Sentences with phrase «miraculous interventions»

No doubt many of the phenomena of nature, once regarded as miraculous interventions, are now understood as regular parts of the cosmic order.

While we feel the best interests of the child in question are paramount, the interests of society, including the other children who might have used this valuable resource, can not be ignored, especially when non-medically indicated painful and futile therapies are continued on children due to the expectation of miraculous intervention.

What all these self - serving proclamations of miraculous intervention always ignore is the downside of the incidents.

What is hoped for is a miraculous intervention.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

The road to Damascus may offer a pilgrim sudden and miraculous intervention, but faith provides no shortcuts on the road to Parnassus.

Now, as the result of a life issue combined with the miraculous intervention of Christ I had an encounter with God (real or imagined probably would not have mattered) that leads me to find the goodness and holiness of God.

It must be addressed as a result of the fall, like Cancer, which is treated though God's working through human agents and rarely through miraculous intervention.

But the fact that God makes possible such self - transcendence by finite causes does not mean that God's action thereby occupies a definite point in time or involves a predicamental miraculous intervention in the world.

Such events would be laughed at today, so the Church is forced to retreat into one of the last dark corners where it can still claim miraculous intervention, that of medical uncertainty.

If the God of traditional theism exists, then nature is never free from the possibility of his miraculous intervention.

To interpret the Exodus by just «explaining away» God's miraculous intervention is to replace a grand example of God's caring for Israel with a plain old lucky escape, and to replace one of the central formative events of Judaism with an insignificant incident.

The unfailing rule of law, not miraculous intervention, is the evidence of his benevolence.

This attitude, assuming the ordered and discoverable nature of the world also allowed for God's extraordinaryor miraculous intervention in history.

I have experienced miraculous intervention of the spirit.

Some, who smell a rat at any possibility of miraculous intervention in human affairs, claim that Saul was never converted but merely changed sides.

Facts are simply assigned to the asset or liability column depending on the story one wishes to tell and the «miraculous intervention of the god takes place precisely when things improve.

Not exact matches

So what's this miraculous productivity intervention?

The theory in question is a theory of naturalistic evolution, which means that it absolutely rules out any miraculous or supernatural intervention at any point.

Rather it is the result of a divine intervention from outside, through the Holy Spirit, who must already have quickened the inner man in earthly life by His miraculous power.

According to popular assumptions, liberal approaches to the Bible emphasize messages of social action and downplay supernatural intervention, while conservative or traditionalist views accept the miraculous and advocate quietist or reactionary politics.