«Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own son in
place of humans who needed to be punished for their sins might make some Christians love Jesus, but it is an obscene picture of God.
Reality quotes a paradiddle,»... Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own son in
place of humans who needed to be punished for their sins...» TThey ddon't bbelieve God iis jjust.
Not exact matches
The show, which takes
place in a world in which animals are interchangeable with
humans, tells the story
of a talking horse, BoJack,
who used to have a sitcom and now lives a pathetic life in Los Angeles.
As part
of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a
place few
humans who have actually visited outer space.
«Good organizations are forecasting their
human capital and looking at the demographic data —
who's graduating from university, how many people are retiring and the number
of people available to take their
place.»
Two closed trial sessions took
place on August 22 and September 24 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court
of Judge Abolqasem Salavati,
who is known to
human rights organizations for being an instrument
of Iran's security apparatus.
This lets these companies promote themselves to a much broader segment
of the market, such as millennials
who might be otherwise averse to
place their trust and their money into a
human advisor's hands.
Its a WAKE UP CALL to all the
human beings
of the world but Muslims, these r the people
who r responisible for killing
of innocents all over the world, Americans have to understand that ISLAM does not have the concept
of co-existenc this is the words
of Jinnah, if they are not stopped then the days are not far behind when US and European countries will have Kashmirs where Muslims out numbered the Natives and now dominate the
place.
At least one
place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all
humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors
who lie, nurses
who lie, friends
who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion
of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»
Why doesn't he simply help people instead
of depending on
humans who are financially or emotionally strapped in the first
place.
------ 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.
Austin: Your problem is that you like to THINK you are deserving
of this so - called
place named heaven over someone
who has NEVER put others lives at risk and ha kept an open - mind... it is that arrogance that makes you a pathetic
human.
Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one
who surrenders to the Will
of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect
of God's Words which take
place at a country that had enough
of disrespect to
human life for more than a decade
of aggression and atrocities.
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.
Social status is an irrelevance, a
human invention
of no spiritual importance; one can not allow the
human evaluation
of an occupation's importance to be
placed above the judgment
of God
who put you there.
I believe that
human actors
who fail to give pride
of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing
of the innocent, and
who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms
of moving beyond them in favor
of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense
of the moral limits that remind us
of our finitude and anticipate consideration
of a law
of our being that is not one
of our making.
Reviewing a book titled The Son
of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic
who wrote about the problems
of good and evil in
human nature and in the world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the
place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....
One example
of Jesus showing his humanity and the limits he
placed upon himself by becoming
human, was when he asked
who touched him.
If only those
who are exposed to the gospel and express explicit faith in Jesus Christ receive salvation, I reasoned, then that would mean the majority
of the
human race is damned to hell simply for being born at the wrong
place and the wrong time.
63 When bloody flooding killed the
human race And brand - new oceans put man in his
place, Except for those
who carried mankind's seed, I, first
of creatures, snubbed what law decreed, While I mocked yielding to the Lord's command, For which, I think, a poet would declare, «The sin....
Of course the Christian college should have some
place in its structure where Jesus and his
human - ness can be presented in the Scriptural context with its cultural implications, to those
who wish to learn about him.
The reality is that those really concerned about
human dignity are those
who are willing to
place faith in moral absolutes which safeguard that dignity against the uncertainties
of cultural trends.
There are those
who think that a major shift in
human consciousness is taking
place, one aspect
of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.
Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has
placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole
human community
of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents,
who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice
of their schools, etc..»
«To speak
of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one
who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in
human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and
human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences
of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the
place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again
who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»
Hundreds
of pro-life protesters listened to the leading Catholic and pro-life peer
who condemned the «willful killing
of the smallest and most helpless member
of the
human family in the very
place she should be safest - her mother's womb».
So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth,
placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all
humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone
who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit
of despair for all eternity.
For the Christian
who operates from a stance
of hopefulness, believing that God is getting his work done through
human history and through the history
of nature, the inclination will be to
place the burden
of proof on those
who oppose a given type
of scientific research.
In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and
places,
who can in the full sense be named
human persons, are — simply by virtue
of their humanity — capable
of grasping (and being grasped by) the message
of the text.
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.
From within the
human community, the full number
of those
who occupy that «in - between»
place, a great divide erupts.
And the child is not the product
of our will,
of any quasi-divine fiat, but, simply, one
of us,
who takes his or her
place in the community
of human generations.
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....
To talk in that fashion is not to speak
of a kind
of meaningless re-enactment
of what went on in the creation; it is to speak
of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken
place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken
place has been evil, with a continuing tinge
of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency
who is worshiped and served by God's
human children.
Much official theology seems to have gone wrong, first, in confining the incarnating action
of God to Jesus alone, so that he appears to enter the world as a catastrophic intrusion, as someone has put it, unrelated to the rest
of the God - world and God - humankind relationship; and second, in speaking
of Jesus in «substance» idiom, thus suggesting a static deity
who in some fashion is implanted in, takes the
place of, or is incomprehensibly united with another static «substance» called
human.
I can understand this feeling on the part
of people
who have been brought up to accept the conventional notion that heaven will be a
place of meeting with those
who have died and
who wish to have assurance that continuing conscious personal existence after death is guaranteed to us
humans.
«But, at the same time, we have also seen evidence
of some
of the worst aspects
of human nature, in that there are people - men, women and children - in this country
who are going hungry, and yes, there are some people
who attempt to abuse any system that is put in
place, be that from the state or voluntary bodies.
In the first
place, so far as its theological aspect is concerned, we can see that those
who respond in faith to Jesus Christ are impelled to read the whole
of human existence, indeed the whole
of their experience
of the created world, in the light
of that which has taken
place in that important moment.
This makes Harris a consequentialist and
places him squarely in the utilitarian tradition
of John Stuart Mill
who labored to give a qualitative account
of the kinds
of goods at play in the maximization
of human happiness.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back
of stem cell research that could save countless
human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use
of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding
of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that
place children's health and safety at risk, burning
of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But
who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence
of them existing.
In the next
place, a purpose
of proclamation is to bring about genuine commitment, whether this is for the first time (as with some
who are present it very well may be) or is a renewed response in self - dedication to God
who in Christ has acted decisively for us
humans and for our wholeness.
The hospice families,
who cared for and loved and then let go
of the ones they loved, have taught me that the
human heart can be as big as the ocean, and that the work that God calls us to - to take care
of each other - happens every moment in every
place.
The marital union
of a man and a woman
who have given themselves unreservedly in marriage and
who can consummate their union in a beautiful bodily act
of conjugal intercourse is the best
place to serve as a «home» for new
human life, as the «
place» where this life can take root and grow in love and service to others.
At the end
of the day, I
place my hope in the particularity
of a God
who bridged the ontological divide through a
human baby, through a man
who grew up in Palestine two thousand years ago.
In the philosophic tradition it is the idealists rather than the naturalists
who have made the fullest
place for this insight into the essentially social character
of human existence, though contemporary naturalism as in Mead, Dewey, and Wieman has achieved a similar perspective.
«As faithful Catholics, we can not set aside our deeply - held differences and put in any
place of honor those
who continuously attack the tenets
of our faith, and even our very ability to practice that faith,» wrote President Father Shenan J. Boquet
of Human Life International.
The first settlers
of Salem, Hawthorne wrote in «Main - Street,» were «stalwart» men,
who strode «sturdily onward,» brave and pious men
of «thoughtful strength,» men «
who do not merely find, but make their
place in the system
of human affairs.»
In these days when the satisfaction
of human wants is taken to be the only important activity, those
who devise our systems
of education are apt to find a
place for all that I have called «play» only if they can regard it as «work»
of another sort.
They often take away the diety
of Our Lord by
placing more emphasis on so called
human fallible «saints» and «pray» to
humans such as Mary
who did not remain virgin once she gave birth to Christ and had more children.
---- 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.