People in general tell us they are focusing more (or would like to focus more)
on human relationships with their families, friends, business associates and communities.
Whereas Paul described his former life in Judaism as focused
on human relationships with his contemporaries and predecessors, his depiction of his new life is so centered on his relation to God that he as yet has no relationship to the other apostles.
She has founded several art and technology companies and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Ecopsychology, with a focus
on the human relationship with water.
The day will also touch
on the human relationship with pedigree cats and big cats in the zoo.
Archaeological research sheds light
on human relationships with the environment and reveals the ways in which cultures have changed through time.
(This blog has periodically explored the role of the arts in fostering public engagement
on the human relationship with the home planet).
Carl Safina is the author of six books and numerous articles
on the human relationship with nature, especially the sea.
Not exact matches
Businesses like his Bloomberg News will continue to rely
on human resources to build
relationships and connect
with their customers.
Slowly but surely, tech vendors are recognizing that they not only have to be
on point regarding product functionality and support, they must also make genuine
human connections
with customers — developing
relationships that inspire more than a transactional bond between parties but instead build bonds based
on trust and real
human experiences.
Your success as a business owner or a digital marketer depends
on your ability to build meaningful
relationships with human customers; after all, they're the ones who will be supporting your business.
«There is something about building
relationships and working
with people
on Capitol Hill that requires
human nuance, and many companies won't just leave this to a machine,» she says.
Skype's «Stay Together» campaign draws
on the natural pairing of telecommunications
with human connection to put the focus
on the
relationships its technology enables.
RBC's Canadian and North American business strategy is founded
on building strong and lasting
relationships with our clients - «earning the right to be our clients» first choice» - and
human capital is our greatest asset in making this happen.
One of the things we're always considering at FlexJobs is how we can strengthen and maintain our company culture, encourage friendly
relationships to grow among teams, and engage
with one another
on a
human level.
The Law is a means of coping
with the affects / symptoms of our broken
relationship with God [broken
on the
human, not the Divine side] and not the cure of mankind's individual and social ills.
Some have families that pray over them or
with them, but the focus is
on the
human relationships.
The Biblical accounts of God - to -
human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting
with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating
with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology
on «Time Dispensations.»
Everything about us, our
human history tells a story, our
human story and God's story of redemption of mankind through His own initiative, by sending His Son Jesus Christ who declared Him and explained Him so that we would KNOW Him and be able to have living, active
relationship with Him, by believing
on the Name of His son whom He sent to redeem us.
On the one hand, of course, all
human relationships have some sort of drama, but it often seems that it get magnified in church because people try to defend their positions
with pious spirituality.
Taboos
on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence
on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make
human relationships with them safe and profitable.
Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held
with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is,
on the contrary, a tragic sign of
human nature and
relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all
human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»
But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so
human society is founded
on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct
relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:
while I agree
with parts of what you've stated such as: the bible is MOSTLY a book
on God and
human relationship, I would disagree
with you as to whether it's a «good» book
on the other issues.
The
relationship of the finite creature
with the supremely worshipful and unsurpassable deity is being affirmed; and along
with it there is also affirmed the possibility of its becoming
on occasion a matter of conscious knowledge
on the part of the
human, as it is always a present reality in the very nature of God himself.
In the totality of Jesus»
human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment,
on the stage of history and in the circumstances of
human existence, of the right
relationship of that existence
with God.
This Christian stress
on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence of the Christian community as well as of other
human groupings, has a close
relationship with the fourth assertion: that each of us is an organic unity, body - mind - spirit.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available,
with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of
humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of
relationships, economy and culture impinge
on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
To fail to be one's true
human self is to fail in maintaining
on one's part the right
relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right
relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree
with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we
human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner
with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing,
human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so
on... I remember a story that I was talking
with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical
relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
The only thing Christians have figured out is how hopeless the «
human condition» is apart from a one
on one
relationship with Jesus Christ.
«This responsibility for God's earth means that
human beings, endowed
with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between the creatures of this world... The laws found in the Bible dwell
on relationships, not only among individuals but also
with other living beings... by their mere existence they bless him and give him glory»... «the Lord rejoices in all his works» (Ps 104:31).
Or to put it in another way, we
humans have evolved in a symbiotic
relationship with the culture created by the countless generations before us; we are dependent
on the culture into which we have been born, not only for what we think and believe we know, but also for our very humanity.
What we shall do is to speak first in this chapter of what I call «personal
human relationships,» while in the two following chapters our interest will be centered
on «familial
relationships» and broader «social
relationships» (including neighborhood and the like,
with reference also to the significance of the «city»).
These are not
relationships based
on a manipulative effort to proselytize every person we meet
with a few well - rehearsed Bible verses and platitudes, but an opportunity to acknowledge the God - given beauty and value of another
human being.
Either
human beings are made subject to the State or they are typically cast as «individuals» —
with little meaningful or intrinsic
relationship to each other or any agreed notion
on what it means to be a
human being.
Are
humans inherently good (but in need of a repaired
relationship with God) or inherently evil (and incapable of doing any good
on their own)?
There are many reasons why Kaufman went
on to «de-reify» God and surrender his conviction that God is any reality other than a dimension of «our interpersonal
relationships with our fellow
humans.»
The consequence of these reflections is the full recognition that to have been created in God's image means, for
human beings, that we are created in the image of God as Love.134 That has all - encompassing implications for the way in which we are invited to exercise power in our
relationships with one another and
with all of creation
on our home planet.
«We are all
human beings and you tend to have better business, political
relationships with people that you actually get
on with.»
The Protestant emphasis
on the need for a personal
relationship with God, if not balanced by an emphasis
on the need to belong to a community of others who are also rightly related to God, can lead to an excessively individualistic understanding of
human society.
Just as
human friendship depends
on freedom - we choose our friends and willingly spend time
with them - so, too, does a genuine
relationship with God require willing involvement.
To this basic covenantal
relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where
human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers
on a fairly equalitarian level and
with a strong democratic sense of personal right.
By its stress
on event and
on patterning and integration, by its insistence that
relationships constitute an entity, by its concern for an awareness of the depths of
human experience (motivations, desires, drives, and «emotional intensity,» for example), as well as by its recognition that we are part of the world and continuous
with what has gone before us and even now surrounds and affects us, process thought not only has been in agreement
with the newer scientific emphasis
on «wholeness,» but has also contributed a perspective which can give that emphasis a meaningful setting and a context in the structure of things in a dynamic universe.
The key point, however, is that if the secularized academic community can not
on its own terms sustain moral standards, gain epistemological assurance or avoid the virtual deification of the
human, then far more than fairness and open - mindedness is at stake in its
relationship with Christians.
the life of faith must always not merely confront, but confront
with decision, the fundamental proposition of the deuteronomic (and
on the whole, biblical) faith that
human life, the gift of God, is meaningfully fulfilled only in acknowledgment of the reign of God in history and in a
relationship of response to him.
Our present concern, however, is not
with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but
with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure
on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound
relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of
humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.
But the idea that
human beings are created by God purposefully,
with a special
relationship to God, and
with special privileges in relation to other creatures, took deep hold
on the consciousness of Christendom.
But when we
humans turned our back
on what God desired and wanted (a loving
relationship with each and every person), God did not accommodate us, or stoop down to let us have our own way, or even withdraw from us so that we were abandoned in our rebellion.
C. S. Lewis speculated
on the eternal fate of animals in The Problem of Pain, suggesting that at least tame animals might enter heaven through their
relationship with humans, in the same way that
humans do through their
relationship with Christ.
much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the
relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest
relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along
with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table
with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost
on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great
relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just
human nature, it's about how they chose to deal
with these situations that will determine if this
relationship flourishes or devolves..