Just as the primary meaning
of human action does not refer to a public, historical act, the primary meaning of God's action does not refer to any act in history.23 However, since the relation of the world to God is analogous to that of the body to the self, then in the secondary sense of God's action, every event is to an extent an act of God.
... you can claim free will and by so cover
all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....
... you can claim free will and by so cover
all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the tsunami that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....
Not exact matches
However, in financial markets, the
actions of humans and machines (artificial intelligence)
do impact market results.
SA: As an Austrian school economist, I
do not think we can make accurate timeline predictions in matters
of human action.
Aer you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and
action of every
human for the purpose
of judgement when life ends?
@In Santa we trust - «Are you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and
action of every
human for the purpose
of judgement when life ends?»
Are you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and
action of every
human for the purpose
of judgement when life ends?
The essence
of all religions is to be good and
do good but sometimes people get carried away by
human frailty that results in undesirable
actions.
The author, professor
of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts,
does a splendid job
of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles
of human action, the determination
of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts
of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.
Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense
of objectivity: novel
human doings in need
of guidance, long - enduring systems
of belief that provide the schemata
of interpretation by which that guiding can be
done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent
action.
This co-operative activity
does not make the
action of God remote but rather as direct and immediate as communion between God and
human nature can be.
The role
of the divine is much pondered» the furiously indignant Cain gets no more explanation for why his sacrifice was rejected here than he
did in Genesis» but the
actions are all committed by
humans.
It
does,
of course, make sense to ask «why» when it comes to the
actions of human beings.
In a way, this
does not constitute an exception: it is still the physical
action of a
human that brings about a physical result.
everything is made up
of atoms (don't believe me
do some research) its the different variables
of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process
of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions
of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from
action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends
of the scale life as we know it will be different the
human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine
... as you stated in another post «By inspiring the
human authors to write what they
did, God made it look like He was the one responsible for the
actions of Israel, the destruction
of the flood, the murder
of the firstborn males
of Israel, and the slaughter
of Canaanite women and children.
The Quranic texts
do not give in detail the code
of laws regulating dealings —
human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life
of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.
More important and more basic than that, it is because God's own purpose
of self - expression
does not there expect and provide for such adequacy as was achieved by him once for all in
human regard, when by his prevenient preparation, his concomitant grace, and his effectual
action he was «made flesh» in the person
of Jesus Christ.
Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense
of divine fury over the failure
of the divine purpose to work itself out in the
actions of human beings that
does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.
This is in fact a resurgence in other terms and with other objectives in view —
of the error always committed by Christians who intervene in the sphere
of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for
doing what he
does.
It
does not necessarily mean observing the rules or codes recognized in any
human society, except insofar as these represent the attempt
of that society to make
actions express the nearest thing to full realization
of affected interests which is possible to the average
human being.
For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense
of divine fury over the failure
of the divine purpose to work itself out in the
actions of human beings that
does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.
1) That in no way addresses my post 2) I don't believe in sin 3) Eternal condemnation for a finitie «sin» is an unjust and immoral system, as is eternal reward for holding a specific belief instead
of a totality
of actions taken, and the innermost part
of a
humans morality.
The religious intellectuals
of India wanted to relieve
human suffering, and this could even lead to governmental
action, but they
did not envision fundamentally different ways
of organizing society.
If you hold that no
human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call
human (there is a gradation
of forms leading up to the modern
human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when
did we become accountable to God for our
actions?).
If the Greek translation is correct, it would appear that forgiveness is not completely an
action done by God alone but requires some sort
of human participation.
Regarding the first: I
do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy
of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature
human - like feelings,
actions, etc. 3 But I
do wish to argue that he is innocent
of trying to move from (a
human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to
human beings and characteristically
human activities.
The point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects
of actions» locatedness
do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses
of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms
of «
action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept
of action.
The idea that there are spiritual forces at work in the world, or that
human action does not fully control the public square, is
of course rejected as an absurdity by many, if not most, people today.
But I
do not labor under the misapprehension that the
human self can be adequately understood by holding exclusively to discourse in terms
of action.
Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought
of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political
action on philosophical theories
of human nature has
done more harm than good.
It is more about
human characters
doing whatever it takes under extreme circumstances to stay alive in terms
of «
action film» techniques.
Along the same lines, Sapontzis argues that animals» intentional and sincere, kind and courageous
actions are moral
actions, for they accord with accepted moral norms, and we
do not require demonstrations
of moral principle in everyday
human moral practice (AAMB 51 - 2).
And what possible
action would justify
doing this to billions
of human beings for all eternity?
Now, what a child
of God
does with His truth, is up to them (free will), but everyone needs to know that your soul depends on knowing His truth by reading the Bible, comprehending it, and then abiding (applying) His truth to their lives to produce His righteous truth in all thoughts / beliefs, writings,
actions as He instructs us to live while house in
human form.
They
did not change
human actions or attitudes in any problem
of collective behavior by a hair's breadth, though they may well have helped to preserve private amenities and to assuage individual frustrations.
For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this
action has been
done, in every conceivable
human circumstance, for every conceivable
human need from infancy and before it to extreme old age and after it, from the pinnacles
of earthly greatness to the refuge
of fugitives in the caves and dens
of the earth.
Both
of these approaches negate our responsibility for our own
actions and ignore the reality
of human will and our ability to
do good or evil.
But these people will not abandon their affiliation to the sense that there is «something out there,» so they
do not go along with a rationalist and materialistic explanation
of the world, in which
humans are responsible to themselves and one another for their
actions - and for the future.
«they
do not go along with a rationalist and materialistic explanation
of the world, in which
humans are responsible to themselves and one another for their
actions — and for the future.»
As
humans we
do need to be held accountable for our
actions — like children we will allow ourselves to get «out
of hand» without someone to help with that.
From the article: But these people will not abandon their affiliation to the sense that there is «something out there,» so they
do not go along with a rationalist and materialistic explanation
of the world, in which
humans are responsible to themselves and one another for their
actions — and for the future.
«But these people will not abandon their affiliation to the sense that there is «something out there,» so they
do not go along with a rationalist and materialistic explanation
of the world, in which
humans are responsible to themselves and one another for their
actions — and for the future.»
The two most basic ideas in this hope
of the «parousia» are that the redemption
of the world
does not require the destruction
of creation since creation is not itself evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every
human action remains with the contradictions
of sin.30
God
does not erase the distinction between good and evil in history because
of the moral ambiguity
of all
human actions.
People
do wrong things regardless
of faith... it mostly because greediness, power and so on... very few among the mankind fear Lord The Almighty which includes Muslims as well... and which is why today we see these
actions are being
done by
human in everywhere... as a matter
of fact its been there since the beginning
of mankind... now we have been blessed with media and anything happens, next minute we can see it and sometimes we see what the media wants us to see...
i wish i could
do something to stop these
human hurting selves... but i can't... so thats why i requested the leader
of the Catholics to take an initiative to stop this
action... and least i can
do is to pray for all...
I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the
human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence
of, and which has no consistent pattern
of action with which to use as evidence for verification.
The reason we need to make room for this conviction is that it is basic to «the whole framework
of intentional psychology;» in terms
of which we ordinarily explain
human behavior «We standardly explain
actions by... providing «reasons for which» we
did what we
did; and... it is difficult to evade the conclusion that the explanatory efficacy
of reasons derives crucially from their causal efficacy» (SM 287).