Sentences with phrase «of imperfect human beings»

The Church, as are all churches, synagogues, temples and mosques are full of imperfect human beings.

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The words, Socrates tells us, were to be construed as both a greeting and an admonition to worshipers from the Greek god of music, poetry and healing: Know thyself — know your truthful soul, your imperfect and human self — before entering this hallowed ground.

But all these media of exchange were imperfect because their supply is constantly expanding, while of course the human time that created the value is finite.

a) that the bible is an imperfect human representation of gods word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally by evil humans or spirits

Human beings are imperfect, and everything we create contains elements of our imperfection.

We as the human race should all be ashamed poisoned by are warped minds imperfect and all at fault in some way of form psychological, physically, and verbally.

The first enacts in an imperfect but real way the one - flesh union of a man and a woman, something Scripture suggests is fundamental to the human community.

The Church's application of them is human and imperfect.

All religions, irrespective of what that religion may be, «came from man,» and they are all flawed because «mankind» consists of fallible and imperfect human beings.

The difference is that he never forgot that politics is one way in which very imperfect human beings can enact projects based on moral reasoning; that politics is a theater of both comedy and tragedy, relentless in the teaching of humility.

The reason we pray is that we are imperfect human beings greatly in need of help from beyond ourselves.

In the soul - body analogy; God's knowledge of the world is transcendent in that it transcends human knowledge of bodily events because God is attuned to all while we are attuned to only our nervous system (and even that knowledge is imperfect).

Christians worship a god who, for some reason, decided that he must sacrifice his son, so he could forgive the imperfectness of humans that he made to be imperfect.

Scanning biographies of any of our favorite heroes, we see that they are imperfect humans who often failed and endured much hardship.

Difficult though it is for humans with imperfect love, the demands of perfect love may, nonetheless, require that we kill an oppressor with whom we have sympathy.

When one of those scientist who themselves are imperfect and fallible create a tree, car or say a human out of nothing before our eyes then and only then will I believe what they have to say.

Moreover, Luther's own lived experience made it clear to him over and over again that even good theology is imperfect, a human attempt to describe and interpret what God reveals to and through faith in the daily living of it.

If you claim to worship a loving God who loves all mankind, then heaven & he - ll don't make any sense, which is why I believe they only exist in the minds of imperfect humans who want to feel superior to others.

In marriage, the union of two imperfect human beings, there are plenty of challenges, for sure.

This is one of the problems of allowing imperfect humans stand in the place of a perfect God.

Sometimes these imperfect human beings find things like arts and literature that explain the truth of what is to be human better than science and history.

Now, could it possibly be that the reason the answer is out of reach is because the bible was written by numerous, imperfect human beings, under the influence of their own religious biases, and all those writings have been complied, hundreds of years later, by men of equal imperfectness and religious biases, so as to render any logical discussion about what the hell was their intention in writing what the wrote, completely implausible?

I know that we are humans and we are imperfect, no humans are better than another one, we all have our share of good and evil.

Whether you're married, engaged, in a relationship or want to be in a relationship one day, you must accept this fact: A relationship is made up of two imperfect, fallible selfish human beings.

In the span of a whirlwind romance, you've planned your whole life together, only to have your fantasies start ripping at the seam when you realize well, you're both imperfect human beings and maybe this time, you're not supposed to work the rest of your lives out alongside one another.

«I know that I have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith, I have tried to right my past.»

We humans are called to be involved in the use of imperfect means to realize less than perfect ends of justice which alone history offers.

«But:» challenges the traditionalist, «as weak and imperfect human beings we are incapable of doing the right thing and living the right way until we have been saved from the power of sin, whether you view this power emanating from within us or from Satan.»

Seeing clearly is a divine gift, but sometimes, as in the story of Jesus» opening the eyes of a blind human being in two stages, the sight that is gained is imperfect, and a second remedial touch is necessary (Mark 8:22 — 26).

If we accept the account of human nature given by the Western theological and philosophical traditions — that we are free, rational beings, limited and imperfect, prone to diversity of opinion and errors in judgment — we may be more inclined to be not only tolerant but gracious and loving toward those with whom we disagree.

Christians should agree that there exists a perfect orthodoxy in the mind of God; however, the proliferation of schisms, disagreements, and divisions throughout church history points to the fact that we as sinful and fallible humans are imperfect at agreeing precisely on that orthodoxy.

I have quoted these passages from Whitehead for two reasons: first, because he is the «founding father» of the Process conceptuality; and second, because what he says in them points to God as «pure unbounded Love» and to our own human existence as intended to be a creaturely love (doubtless imperfect and defective because finite and mortal).

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

Until one can accept that humans are mortal and imperfect beings, that judgement of one's soul is entirely between God and that person, and live by the «Golden Rule», hate speech and hate crimes will continue.

But even more than that, it asserts that the divine Love is prepared to accept us as we are and for what we may become, to forgive the wrongs we have done, and at the same time to employ our obviously imperfect human existence for better and fuller realization of good in the future.

And I don't condemn them to the lake of fire if they aren't begging me for forgiveness for being human and imperfect.

So some great points Gary that you make about the bible being an imperfect representation of God, being written as it has been by humans.

But I have long ago come to the conclusion that the bible, as well as any other holy text, is an imperfect representation of God from a very imperfect human perspective.

The morality of law and the coercive institution of the State to enforce legal justice are expressions of this imperfect morality at the level of self - alienated social existence of human beings.

But perhaps I have not sufficiently stressed still another important matter, namely, that in all human decisions, and the actions that are consequent upon them, there is likely to be serious distortion of, or a sadly imperfect response to, the possibilities for good.

As you say, Marx appears to talk about ideas that are good, and you don't notice the essential elements that are missing from his ideologies — such as the rightful place of humans under God and in relation to one another — the recognition of imperfect and sinful nature of humanity, the inherent dignity of created things.

[25] Marriage and celibacy do not «divide the human (and Christian) community into two camps [as if there were] those who are «perfect» because of continence and those who are imperfect or «less perfect because of the reality of married life.»

No man has ever seen God; but in love God can be seen; human love, imperfect as it always must be, is a glimpse into the heart of God (4:12).

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

Life is full of mistakes, imperfect days, and human failings.

«I confess to being human and imperfect... To any of the ladies that I've offended, I apologize.

«It is my humble honor to stand here today as a candidate for governor, as a mayor of the largest city but also as an imperfect human being,» said Ganim, who spent seven years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Scherz cautioned against the threats posed by AI to social justice through such phenomena as the replacement of imperfect humans in the workplace with maximally efficient and profitable machines.

«Previous studies of cardiac microtissues primarily used harvested rat cardiomyocytes, which is an imperfect model for human disease.»

The imperfect nature of being human means regretting things you've done, and feeling guilty or shameful.