There are so many
other contradictions in this piece.
I wonder, have you ever explored any of
the other contradictions in the Bible?
Not exact matches
In what
other area does humanity operate at this level of extreme, daily, constant
contradiction?
It is only through rejection of this reality that Christians can pretend that their religion was always a beacon of light; it's rejection of the basic impossibilities and
contradictions of the Golden Rule that allows them to believe
in a religious theology that most
others openly recognize as unpracticeable.
On the one hand, the comrades take refuge
in outdated forms of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead of occupying themselves with the
contradiction between the present constitution of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the
other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetic.
It is based,
in the last analysis, on the basic
contradiction between the ruling class and the ruled class — that is to say between monopoly capital or monopolistic bureaucracy on the one hand and the dependent masses on the
other.
Here are a few things you need to become Somewheres: An ability to welcome the
contradictions in each
other.
But
in many
other cases the
contradiction is not so easily resolved.
What looks like a logical
contradiction is resolved
in life, for not only the Bible but our own experience tells us that to forgive
others as fully as we can is both a condition and a consequence of divine forgiveness.
Then,
in that tension, the plot thickens, and world view as story is related, binding even
in the light of its
contradiction the self to the
Other, the finite frame to the world's outcome.
By opposing these things the Church is a «sign of
contradiction'to the beliefs of the secular world, and
other faiths, while acknowledging whatever is good, true and beautiful
in other faith systems.
But
in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer
contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the
other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»
Of course these are false
contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that
in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of
others.
In other words, he has avoided seeing the
contradiction within his own desires by projecting the conflict on his wife.
In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no
contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of
other fields of learning.
This, then, is why the pope is the most powerful man
in the world: the understanding that he represents will endure, while the
others inevitably curve
in upon themselves and expire of their own
contradictions.
This
contradiction was blatant
in the south, but it was found also
in other parts of the U.S.
Unaware that the roots of the condict are
in our inner
contradiction, we resist beginning with ourselves and demand that the
other change at the same time.
But their actions contradict this denial and their attitude toward themselves and
others makes that
contradiction apparent, Even the person who decides to commit suicide, because he or she has been disappointed or frustrated or rejected, is really asserting a sense of value, if only
in the implicit assumption that by ending life one can give it a meaning.
The history of science has already sufficiently demonstrated that successive acceptable theories are often
in radical conceptual
contradiction with each
other.
In other words, to have real faith and to sin is a contradiction in term
In other words, to have real faith and to sin is a
contradiction in term
in terms.
He will always refuse
in the last resort (provisionally it is a different matter) to regard the Church as an affirmation which stands
in contradiction to what is really meant
in the very depths of the affirmations of
others, so that ultimately there has to be a choice.
This is a denial of all possibility of knowledge through sight, which places sight and language
in contradiction with each
other.
It would be a
contradiction to say that a certain accidental thing happens by necessity; but there is no
contradiction in saying that it is necessary that some accidents or
other should happen, that there should be accidents.
By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious
contradictions involved
in classical theism's use of analogy and
other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.
The Parmenidean «It is»
in effect calls for an ethics of the eternal present; this is sustained only by a continual
contradiction between, on the one hand, a detachment, an uprooting from passing things, a distancing and an exile
in the eternal, and, on the
other hand, consent without reservation to the order of the whole.
These two Alien Groups were seen as God (s) which explains the many
contradictions in the Bible and
other religious text.
In this sense, true evil appears only in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalizatio
In this sense, true evil appears only
in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalizatio
in the very field where religion is produced, namely,
in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalizatio
in the field of
contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the
other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalization.
That is the
contradiction of mutuality and is the kind of belonging
in which
other persons are taken to be only adjectival to one's own existence.
To Religionis4dolts: Any time an innocent person suffers, we are faced with a
contradiction: The belief
in a just and kind G - d on the one hand, and the suffering of innocents on the
other.
The nativity narratives, on the
other hand, which are
in formal
contradiction to the genealogies (since these trace the Davidic descent of Jesus through Joseph, though he was not, according to the nativity narratives, His father) can not be derived from the kerygma.3.
And these people scoff at
contradictions in the Bible; a collection of literature written over three millenia, by authors who never met each
other to compare notes,
in various places
in the Middle East and around the Mediteranean,
in various times.
The presence of the word «Spirit»
in one of these passages and
in the immediate context of the
other suggests the only resolution of this
contradiction, if any resolution is possible.
He feels he appears a different man
in the pulpit, a
contradiction of his seminary experience and of the
other aspects of his ministry.
As Islam spread to many countries the newly converted people often did not fully understand the teachings and practices;
others who embraced Islam were actually only disguised as Muslims and introduced beliefs
in contradiction to the Truth.
-- or if the
other had been a sly fellow, he surely would have seen through Abraham and perceived that he was making a show of feelings which were
in strident
contradiction to his act.
They will even justify killing each
other in direct
contradiction with their «beliefs».
The latest results, like
others in recent years, show an apparent
contradiction between strong support for more parent choice among schools, and....
I certainly agree that there are major discrepancies
in other religious writings, and major
contradictions in those books with what God says
in the Bible.
Sometimes the two are
in flat
contradiction, sometimes
in a sort of agreement; but at
others, as
in the Agnus Dei coupled with Owen's «One ever hangs where shell'd roads part», they are wonderfully together.
In his letter of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that other selves are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to be able to make sense out of the idea of a literal participation in other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.&raqu
In his letter of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that
other selves are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to be able to make sense out of the idea of a literal participation
in other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.&raqu
in other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed
in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.&raqu
in contradiction,
in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.&raqu
in epistemological chaos, and
in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.&raqu
in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.»
Since God's creation ex nihilo of a new entity is the establishment of that entity as a free subject, it follows that it would be a
contradiction in terms to imagine that God (or any
other agent), at the level of creativity - characterization, could eliminate that concrescence's subjectivity, reduce its range of options to zero, or wholly destroy its freedom.
The demand for impartiality
in judgment then is not a
contradiction of love; but the high tribute which love pays to the
other, the tribute of seeking the truth
in the
other and the
other in the truth.
But the Saudis and most
other dictators
in the Arab world have Western States as their protectors,
in DIRECT
CONTRADICTION to what the Koran demands.
Others, like James Dunn or Paul Jewett, see
contradictions in the text that demand the arbitration of human reason.
The rest support unnecessary mass - murder and torture for profit based on lies as
in the War of Choice
in Iraq
in direct
contradiction to the spirit and literal teachings of Jesus (turn the
other cheek, blessed are the peacemakers, love your enemies, repay evil with good, he who lives by the sword will die by the sword, forgive seventy times seven, thou shalt not kill, etc.).
They seem so blissfully unaware of the inherent
contradiction in paying somebody to help them cheat
in courses that are largely about walking
in the light of God and providing an ethical model for
others to follow.
Those calling themselves Christians, as well as
others, have wrestled with the question of why this
contradiction should exist, seemingly so strange,
in a world
in which the opening chapter of the Bible declares that after God had created it «everything» was «very good.»
If the bishops and
other negative absolutists would speak of tradition, let them speak of it
in its full ambiguity and subtlety, instead of acting as though the tradition were a simplistic, Platonic negative floating through time untouched by
contradiction, nuance or complexity.
Furthermore, it indeed seems that here there is a
contradiction in Duméry's thought between the emphasis that he places on the transcendence of freedom
in its relation to all determinations, and on the
other hand his conception of the whole as a hierarchy of essences.