Sentences with phrase «not accept the notion»

Judaism does not accept the notion that was cooked up, and argued about, in early Christian councils, (the «trinity»).

For someone who simply does not believe in God, proof of non-existence is irrelevant, he / she simply does not accept the notion of God.

What if someone does not accept the notion of a Triune God?

Later that week he said his supporters «can't accept the notion that New York City will be treated like a colony that doesn't even get to decide its own future.»

But Soyinka said: «I can not accept the notion that people have a right to kill other people because they want to assert their identity... It doesn't cost anything to recognise it.»

Our society just can't accept the notion of a woman without a sex life, no matter how otherwise extraordinary she may be.

Recently the Mayor remarked that «we do not accept the notion of the «good school» and the «bad school.»»

«We don't try to operate without parent input, and I don't accept the notion that there are unfair bureaucrats who are silencing parents» voices,» said Owens.

However, traditionalists who can't accept the notion of a ragtop without some impractical characteristic won't be disappointed by the new Shadow.

It's clearly a sign of changing automotive times when Dodge - Chrysler's mildly up - scale and performance - oriented division - introduces a convertible and pegs its appeal to price and practicality.However, traditionalists who can't accept the notion of a ragtop without some impractical characteristic won't be disappointed by the new Shadow.

«I just didn't accept the notion that we were derelict in our duty if we didn't kill animals.»

Not exact matches

Even if one accepts the absurd notion that one's $ ex drive is a «choice» why would he create 15 million people only to tempt them with urges that we hetero $ exuals do not have?

To demonstrate that there is a God to individuals that discard the Bible and the notion of a God, it has to be approached from a different prospective, from their viewpoint, what they will accept and not what you believe as fact, based on the Bible.

The same reasons BC condemns the readers and contributors to this forum — that we think, question, use our own God - given intelligence and reasoning skills, don't accept the easy answers, and are accepting of differences which create no harm — are the very things that make that notion quite bizarre.

It is interesting to me that the notion of eternal damnation does not appear to have been accepted at all in the first 3 or 4 centuries and then as you say, by the 6th the damnation crowd had won the battle.

He is an 18 year old know - it - all crackpot who will never ever accept that sis notion that 2 + 2 = 54,309,385,342,045,324 is not only wrong but positively insane.

While Lewis's remarks do not indicate any careful reading of Luther, it is true that Camus rejects a notion of «salvation by faith alone» on the grounds that it eliminates human freedom and, to that extent, would not accept the God of Luther, Calvin, or the later Augustine.

After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

I can accept the notion that a God just exist, and if those want to play on that concept we can take it even further and say why could God not have come out of a Big Bang as well.

If we furthermore accept the notion that these units are internally related, in the sense that the earlier drops of consciousness enter into the consciousness of subsequent drops, it follows that these units or drops of consciousness can not know themselves.

No, sin does not exist outside of the bible, thus no non-believer is gullible enough to accept that notion.

When you accept the notion that senseless death and destruction is a fact of life that can not be attributed to any supernatural force, you are taking the right step in the direction of healing.

In its depth it is an exceedingly simple notion, though that does not make it any easier to accept and understand.

Some scientists accept the notion that experience affects body functions but try to formulate the problem in a way that does not involve conflicts with thermodynamic laws.

I do not accept what has been presented as evidence for the God of Abraham as good evidence to support that notion as being behind creation and giving significance to us in the way that you believe.

We can choose to live this way, but then we also have to relinquish any notion of being agents of change in our culture; and we have to accept that the world will not care about what we have to say.

Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).

But in order to accept this position we need first to reform our standard notions of perception; and this reformation will not occur without a conversion to the radical empiricism of attending once again to our experiencing itself.

First, you would agree, would you not, that we can not accept the traditional, orthodox notion that, if Christianity is true, then all the other faiths are false?

It is for this reason, and not because I implicitly accept the process notion of non-logical metaphysical principles, that I write about the relation between God and nature in the way I do.

It's difficult to accept the notion that the things that are most characteristic of our lives should not be most central.

I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.

@jc,»... and atheists aren't willing to accept the notion that the kind of «evidence» they are searching for may not reasonably be expected.»

This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity is a nonsense fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.

The coaching tenures of Bill Russell and Magic Johnson, both disastrous, had reinforced the notion that the best players can't sublimate their egos and accept roles that don't put them at center stage.

It's only after they are around other children who have already latched onto this notion that kids don't like vegetables and after they start watching television where cartoons, commercials, and other television shows perpetuate the «kids don't like vegetables» notion (if you watch kid's programming, you'd be surprised at the number of times that either kid characters in shows or television commercials portray vegetables as yucky) that they are exposed to the much - accepted norm that kids don't like vegetables — and so they decide that vegetables are yucky.

It made the point that the Democrats moved on from the notion of the narrative last year (not sure I quite accept that but moving on...).

So can one say, the revisionist assessment of Cox's father - in - law has already been in play this year in relation to the health insurance issue (Ted Kennedy saying he made a mistake in not accepting the deal Nixon offered) and in a broader sense in relation to the notion of Middle America.

The refugee situation is not a cause of the attack in any meaningful way, it makes no sense for European countries to stop accepting refugees for that reason, let alone to mount some sort of crazy operation based upon the notion that it would be a risk.

By Sharita Moore - Willis Recently, Mayor Bill de Blasio went in front of the Association for a Better New York and told the crowd that he doesn't «accept the notion of the good school and the bad school» in New York -LSB-...]

So, Labour, if it follows Labour Uncut's advice, and avoids this dastardly trap by our Etonian masters, will have accepted social cleansing, greater inequality, etc, not merely as some sort of forced defeat by parliamentary arithmetic, but as a conscious decision, perhaps justified by some notions by some of a «tactical retreat» (don't laugh).

«Accepting the notion that breaking down complex concepts from my discipline into very simplified explanations for the understanding of the public does not «dumb down'the work, but in fact gives it greater value, as it can reach more people.»

Over the past 40 years, however, society has gradually begun to accept, if not embrace, the notion of the female biologist, mathematician or engineer, and the number of women in science at all levels has increased dramatically.

«Our results support the increasingly accepted notion that amyloids may not always be harmful and markers of disease, but, instead, may carry out important functions in the human body.»

In the up - front and honest style that has become the trademark of their blogs, they share with readers twenty - seven ways to reframe notions of dieting and weight, including: accepting that diets don't work, practicing intuitive eating, finding body - positive doctors, not judging other women, and finding a hobby that has nothing to do with one's weight.»

Western - trained Endocrinologists don't address, or even accept the notion that adrenal glands can be stressed and underperforming.

The message, «Accept What You Can't Change,» is directed to non-gay individuals who need to better understand the reality of homosexuality; and to gay individuals who need to absolve themselves from the notion that being gay is somehow wrong and shameful.

By Sharita Moore - Willis Recently, Mayor Bill de Blasio went in front of the Association for a Better New York and told the crowd that he doesn't «accept the notion of the good school and the bad school» in New York -LSB-...]

That Android users aren't willing to pay for apps is a widely - accepted notion, a largely true one as well, and naturally this limits the amount of money developers are willing to pile into the platform.