Sentences with phrase «merely human concerns»

You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.»

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General education is concerned with what a person needs to know and to become as a human being, not merely as a cog in the corporate mechanism.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

How much of this was merely ad hominem and how much represented Jesus» personal conviction concerning human destiny it is difficult to be sure, just as when Plato used demonology to serve his purpose it is difficult to know how literally he took the mental pattern he employed.

With quiet resolve, with love even for those they oppose and concern for the human values at stake, such a group can make the difference between a community in which the church is merely a cultural parenthesis and one in which it is a factor to be reckoned with.

Of greater philosophical concern, the nature rights ideology subverts what I call human exceptionalism by elevating the natural world to moral equality with human beings» effectively diminishing us to merely another animal in the forest.

McIntyre holds that the «psychological model» avoids these dangers and has been explored in the light of modern insights concerning selfhood; but it has usually ended with a merely human Christ.

If you are a Christian, then Jews, Muslims and Hindus are Christian, because all believe Christ to be merely human and a very good model of behavior, just that the early Christian church was misled by St. Paul and St. John concerning the co-eternal divinity of Christ and his role in our salvation, which only God could provide.

To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue.

Your concern for genuine science and for the poor requires a more cautious approach, one that carefully considers the scientific evidence regarding the real, not merely the theoretical, effects of human action on global climate, and carefully considers energy technology and economics in seeking to protect the poor from harm.

I am reading this thing about geoengineering and realize that the response to this cult ideology of human control over the planet's temperature is far too weak and ineffective, merely empirical politics played out against a background of civil concern.