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.