Sentences with phrase «not express an understanding»

It really didn't express my understanding of God.

I'm in his talks about the future giving birth to our children, travelling, taking care of the house, doing things together basically but no plans of marriage!!!! I'm afraid coz he is from a different background to mine n he expresses he understands what me and my family expect now but then again doesn't want to do it.

Not exact matches

She may have not understood the science that makes smiling such a valuable business asset, but she no doubt observed good things when she expressed a genuine smile.

... Many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they would express their alienation.

Don't assume that your prospects immediately understand how your solution can help with the challenges they have already expressed.

I didn't prove anything by expressing my understanding of Scripture, just as you don't prove anything by expressing yours.

Since you haven't been specific, what I'm understanding so far is that I make you uncomfortable with what I'm expressing and you'd rather that I just shut up and go away.

She also expressed that she didn't understand why it was all happening so fast and I told her that she was so fortunate to have had 99 1/2 years of being in pretty good shape and to only have to endure this for such a short short time.

As long as the owners understand that their actions could negatively impact their business, then they should not be ashamed to express their faith.

Before they can understand the messages in the Bible (or any written or spoken thought), children must learn to understand language, but they do not need to understand words to feel and express love.

To me, this fellow is no different than a drunk at a bar expressing his opinion, since I can't understand how he comes to his conclusions.

Listen Humble themselves (that is, don't control the situation, and don't assume they understand or perceive the situation perfectly) Identify how they contributed to the situation (whether consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly) Take responsibility Apologise Allow the other person to express what they want done (and do it, if it is within the pastor's ability, and truly helpful) Support the other person's decisions, even if the pastor disagree with them Empower the other person at every step Part friends if possible, and at peace, if at all possible (and never go to court — Jesus and Paul call this dangerous and ridiculous, respectively)

A coherent philosophy of the human person, clearly expressed and debated, will yield much fruit, not least in a greater understanding with Muslims of good will and pure heart, of whom there are many - Peace be upon them!

He expressed understanding for the protesters, saying: «There is still a powerful sense around - fair or not - of a whole society paying for the errors and irresponsibility of bankers.»

Unless the experience of loss is expressed, examined and understood, new ways of living are not able to emerge.

Although Brown does not uncritically agree with everything said by theologians of liberation, he presents his form of process theology more as a supplementation and conceptual grounding of their insights than as expressing a different understanding of the theological task.

Hence there arises what I think is one of the major reasons why the miraculous birth recorded in Matthew and Luke should not be regarded as a historical fact but as a midrashic or mythical way of expressing the truth that the person of Christ can not be understood exclusively within the dimension of humanity, but belongs also to the divine dimension.

Those efforts can not be understood apart from my story, but from the point of view of process thought they can express a measure of transcendence of personal experience.

Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive self - gift they made to one another in marrying.

For it is not clear that all, or even most, New Testament texts express an appropriate political understanding.

In both genders being «made in the image of God,» we understand that the fullness of God's personhood is expressed in not only in masculinity, but also in femininity.

No doubt my way of seeking it is very different from process thought, such as that expressed in the writings of John B. Cobb, Jr., but this does not preclude the possibility that Cobb's di - polar theological understanding can not only challenge but also enrich a quest for total dialectical understanding and vision.

It goes without saying that the Psalms must be understood according to the canons of poetry, in which the point is often not to convey information or to argue grammatically and logically, but rather to express feelings of longing or anguish, adoration or revulsion through imagery, the juxtaposition of images and ideas, crescendos and climaxes of intensity.

Not of the generation or geography to have been able to understand «spirituality or evangelicalism,» he liked religious sentiment that was finely and equably expressed.

I do agree that the innocence of God is not expressed all over the place in the OT, but since I am trying to understand God in light of Jesus Christ, and since the innocence of Jesus Christ is expressed all over the place, then this is why I try to read this innocence back onto God as well.

Instead of expressing an opinion you feel you have to qualify with how not racist you are, maybe take some time to try and understand why you feel it's necessary in the first place.

And yet we find ourselves in the strongest agreement with the German scholar, Professor von Rad, whom we have cited before, in his own expressed feeling that after all, legend is not an adequate term, so long as it is commonly understood simply as a mixture of history and unrestrained popular imagination (one part history, nine parts imagination — our comment, not his) We much better understand legend as a combination of history and meditation, and as motivated primarily by a concern to give expression to the meaning of history, as that meaning is conveyed by the faith that God makes himself known therein.12

My encouragement to you is to not worry too much about which forms new followers choose to keep or cast aside, but to focus on developing the transforming life of Christ inside them (breath and reality) and let the Spirit show them how to express what's inside in a way their community can understand.

Leaders have expressed their «responsibility» to ensure voters understand the stance of the church on terminating a pregnancy, adding that neutrality in the debate isn't an option.

Moreover, while the central biblical message of new life through Christ is expressed so fully and dearly that one who runs may read and understand (which is what Reformation theology meant by the clarity and perspicuity of Scripture), there remain many secondary matters on which certainty of interpretation is hard if not impossible to come by.

«We understand that such comments echo the fears and / or slurs that some Americans express toward Islam, but we urge you not to give in to them,» the Anti-Defamation League's letter to officials in the Southern California city said.

Wesley comes close to this view, but it does not quite express his understanding.

A number of more conservative leaders have expressed a nervousness about speaking out, for fear of being pilloried in the secular press, who certainly don't understand the rhetoric of «love the sinner, hate the sin», or getting lumped in with Westboro Baptist Church and their appalling «God Hates Fags» signs.

Nicodemus again raises questions, and Jesus expresses his surprise that a religious teacher should not understand that repentance is God's gift.

It is enough to provoke both laughter and tears — not only all these protestations about having understood and comprehended the highest thought, but also the virtuosity with which many know how to present it in abstracto, and in a certain sense quite correctly — it is enough to provoke both laughter and tears when one sees then that all this knowing and understanding exercises no influence upon the lives of these men, that their lives do not in the remotest way express what they have understood, but rather the contrary.

I do not understand Jesus» words to love one another to include the bickering, the «I'm right and you're wrong and that means you're going to hell», the anger, snarky remarks, intolerance and general lack of love that I find not only in the comments on many «Christian» blogs, but also that I read and hear expressed by «Christians» elsewhere.

But the message of Jesus does not agree with all the parts of the Bible, particularly with some of the harsh understandings of God expressed in the Old Testament and implicit in some of its laws.

They understood and even appreciated her piety and traditional way of expressing her beliefs, but that was certainly not where they were.

His lecture is sprinkled with expressions such as «the church leadership argues that...»; «the Church maintains that...»; and «the Church's position is...» We are clearly given to understand that he is not merely expressing his own views or speaking in his capacity as the archbishop of Los Angeles but is speaking for the Catholic Church.

According to Bultmann, any attempt at the present time to understand and express the Christian message must realize that the theological propositions of the New Testament are not understood by modern man because they reflect a mythological picture of the world that we today can not share.1

«We understand that abortion is a controversial and sensitive subject but that is not a reason to ban people from expressing their views.»

They usually are content to demythologize it.11 Here again, if one makes the opposite judgment as a systematic theologian, based in Scripture and tradition, that belief in the resurrection of Jesus is not only necessary to Christian faith, but one of its most distinctive and important elements, one may find it possible to express that belief in Whitehead's understanding of the person.

Ben Sira expresses well a characteristic attitude, «Seek not out things that are too hard for thee... but what is commanded thee think thereon... for more things are showed thee than men understand» (Ecclus.

-- I am not a Susan, but I know, and am not confused ---- Love is the thinking of understanding — a continuity between two or more ent - ities ---- All the thoughts of the thinking of knowing, both the good and bad thoughts ---- These thoughts are expressed physically, through the senses ---- So how does your god smell, or taste, or feel, or hear, or see?

First of all to my parents, my father, Remus Muray, and my mother, Marianna Muray, for their part in bringing me into the world, and their love, understanding, and encouragement throughout my life; to John Cobb, my theological «godfather» who first introduced me to process thought, and to whose friendship, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation I am more grateful than I could ever express; to David Griffin, who taught me how to think critically; to Jay McDaniel and Kevin Clark for their enduring friendship since our student days and perpetually intellectual stimulating conversations; Nancy Howell, without whose encouragement this project may not have been undertaken; William Dean, whose work has proved to be so liberating; to David and Rosanne Keller, for their friendship, the opportunity to work and play with them, and for their living relationally; Josephine Bates, for her friendship, encouragement, and support in this endeavor; the Rt..

An official doctrine of the Church does not lose its binding authority only because some theologian expresses — whether in a book, an essay, a lecture, on the radio or in television — an opinion of which another Catholic can not understand how it is compatible with the doctrine of the Church; and mostly the theologian in question will not have tried very hard to show how it can agree with it.

You can not even agree with the one simple truth Jesus clearly expressed how could one ever expect you to understand the more complicated truths.

Later in the article, Graham is quoted as expressing understanding that the North Koreans did not allow him to preach: «Kim is this world's God.

Please understand that what you're expecting from us is not that we abstain from some anonymous sex but you want to tell us how to sexually express the love to our partner.

We are human, and thus can not rightly express or understand every nuance or concept which God has given us in the Bible.