Sentences with phrase «not at all alien»

They reveal that commerce is not at all alien to Islam, even among those schools that are less obsessed with the dangers of shirk.

God's word, while bringing newness and surprise, is not at all alien to Abraham's experience.

Not exact matches

Letting two domains of knowledge that are usually alien to each other mix and mingle is a sure fire way to get your brain humming, so the idea of applying the thinking of anthropology to the world of start - ups isn't as strange as it appears at first blush.

We should expect alien visitors, were they not so frequently featured in such films, to be deeply puzzled at this peculiar human ritual.

So people shouldn't believe we would ever jump to advocating the existence of aliens or an alien craft at AREA 51.

Like a person trying to communicate with a bug, we may not be able to comprehend what aliens are at all.

To glimpse the depth of love that is at work in this blessed exchange (our mortality becoming his, his immortality becoming ours) we need to discern the depth of humiliation behind it; and for that, we need to understand that mortality and corruption really are alien to his divine nature.Our Lord was not forced to lower himself so far as to share our materiality, flesh, and death.

Your arguments about mistreatment being a reason to not believe in ID is akin to an alien coming to earth and pointing at an insane asylum as a reason for believing all humans are mentally handicapped.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

Not to compare it with your belief, but many people are convinced that they experienced an alien abduction, but that experience is not considered evidence of aliens on earth, at least not by most peopNot to compare it with your belief, but many people are convinced that they experienced an alien abduction, but that experience is not considered evidence of aliens on earth, at least not by most peopnot considered evidence of aliens on earth, at least not by most peopnot by most people.

Well at least my views aren't as crazy as those scientists who think we came from a fish or aliens!»

I have to admit, at first I thought Theo made up another definition but I did eventually find the definition of alien as «a creature from outerspace» though it was the 4th listed and was not found in the Merriam - Webster definition but is found on dictionary.com

Would a race of humanoid aliens not be enough evidence though at the existence of God (that is, if they were preaching a similar gospel of course).

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.

Upon being «dumped» by your parents at your new home, surrounded by strange people, in an alien city in which you don't know anyone, there is a part of which wants to run after your parents» departing car.

Disheartened by the amount of support Griffin had received from the community, I considered showing up at the courthouse with a sign that included Exodus 22:21, «Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt» — mainly because June prides herself on being a strict biblical literalist.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

In the parable of the Good Samaritan, where love to neighbor is, quite simply, doing for him what needs to be done, in the emergency, the good neighbor is both alien and heretic.28 And at this point, perhaps, some hearers who had assented so far might have had misgivings, even if they did not go to the lengths of those fanatical sectaries whose Manual of Discipline (found among the «Dead Sea Scrolls») enjoined them «to love all the children of light — and to hate all the children of darkness, each according to the measure of his guilt.»

For some time it has been obvious in the academic world that the scriptural texts can not simply be taken at face value but presuppose a thought world that is alien to...

In arguing that moral philosophy should not be used to place in the Constitution what is not already there, I have been careful to say that I did not «mean that moral philosophy is alien to law and must be shunned in adjudication, but I do mean that it is valuable only at the retail level and disastrous at the wholesale.

In the beginnings of history it was the forces of nature which were first so reflected and which in the course of further evolution underwent the most manifold and varied personifications among the various peoples... But it is not long before, side by side with the forces of nature, social forces begin to be active — forces which confront man as equally alien and at first equally inexplicable, dominating him with the same apparent natural necessity as the forces of nature themselves.

It is not for people who don't seem to have even looked at the Hebrew text to take out these words and then to repunctuate what is left to give a meaning which is quite alien to what the original text could possibly have meant.

Objectivity is not «disinterestedness,» therefore; it seeks to hear the alien speech precisely because it is interested, and passionately so, because the very life - formative process of the creation itself is at stake.

She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a picture of Niagara Falls or some alien world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off places, but will allow them to scroll around the world at will.»

Panentheism, on the other hand, attempts to preserve the relative independence of the world - order, while at the same time it insists that God can not be envisaged as totally separated from or alien to that order.

In this century do we not have to at least consider the «alien» possibility?

We remind ourselves, then, at this point that the route from text to proclamation is an old and difficult one, but not such as should discourage the preacher but rather should help him to see that interpretation is not an alien and abusive intrusion upon the Scriptures.

Though he had been on a three - year pilgrimage, had «devoured» churches like a religious fanatic, his God was the art of an alien religion, and he was not at peace.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

So you're saying its either believe in some man made religion's guess at the origin of life or that aliens started life on our planet even though we don't have any scientific evidence to support it?

That may not seem like much, but, as at the beginning of the first millennium so also at the beginning of the third, alien citizens know not to expect too much from the earthly city.

It is tempting — to me, at any rate — to imagine humanity standing at the apex of the material world's «great chain of being» not as a kind of cosmic viceroy presiding over an alien colony, but as the true mediator of rational light to the physical realm, including the minds and wills of beasts.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

Even a prominent atheistic believe it or not (I believe it was Frncis Crick, but can not recall for certain; but the statment was made nonetheless) looking at the evidence for the big bang concluded that aliens must have seeded the planet!

A major problem is to tell the story in such a way that people hear it as contemporary and relevant.51 John Taylor pointed out that we could reach outsiders not by anything we do inside the church buildings but by crossing over to the outsiders and learning to be at home in that alien territory, as the more we are engaged in Christian witness, the more we shall recognize that it is not we who make or mar the future.

he's lookin» at me like I'm some sort of alien and I'm messin» with his mind.Seems like the sea conch effect took hold and he began to take on the look of belief, albeit a rather perplexing one.Apparently, his new awareness has also brought him the ability to hear the ringing without the phone, so I'm not sure if we're still friends

But it can not be a total event if it is not the death of God, and if the death of God is alien to Christian theology, it is not alien to modern thinking and vision, indeed, it is at the very center of a uniquely modern vision and thinking, and it is just for that reason that a unique modernity can be known as a Christian modernity.

In fact, a closer look at Smiths career shows that he has made a healthy living off playing characters who battle things that do nt exist including Space Aliens, zombies, space aliens, his own sons acting abilties, iRobots, space aliens again, racism in golf, and the unrealistic expectations of upward economic mobAliens, zombies, space aliens, his own sons acting abilties, iRobots, space aliens again, racism in golf, and the unrealistic expectations of upward economic mobaliens, his own sons acting abilties, iRobots, space aliens again, racism in golf, and the unrealistic expectations of upward economic mobaliens again, racism in golf, and the unrealistic expectations of upward economic mobility.

the aliens are already at Arsenal, running club affairs n killing Arsenal fans with heartaches and anxiety.

-- I didn't realise today was the deadline but I have already booked today as an annual leave day — My alarm didn't go off — I forgot my wallet at home — I had a puncture — Car battery was flat — Oyster card ran out — I was abducted by aliens — I had to take Transfer Kitty to the vet — Oh its 1 September today?

HUMVN, Machine?He made a funny comment in one of the justarsenal stories earlier.He said Arsenal don't need a new CB.Can someone slap me.I was even shocked at the thumbs up he got.I feel so sorry for Arsenal and fans as well.We are really suffering.Till today how people rate Mertesacker is beyond me.The guy is not even a leader by example.I wonder why Hayden was sold as I think he could have surely done better and if Isaac Hayden solves his injury problems we gonna regret selling him.Even aliens know arsenal needs a CB.Aren't you guys tired of always starting the season short of players in positions where needed.It's like some of you want failure but you don't know you want.Arsenal should complete the squad this season.It's a must.

Some of us would like to get a better look at Pirez anyhow, it's better he gets minutes here and there so when he does have to step in it won't feel alien to him.

3 quality players in the window might get us 4th place but to be honest giving the frog joker a lifeline is not what is needed at arsenal... the man has to go so it is a matter of whatever it takes... the thought of him still being around come may just makes my stomach churn... and new year revelries cant be blamed... any more than refs or world cups or the weather or alien powers....

He is under the microscope at United and the pressure to deliver is phenomenal but it's not something alien to Mourinho, having managed Real Madrid previously.

We can't criticise Eboue he was playing in a position alien to him still he did run at the opposition so many time trying his best and he was fouled every time by the Fulham players.

At least the «Cowboys & Aliens» actress and the prince, married for eight years, don't have any kids.

but don't be surprised when you look back at the pics of your newborn and see them and think later, «wow, he looked like an alien»

While there is no suggestion that this particular view is widespread within the party, it nonetheless hints at an undercurrent of extreme, evangelical social conservatism that feels quite alien in secular Britain, but is perhaps not quite as distant as we like to think.

(C) An alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States shall not be regarded as seeking an admission into the United States for purposes of the immigration laws unless the alien --(i) has abandoned or relinquished that status, (ii) has been absent from the United States for a continuous period in excess of 180 days, (iii) has engaged in illegal activity after having departed the United States, (iv) has departed from the United States while under legal process seeking removal of the alien from the United States, including removal proceedings under this chapter and extradition proceedings, (v) has committed an offense identified in section 1182 (a)(2) of this title, unless since such offense the alien has been granted relief under section 1182 (h) or 1229b (a) of this title, or (vi) is attempting to enter at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers or has not been admitted to the United States after inspection and authorization by an immigration officer.