Sentences with phrase «more against the spirit»

Forcing teams who know who they want to conduct sham interviews is even more against the spirit of the Rooney Rule in my opinion.

Not exact matches

In a similar spirit, in a widely - shared piece on progressive callout culture, Freddie DeBoer warned the left that «the prohibition against ever telling anyone to be friendlier and more forgiving is so powerful and calcified it's a permanent feature of today's progressivism.»

Those who set themselves up as the true repositories of the «spirit of the Council» are not rebelling against theological incoherencies, and they won't be re-integrated if a more satisfactory system is proposed, since its presuppositions - if it is orthodox - are ultimately the same.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

A concordance shows that the word «sin» as a noun appears in his recorded sayings very few times in the Synoptic Gospels, though more in John, and with one exception (the sin against the Holy Spirit, Matt.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

Therefore they can not endure what even to them seems a contradiction, and which as reflected from the world around them appears much more glaring, that to be concerned for one's own soul and to want to be spirit is a waste of time, yes, an inexcusable waste of time, which ought if possible to be punishable by law, at all events is punished by contempt and ridicule as a sort of treason against men, as a froward madness which crazily fills up time with nothing.

· Lent is a time when we seek to imitate Jesus more closely in his fight against temptation, so that we too might receive the same Spirit to preach the Good News.

(the way I said it wasn't like a confession but more of me saying something I'm proud of and I'm not proud to blasphemy against the holy spirit.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

Paul is certainly more than a little irritated here, but his anger is not directed against the oppressed slave girl who is both in the grips of an evil spirit and exploited by greedy pimps.

Quenching and grieving the Holy Spirit are basically a denial of what the Spirit is doing or a refusal to participate in His work, which means blasphemy against the Spirit must be more serious than these.

The sin that won't be forgiven... blasphemy against the Holy Spirit... is made a little more clear in the Mark 3 account of this same story.

Take away the authority and its text, which more and more people are validly rejecting anyway, and you have nothing but a mean - spirited, loveless and graceless edict against all humanity.

This is directed against the Gnostics who claimed that they were in the most intimate possible fellowship with God, fellowship not even possible for the ordinary man, and who yet wallowed in sin, either on the principle that the body is evil and therefore it does not matter what is done with it or in it, or on the principle that in sin the body does no more than fulfil its own nature, and that in either case the spirit is left quite untouched.

What I hate is that, when playing with 10 men and 2 - 1 down, we showed more fighting spirit than whole 90 minutes against Swansea.

Must win against Spurs now, a defeat will just dump the players spirits even more.

Arsenal had a tense game against an organised spirited Tottenham side who needed and wanted more then us.

The confirmed signing of Marko Arnautovic, the anticipated arrival of Javier Hernandez, rumours of more exciting recruits and a pre-season victory against Fulham has lifted spirits to the point where talk of Europe is once again not purely limited to Brexit.

It may have been a spirited performance and comeback against Palace but there now appeared more options available to supplement what had been regarded as a scratch side.

I'd like to see more Brits in the team anyway — nothing, absolutely nothing against the foreign influx — we know the continentals have the skill — but maybe we do miss some of the bulldog spirit too — plus being a Brit meself I get a bit jealous when I see other teams who've got them.

In a statement, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, cast the deal as a blow against «this state's archaic blue laws» and part of a larger, more long - term policy of his administration to support New York's alcohol industry, which he said created «some of the best beer, wine, cider and distilled spirits in the world.»

Not only is it a wonder of access — the entire cast are non-actors and all dialogue is in Yiddish — but, even more impressively, it manages to be a generous - spirited examination of how practicality can rub up against tradition and culture while never reaching for low - hanging and melodramatic narrative fruit.

Perhaps it was Valentine's Day spirit making me more benign — apparently against the current of critical opinion, in the case of Noah Baumbach's «Greenberg» — but all three films, moreover, afforded me pleasures of varying degrees.

The Spirit and Acclaim were benchmarked against the Camry and Accord; they had more rear seat headroom, legroom, and knee room than any competitor, a flat trunk floor, a trunk led that opened down to the bumper level for easier unloading, and long rear door openings with large opening angles.

The Friends protested against social inequalities by their refusal to wear fine clothing, to use different forms of address in speaking to persons of different social ranks, to lift their hats as a sign of deference, or to recognize ordained ministers as being more fit than common people to receive and transmit the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (the «Inner Light»).

The population initially centered on the shipping towns in the north and then pushed inward in both a spirit of exploration and an attempt to make their country more defensible against attack.

A much more sinister Velvet escapes from prison and recruits a ragtag band of daemons, spirits, witches and outcasts, all of whom have their own vendettas against Artorius, who has since become one of the most powerful men in the land of Midgand.

Some boost your stamina to run longer, for example, but I can't help but wish there were more ways to defend against spirits.

Her pictures range in spirit from the stark, pared - down images of the 1960's, which sometimes consist of just two or three bright banners of color unfurled against the bare whiteness of the canvas, to the more baroque images of the 80's, whose dense, flooded surfaces at times suggest underwater scenes.

The fact of the matter is that Japan's whaling activities are in all likelihood done in violation of the international ban against whaling (the scientific objection being pretty much ludicrous...); there's more and more evidence that cetaceans should probably be granted non-human person status, making killing them doubly wrong; and debate about whether Sea Shepherd's actions (which have proven quite effective in cutting the number of whales killed) are or are not permissible and are or are not truly in the spirit of non-violence which Watson and Sea Shepherd have publicly espoused will no doubt go on.