The complexity of this issue is clear but so is its value since love for many is the most vital aspect
of human existence for people the world over.
The quest for immortality has been a theme
of human existence for millennia.
Jesus, he announced, «is God himself coming into the very depths
of human existence for the sole purpose of striking off the chains of slavery, thereby freeing man from ungodly principalities and powers that hinder his relationship with God... Jesus» work is essentially one of liberation.»
For if it is true, on the one hand, that death is the end
of human existence for each and every one of us, it is on the other equally true (to repeat the words I have already used) that death is human life in its finality.
Not exact matches
Here, we learn how to prepare
for our own end and how to help others transition... Unreligious and truly transformational, this book continues to inspire and provide endless wisdom on the great mysteries and challenges
of our
human existence.»
Being experienced in multiple areas
of the
human experience makes
for a more powerful
existence.
Humans have only existed
for about 200,000 years out
of the Earth's 4.5 - billion - year
existence.
In the early days
of human existence,
for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other
humans.
Early - stage tech companies raise money through a stubbornly analog process — an irony
for an industry based on the conviction that computers will upend every aspect
of human existence.
Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer
of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local
of the Association
for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation
for Alberta schools and questioned the
existence of human - influenced climate change.
Since no one in this world does not have any one answer
for every single child in the mother's womb about whom the child will become, there is no one answer
for the nature
of existence, especially
humans.
We all know at some level that we didn't get where we are on our own, and that we have an ongoing responsibility and dependence on others
for our continuing enjoyment
of the goods
of human existence.
What we do know about all claims
for God's
existence, and supposedly inherent qualities, is that they are all indelibly stamped by the fears, wants, prejudices, errors, and limitations
of their obviously
human authorship.
What you're giving up is your freedom to think
for yourself by accepting this fantasy man - in - the - sky BS that has somehow managed to propagate throughout the centuries
of modern
human existence.
Since Christ was conceived in
human way, the
existence of holy spirit, and it being the cause
for mary's conception is false.
This climate
of intellectual concern with time and place,
for instance, which dominates discussions
of «Southern» literature at a largely superficial level, is inescapable to
human experience
of existence itself, whatever one's «South.»
Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book
of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «
Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son
of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used
for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book
of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.
A Whiteheadian political theory, then, should have due regard
for the biological and «material» conditions
of human existence, recognizing that these yield their own measure
of self - enjoyment.11 Also included in private happiness are the nonshared aspects
of the individual's dialogue with himself or herself.
If, to the contrary, the difference between
humans and some sub-
humans were slight (if,
for instance,
humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that
human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance
of humans represents the maximal importance
of subhuman
existence as such.
It is the overarching meta purpose as in the purpose
of human existence as opposed to an individual self created self bestowed purpose
of life (such as caring
for ones family) that I was musing about.
Yes, it is true that looking at the trees, we don't see God, but when we look to our fellow
human beings and doing things
for them, we acknowledge God's
existence in the universe in the form
of love.
@joshue There is ample evidence
for the
existence of the
human brain.
The narrator
of The Fall thus explains the death
of Jesus in light
of an inherent
human guilt: it was just as impossible
for Jesus to justify his
existence as it is
for any one, so that the real reason why he went to his death is that he knew he was not altogether innocent.
Well if it's slightly more evidence
of the
existence of a man outside
of Italy in the 1st century who was born
of a virgin, died
for 3 days before resurrecting himself, then explained he only died because
of «original sin» which is the idea that a woman ate magical apple given from a talking snake in a garden at the beginning
of time which caused all
humans to go to hell when they died.
For every explanation you offer I can, and on many occasions have, offered an alternative explanation that's consistent with what we know about
human psychology and
human history, yet mine require no leaps
of faith in a God whose
existence I can't prove.
As a source
of unity
for contingent reality, the
human person is not estranged from the world, but has an innate openness to each part
of it, as a portion
of his own
existence.
They can not exist in the substance
of bread since the bread is no longer present and they can not have their
existence in the substance
of Christ's body because the substance
of a
human body is not the proper substance
for the accidents
of bread:
human bodies simply do not have the texture, colour, and so on,
of bread.
Even the noble king could perceive the difficulty
of such a method,
for he was not without insight into the
human heart, and understood that the maiden was at bottom deceived; and no one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it, but is as if enchanted by a change in the outward habiliments
of his
existence.
The moving account
of Helen Keller's transformation from the essentially animal to the truly
human level illustrates both the importance
of a physiological basis
for meaningful
human existence and the dramatic contrast between life with and without symbols.
Hence authentic
human existence could be understood as culminating in faith, the movement
of faith could be limited to the negation
of «objectivity,» and no occasion need arise
for the necessity
of a dialectical coincidence
of the opposites.
But the theologians who worked out this conception were also devoted Christians who centered their own religious faith upon Jesus
of Nazareth,
for them the very incarnation
of God in
human existence.
Hence Jesus» message
of salvation and his call
for repentance «form together the absolute determination
of human existence».
God is evolution in His process
of will implementation, humanity change in this process but not necesarily aware because our
existence is very limited in time.and we are not as individual the ultimate objective, but God himself, Our
existence is just part
of the process
for Him to become Himself in the future.We exist only in our time
of existence.From pure Energy which is Him 13.7 billion years ago, to us
humans 200,000 years ago, to what we are now today, to super
humans in the future, to what He will be in the far Future.THE ULTIMATE HIMSELF Is the objetive, you are just part
of the process you IDIOT.
However, there is nothing in Camus» writings that speaks against a conception
of God that could account
for the hierarchy
of value in nature and also insure the freedom and value
of human existence.
«The experience
of absolute control over another being,
of omnipotence so far as he, she or it is concerned, creates the illusion
of transcending the limitations
of human existence, particularly
for those whose lives are deprived
of productivity and joy.
It is another case
of seeing the
human eros in its communal context and seeking to order life so that a humane and tolerable
existence becomes possible
for all.
suffering, true sociality, as qualities
of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe,
human freedom, and in the arguments
for the
existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed
of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.
For the complementarity
of spiritual mind (eg
human soul) and physical matter (eg
human body) is foundational to all cosmic
existence.
On the other hand, those who believe that there are questions
of greatest importance
for human existence that are not amenable to the kind
of inquiry we associate with the natural sciences, will be more sympathetic toward theology.
First, it must again be stressed that the eschatological message
of Jesus, the preaching
of the coming
of the Kingdom and
of the call to repentance, can be understood only when one considers the conception
of man which in the last analysis underlies it, and when one remembers that it can have meaning only
for him who is ready to question the habitual
human self - interpretation and to measure it by this opposed interpretation
of human existence.
However vigorously the Catholic Church defends
human reason, a necessary presupposition
of freedom
for love, even defining that reason can know with certitude God's
existence, the reason envisaged can not be a deterministic reason that would banish all ambiguity and freedom.
Bonhoeffer maintained that interpreting the Bible in terms
of the present age is to make man the measure
of the Gospel rather than to learn from the Gospel the true norm
for human existence.
The Primary Purpose
of Sex and Marriage: Procreation Holloway's rooting
of the purpose
of sex in the Incarnation is a unique argument in favour
of the conclusion articulated by the tradition and by many contemporary orthodox Catholic scholars, namely, that the «primary reason
for the
existence of sex in
human nature in the intention
of God is
for children».
We are to be prepared
for the extravagance, the radical spontaneity, the unruliness
of love in
human existence.
In the following part
of this book five fundamental experiences will be described as forming a basis
for a religious understanding
of human existence.
And where custom dictates that
for the sake
of convenience we keep to the traditional academic structure, the philosophical question still remains as to whether biology (or psychology or any other
human science) has a genuine right to autonomous
existence.
It is prepared to trust itself to one
of the most notoriously unreliable features
of human existence — not only the pain and riskiness
of human gestation and childbirth, but also the whole
of human skittishness about male honor, and the potential
for violence that goes with female dependency.
The distance between the moral principles which the Church proclaims and — leaving aside
for the moment the question
of the Church's pastoral office — which alone can be propounded doctrinally, and the concrete prescriptions by which the individual and the various
human communities freely shape their
existence, has now increased to an extent that introduces what is practically a difference
of nature as compared with earlier times.
after clarifying the validity
of this evolving faith based on the material process, the big challenge now is
for us
humans a coresponding development in the spiritual aspect
of our
existence, though we are confident
of His guidance through evolution, we with our limited insights and intellegence will be able to develop and come up with guide lines in our moral lives.
But I can point to the universal experience
of all
humans who have a yearning
for something beyond our physical
existence —
for ultimate purpose, value and meaning.