T4 is ruled out by the contention that God is at least possible — he is not impossible, the concept of God is
not meaninglessness or contradictory.
Man, being reflective, tries to ascribe meaning (
not meaninglessness) to his existence.
Not exact matches
I can tell you that I'm an Atheist and can tell you that i don't spread a life of
meaninglessness.
And yet tragedy and despair and
meaninglessness also abound, and we must
not neglect addressing Ourselves to the human condition.
Of course, when we realize that baptism is
NOT required for eternal life, then this entire debate fades away into
meaninglessness, but we already talked about this...
Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can
not decide on the meaningfulness or
meaninglessness of theological language.
Thus, we can say that Jesus» passion redeems us,
not only from our sin but also from the evil we undergo, or at any rate from its
meaninglessness.
As in Lycaonia and at Athens, the Christian missionary has first of all to convince his hearers of the
meaninglessness and futility of idolatry, idolatry which meant
not only the actual worship of images of the gods but also the whole range of pagan religion.
Because this human being exists,
meaninglessness, however hard pressed you are by it, can
not be the real truth.
I think as soon as we realize the church is
not a building, and the Gospel is a message of words AND a way of life, then some of these divisive issues within the church just fade away into insignificance and
meaninglessness.
But love is
not the only word that has been sentimentalized to the point of
meaninglessness.
A theology that is open to the future must first exist in the present,
not a present which is an extension of the past, but a present which is a culmination of the past, and hence for us a present which is a moment of vacuity and
meaninglessness.
At a time when our primordial trust has been weakened due to our experience of suffering, mortality, guilt and the threat of
meaninglessness, an encounter with this picture is capable of allowing us to trust once again that we are cared for and that reality is
not indifferent to our deepest longings.
As commentators from Jacques Ellul to Peter Leithart have pointed out, the Teacher in the book is
not concerned so much with «Vanity» or «
Meaninglessness» as he is with the evanescence of all things around him.
If Ahab is the paradigm of the new American, we will
not have the tolerance for the ambiguity, the irony, the hopelessness, and the
meaninglessness of the historic eras that dawn ahead of us.
PORTER - MAGEE: There were so many state standards that were vague to the point of
meaninglessness, you know, that just did
not articulate the content that students needed to learn and the skills they need to master to be ready for college and beyond.
At other times the artist forsakes answers in leu of creating an intimate relationship with
meaninglessness, making material Baudrillard's observation that «consumer objects are like hysterical symptoms; they are best understood
not as a response to a specific need or problem but as a network of floating signifiers that are inexhaustible in their ability to incite desire.»
The second problem is that this only looks at 10 years of data, which isn't even as much as the 12 years that Dr. Curry used despite admitting the statistical
meaninglessness of such noisy data over such a short time period.
It's true that, in general, existentialists believe the world holds no inherent meaning, but they do
not take this belief as license to fall into a deep pit of depression and
meaninglessness; rather, they believe we can create our own meaning.