While your observations of the Christian religion in modern day American society is very accurate, can you really say that these same problems did
not exist in the past 2000 years?
Just because fairies and pink dragons are not common place today, doesn't mean that fairies and pink dragons did
nt exist in the past.
It should be remembered that much of what goes on in the NICU is new: the technologies and techniques used to support premature babies did
not exist in past decades.
«I don't believe these problems didn't exist in the past, but in the past they were controlled because adults felt confident in tackling these problems themselves, not by being vigilantes, but by being sensible citizens.»
«Studies of the fossil record indicate that this trend didn't exist in the past — it's a new development in today's world.»
Dietary recommendations must be made in view of current concerns over food purity and competition from inexpensive, nutrient - poor options that compete for the public's dollars even if these concerns didn't exist in the past.
While these results are very exciting to hear, the researchers want to stress that it doesn't mean that black dog syndrome hasn't existed in the past.
If it Ain't Broken Many manufacturers have identified common odor issues for which effective solutions simply did
not exist in the past.
When will we see a new BioShock game, that may be an even tougher question to answer since the main studio responsible for the game is shutting down and 2K Marin doesn't exist in its past form anymore.
Just because we're only recently experiencing the likely effects of Global Warming doesn't mean that it didn't exist in the past.
Range shifts will result in new community assemblages, new associations among species, and promote interactions among species that have
not existed in the past.
Social media offers a unique advantage to people changing careers that had
not existed in the past.
Not exact matches
But that long history of data on
past catastrophes does
not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk - rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.
A lot of what was settling
in the
past doesn't
exist anymore.»
The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose - tinted version of a
past that did
not really
exist in any case.»
Whether that
past draws on your company's
existing reputation, a previous product launch that did
not succeed or even skepticism around your industry
in general, it's best to avoid the negativity and move forward with a clean slate for any new product launch.
About a third of new jobs created
in the United States over the
past 25 years didn't
exist (or just barely
existed) at the beginning of that period, and predicting what jobs might be created
in the next 25 years is just guessing.
But
existing shareholders — be they the venture funds who have financed the company thus far or the employees who were compensated with shares
in the
past — weren't selling.
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.
With my recent addition at $ 43.74 coupled with my
existing position built over the
past 15 years, I do
not intend to buy more shares
in the near future.
Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have
not necessarily
existed on this scale
in the
past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate
in open - source software projects.
«This reality will
not change even if large volumes reach tidewater for export, as the difference
in price that
existed over the
past few years between the inter - national benchmark — Brent Crude — and North America's benchmark — West Texas Intermediate (WTI)-- which did provide a premium for tidewater access over the
past few years, has now been reduced to almost nothing.»
Since these elements
exist only for a definite span of years, and all the uranium, radium, thorium and other radioactive elements in the world today have not yet existed that many years, there was a time, prior to the duration of this span in the past, when these elements DID NOT E
exist only for a definite span of years, and all the uranium, radium, thorium and other radioactive elements
in the world today have
not yet existed that many years, there was a time, prior to the duration of this span in the past, when these elements DID NOT EXI
not yet
existed that many years, there was a time, prior to the duration of this span
in the
past, when these elements DID
NOT EXI
NOT EXISTEXIST!
It does draw an accurate picture of the wild bull that
existed in biblical times and down into the
not - too - distant
past.
If material has always
existed eternally
in the
past, why hasn't our universe come into and already gone out of existence forever ago, presuming we our a result of this «material» you speak of doing something to bring our universe into existence?
And so, much of the social structure that provided an incentive to be good, moral, generous, honest, and so on
in the
past simply doesn't
exist in society today.
4 It is significant that
in Whitehead's Metaphysics Leclerc has stated, without textual support from Whitehead, that for Whitehead
past entities do
not «
exist in the full sense of «
exist», and... are no longer properly «actual» (p. 109).
But happy above all he who, rising beyond aesthetic dilettantism and the materialism of the lower layers of life, is given to hear the reply of all beings, singly and all together: «What you saw gliding
past, like a world, behind the song and behind the colour and behind the eyes» glance does
not exist just here or there but is a Presence
existing equally everywhere: a presence which, though it now seems vague to your feeble sight, will grow
in clarity and depth.
If
not, then by the same token how can the
past infractions of those
not accepting God make
in insufferable that they continue to
exist?
Though the
past as inherited sets the realizable limits and opportunities for the moment's creative power, the eventual creation with all its determinate detail could never have
existed nor subsisted before it is created,
not even
in a primordial vision of potentialities.
If you want to argue that this «brand» of belief
in Christianity is really
not what has
existed for the
past 2000 years..
Hartshorne reasons that if the
past is
not in some sense eternally and perfectly preserved, that is, if the
past is
not immortal, then it follows that
in the more or less distant future, it will be the same as if we had never chosen one action as opposed to any other; indeed, it would be the same as if we had never
existed at all.
You didn't even try to tell me why all of mankind (up until the
past sixty years) were idiots for believing
in God, or why Father Abraham and Noah never
existed.
The intuition that reality for human beings, and indeed for all living things, is necessarily temporal, with an irreversible distinction between
past, present, and future, is difficult to reconcile with the idea, long orthodox
in the physics community, that time does
not exist for subatomic particles or even for single atoms.
It is
not that the theses of traditional theology regarding Adam's elevation to grace, his Paradise, his knowledge and so on, are to be unmasked and diagnosed as at the most anthropomorphisms or dreams of a golden age
in which mankind expressed
in vivid form a longed - for future rather than a
past that had once
existed and was lost?
As another example, atheists have an irrational belief that the God of Abraham does
nt exist, they have governments controlled by their atheists leaders (China, former Soviet Union), and an uneducated population living
in poverty, and I'm
not aware of them killing over 100million people
in the
past 100 years alone..
Thus revelation is
not the
past remembered as
in scripture, but
exists presently and continually
in the church and «the church is the Christ of the present... Christ
existing as community.»
For the
past exists in God's remembering it, and the future
in His anticipating it; and what is remembered and anticipated
in the life of God is
not reduced to a present moment but rather spans and enables all moments.
Yet Zen's total transcendence of dualism can point the way to a Christian transcendence of dualism, a transcendence that can lie only
in our future, for it does
not exist in anything that we can know as our Christian
past.
Jefferson
in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants
not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements
in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer,
not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches
in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered
in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the
past that there is hope and «God wants that person»
not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do
exist or can
exist in the christian world
not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!
«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did
not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the
past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering
in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.
The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly
in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future,
not a puppet ruled by the
past whose end is contained
in his beginning: «But
in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out
in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one
in which the future does
not exist.
These may or may
not be related to the grandiose civilizational patterns of the
past, but they may
exist in the symbolic universe of Dalits and Adivasis and thus provide an alternate model for thinking and living
in the world of difference and variety.
The same analysis holds true of actual entity B. Actual entity B
not only is located
in region «b» but also
exists throughout every region
in its
past.
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.
Past history is for him something dead and done with, something which does
not vitally affect us, something which
exists only
in the memory, which is dependent on tradition and all its hazards, and which is therefore subject to criticism and essentially relative.
It is understandable that,
in view of vast and grievous mistakes
in the
past, considerable apprehension
exists in the souls and minds of non-Christians —
in the West and
in the East — lest they be subjected to reprisals, discriminations, and persecutions for
not «conforming.»
A man does
not and can
not exist in complete isolation from other men, or from his present environment, or from his own
past history and the more general history of the human race of which as man he is a part, or from the natural order to which he and his whole race belong, or from the possible developments which are before him and mankind
in general.
And one actual occasion can answer for a decision from its
past because it unavoidably
exists in the context of that prior decision — what AE2 is is
not totally independent of the prior choice — and because, when AE2 is the presently concrescing occasion of the supportive nexus, it can be concerned for the future moral welfare of the bodily structured society.
Their
past personality would be no indication of how the experience of ending up and
existing in this alternate plane could have changed them, but if they could answer some questions correctly, then wouldn't you be inclined to believe them?