Sentences with phrase «more about human life»

I would think God, and / or, Allah, cares a little bit more about human life than words on some paper from a book.

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One more thing CA... I contribute every day to your country... Whenever I shop at Subway or WalMart or Target... some of that money goes directly back to your country... so suck it up and learn to stay on topic... this isn't about who lives where, this about some religitard dictating basic human rights!!!

I simply don't believe he was anything more than a man like any man that's ever lived, and that all the hype about miracles is nothing more than typical human exaggeration.

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one who surrenders to the Will of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect of God's Words which take place at a country that had enough of disrespect to human life for more than a decade of aggression and atrocities.

They had one supreme theory: that the perfect beauty and happiness of cities and of human life was to be brought about by more factories; they had a mania for factories; there was nothing they would not do to cajole a factory away from another city; and they were never more piteously embittered than when another city cajoled one away from them.

But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.

Paideia proved compatible both with the more social understanding of human personhood that marked medieval life and with the more individualistic assumptions about personhood that marked much Renaissance culture.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

Was it first and foremost a truth about God, or was it more to do with human experience and practical living?

They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.

But by all means, tell me more about how humans lived harmoniously with dinosaurs.

The new reality which broke into human experience in the person of Jesus becomes more distinct not through new conceptions about a transcendent reality, but through the growing experience of the power of that reality to bring transformation and healing in daily life.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

We never have seen anything pop into existence ever, everything we see or build starts with some type of creation from some creator whether it be from humans or whatever, not one single example of anything would prove otherwise, so going about everyday life feeling confident that everything just magically popped into existence without a magician really takes a lot more faith than what I have.

I would have more sympathy for the pro-life folks if I thought they truly cared about human life.

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

Hardly more than Sölle do they encourage thought of God as an agent alongside other agents, one who brings things about in the world or in human life.

When someone is more concerned about their own reward after they die than they are about the quality of this real life for their fellow humans, one can only conclude that they are utterly selfish.

Too many people cared more about the quality of life based on human relationships than about the hoped for increase in income.

More must now be said about why, conceptually, it is important to see that religious commitment involves making serious claims as to the nature of things, what the setting of human life is like, as well as serious claims as to how human persons should behave in that setting.

Leaving aside wholly imaginary musing about the new possibilities for human liberation that might accompany infinitely expanded life spans — multiple psychological lives, multiple careers, multiple hobbies, and multiple spouses — the essence of the secular and scientific ideal is simply more time on this earth.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Actually, the nature of life on Earth makes more sense with a group of malevolent gods who are in constant conflict with each other and don't really care about humans than it does with a single all - powerful loving God.

At the very time we humans have been learning more about the ecology of all planetary life, we have been discovering to our horror how much we are now upsetting the delicate balances in the living systems of the ecosphere.

And it is for that reason that when we ask our question about the value of religion for human life, I think we ought to look for the answer among these violenter examples rather than among those of a more moderate hue.

As George Weigel notes: «To those who object that the essence of the modern human condition is its plurality, John Paul says — you are right, and that is precisely why wehave to think more seriously about the possibility of moral truths and their relationship to living in freedom.»

But «human life, and Christian life, is more about love than about accomplishments.

Therefore, Jesus is saying that in contrast to the Pharisees and Scribes, who care exceedingly more about the temporal life of animals, than the eternal well - being of humans — the Kingdom of God is concerned far more with the eternal well being of people as opposed to the temporal well - being of animals.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Let's be honest; this has never been about saving lives — if it were, they'd ban most alcoholic beverages which take far more innocent human lives...

In the letters of Paul, who in fact has very little to say about the life of Jesus on earth and far more to say about the risen Christ, the focus is on the Savior as human, or anthropos — the Greek term inclusive of both genders.

As in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.»

When used in the historical terms with which I prefer to use it, globalization in so many ways sums up the dominant and encompassing reality (note that I underscore this word) of the collective life of people and nations in our time, so potent and full of issues and questions for or against human development, so that it presses upon everyone who wants to make sense of the times in which we live, or who wants to be concerned about «keeping and making life more human».

Martin also asks some telling questions about Rahner's remarkably optimistic vision of human nature — an optimism all the more astonishing since, as Martin notes, he spent almost his entire priestly life (1932 — 84) first under Nazi rule and then, after the Second World War, with half of Germany under Soviet Communism.

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

More than a decade after its end, the editors of the New York Times still can not bring themselves to speak simple truth about the evil of the most murderous movement in human history, or about those who devoted their lives and betrayed their country in serving that movement.

There is so much more written about the value of human life and how we are to treat each other.

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

It is perfectly true that there is a divine simplicity about Christ's teaching which is more readily grasped by the uncomplicated than by those whose minds have become so «cultured,» «conditioned» and «educated» that they are blind to the prime conditions of human life upon this planet.

Now, you can live with your prudish Christian fantasy, and focus more on DIRTY FILTHY NASTY SE - X (which is what I think the abortion battle is REALLY about)-- or, if you truly care about human life, you can focus on what works in terms of reducing abortions, and here's a hint — it's NOT abstinence!!!

I think we can safely assume that having been the first and only manager to ever go unbeaten a whole EPL season and successfully carry a club through a stadium change, Arsene knows more than any human being now living could ever know about football.

So despite living in an urban environment, I'm actually generally less concerned about break - ins than I am about other hazards because, 1) we are busy and despite our best efforts to move through the world mindfully, there have been instances where we have accidentally left something on, 2) we live in a side - by - side condo and more humans means more potential for hazards.

After I gave birth to my son, I wanted to be reminded of the fact that my entire life was and is about more than my ability to procreate, birth, and raise another human being.

At some point in his life, the First Man reasoned about ways to improve the productivity of his Labor towards meeting the bare necessities of life to free up some of his time for leveraging his human capacity for abstract thought towards Capital purposes, which could be used to improve productivity further which would free up more time which would etc, etc, etc..

It's also about data — how governments think about data, how they use (and misuse) data, and what happens when that data means more to governments than the human beings and lives it's supposed to represent.

By correlating osteoarthritis in living birds with their known behaviors, Rothschild hopes to learn more about the causal factors than he ever could from his human patients.

Here too, the team found evidence of significantly more positive than negative emotions in responses to the claimed discovery of extraterrestrial life, and this effect was stronger in response to reading about extraterrestrial life than human made synthetic life.