Sentences with phrase «known by revelation»

The third way that philosophy comes to the service of theology is built upon the fact that truths known by sound philosophy and truths known by revelation alone can not contradict each other.

This is when a truth known by revelation is compared with one that can be known by reason; the analogy allows for a clearer understanding of the fittingness of the revealed truth.

Not exact matches

Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

This revelation caused Micron's stock to go up, probably, and so increased Einhorn's costs of accumulating that position by... ooh, I don't know, some amount of money.

that by revelation there was made know to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.

It is a slight story, made perhaps somewhat more significant by the authors» revelation in the very last sentence that the strange ex-slave who was Matthias» servant came to be known by history as Sojourner Truth.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelatioBy further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelatioby which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelatioby us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelatioby such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

«For early Christianity Scripture is no longer just what is written, nor is it just tradition; it is the dynamic and divinely determined declaration of God which speaks of His whole rule and therefore of His destroying and new creating, and which reaches its climax in the revelation of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit by the risen Lord... The full revelation in Christ and the Spirit is more than what is written» (TDNT I: 761).

The result is that God can be known by our reason, even without the help of supernatural revelation.

You know that the old testament dealt with a NATION, who were led by prophet through direct revelation into wars, and by kings, and priests.

No, it means that God calls people to respond by faith to the revelation that they have been given, and when they do, God makes sure that they receive further revelation.

Because we Christians know that God exists by divine revelation so we know that anything that directly disagrees with it, must be wrong.

You seek God, and then he lets you know He exists by divine revelation.

By the time I saw one of the older men carefully spooning dessert into the mouth of a woman with attenuated motor functions, I was no longer surprised by these revelationBy the time I saw one of the older men carefully spooning dessert into the mouth of a woman with attenuated motor functions, I was no longer surprised by these revelationby these revelations.

«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.

But if you knew God and His son Jesus Christ by the revelation of the Holy Spirit of God, you would understand that God is the One who set the Standards, i. e. laws of morality, and they are unchangeable.

Precisely the concept by which Christianity distinguishes itself qualitatively and most decisively from paganism is the concept of sin, the doctrine of sin; and therefore Christianity also assumes quite consistently that neither paganism nor the natural man knows what sin is; yea, it assumes that there must be a revelation from God to make manifest what sin is.

In accordance with a revelation received in 1833 by LDS Church founder Joseph Smith, something known as the «Word of Wisdom,» faithful Latter - day Saints abstain from coffee, tea and alcohol.

It is made known to us by revelation and remains in this life an object of faith.

It was not by reason, or by the study of books, but only by revelation that Muhammad could know the creative God and the divine attributes.

The formal designation can be made easily enough: When we refer to «Jesus Christ,» we are referring to the historical reality about which we were thinking in the preceding chapter — the reality from which the Christian community took its beginning and by which the continuing character of that community has been determined, the reality in and through which the revelation of God, known within the church, took place.

Okay, if there's no special revelation by God, how can you know anything about Him?

More significant is Joseph's reference to a revelation received through an angel of God which warned him of the devices of Potiphar's wife: «Now therefore know that the God of my father has disclosed your wickedness to me by his angel» (6:6).

Moreover, I know of no FWT in the group mentioned by Griffin who has stated that his idea of God — his understanding of what God is like — is ultimately grounded in an infallible self - revelation.

There may be no better term than «revelation» to accentuate faith's conviction that we ourselves are not the authors of the promise we live by.

Indeed, a faith in revelation may release our desire to know and reinforce the spirit of criticism in a much more radical fashion than rationalism, scientism, or adherence to other ideologies would by themselves allow.

The Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of St. Peter not that they might make known new doctrine by his revelation, but rather, that with his assistance they might religiously guard and faithfully explain the revelation or deposit of faith that was handed down through the apostles.

The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: to speak in this way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.

And the philosophical concept of revelation leads us back to this primacy of what is said over the inspiration of the narrator by means of a second analogy that is no longer that of inspiration, but that of manifestation.

If we are to completely follow the words commanded by Paul, as we believe it's a revelation from God, then how credible is he knowing that he is not completely following the Word of God?

But we have seen that whatever Christians might have thought in the past, we can no longer say that we actually possess a body of knowledge which answers to this description, whether it be by revelation or by science.

Faith, on the other hand, deals with transcendent realities that are known only by revelation, freely accepted by religious believers thanks to the grace of God.

Our attempts to see the natural revelation God has installed in the Creation act includes what «Science» discovers, but knowing we need to filter worldly bias in the presentation of such «scientific» evidences since the ideas of the world are driven by another mindset.

Since all thought presupposes an absolute (infinite), God can be known by thought, even apart from Christian revelation - if man can experience true morality!

-LSB--RSB- Now, while the principles of the science of theology are not known by philosophical reasoning (they come by revelation), the further conclusions that flow from these principles are derived with its help.

«You may have an opinion that a man is inspired, but you can not prove it, nor can you have any proof of it yourself, because you can not see into his mind in order to know how he comes by his thoughts; and the same is the case with the word revelation.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

These phenomena could be known to be universally valid by the deeper reaches of reason and revelation....

how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

The highest is that which, while compatible with reason, could be known only by revelation.

He is a leader for this team no doubt about it just like Viera was and leads by example every game and stats back it all up, hes been a revelation for us and he is one of our own!

The revelations in Connecticut are not the result of probing by scrupulous politicians but of the questions and charges raised by three men: Harvey Ziskis, a bettor who was barred under clouded circumstances from the Hartford fronton; Theodore A. Driscoll, investigative reporter for The Hartford Courant; and Professor Lester Snyder of the University of Connecticut School of Law, who served on the State Commission on Special Revenue, popularly known as the gaming commission, from October of 1976 until last March.

It's hard to begin to know what the Cheshire - based makeup artist meant by this odd revelation about her husband's hygiene, nor what to think of the defender's dazed smile in the photo.

These revelations were made known when the members of the Electoral Commission, led by its Chairperson Charlotte Osei appeared before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee.

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

A spokesman for Cuomo was asked numerous questions by The Buffalo News» Tom Precious about what the governor knew, related to certain revelations at the trial, and when he knew it.

Dick Dadey of Citizens Union said revelations by Thompson's mom about his deteriorated mental state in his final three months made it «important for the public to know how prosecutorial decisions were made during this period.»

Most recently, Kolb has been silent on the revelations now being examined by Bharara that Silver has apparently been receiving substantial income from a little - known Manhattan law firm, Goldberg & Iryami, but failed to disclose the information as legally required on his state financial - disclosure statement.»