Not only are the parallels clear to the story of Frankenstein, similar parallels can be seen in films such as The Fly, as a scientist explores the edges
of human existence with the selfish need to advance their work.
But education means training the mind to unfold to the multiple facets
of human existence with some appreciation, eagerness and joy.
The Bible is of such a quality that a sixteenth - century person had good reason to assume it to be thoroughly reliable upon every aspect
of human existence with which it dealt.
And it contradicts the very nature
of human existence with its essential orientation to the future.
In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation
of human existence with God's intention for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.
Not exact matches
It is a fundamental fact
of human existence: communicating
with others while respecting differing views is a necessary life skill.
The only way to find compatibility in such a worldview is by accepting a religion
with no authority on the most meaningful matters
of human existence.»
LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because
of that, all
human beings (including the ones who deny His very
existence) are still endowed
with some
of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.
There are actually
human beings on this forum who honestly believe that the universe, and our own little rock that is teeming
with life, came into
existence through natural processes alone, absent the workings
of a creator.
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.»
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.
blastoff - if one can show
with evidence that the concept
of God from the Torah was created by a
human and
with evidence shows how, where, when and why... it has everything to do
with the topic about the
existence of God.
They bring students into «the company
of great souls» (TRL 11), confront them
with «the questions that are central to
human existence» (TRL 29), and so by the universality
of that encounter provide them
with a common heritage that serves as «the glue that binds together our pluralistic nation» (TRL 30).
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.
The
existence of God the Creator can be known
with certainty through his works, by the light
of human reason....
As long as it was assumed that the world that originally came into being was much like our present world,
with human beings coming into
existence abruptly in their present form, it was hard to think
of origins in terms
of chance and necessity.
Shiaism hindu Mithra ism, savior ism invented little over 100 years after Sydana Mohammad pbh by tribes
of Kujar
of north Africa and imposition as Fatmid Khalaphit by force by denial
of Hidth and Quran, justified by hindu Judaism, pagan secularism to impose hinduism, racism by hindu, fabricated relationship
with Family
of Syadana Mohammad pbh to justify
existence of hindu criminal Kings, a violation
of fundamental commandment,
human equality under the LA.
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.
Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms
of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes
of dealing
with lawbreakers, forms
of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects
of human existence as contrasted
with the bare biological fact
of living.
Is not this whole assumption that Jesus was concerned «
with a new selfhood, irrespective
of whether it be conceived individualistically or in terms
of the historicity
of human existence, based upon a false theologizing
of the historical Jesus?
It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story
of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness
of God in that
human life, the image
of human life in the Western novel is one in which
human beings grapple
with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations
of historical
existence.
And we have an interpretation
of human existence as a movement toward love, accepted willingly or rejected selfishly
with the inevitable consequences
of human fulfillment or nonfulfillment.
Rollo May has put us particularly in his debt by his insistence that an «ontology
of human existence» is required even
with the strict limits
of psychological theory.16 But now we go beyond the general doctrine
of man to the Christian answer to the religious question.
Reinhold Niebuhr criticized this Pelagian vision
of individuals and social orders in Moral Man and Immoral Society, replacing it
with an Augustinian realism about
human existence that tempered any optimism in
human progress.
Unfortunately, some defenders
of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view
of the complex machine and its maker and associated it
with the view that such special forms
of the machine as the
human body came into
existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.
In Oriental Mysticism, Altizer observes that Heidegger, also, maintains that being is not an eternal reality equitable
with the sacred or God; rather, it is a historical event involved in the establishment
of Dasein,
human existence.2 Heidegger comments: «If I were to write a theology, which I am sometimes tempted to do, the word being would not be allowed to appear in it.
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.
In its place he must put the vital, living knowledge that «the fundamental fact
of human existence is man
with man.»
He offers a view
of transcendence which is not identical
with a particular metaphysic, but which leaves the
human being in free play within the reality
of his historical
existence.
The religious objections have mostly aimed to protect God's sovereign freedom to do what He pleases
with his creation, a freedom which, the dissenters argue, would be limited by the
existence of universal and unbreakable laws
of nature, or indeed
of inevitable laws
of history or
human behaviour.
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.
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.
All that we can say
with confidence, however, is that our earliest knowledge
of humankind takes us back only to the point where
humans were already scattered into groups, living a tribal
existence, each
with its own language and culture.
«In RE pupils have the opportunity to engage not only
with the most profound metaphysical questions concerning
human existence and the nature
of reality, but also
with the most pressing ethical problems
of our day.
Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths
of human existence, as well as providing our culture
with a shared vision
of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.
the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose
of our
existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment
of many religions by
humans to conform
with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform
with their times
of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.
To those impatient political enthusiasts who talk loudly on how futile and impractical religion must always be, and who are bent on legislating
human equality into
existence, Kierkegaard offers a word
of counsel, «Only that which is religious can
with the assistance
of eternity press the equality
of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the only possible equality between men.
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.
And indeed the Kingdom
of God and death are alike in this — that both the Kingdom and death imply the end
of earthly
human existence as we know it,
with its possibilities and interests.
consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level
of existence varies
with evolution, highest is that
of living things, at the top is us
humans because
of the biological nature
of our
existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level
of complexity
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.
In The Source
of Human Good he acknowledged the existence of a creative event apart from human beings, but declined to spend much time on it, making it clear that his real concern lay with the creation of human
Human Good he acknowledged the
existence of a creative event apart from
human beings, but declined to spend much time on it, making it clear that his real concern lay with the creation of human
human beings, but declined to spend much time on it, making it clear that his real concern lay
with the creation
of human human good.
It presents ever - new facets when in the course
of the intellectual history
of mankind it is confronted
with ever - new
human experiences, because it points to the infinite mystery
of God as the centre
of our own
existence.
He describes
with great accuracy the necessities
of Christian
existence in which love is the meaning
of all knowledge and action, but in which man must cope
with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions
of the corrupt
human spirit.
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.
Even if one can not agree
with the particular amalgam
of East and West which he is evolving, one can not deny the importance
of the task to which he has committed himself nor its usefulness as a stimulus to the overall task
of arriving at a new language — or languages — which can communicate to man once again both divine and fully
human existence, the goal we are all seeking.
Cal, there is zero reason to even suggest the
existence of any god you can imagine that interacts
with humans.
John McDermott suggests, in an extreme way, such a state
of human existence when he writes: «In short, I believe that the being
of being is to be disconnected, ontologically adrift, casting a net here, a hook there and all the while confusing a strategy
with a solution» (PAPA 11).
Though people may describe themselves by using terms like «gay» or «queer» which are commonly used in today's culture, as Christians who believe in man created in the image
of God, we should ask if these cultural terms are, in fact, true ontological categories
of the
human person, in accord
with the blueprint
of human existence.
Although fully familiar
with the enormous power
of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to
human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for
existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»