Sentences with phrase «old argument has»

This age old argument has been proven wrong countless times.

That tiered old argument has been shown to be ignorant again and again, and yet Christians still love to use it like it hold any kind of weight.

On account of ego depletion, my relatives who spent most of the evening biting their tongues to avoid reawakening some old argument would be more likely to overeat during the meal than those who happily aired their grievances.

As a writer's coach and a successful indie author since 2002, much of what was revealed here came as no surprise to me, and the comments made in the interview were the same old arguments I've seen brought out over and over, which is by no means a criticism.

But nothing will derail your discussion faster than falling back into the same old argument you have had with your spouse a hundred times during your marriage.

Not exact matches

The after - tax income of state residents would, the argument goes, be the same as under the old federal tax law.

On December 28, 25 - year - old Tyler Barriss called police in Wichita, Kansas, falsely claiming he'd shot his father during an argument and was holding two other people hostage in a home there.

Sigh... same old lame argument from people who do not understand history or have been indoctrinated by the David Barton school of revisionism.

The conviction affirms the prosecution's argument that the 22 - year - old hoped the killings would start a race war or bring back segregation.

The act of impling is an old one and a useful tool for throwing off arguments one rather not have.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical but sly arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

So here has been the age old argument... Creationism and Evolutionist... Both are theory's..

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

In presenting an argument, I just wish that those who try to tear down the integrity of the Old Testament prophets would at least be honest, transparent, with the other point of view.

Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.

The old argument still runs that only God has the right to decide the terminus of any life.

If you want to have a serious debate, you'll have to start engaging with the facts and arguments that have been presented rather than merely ignoring them and restating the same old arguments that you seem so desperate to believe.

Others have pointed to this argument as a «might makes right» argument and I've noted the old axiom that «just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something.»

Shane, that is an old argument which has been proven to be untrue.

It would seem that the old Hindu argument» still requires an answer.

Thinking abilities disabled... check Lobotomy performed, just in case any reasoning faculties are still active... check «GOD H8S F.AGS» T - shirt... check Armed with 2000 year old arguments for invisible old men in the sky that have been refuted on countless occasions... check

Now memory is an old Occidental argument for bolstering personal identity, and it has never been very successful.

I would say that the fact that your watches and calendars are BASED on these calendars, would therefore mean that I could rip the floor out of ANY argument you make regarding this world to be more than 5773 years old.

In recent years as I have gotten older I have started investigating all religions so as to understand the different arguments.

I don't know many normal, say, 10 year olds who would make such convoluted and blinkered arguments.

They have heard the arguments about attracting newcomers and retaining old - timers.

Like an old chinese saying that states: «In order to have power in an argument, you must first not violate any laws yourself»

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

you may be ignorant to it, but it's an old argument i and many others have been over before — only the names change.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

this is an old argument which delusional theists have lost already, so i don't intend to expound on it further other than to point out once more — you're wrong.

Sorry, but I can't buy the argument that the news media's obsession with decades — old tales of the homosexual seduction of teenagers — but only when done by Catholic priests — has nothing to do with Catholic — bashing.

One would never guess, listening to Wolterstorff, that these old saints wrestled with whether those facts invalidated their arguments about procreation, nor that they eventually arrived at accordingly nuanced, qualified views.

Moreover, if the argument from synchrony is to decide, what is to be done with the fact that the religious age par excellence would seem to be old age, when the uproar of the sexual life is past?

I had forgotten about the old Ad Hominen argument, learned back in my college years as something to be avoided during debate.

The Church seemed to have accepted that the old arguments for the existence of God had been demolished by science, and it appeared that nobody had any new reasoned approaches to take.

The reader, who understands this, will also understand that our argument has no interest in nor is affected by marginal and non-typicalcases (as, for instance, the older man who marries and may not be capable of actual insemination).

(Jeremiah 15:15) Moreover, the saving efficacy of good lives in a community had been an implicit corollary of the old sense of social solidarity, as is picturesquely evidenced in Yahweh's consent to Abraham's argument that if there were even ten good men in Sodom it should not be destroyed.

I think you would have more interesting arguments with yourself then you ever could with an intelligent 10 year old, let alone an adult.

I have not had to appeal to that oldest and best argument for the institution of academic tenure, the unqualified freedom of a scholar to move as his or her research and thinking lead, without being bound by past assumptions or present colleagues.

One should know that the Holy Quran has many sections of the Torah (Old Testament) and the Bible (New Testament) incorporated in It and if «THOU SHALT NOT KILL» is claerly there, no amount of argument and justification allows one to kill.

Prosecutors say Bibi, a 45 - year - old field worker, insulted the Prophet Mohammed after she got into a heated argument with Muslim co-workers who refused to drink from a bucket of water she had touched.

The argument is that the Holy Trinity is technically another God since it does not have the same attributes as the Old Testament God.

But then I'm not holding my breath — fred has had this same argument time and time again, and has yet to come up with any credible evidence for his particular brand of make - believe — something so obviously rehashed from older mythology.

The old «Christianity is evil because Christianity has killed millions» argument... If you read the Bible, there are many times that God commanded His people to destroy other groups of people through, gasp, violent means, because those people had rejected Him completely and were ruining the earth, which He had made.

With the older orthodoxy it is possible to disagree, as in having an argument.

As for the ones I don't respect (as in the ones who can only call names like a 5 year old but never have a substantive argument), I'd rather that they didn't..

These evidences remain very important; but, whether we like it or deplore it, the older type of argument for Christianity based upon the documents and traditions and heroism of the age of the Apostolic Fathers has no longer the evidential power of former days.