely to make more of an effort to solve difficult problems, compared with those who think intelligence is hereditary and
unchangeable.
The blockchain can record any information
in a secure way, and make that information both public and
unchangeable - doing this without relying on any central authority.
A stereotype is a type or image that is
unchangeable, as though carved
in stone (from the Greek stereos, meaning solid).
In this letter he said that he was grateful for having known Msgr Escrivá personally «and for having received from him encouragement and strength to be faithful to the
unchangeable doctrine of Christ and to serve the Holy Roman Church with apostolic zeal».
And it would be simply faulty theological formation, and rashness, if a Christian were to assert that because the Church can change or has changed a mutable positive Church law, it is also
in a position, or obliged, to alter a law which it knows is divine and
unchangeable, simply because it has a certain material affinity with mutable canon law.
Consequently, Plato affirmed the forms to be eternal,
unchangeable, and
in no way dependent upon any relationships for their existence or value.
In these and other respects even the Church's unchangeable dogma can have a history and can change even in spite of its immutabilit
In these and other respects even the Church's
unchangeable dogma can have a history and can change even
in spite of its immutabilit
in spite of its immutability.
Moreover, only very little
in the constitution of the Church is really of immutable divine law, and this law itself will inevitably exist
in concrete historical forms which are not simply
unchangeable.
I would conclude, then, that by changing my attitudes on several deeply ingrained matters (such as contraception and women's ordination), I have uncovered a remarkably unthreatening attitude toward the changeable and
unchangeable in the church
in general.
Therefore, I am no longer as certain of what is changeable and
unchangeable in the church.
(1) The classical conception of divine perfection is faulty
in that it concludes wrongly that
in order for God to be perfect, God must therefore be conceived as
unchangeable / immutable
in every respect.
the word of god is unarguable, undeniable,
unchangeable and everyone must obey otherwise you go to he11... until someone
in the church decides they want to change it, and then it's OK.
That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people
in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is
unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar
in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz
One was the classical idea of the perfection of God, which held that since God was perfect God must be
unchangeable (and therefore unaffected
in any real sense by the affairs of this world).
These were willing to shed all the inherited and supposedly
unchangeable dogmas
in order to be free to explore fresh forms and expressions of the Christian faith which would be more relevant to the new cultural and intellectual climate.
Indeed, to talk of «substance» here is
in itself misleading; for the use of that term, despite all the protests of the neo-Thomists and others, is certain to bring us to think of God
in terms of unchanging and
unchangeable inert stuff — and to do that is to deny, ab initio, the possibility of a God who responds
in complete faithfulness and with the utter integrity of His own nature, yet with deepest awareness and sympathy.
But the question is: Are there certain
unchangeable facts
in the human situation which compel us to recognize that the contradiction between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world is ineradicably present
in life itself?
But it seems to me that Dr. Altizer has fallen into a naturalization of historical time, that he has been led astray by his nineteenth - century mentors, who were battling against the rigidity of a mechanistic universe, for there is no doubt that
in the mechanistic and objective sense the past is dead and
unchangeable.
So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable,
unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering
in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us
in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever
in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.
Nervously, I reminded him (Professor Albritton also taught Aristotle) that, based upon a rudimentary (and now recognized to be false) empirical observation, Aristotle and Aquinas thought that the stars
in the firmament were
unchangeable, permanent, and, thus
in a special sense, «necessary beings,» different from all other changeable substances they had observed.
Karl Rahner, «Basic Observations on the Subject of Changeable and
Unchangeable Factors
in the Church,»
in Theological Investigations (New York: Seabury Press, 1976), XIV: p. 19.
They are heavily invested
in the claim that sexual identity is fixed,
unchangeable, and perhaps biological.
The argument for gay rights and anti-discrimination laws depends heavily on asserting the analogy with the civil rights movement,
in which skin color is not a choice but an
unchangeable given.
The mistake consists
in supposing that formulations of this kind are either directly revealed by God or composed out of divinely guaranteed statements
in creeds or scripture, and that they are therefore perfect, inerrant and
unchangeable: and therefore that man's salvation turns on whether or not he assents to them.
It is concluded that the soul is
in «the very likeness of the divine, and immortal, and intellectual, and uniform, and indissoluble, and
unchangeable» (Phaedo 78 - 80).
Matter
in itself is entirely
unchangeable.
Rather it contributes those eternal objects as embedded
in fully concrete past actualities with their solid, weight; and
unchangeable objective - case creativity.
If, therefore, something is perfect
in the traditional sense of being
unchangeable, then it has lost the perfections of growth and improvement.
Yes... if the «god»
in my mind when I became a believer
in 8th grade was
unchangeable... well... I would be
in trouble now... lol.
The sun and the seasons return at their appointed time, and everything
in the creation claims that God is
unchangeable.
Indeed, the magnitude of the spin of a neutron is the same
in every case, being absolutely fixed and
unchangeable.
One of the difficulties
in answering such questions is that God is timeless and
unchangeable, whereas we are immersed
in time and so picture His actions as a temporal sequence: «His creation is not one timeless act or one act at the beginning of time; it is a series of acts which continually bring into being new states of the universe by His positive or permissive willing».
Plato (c.428 - 348 BcE), for example, regarded the «inspired utterances of poets and prophets as, at best, symbolical adumbrations or shadows of truth and, at worse, the source of degrading superstitions».3 Fundamental to Plato's thought is the conviction that truth can not be found
in everyday life and sensible reality, but
in a more real or ideal realm of
unchangeable or eternal forms, which are the blueprint and pattern of the world.
He argued that, within this process, there existed an
unchangeable essence of Christianity which,
in the course of history, had gone through one metamorphosis after another.
24 Truth itself,
in true neo-Platonic understanding, «remains immortal, incorrupt,
unchangeable.»
It's just that IMO sports fans
in general are unfavorable to team - building plans that aren't rigid or
unchangeable — most people are more comfortable with a blueprint that follows a narrowly specific strategy only.
giroud would play on the wing if asked (he seems a honest player like that) i am sure, its just that he would struggle out there to do what a wide forward could, at his age his skill sets are
unchangeable usually generally he is a c / f and that's what he is good at but i could be wrong though, as for cavani he seems to openly want to refuse to play on the wing (i think he plays there grudgingly atm) and states it publicly thus undermining his managers ability to know here to place him
in the team team wenger wont have this from any player at arsenal
Parents who focus on such
unchangeable features tend to have kids who are less engaged
in their schoolwork.
Look at the days and times that he or she has visitation as being
unchangeable in any way until the co-parent approves.
To supporters, the public pension system - covering workers
in villages, towns, police and fire departments, libraries and schools - is an
unchangeable pact between government and its workers.
While it's true that genetics will give some guys a head start
in some areas of the body, genetic disadvantages are not
unchangeable facts of life.
Apparently, moments after a fairy is born, there's some sort of strange magical ritual
in which an
unchangeable occupation is chosen for the individual.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Sand Storm / Israel (Director & Screenwriter: Elite Zexer)-- When their entire lives are shattered, two Bedouin women struggle to change the
unchangeable rules, each
in her own individual way.
The core group of teachers and heritage educators will be involved
in activities that will empower them to engage their students and other target groups
in critical debate from multiple perspectives promote pluralism, and combat the idea that history is a single,
unchangeable truth.
And unlike a bill or statute that the legislature passes, which can always be amended or repealed
in subsequent years, a Constitutional amendment is virtually
unchangeable.