Sentences with phrase «obvious truth claim»

Not exact matches

Because of the force of Ramanuja's claim to having systematized the real truths of the Hindu religion, and because of the obvious gains to be realized through the comparison of two culturally different theistic traditions, Ramanuja's approach will be followed.

Mackie adds that although this claim may not be immediately obvious, if we supplement the set with some «quasilogical» rules specifying logical relations between «good,» «evil» and «omnipotent,» its truth will become apparent.

When we allow Church teaching and biblical proclamation to share in a common claim to truth, the obvious differences, the puzzling divergences, and the unexpected harmonies will naturally compel our minds and draw us into elaborate arguments that interweave theological and biblical analysis.

If you study all the flaws in scripture, the theological inconsistencies which are everywhere, the obvious different writing styles and favorite words, phrases and themes of the various writers, the typo errors (like 1Corinthians 14:22), the differences in reporting (wqs there really one Gadarene demoniac or two), and hundreds of other problems, you start to understand why there are more than twenty thousand denominations in the state of California alone, all of them claiming the truth.

The obvious objection to my claim that academic education is itself a kind of moral education is to point out that the information and skills acquired in school are just as easily put in the service of sophistry as in the service of truth - seeking.

Perhaps there is — and it is far from obvious that one side or the other has any absolute claim to scientific truth.

(nowhere is that truth more sadly obvious than in the Sidley Austin discrimination claim where the EEOC has argued that partners are employees in order to trigger coverage under discrimination laws).