Sentences with phrase «particular human persons»

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The Bible is full of stories of God interacting with His people in particular, and the human race in general.

People who think that a candidate being some particular religion means that a candidates is somehow good as a person, a human, are not thinking too straight.

One need merely approach it with an open mind to see that its authors were no mere robots, but human beings endowed with their own particular insights, virtues, customs, faith, and — as with all people — their own misconceptions and misunderstandings.

Whoever alleges that the Qur» an is the product of a particular people, or a special age, or a limited aspect of human life is a disbeliever in Islam and in God's Book.

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.

per · son · i · fy transitive verb: to have a lot of (a particular quality): to be the perfect example of a person who has (a quality): to think of or represent (a thing or idea) as a person or as having human qualities or powers

When God chose to incarnate himself in human form and Jesus accepted his God - given mission, this incarnation occurred within the stream of a particular history, the history of the Jewish people.

If your sin involved other human beings, or if you believe you need their help in keeping free of this sin, or you need their counsel, advice, or accountability, you should also confess this sin to another person you trust, or to a group of such people, who will love you no matter what and will help you through the temptations and addictions of this particular sin.

You and your God and all that believe like you can have full reign for all eternity in your particular conceptualization of your afterlife but here on Earth we like people to be treated equal before human law.

Another example: it does not follow from belonging to the set of human beings with valid tickets for a particular flight that a given person may properly board that flight.

A legitimate philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a human species but also peoples, not merely a human soul but also types and characters, not merely a human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.

At the same time, the preacher is to affirm that the release of the divine power of love, pointedly effectual in this particular incident in the reported healing of the daughter, is also for all people, bringing to them the «comradeship and refreshment» of which they stand in need for the living of a truly human life.

We can seek to develop Aquinas on this particular issue or we can present an alternative view that will in its turn stand or fall on its ability and power to explain the human person and the world in which he / she lives.

To deny that Jack is gay (or American) may not be to deny his humanity, but it is an attempt to break down who he is as a particular human individual, and it has never been an aim of orthodox Christianity to engage in this sort of ideological project of deconstructing and reconstructing people.

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.

From this axiom it follows that no human activity (including, again, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons) can be neutral with regard to any particular metaphysic.

But to be of full value for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of universal human experience.

The love commandments of Jesus and his concern for the weak and helpless impel us to political and economic action in our time, although it is generally admitted that what Jesus was talking about was not particular strategies, but the relation of persons to God and to one another in every human relationship.

It begins debates about the human person and the structure of social relationships by presupposing a particular view of the human person and of what the structure of social relationships should be.

As a real person, speaking a human language in a particular historical situation, he could only speak and think in the intellectual and cultural molds of his time and country.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

People feel called or drawn by God to act in particular ways, and mainstream theologians have emphasized that the way God works on the human heart and mind is persuasive.

The second implication of the statement is that the view of the things as one body is a function of the «human nature» that underlies a person's particular mind.

When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a child • kill gays, children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad

Such an ethics always asks about the meaning of any particular sexual act in the total context of the persons involved, in the context of their society, and in the context of that direction which God desires for human life.

Therefore, all particular individuals which are identifed as having human nature are, as such, persons.

It matters to God; hence it is meaningful to speak of the way in which, once we have come to the end of our life in this world, something abides — and that something is of enormous importance and gives dignity to our humanity, both for you and me as particular persons and also for human society in its total reality — a society of which each of us is a member, by virtue of our belonging together in what an Old Testament text beautifully calls «a bundle of life».

Section IV of chapter 3 is taken up with a detailed analysis of this ethical problem, and of its parameters, and in particular, a thorough biological analysis of the continuity / discontinuity question is presented: «whether to claim that [biological findings] teach us about an embryo's essential continuity withand similarity to human beings at other stages of life, or to argue that they reveal profound and morally meaningful discontinuities between embryos and live - born persons.»

Of the elements, then, which characterise the human person in her or his particular identity, some are given, some are acquired; some are foundational and inalienable, others are accidental; some identify the person positively, others negatively.

People just don't like their particular brand of insanity being associated with images of blood stained altars, human sacrifices and mass suicides.

Concerns about poverty, HIV / AIDS, human rights and violence in Zimbabwe are a particular cause for worry in the UK, as the former colonial power, not least because it is the preferred destination of many people fleeing the country.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

The Chief Imam of Offa, Sheikh Muideen Salmon Hussein, said except Allah wills that a person shall be killed in a particular manner or from action or inaction of a fellow human being, no one can kill another person.

He also noted in particular that in addition to his landmark achievements in human and infrastructural development, he remained the only Governor (past and present) that was not leaving the State with burden of debt, urging other Governors to emulate his people - oriented administration.

«The BDNF gene has previously been linked to obesity, and scientists have been working for several years to understand how changes in this particular gene may predispose people to obesity,» said Jack A. Yanovski, M.D., Ph.D., one of the study authors and an investigator at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

We aim to create a system with «human - in - the - loop» that provides good localisation relevant to visually impaired users and, most importantly, that understands how people observe and recognise particular features of their environment.»

With the NIH's help, he has been pursuing a cutting - edge question about human behavior: How do networks of people — in particular, long - haul truck drivers — work together to accelerate the spread of an epidemic, even when some of them don't know one another?

Recent studies of built environment microbes have largely focused on direct human contact with surfaces, and demonstrated that people can leave behind bacterial signatures indicative of particular body parts and types of bodily contact (Flores et al., 2011; Flores et al., 2013; Meadow et al., 2014).

Again, putting aside questions about the accuracy or utility of this information, there is a lot of published scientific literature that is potentially relevant to people with a particular genotype (including genome - wide association studies as well as a lot of classical human genetic literature and other functional studies).

In particular, for aging persons, human growth hormone is magic.

The researchers note that this is very strong evidence that different human populations are adapted to different, particular diets and that, by extension, a person's genome may dictate a personalized diet.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Dating definition, a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the

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He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

Nevertheless, similarities can be drawn between this film and Amor idiota in particular; they are both tales about foolish human behaviour, Amor idiota being additionally narrated from a first - person perspective.

Redford has said in the past, «Cinema, both fiction and non-fiction, has shown over and over that as human beings, we share values beyond any border, real or imagined,» and he founded Sundance Institute on the belief that art, and in particular film, has a unique power to nurture understanding between diverse cultures and people — to foster tolerance in an often intolerant world.

Just recently, late November 2013, we have witnessed a presidential fraud in Honduras, which comes to legitimize a previous coup d'etat, and all the human rights violations and violence being suffered by the peoples of Honduras, in particular against the first nations and Garifuna peoples, and in favor of the rule of organized crime in the region.

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God can not in any sense intend that all shall be saved, as 1 Timothy 4:10 declares.

You may be interested in doing an analysis where you want to introduce a «human touch» by conducting one or several interviews asking how things mean to people or how a particular individual experience your topic.