Not exact matches
BELARUS: The EU has long had difficult relations with Belarus, one
of Moscow's closest allies, and has sanctions in
place because of human - rights abuses and treatment
of political opponents.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years
of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness»
of being born in the first
place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every
human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility
of hell at all.
Misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something different in the eyes
of God than according to
human judgment; that God turns toward the very
places from which
humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable
because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others.
------ This is a shame for those
human beings in this world who will never learn about Jesus,
because God
placed them into an area
of the world where christianity doesn't exist.
In the channellings
of Kryon by Lee Carroll we can learn for instance: «There is simplicity, beauty and benevolence
of systems built for you, dear
Human Being,
because you, like me, are from another
place.
And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid
because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been
placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been
placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning
of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those
of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
The all knowing God has to invent earth and
humans and love and war and every aspect
of each etc. etc. and It already knows how the game will be played and end before starting
because It is the Inventor so no reason to run through the idle act
of playing the game in the first
place.
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down th
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity
of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass
of matter;
because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down th
because I know myself to be irremediably less a child
of heaven than a son
of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high
places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries
of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world
of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first
place,
humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival
of the fittest would not permit the emotions
of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any
of those and many other
of the best
of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense
of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything
because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.
Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection
of Christ are and were requirements
of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the
human scene, so also this type
of development to which we appeal can not take
place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth
of the same Jesus in the name
of his Divinity, and can manifest a line
of consistent and coherent, definition
because she has done so.
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense
of it all with a wave
of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory
of an angry God (they called her a «vessel
of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one
of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all
of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry
because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape
of a child is part
of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that
placed too much inherent value on my fellow
human beings; about how my intuitive sense
of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.
The reason for doing this is
because humans as they stand now are not capable
of laying eyes on the Nines true astral forms due to the limitations
of the collective whole your race has put into
place that you know as your reality.
Here persistence is the soul
of counsel: «The
human soul is like a ship going up stream; it is not allowed to stay still in one
place,
because it will drop away to the lower reaches unless it strives to gain the upper.
The basis
of your belief system appears to be that, you will go to a
place of eternal fire and torture, unless you accept that 2000 years ago god sent a piece
of himself to Earth in
human form (Jesus) knowing in advance that this Jesus would live, be crucified, died, then come alive again, then ascend to heaven to rejoin himself, and that this was the only way that
humans could be cleansed
of the evil that is inherent in them
because a rib woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat an apple.
Because all
human laws, customs, and opinions change from time to time and vary from
place to
place, we tend to think
of right and wrong as relative to the particular culture in which we live.
Because the individual
human subject» Leff's godlet» is the modernist starting point, it seems reasonable to
place a heavy burden
of justification upon anyone who seeks to restrain the liberty
of that subject.
Alone among the religions
of the world, Judaism and Christianity
place so high a valuation upon religious liberty
because of their own doctrine that the relation God seeks with
humans is friendship.
He responded by relating the parable
of the Good Samaritan, one
of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or
human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately
placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts...
because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading
of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading
of 1 Corinthians 13....
I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists
because the affirmation
of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to
place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character
of the world and
human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.
Once the ministry comes to realize its unique contribution to
human life, it can reclaim its
place at the head
of the professions - not
because other professions grant this, but
because ministers know that their work is the most crucial service one
human being can offer another.
You said «The reality is that Atheists post on a Belief Blog
because it is a
place to challenge the conceptions
of Religion which we feel are a detriment to
human society by proporting magical thinking»
In proposing a way forward, the study rejects the primacy
of place that is given to the therapeutic mentality
because it fails to appreciate the role that religious devotion and faith play in the moral life
of the priest, and has no proper understanding
of human nature, original sin and free will.
Both
place great emphasis on developing
human virtues, or strength
of character,
because these virtues enable a person to be truly free.
But it should be a
place where people can find respect and love
because they are
human regardless
of anything else.
Christian iconoclasts have perennially argued that images have no
place in the church
because images
of human devising fall short
of God's self - revealed image in Jesus and the sacraments.
Clearly this activity will be taking
place somewhere,
because human existence is too problematic for people to stop searching for ideas and ways
of living that will make everyday life meaningful.
---- The HUGE problem with this, is that it leaves out many
humans (your equals) throughout the world who've never heard
of Jesus Christ, and never will
because God
placed them in an area
of the world where christianity doesn't exist.
First thought... Jesus did not condemn anyone although he condemned sins Second thought... Does this not smack
of placing the right to condemn on
human beings
because «Jesus did it?»
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....
This is a sad fact
of which we are all aware, and
because of this separation
of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the
human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence
of some form
of affective energy which will
place the
human particles in the happy position
of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment
of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts
of a single universe that is vitally converging.
Because up until that moment in your lifetime, the
human view
of earth and its
place in the universe had never been anything else but theory and speculation and educated calculation.
We read in another
place that the
humans were removed from the garden
because (it seems to be hinted) that if they took from the Tree
of Life and lived forever the consequences would be disastrous.
But the earthly career was important not primarily
because of what it was in itself but
because of the
place which it, considered as a whole, had in a great story
of salvation which began in heaven, had its center in the
human life
of Jesus, and returned to heaven for its ending.
Second, we know that family life is essential to
human sexuality
because reproduction is complete when there exists another adult instance
of the species, and in
human beings this only results after a long period
of dependency, socialization, and education which takes
place within a family.
For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark
of apparently irreconcilable views
of what is vital to the
place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality,
because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness
of deeper, dynamic layers
of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent world apart from inner consciousness.
Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the
placing of truth in the mouths
of babes is one aspect
of the Christian respect for all
human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine
because they consider his «quality
of life» too low, in defiance
of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.
Transfer is not involved
because the act
of prayer takes
place solely within
human experiences in which the person is confronted immediately (i.e., without mediation) with the reality
of his own existence and
of his world on the deepest levels
of awareness (change, dependence, etc.).
Many
of us
humans like to dress up that law in a long beard blue eyed robe wearing guy who talks
of only loving all as he loves himnself or maybe some Sumo Wrestling look alike cat with an iconic beer gut that talks
of enlightenment thus giving in to the power
of positive thought and stay clear from the negative thinking that some how compels mankind to drop bombs or take by force what never was his in the first
place from those who were willing to SHARE!!!! I tell those show me your GOD
because I can always show you mine.
Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept
because it seems to do justice to deep analysis
of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have
of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character
of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy
of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe
of «becoming» and «belonging», on the
place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance
of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going»
of things in that universe.
Maybe gays and lesbians try to reinterpret the bible,
because bible thumpers like you ignorantly refuse to acknowledge that, yes, texts that are thousands
of years old and were written by
HUMANS can indeed be interpreted differently, and you are the ones attacking gays and lesbians with it in the first
place.
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.
Why would he think it immoral to try to save dozens
of innocent victims — specific individual
human beings about to be killed —
because he was involved in a separate effort to save thousands
of other men and women who were at risk
of being rounded up and
placed in those concentration camps?
Leo XIII advocated the revival
of Thomism in the first
place because Thomas» thought provides a way
of articulating faithfully the content
of the Catholic faith, but also
because, contrary to Enlightenment rationalism, it maintains the importance
of divine revelation within
human history, and avoids exaggerating
human reason's capacity to know the divine without the help
of grace.
Granted, the majority
of those opposed to Qatar have a plethora
of reasons in their arsenal to object to the event; from
human rights violations to extreme heat but is another reason for objection
because the World Cup is taking
place in a Middle Eastern country?
And that just
because our brain goes to the dark
place or we feel pessimistic or we start to internally rage with the fire
of a thousand suns, that doesn't mean we're horrible
human beings who hate being parents.
Sheikh Animasaun said Aregbesola was underrated by
humans but
because he had been destined to assume the mantle
of leadership in the state, all hurdles
placed in his way were surmounted.
According to him, «We can not challenge a violation
of human right that occur in a particular state outside that state,
because the destruction took
place in Kaduna and it shall be determined in the state where the violation
of human right took
place.»
«IPOB has never been involved in any retaliatory attacks or killing
of any
human being
because we believe, along with our ancient values, that life is a rare gift from God, which is not in the
place of man to take.»
«Forager groups are a good
place to start,
because for much
of human history we've been occupied with their mode
of existence,» she said.
Geneticists are starting to have success in warmer
places, which is a priority
because most
of human evolution occurred in Africa.