Sentences with phrase «moral order in the universe»

But it is essential to deal with it at some length, first, because some evangelicals have made this charge; second, because the media have spread the charge far and wide; and third, because some religious people discussing AIDS seem to want to ignore the biblical teaching that there is a moral order in the universe and that wrong choices have consequences.

Furthermore, St. Paul argues the general point about there being a moral order in the universe precisely with reference to male and female homosexual practice (Rom.

Not exact matches

For top - down politics is the only way, in an inherently chaotic moral universe, to achieve social order.

Please rationally explain why the Earth is the exact distance it must be from the sun to support life, why the moon is the exact distance from the Earth to sustain life, why the bacterial flagella is so genius, why the energy in a universe «moving toward order» is a finite, why we all have a moral intuition and why «relativism» is self - destructive, how something scientifically came from virtually nothing, why love is self - sacrificing, why procreation is enjoyable instead of painful, why man is eternally unsatisfied.

Of course, moral categories are real forms of order in the universe, and as part of valuation, moral valuation has a basis in the fundamental nature of things.

That this universe is fundamentally a moral order, that there are reason and purpose in it, that what ought to be done can be done, that, as Carlyle cried, «No lie can live forever» — these are religious convictions which undergirdle men to carry on when carrying on is hard.

Whether there's a moral order, inherent in the universe or whether (who knows how?)

High ideas about Christian ethics, or integration with the moral order of the universe, or building the Kingdom of God are all right in their place.

It goes hand in hand with what we earlier called the ethical vision with its demands that the universe correspond to our sense of moral order.

The Divide is WE tv's first scripted series, which takes on the exploration of personal morality and how all people — especially ambitious people — struggle with the shades of gray found in the absence of a simple, ordered moral universe.

But in putting humans at the centre of our moral universe, do we imperil future generations; is a call to «human» rights also an imperious claim against our place in the natural order?