Sentences with phrase «natural things of the world»

Indeed, the notion of «fallen nature» suggests that, while traces of God's law and purposes are inevitably scripted into the deep character of all that is, the natural things of the world are out of order or confused of direction in one or another respect.

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That might sound like the most natural thing in the world, but according to a clutch of experts, we're actually doing our psychological state harm by getting too much rest.

But after reading many of these articles, you may have noticed that the sort of things they suggest — practicing gratitude, say, or getting out into the natural world more regularly — are easier to read about then they are to effectively implement.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, and the only living thing that's visible from space.

The idea that two firms doing the same thing exhibit varying levels of skill or speed is not surprising — it is a general property of the natural world.

But when oil companies (and governments) talk about oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold as oil on the world market including biofuels, refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids as well as lease condensate.

If things continue to improve and the US does come out of recession in the coming quarters, as growth returns to the world's largest econmy then with it will the demand for natural gas.

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

You're assuming that at some point in the history of the world NEW genetic information was added to a living thing (which doesn't happen) and then it happened over and over together with the power of natural selection until we arrived at modern man.

No... essentially, God is the collective wild imagination of a bunch of scientifically ignorant humans who lived thousands of years ago and had absolutely no understanding of the world around them, so the only way they could possibly accept the way things were was to invent something that controlled any natural mechanism they didn't understand.

Now, you are telling us that it's about the «proper order» of temporal, natural things here in this world (family, church) which, as far as you know, will cease when we get to heaven.

It is one thing to grant that a moral world must contain natural regularities and that some nonmoral evil is an unavoidable by - product of such regularities, but quite another thing to grant that we must have the exact types and amount of natural evil which we in fact experience in the actual world.

This method, which explains things by analyzing them into smaller and simpler parts, has yielded a rich harvest of discoveries about the natural world.

It ought to be apparent that in most respects this conception of God, which Charles Hartshorne has called «neoclassical theism» or «the di - polar conception of God,» is a natural consequence of the more general process way of seeing things or looking at the world.

What ties together Shenk's different arguments is what I call the divine inversion — the many ways in which God acts contrary not merely to physical nature, but to what humans take to be the natural order of things in the social and political world.

But here is the thing... just because we don't want to go off the deep end and idolize nature or damage and destroy human lives for the sake of nature, this does not mean that we can ignore the environmental needs of the world or just consume and destroy the natural resources of this plant in any way we want.

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

Scientism claims that the natural world is all there is, that supernatural explanations of the world are irrational, that everything can be reduced to physical causes, and that the only things we can know as true are those which Science reveals — supported by evidence, submitted to experimentation, and reviewed by peers.

Santayana thus identifies two aspects of mind or spirit, intuition of essences and intent directed upon things and processes in the natural world, and conceives knowledge as arising from their combination (see ED 350, 663 - 665 and 726).

@RightTurnClyde The first thing that the IMF and World Bank do when a country comes to them for assitance in the wake of natural disaster, war, civil insurrection etc it to privatize every single public commodity, thus robbing the country of it's capacity to regain economic autonomy.

The website, called «Signs of End Times,» says pretty close to the top that they «never set dates,» but have drawn their conclusion from things like natural disasters, widespread violence, immorality and Christians around the world being persecuted.

There is no evidence to support the existence of any god, and religion fails to predict a single thing in the natural world correctly.

That is an odd thing to say about a Church that donates millions of dollars in medical and relief supplies to several different areas of the world for assistance after natural disasters, and that puts so much emphasis on strong marriage, dedicated parenting, forgiveness, and striving to be like Christ.

Such things might be included here as natural theology (the making of inferences about God from a study of the natural world); the teachings of other great religions — again, to the extent they are compatible; or even the Old Testament prophets, depending on how you view their relationship to Jesus.

Physics has had enormous success in explaining why things happen as they do in the natural world, but its modes of explanation do not fit neatly into the four-fold classification of material, formal, efficient, and final causes.

It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.

Definition of MYTH 1a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst - itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

And the reason I still pray for a divine interruption in the natural order of things, in the way of the world, is because I believe that God is, truly, wonderfully, redemptively, Love.

After all they were interested in the ultimate constituents of things and in the manner of their combination, and in the ancient world they were actually referred to as «physiologoi» which can be translated as «natural scientists».

It is natural that, by reason of the exceptional contacts which have enabled me, a Jesuit (reared, that is to say, in the bosom of the Church) to penetrate and move freely in active spheres of thought and free research, I should have been very forcibly struck by things scarcely apparent to those who have lived only in one or other of the two opposed worlds, so that I feel compelled to cry them aloud.

it is one thing to grant that a moral world must contain natural regularities and that some nonmoral evil is an unavoidable by - product of such regularities, but quite another thing to grant that we must have the exact types and amount of natural evil which we in fact experience in the actual world.

He subsequently preached - as early as 1825 - on the analogy between the growth of living things in the natural world and «the gradual revelation of the Gospel.»

The latter required a basic revision of traditional Western thinking toward the acceptance of the reality and intrinsic value of the natural world and the intimate interconnectedness of all things.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

From Merriam Webster: Myth 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst.itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths 1.

Scenic vistas are certainly to be valued, but one of the things that has to be resisted is a knee - jerk impulse to keep things in the natural world exactly the way they are in order to continue looking at them.

I was simlpy making the point that in the natural world all things tend toward decay or disorder, and that any order (ie the resence of intelligent life), is a strong evidence for the existance of God (Higher intelligence).

in our diverse world of dwindling natural resources, there is already so much division... religion is just one (big) thing that divides humanity.

There are so many things one could point to that go on every day across our world that are truly just natural phenomina but get claimed as being the result of a deity.

Whenever the context requires especial precision I distinguish between the «human loves» meaning man's love for man, other creatures, the world, beauty, all the things which call forth our natural capacities for love, and «the love of God», meaning the gracious love which God gives to man and which takes on the special character of forgiveness and reconciliation.

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

In a world of natural products I try to gravitate away from anything with natural flavors as that can mean a variety of things and I like ingredient labels to be as transparent as possible.

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My favorite times are the days when cooking is the most natural thing in the world and everything turns out the way I want them to in the least amount of time with the littlest possible mess!

Consequently, it feels like there's not enough water in the world to keep me hydrated and my cravings lean heavily toward foods that are cold and comprised of vegetables and other things with natural water content.

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Going vegan is one of the most significant things that you can do to help combat climate change and reduce further damage to the natural world.