Sentences with phrase «or else»

And the dilemma remains, even in the negative theology, that either all value is compossible — which seems certainly untrue, for values conflict — or else God must fail to possess some values which yet are possible — and how then can he be incapable of growth in value?

Of course, you have to believe in God as He is revealed in Jesus Christ, or else you may end up believing in a god that acts like Hitler, and seeing the world through that lens will not be helpful for anybody.

- ism does not mean a word is a religion or else consumerism, commercialism would be religions, as well is medievalism, pointillism and voluntarism.

And so here I am, unsure if personal responsibility also means «kill myself to fulfill The Dream or ELSE... my life is over!»

The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own life.

They werent their for those lofty reasons you think they were, or else the insanely rich Vatican would have ensured that it kept going.

I must concur however I beg to differ... (sarcasm heavy)... People who adopt faith are r e t a r d e d and have given up or else never had the ability to think.

The goal was always to either ignore or explain away these differences, or else the authority of Scripture would be threatened.

Otherwise they will be like indolent workmen who find no spur to action in a task to be achieved; or else, if a healthy human instinct overrides their hesitancies or the fallacies they derive from a misunderstanding of religion, they will still be a prey to a fundamental division and frustration within themselves, and it will be said that the sons of heaven can not, on the human level, compete with true conviction and therefore on equal terms with the children of this world.

As Jesus says: «No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.

«Be as eager for me and to be in my presence, says Jesus to his disciples, «as these little children are, or else you won't be able to get into the kingdom of heaven.»

@ David, So am I correct to assume that you would also object to the cultural practice of teaching that women should cover their faces or else they are should be considered showing no respect for god or disrespect for their religion.

This would be an unwarranted generalization, for there are also instances of suffering in which there is either no discernable good at all for the sufferer or else too little to be worth the steep price.

Because an ancient piece of literature tells you too or else?

We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up».

It seems as a king he thinks he has the right to many wives or else concubines.

If suffering is either deserved punishment or else is for the ultimate good, then it makes sense to us.

Sometimes theological reasoning --(like: the Bible says don't do that or else — but do this and you get that) will not help me, but faith will.

It's not that I've made a once and for all decision and now we're all good and getting better and living the perfected Christian life (or else).

In fact, the political and revolutionary attitude proper to the Christian is radically different from the attitude of others; it is specifically Christian, or else it is nothing.

Of course, I warned him that he needed to turn from his sin, or else it may prove he was never saved in the first place.

They demand that every gift purchased, every mall opened late, every credit card maxed out must be done so in Jesus» name... or else Christ will be taken out of Christmas.

I remember pastors in church warning me about how evil atheists are and how they don't know the word or else they'd convert.

If the final word of the phrase were not spoken for some reason, the lacuna would probably be filled in by the hearers, or else the anonymous train of expectations would be broken, giving rise to more conscious acts of surprise, puzzlement, etc..

I, on the other hand, presuppose that God can not be evil; that goodness and being belong inextricably together or else there is no ground for basic trust... Even Calvinist Paul Helm, a leading evangelical Calvinist thinker, agrees (as I show in my book) that «goodness» attributed to God can not be totally different from every understanding of goodness (and love) we know of.»

Either there was direct contact between them, which seems improbable, or else they both reflected a common area of contemporary thought and speech.

However when ANY of the above are pushed on me as a mandatory, absolute must or else, I get a bad attitude.

New York, the home of those who wander far From home, fleeing charming ghosts, or else in Search of something resembling a star.

Clearly they aren't here yet, or else we wouldn't still need reformation.

You claim that those who reject eternal security believe that only sins committed prior to receiving Jesus are forgiven but you also go on to warn that we better be careful or else the next time we sin, Jesus will take eternal life away from us.

If we continue to move from a national economy to a global one, then we must either develop much stronger concentrations of international political power or else accept a world governed by naked economic power.

* Or are you susceptible to «guilt bombing» because you've been trained by «negative conditioning» to respond to demands that you perform, give, serve, learn this, don't do that, you must say this, you can't be that, keep off the internet, don't gossip about leaders... or else!

As NT Wright says, the problem with theology is that you have to say everything all the time or else someone will think you've deliberately left something out.

Or else the moment chooses differently.

More often than not, when people talk about the «[Catholic] Church», they often seem refer either to the Vatican — the centre of authority in the Catholic Church — or else are generalising about the entire world - wide Church.

Or else the notion of kenosis can become so spiritualized that actual suffering bodies are unattended to.

They either write as though Adam Smith never existed, or else they caricature his views in the way that William Jennings Bryan lampooned Darwin in the infamous Scopes trial.

By taking this eschatological turn Jones sidesteps the sticky feminist problem of hypothesizing about woman's essential nature or else about an original gender harmony from which humanity once fell.

It is utterly ludicrous to say, «love my God, or else!»

Whoever wants to replace the Creator's realization of this plan by a totally autonomous evolution, inevitably either ascribes some mythic creative power to evolution, or else abandons any attempt at rational understanding and explains everything as the blind play of arbitrary chance.

These are all the natural follow - ups to forcing wedding vendors, counselors, and charities, private colleges and universities, to treat same - and opposite - sex couples alike, or else face crippling fines or loss of their operating licenses.

But as children they believed fervently that they needed to conduct their own rituals and prayers, or else disaster would befall their families.

And in several weddings over the past few years, I've heard the officiating ministers (all of them male) warn young brides to avoid «letting themselves go» after having children or else their husbands might be tempted to «look elsewhere.»

You have no evidence to prove any of this otherwise, or else it would have been provided by the prosecution.

And in today's gospel reading, Mark's prophetic charge rings as true as ever: «Therefore, keep awake — for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly.

But neither you, nor God (who apparently does not seem to exist — or else remains incognito, withdrawn, and inactive) nor anyone else has produced any good evidence.

We have to be willing to bend a bit — it can't be «our way or no way» or else it will always be «no way.»

But it seems like we can't even address an issue or else we're not loving.

Then some bloodthirsty maniac Roman emperors made everybody say they believed the stupid stories, or else they'd get their heads chopped off.

Palestine is like a rabid dog that must be chained or put down or else they will kill all of us that do not follow Islam.