Sentences with phrase «not events of the past»

The resurrection itself is not an event of past history.

This can also be expressed in another way: the cross is to be regarded as the eschatological event; that is to say, it is not an event of the past to be looked back upon, but the eschatological event in and beyond time, for as far as its meaning — that is, its meaning for faith — is concerned, it is an ever - present reality.

Short term lenders use a different set of criteria than standard bank, so only your current circumstances are taken into account and not events of the past that you may or may not have been responsible for.

Not exact matches

Members of the Trump administration walked out of the White House Correspondents» Dinner Saturday night during a performance by standup comic Michelle Wolf, who attacked the administration's relationship to the truth as well as the past behavior of the president, who did not attend the event for the second year in a row.

I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways.

Thanks to the events of the past two days, we now know the answer: Precisely enough to discuss the subject with Wall Street analysts, but not enough to talk about it with members of Congress.

You shouldn't be focusing on the negative events of the past.

In fact, of the biggest sports — NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football, college basketball — only two or three of the championship events in the past two years were not dramatic or historic.

The Committee noted that a federal investigation into the famous 2010 pipeline spill in Marshall, Michigan, which released some 20,000 barrels of dilbit into the nearby Kalamazoo River, «did not report that specific properties of the products transported through the pipeline at the time of the event or in the past had caused or contributed to the pipeline damage.»

Over the past 10 years startups like Dropbox, Mint (sold to Intuit for $ 170m), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 b), Fitbit (went public in June 2015), PowerSet (sold to Microsoft for $ 100m), Clicker (sold to CNET for $ 100m), Trello (sold to Atlassian for $ 425m), TrueCar (raised $ 70m in its 2014 IPO), and Cafe X (raised $ 5m) have presented at our event — but 97 % of the people at the event were not allowed to invest in them.

The longer - term slowdown in China is likely to continue, but the events of the past few months won't have a material impact on the trajectory.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

With such a program it is not possible to hide from participants whether or not they received the intervention and outcome measures rely on self - reports of events that may have occurred a few years in the past.

In any event, even if one explains the fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply do not want to believe.

Word counts and article tallies are not everything, but they represent two simple ways of measuring what even casual news consumers undoubtedly feel — that last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is not fading from headlines as rapidly as similar events have in the recent past.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

The events of this past week proved once again that cryptocurrency speculation isn't for the faint of heart.

In a choice between upping the price to meet increased demand and maintaining regular prices so as not to be accused of price gouging — as Uber typically is accused of doing if the company keeps its surge pricing on during high - volume events like this — the company decided to avoid the errors of its past.

heres a holiday that has maintained its meaning thru - out the ages, why... the JEWISH have reverence for the past, its lessons and people that taught them, the events that shaped the jewish culture... most of the rest have nothing worth remembering besides there past and since thats not held with any amount of importance the future looks bleek at best... we are what we are because of yesterday, and tomorrow doesn't exist if today becomes our deathbed!

But this must not be confused with the primal feeling of the reality of past events.

6 I do not want to foreclose other possibilities such as that Jesus» presence is mediated by God or is that of the risen Jesus who is now enjoying new experiences in «heaven,» but this essay deals only with the re-presentation of past events.

If, however, a memorial involved true memory, and not the mere production of a picture or idea, then what is present is what is remembered, namely, the past events.

Certainly he and others could not have anticipated the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, the single most important event of the past half - century in reconfiguring the socio - political alignments in American life.

In other words, the cross is not just an event of the past which can be contemplated, but is the eschatological event in and beyond time, in so far as it (understood in its significance, that is, for faith) is an ever - present reality.

We do not merely experience a present replica of something remembered, but that past event itself, as past.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

This does not mean that it is a Word which is simply present in a sacred event of the past, nor does it mean that it is merely addressed to historical events, or confined to an historical realm.

It underscores the contention of the Reformers, however, that reformation should not be seen merely as a past event but should always be a contemporary experience.

The intuitive decision as to whether an event belongs to the past or future does not depend upon any aspect of quantity (i.e., whether the event belongs to a sequence having infinite or finite members), but does depend upon an aspect of quality (i.e., whether the content of the said event is sufficiently rich or particularized).

The counter-argument resides in his citation and defense of G. J. Whitrow's argument2 to the effect that an infinitist is committed to the idea of an infinite number of intermediary past events which ex hypothesi ought to be able to be counted or successively synthesized (but which everyone agrees can not be), and that this very situation of infinite intermediaries obliterates the intuitively sound distinction between actual past and potential future.

Moreover, if one recalls that memory, for Aristotle, is that faculty whereby past events are retained in images, then it should not be surprising that the action of the imagination should be required for the elaboration of universals through induction.

The temporal series of past events is not a collection of events which coexist simultaneously.

It would appear that we do not have two different kinds of causation but two ways of speaking about a process, dependent on the speaker's perspective on a particular stage of the event - succession Supposing we are contemporaneous with an electron, we look at its present state in relation to its past, and we say «efficient causation»; if we look at its present state in relation to its future, we say «final causation.»

To the objection that this makes God ignorant of the future Socinus replied: not so, for until events are no longer future but present or past, there are no such events as definite items, but only as more or less probable, somewhat indefinite possibilities.

Legend retains from the rubrics of history only the concern for sequence; yet in legend it is always a sequence determined not by past event but by present faith.

The possibility of paranormal cognition aside, the data for doctrines about past events are not consciously available.

Causal efficacy is not to be understood in the sense of causal determination of the present as a direct consequence of a linear connection with events in the past.

The sociological event of the Sabbath has its theological grounds not first of all in God's past and future but in the present experience itself.

The history of his wrestle with God is not confined to a few thousand years of dramatic events occurring in Asia Minor, though the crucial importance of those events seems even greater as the story expands into remoter pasts and futures.

Thus the resurrection of Christ is not merely an event in a past that is now over and done with but also a continuing event, first of all in God and then in people who have surrendered or committed themselves to Christ.

The historian argues to his conceptions he argues that because the data are thus and not otherwise the past event must have been of such and such a kind.

His object, therefore, the past event, is not only an eternal object but also a necessary object, an object that must be what it is, and is known rationally in apprehending this necessity; Par.39: Applying these results to our knowledge of nature: we regard nature as a self - creative process and therefore creative of eternal objects.»

For not only do the priestly and institutional forms of Christianity submit to the heteronomous authority of a series of events that are irrevocably past, but the thought of the Christian theologian himself has been closed to a truly dialectical meaning of the sacred.

For the event to which we have been led back by all lines of approach, from outside and from inside, is not some remote, forgotten episode of the past, recovered, as it might be, through digging up an ancient tomb or unearthing a manuscript in a cave.

Oh, the desolation of old age, if to be an old man means this: means that at any given moment a living person could look at life as if he himself did not exist, as if life were merely a past event that held no more present tasks for him as a living person, as if he, as a living person, and life were cut off from each other within life, so that life was past and gone, and he had become a stranger to it.

But revelation is not fundamentally the normative deposit of accounts of saving events in the past.

That conceptuality speaks of the fashion in which events or occasions are received into the divine life, making a difference to God; it also speaks of the way in which God gives back, as it were, the past event — it «floods back into the world», in Whitehead's way of saying it — so that it is not «dead and gone» but is effectual in the ongoing relationship between God and the world.

«God's role is not the combat of productive force with productive force, of destructive force with destructive force; it lies in the patient operation of the over-powering rationality of his conceptual harmonization «16 Thus at times Whitehead appears to say, as Ely contends, that evil remains evil in the world of events («God can not unmake the past») but that in God's experience evil is transmuted into goodness.

While we were considering this for some time later in the spring, due to the events of the past week we realize we can not afford to wait that long.

No event occurs in the world without God's coming, not as a put of its past, determining world, but as the gift of freedom, the gift of transcendence, the gift of the future.