Sentences with phrase «living argument as»

Another ex-minister said: «We're using the cost of living argument as a substitute for economic competence.

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As Eddie Nuvakhov, CEO and producer of LNC Productions, a company that specializes in marketing videos explains, «You need to show people how your product is going to change their lives for the better, and not just what the product is, if you want to make a convincing argument for its purchase.

You could make an argument for 5 % in gold as a good diversifier — although I'd argue against it as compounding will become a huge factor for your son later in life and gold doesn't pay dividends.

My father was a lawyer and used his own life as an argument in court against his idea that it was utopian and that we couldn't build a compassionate world or business structure because he did it.

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

You said, «To discount The Bible as merely a «fairy tale», or deny the life of Jesus just doesn't cut it without ANY counter-evidence, so you make the convenient argument for yourself that there is no evidence to counter.

Here's the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at....

This is why arguments about what god wants are as discredited as arguments about who people were in their last life or what Xenu wants amongst the rational.

The narration of these events is meant to serve not just as an example but as an implicit argument for how Christians should think, and how seminary curriculum should be restructured to take congregational life seriously.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

Even if the argument is valid or scientifically support, such as when human life begins.

An ordinary reader might think that Martin's argument for openness to supernaturalism is intended to give aid to conservative Christians who reject secular scholarship because, they argue, the believing historian is just as justified in bringing her faith in supernatural intervention to life - of - Jesus research as the secular historian is in rejecting it.

Roger Williams had no argument with making God's will supreme in public as well as in private life.

Even among Christians, for whom scripture should be a guide to life's challenges, many cling to the idea that issues such as abortion and the end of life are so complex that only a simple - minded person, unable to see two sides of an argument, could possibly take a firm stance.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

As the years went on, Richard seemed to grow ever more knowledgeable, poised, intellectually many - sided, and well informed about the vast array of conflicts, arguments, clashing ambitions, and hidden purposes that mark our national civic life.

But Duffy never wanders too far from this one persistent argument» that much of the vitality and resiliency of Catholicism is found in its rituals and worship, in lay devotions and Marian piety, in veneration of the Church's blesseds and saints, in acts of communal discipline and obedience that bind the faithful together as a living organism.

It may indeed seem that what I have done so far is to offer a tentative argument against the claims of an exemplarist interpretation of Christ's work, namely, that if he is offered us as an exemplar his experience is in crucial respects too relative and limited to offer a wholly significant guide - post to men and women in all the circumstances of their lives.

So also, the argument goes, must the public see to it that the creation of new forms of life is carefully regulated so as to limit the chances for biodisaster.

It seems not to have occurred to Freud that his wish to live without illusions may have been so powerful as to have clouded his reason and infected his arguments about wish fulfillment.

As to the, «where are the intermediate forms» argument that has occasionally been put forth in a slightly less ignorant manner, there are a variety of reasons why every intermediate form isn't in the fossil record, the most significant being that of the trillions of organism that have ever lived on the planet, only the extreme minority get fossilized.

And I would also like to point out that the idea of rights is subjective too according to your arguments, there is no such thing as truth and everyone should just live life the way they want too.

Moreover, as Eric Chevlen notes, self - interest often interferes with moral reasoning, and if one is already interested in the contraceptive way of life, one may not be open to Humanae Vitae for reasons that have little to do with the strength of its arguments.

So if you are trying to point to the «sancti.ty» of life as an argument to support being against abortion you are ignoring the «natural» death toll that God allowed to befall those before proper prenatal care came into being.

There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»

For arguments sake, i agree, all who say life has purpose only if you give it purpose are saying, what i beliveve is not the same as what you believe, but really, we all have a set of ideas of which we should do but never do them, or if we're thrill seekers do the opposite.

Even in its more sophisticated guise, such as the argument of Immanuel Kant that life in heaven is to be a due adjustment of affairs after the obvious evil known and experienced in mundane life, there is for many people little meaning.

His own pet proof of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend of mine (a friend who has devoted too much of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules of logic and the elementary language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the whole history of the human race.»

It's nice that you keep ignoring the crux of this argument and relying on a single quote as a life boat.

From Hart, we ask whether he does mean by his arguments that particular animals will return to life, perhaps insofar as they are integrally connected to the identity of particular humans.

Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved by more idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

However, despite the fact that God is transcendent, God is personal, as the moral argument shows, as He gave us morals to show us how to live.

But first, what in fact have been the traditional arguments for life after death, as it has come to be called?

The principal argument for abortion for a disabled child is that the child's life will not be worth living, that it would be a burden to the child himself or herself, to those who have to care for him or her, and to society as a whole.

We concluded that there are several reasons that could be used to support an argument for choosing Jesus as our compass, for granting him a sacred role as meaning - giver: first, we are not aware of any especially good alternatives; second, his ability to serve in this role has been confirmed in many faithful lives; and third, in choosing him we align ourselves with a compass which is in the public domain, and as such our interpretation is subject to the correction of tradition and public debate.

Frances Dawbarn FAITH MAGAZINE March - April 2016 Tenderness with Life As I have listened to debates and arguments about assisted suicide — many have been reasonable, measured and well considered — something has occurred to me.

Somehow, though, we are the winners in this argument because we learn and watch as a young woman emerges into a maturing faith that lets the kingdom vision of Jesus reshape her life.

It is through the forms of social life that we acquire the ability to do «instinctively» — by which I meant without reflecting — what we would hesitate to do as a result of rational argument.

As if anticipating an objection, Miss Mac Donald brushes aside the old argument that atheists are simply living off the spiritual capital of a distinctive Jewish and Christian civilization.

Any argument for heterosexuality as a preferred sexual choice does not rest on how this or that heterosexual life works out.

We and the world in which we live would, in my opinion, be the better for it if we followed and did as Jesus taught, which so few do, rather than spend our hours and days in endless discussions and arguments defending what we suppose to be a group of perfect, from the mouth of God, writings.

There's a man who started life as an atheist and became a Christian, and he makes a very persuasive argument for that decision.

To state five locations in the bible and to use these as the principle guide lines for the argument that the bible only refers to this life on earth is inaccurate.

They might conceive of their arguments or differences as scrimmages for the larger game of life.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

Tom Tom makes too many as sumptions about others.No wonder it can't make a valid argument and why does it have to think that it is only one that lives in a good neighborhood and that everyone else lives in a trailor?

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

The book's argument could be summed up as, «Here is how life could have come to be if there were no God.