Sentences with phrase «own human creation»

Beautiful, powerful, flawed, and indescribably dangerous human creations.

In the final analysis, the sharpest goads and the sturdiest nails merely add to the burdensome accumulation of human creation.

Religion is a human creation.

Humans only discover laws (laws are always human creations, by the way) if said laws existed before their discovery.

You said, «The humanist morality is based completely on what is in the best interest of the human creation not what is in the mind of the creator.»

It is obviously an entirely human creation and is constantly behind the times and completely marbled with self interest.

When the holiness of the land (a divine proclamation) becomes the holiness of the state (a human creation) we all too easily move in the direction of theocracy veiled as statism (in which the state is the embodiment of divine will).

@believer, I don't know if you'd call me an atheist, but I don't believe in a god or gods and, while open to the possibility that some may exist, am highly unlikely ever to believe in the Christian god, mostly because 1) most versions require an anti-scientific concept of «free will» and 2) I think there's abundant evidence of human creation of the Christian god concept.

These religions are human creations.

Religions are nothing more than human creations.

The human creation too is governed by a kind of natural law, but it is one that can be violated.

If they can be sufficiently reduced to primitive and human creation, then any religious claim becomes a stab in the dark (of the entire universe).

Rome was an entirely human creation.

Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.

I asked Dyer a few questions about the relationship between human creations like the iPhone 5 and the coming New Creation.

At the other end is a glorious, heavenly city full of human creations, art, and technology.

At the same time, the Scriptures seem to hint that God will be transforming, redeeming, restoring, or making obsolete some human creations.

Fifteen percent of those surveyed said that theology's main role with respect to science is to «support the biblical account of the human creation and fall.»

What are some of these human creations?

You talk about an abundance of human creations in the new heaven and new earth.

The obvious meaning of this is that the Scriptures were not human creations, but were specially given by God.

Since in Jesus Christ there has been brought to a focal point the significance given by God to the human creation, it is precisely this which is «raised from the dead» and now abides in God for ever.

The other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling activity of God in human creation reaches a climactic stage.

The bible, a human creation, attempts to explain our capacity for evil that goes all the way back to the beginning of existence where we want what we can't have (the forbidden fruit) and jealousy (Cain and Abel)... which are the same thing.

The whole story is, as it were, a love - story with God as the principal actor and the human creation called to participate in that adventure of Love at work.

It is this double - quality — disclosure and release of God in the human creation — which explains why there is in Christian understanding an attempt to interpret or define who is the One about whom the proclamation is made,

What if the gods are human creations, fashioned after the image and likeness of humanity?

At the present time, theologians using an evolutionary explanation of human creation and development refer to original sin as the origin of our sinful history.

The primary freedom consists in the fact that the economic system is a human creation and not a natural phenomenon.

Even in natural science «the world» is a human creation.

And systems that reflect the values and dreams of only half of God's human creation, (only half of God's image!)

How can you say your way is the «right way», and the only way accepted by God, when God hasn't provided the details of this way to all his equal human creations throughout the world?

Faith requires openness to a realm of meaning which is beyond human creation and therefore beyond human control.

Meanwhile, there have been thousands of gods and all but a few have been abandoned as mere myths, human creations.

For the rest, it was much that they recognized so clearly how large a part of the woe that has blackened human history is of human creation.

Feuerbach, for example, was one of the first to understand the positive value of religion in society, even when religion is understood as a human creation and expressed in naturalistic terms.

We have seen that all human cultures are human creations, each of them being the collective creation of an ongoing ethnic group.

Since all sense of purpose and human fulfillment resulted from human creation in the past, we can continue to create a purpose for living in the future.

The word «God» is a symbolic term which is no less a human creation than the class of beings called «gods», which «God» came to replace at the Axial Period.

A purely human creation of scripture allots for such discrepancies, but not a divinely crafted 100 % correct one.

I could go on, but my point is: All gods are human creations.

Those regions and cultures contained God's human creation.

---- Lynn, why do you suppose God just didn't send other sons / daughters to all cultures and groupings of his human creations on earth at the time of Christ?

The Biblical version — Impossible, since God hasn't bothered to provide a way for many of his human creation to be aware of the bible.

There are many people who understand that religion is a valuable human creation, just like science is.

Even so, as Jeffrey Stout has well said in Ethics after Babel, «truth is a property of interpreted sentences, and interpreted sentences belong to languages which are human creations.

There were many, and they all contained God's human creation.

Since these are human creations, people have the responsibility to correct it or change it.

It is entranced by the image of homo faber to such an extent that it makes theology into nothing other than our own human creation, and one gets the impression at times that Kaufman sees religion also as nothing but a human construct.

All religions in my opinion are human creations.