Sentences with phrase «not unchanging»

Fogo floats like a piece of salt cod in the broth of the North Atlantic — preserved by its remoteness and, if not unchanging, then slower to change than just about anywhere I have been.
It is not an unchanging document, and you should be prepared to modify it over time.
But a tradition is dynamic and developing, not an unchanging legacy from the past.
Maybe God is not unchanging, but ever - changing, ever - growing.

Not exact matches

Many of these traditional business books have merit, of course, but your reading diet, like your nutritional intake, isn't going to serve you best if it's made up of just one worthy but unchanging type of fare.
That's why innovation in Laozian terms doesn't come from seeing a given situation — a landscape, a relationship, an industry — as unchanging, and then coming up with a fresh tactic within that stable situation to neutralize an opponent.
They are not part of the unchanging geological landscape.
The nation is not only the third largest by race in the world, but because of the miss of unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.
The vast divisions and endless squabbling among humanity's many religions show clearly that religious experiences do not reflect a single, unchanging reality.
While I am no theologian, I believe the answer to this question is simple and unchanging: the Church's hope is not a question of plausibility and never has been.
Ultimately, like a lot of things, intentionally remaining unjaded — even after witnessing multiple failures — shows that our faith isn't in temporal circumstances, but an unchanging God who promises that He is good, and He has the power to restore all things.
If the biblical god is perfect, ominpotent and unchanging, shouldn't he / she / it have gotten the contract right the first time around?
and at the time of jesus moses gallileo newton charles darwin, people opposed them but ultimately the same people bowed to their eternal truth, so norm is man made not natural and it changes from time to time, the only thing which is self reliant and unchanging is mother nature, so Sikh faith is not a ritualistic dumb faith, indeed it's a lifestyle which tells to «Respect and follow The Laws of Nature and not to destroyy the beauty of nature».
Regarding your second fold, God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.
If, therefore, experience is essentially temporal in structure and order, a timeless unchanging being of the sort proposed by classical theology could not experience, could not know or love, and indeed could not exist concretely.
It's about not apologizing for our transformation and change in response to the unchanging Christ.
The writer to the Hebrews in the NT, makes it clear that God contracted an unchanging purpose with Abraham and that this is «an anchor for the soul, firm and secure...» This makes it clear that God's purpose was always the same, to redeem creation, establish the Kingdom of God in God's presence on the new heaven and new earth and bring the exiles back to the garden.
Kasper thinks that the Catholic theological tradition doesn't talk about mercy enough and that the classical concept of God, which sees God as perfect and unchanging, is «pastorally... a catastrophe.»
Science - fictional adventures in an imaginary future, among extraterrestrial intelligences or future versions of humanity, are — obviously — not accurate predictions of our future, but have more truth in them than to suppose our current social and biological order is unchanging.
Of course you have not provided this fixed and unchanging definition.
Such a movement can not be defined by unchanging beliefs or structures, yet it can never exist apart from a content of faith.
And in the New Covenant — which does not revoke the Old, because God has an unchanging essence — God brought things to fulfilment.
Don't be intimidated if nothing happens the first time or few times, keep doing it (the Word of God is true and unchanging).
For is not to speak of God's eternity as the Fullness of Time tantamount to saying that God is the fullness of contingency and of change, and to denying that God is the Immutable, the Unchanging?
But I shall argue that love can not breathe in such a «block universe».33 For St. Augustine all things are caught in the predetermined web of God's absolute, non-temporal, impassible, unchanging power.
The root of equality is therefore grounded in this unchanging personal relation between the individual and God, not in the secular whim or political fashion of the crowd.
But it does not follow that our framework of understanding, any more than our language, is fixed and unchanging.
In contrast to the classical tradition, he declares that truth is not found in the unchanging essences lying behind the flow of time, but is essentially historical and ultimately eschatological.
At the conclusion Bohm summarized his position as follows (not a direct quotation): The problem is that many people think of essence as something which is unchanging.
From the standpoint of Whitehead's final theory, as interpreted in terms of Hartshorne's distinction between God's abstract nature and concrete totality, it is quite natural to interpret the last sentence as Griffin does: «The passage does not say that God as a whole must be unchanging; it only says that God's nature must remain self - consistent» (PS 15:200).
It can not accept the apparent nonsense of traditional theological claims that God is both impassible and loving, both timeless and active, both unchanging and creative.
Security for the Hebrews did not reside in an unchanging tradition.
The living God of history is our true security, not some reflection of this God or some unchanging tradition.
i believe compassion is only real in relation to the Objective (which you don't believe exists), and therefore its definition is UNCHANGING.
If we believe that it is worth saving, then we must know what it is that we wish to save, not holding with a deathly grip to an unchanging past but seeking the inspiration to undertake that reformation, reconstruction, and reconstitution which are necessary.
Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.
Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...
Hence, there can not be a great number of unchanging first causes, each responsible for different events in the universe.
Although the book doesn't mention it, there is an even deeper affirmation in Hinduism, where the one great, unchanging Reality, Brahman, is seen as or expressed as Sat - cit - ananda.
Biblical morality therefore is based upon humans, not an absolute unchanging morality of some God.
Thus, God is unchanging with respect to our temporality, even if not ultimately.
One can not sensibly dispute that the unchanging, simple, and necessary God of classical theism, if he exists, would differ from our changing, composite, contingent universe in requiring no cause of his own.
Possibly some aspects of God's character and his constant adequacy may be unchanging, but surely not all aspects of God's being and action.21
Unlike the gods of surrounding nations, Yahweh does not appear mainly to create a sacred place, a cultic center, where human culture is protected by becoming close to unchanging divine reality.
In its wake, we have adopted various unspoken beliefs that may or may not endure, for instance that all distinctions between groups of people are always morally dangerous; that we expand our rights by defining ourselves in reference to unchanging, inborn identities; and that talk of rights is inherently morally elevating.
However, Rice also notes that there was, and always has been, another side both to Calvin and the Reformed tradition — a side that was less confident in the intellect's ability to answer all questions — a side that could acknowledge ambiguity and be open to mystery at the heart of the faith — and that understood God to be immanent as well as transcendent, and one whose «dependability came not from being unchanging, but from being loving.»
He quickly adds that personal identity and self - consciousness are not thus to be attributed to some underlying and unchanging structure.
Wasn't it you who was arguing an unchanging scripture over the last 2000 years?
The entire tone of these rules, in fact, is to praise not only the Church's unchanging faith, but also her established discipline and devotional practices that were in many places under attack in the sixteenth century.
Both Manning and Newman were unwilling to take him up on this, because at that time they could not accept the idea of organic development as it was seen to contradict the unchanging role of Scripture which was part of Anglican faith and enshrined in the Articles.
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