Sentences with phrase «means life based»

If eschatological attitude means a life based on invisible, intangible realities, that is much too wide a definition, for it covers the whole range of religion.

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There are also more tough - on - convicts measures, including language to ensure «a life sentence means a sentence for life,» and a promise to ensure immigrants to Canada are selected based on the needs of employers.

«I have come to believe that mankind is not meant to just sit around,» says Larry Jacobson, a retirement life - planner based in Northern California.

But just because someone else's bias isn't based in fact, doesn't mean it doesn't impact your life.

Our economy is based on relentless consumption and instant gratification, which makes saving and living within your means a difficult challenge.

Which means my business lives and dies based on your getting BOOKED.

If Grab decides to make an offer that includes a «substantially similar» salary to what they earned at Uber — and it isn't entirely clear what «substantially similar» means — but the staffer doesn't want to move over, then they will only receive the minimum statutory severance based on the local laws where they live.

Putting off benefits for even a year or two will ensure the retiree starts out at a higher amount, which means each cost of living adjustment (from 5 reasons to delay social security) will be higher, as it is based off a percentage of the benefits received.

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That doesn't mean that there isn't a god, or that people can't lead good and full lives based on religion

It must be noted that simply because there isn't a YouTube of Jesus walking through L.A., curing the blind an feeding the poor, doesn't mean that people can't base their lives off his works in the bible and mimic his good will?

I know it is comforting to think that, and by all means, if it makes life for you easier, then fine, believe... but you can not logically argue with Atheists and expect not to look foolish on the subject matter because your belief is not based on logic.

Right, I mean, it isn't like we already have a bunch of other evidence indicating that carbon based life might somehow be specially relevant to the structure mechanism of the universe... * eyeroll *

Just because they don't have the photos, artifacts or whatever to convince you personally doesn't mean they don't have real life experience as evidence to base their belief on.

Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent

Salvation can mean the final judgment delivered by GOD when one's temporal life is over, that judgment is based on the whole life record.Or, 2.

Without such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the life of the parish.

At the same time, the shared life has a bodily basis, is adapted to the necessities of corporeal being, and is expressed by physical means.

If we are raising the question of the basis and meaning of our life as Christians... then this can easily conceal a sidelong glance at what we suppose to be the easier and more comfortable life of other people, who will «also» get to heaven.

The recent Synod on the New Evangelisation proposed to us: «This faith can not be transmitted in a life which is not modelled after the Gospel or a life which does not find its meaning, truth and future based on the Gospel» (57).

The idea of affluence and self - indulgence as the meaning of life would not seem to be a firm basis for the dissemination of democracy.

No, I mean, «a single layer of a massive world - wide die - off of the entire land - base plant and animal life in existence followed by a common period of re-expansion of land - based life from a single location.»

The second gain is to see that the meaning of love expressed in the life of Jesus becomes the basis of an ethic for human relationships.

The readily availability of any number of alternatives in almost every area of life (from toothpaste to intimate relationship to spiritual life) has meant that there has been a shift in participation away from durable loyalty to one commitment towards selection of a mix of alternatives on the basis of their usefulness and enjoyment.

She even openly admits in her argument that the sole basis of her argument was not a piece of literature meant to accurately depict the methods through which matter, energy, the Earth and life came about.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

Also, just FYI, this country (meaning the US, which I assume is where you live) is not a theocracy, which means that the laws of this country (including the laws regarding abortion) should not be based on any one religion (or holy book) in particular.

What this means if that the life in the ecosystem is not merely naturalistic or biological reality; but it is spiritually and culturally based reality.

Now in contrast with such healthy - minded views as these, if we treat them as a way of deliberately minimizing evil, stands a radically opposite view, a way of maximizing evil, if you please so to call it, based on the persuasion that the evil aspects of our life are of its very essence, and that the world's meaning most comes home to us when we lay them most to heart.

Thus, reconciliation among Christians means living, working, and worshiping together on a basis that transcends the common denominator that conflict management finds.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

for the first assists us in gaining a more adequate biblical basis for interpreting the meaning of our lives and the second helps us to maintain our intellectual integrity in the face of our knowledge in other fields.

It means forming a life - giving sexual ethic, instead of one based on shame and saying no.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

For an unmarried woman could easily be led into a disastrous marriage based on her poor reading of a young man's character ¯ which itself would mean a ruined life for her, although rarely for him.

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

These must be the basis of continued growth in understanding the meaning of the Christian faith, in finding God's power in one's life, and in that self - commitment in action from which intellectual debates can be an escape.

Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimer's disease to be a «kind of death,» a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move on with their life — so long as they act mercifully and provide a means for care of that spouse.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

For these the meaning of life was seen to rest, not simply on its biological basis, nor on the impulses of nature or the drives of history, but on the reality of God.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.

Rather, it's descent from a common ancestor (the scientific phrase in use currently is «descent with modification» meaning they share similar underlying foundation, but when they migrate (those that survive) they evolve based on environmental triggers (challenges), which give rise to mutations; that make future generations better suited to live in the new environment.

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!

A person's life loses all meaning as he can not base his life on anything other than here he is and he might as well enjoy it.

Men will come to see, as they are now beginning to see with the critical examination of language, that every conceivable structure of meaning carried by language is necessarily based on the selections of data and the forms of thought derived from the ruling interests of human life....

Thus the central and essential foundational question for me has to do with the basis on which each individual person (and each purposive community) resolves the issues of meaning and value for his or her (or its) life.

These secularist will give you point after point that supports their view that religions are militant and discriminative... I believe that reasonable people can see that the worlds religions, at their base, give a practical means for living ones life.

The pastor's need for a metaphor for ministry which provides a sense of meaning through all the personal crises of passing decades as well as the continual need to balance the demands of the congregation with maintaining the integrity of the «call» can be met by the New Testament based metaphor for ministry as being a «prophetic guide to maturing in the Christian life.

I don't mean living on a commune, but being involved in each other's lives on a regular basis.