Sentences with phrase «point of their lives accepted»

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If eternal life is the main reason you've accepted Christ into your life, then, as so many others have, you have missed the point of Christianity.

In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that life could originate from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200 years earlier, who also believed that the basic elements of the universe was just air and water), was untrue.

I think that many of them at one point believed in Jesus alone for eternal life, but over time, have come to accept the lies of religion that they need to have the performance and good works in order to keep or prove their eternal life.

Adam's eagerness to snatch the prize of equality with God — the desire of Everyman to set himself up in the place of God as absolute master of a world which is really not his own, but God's — is replaced by the second Adam's total self - surrender: his obedience to the point of accepting the death of the Cross; death which paradoxically leads to life, whereas the consequence of Adam's self - glorification proved to be death.

Because of its permissive attitude toward theological ideas, it accepts the alcoholic at the point he has reached in his religious life and allows his religious formulations to grow as his experiences change.

This is the point when people begin to realize the limits of logic and start to accept the paradoxes in life.

i do nt hate any of you are your point of views i just know that believing in GOD and being a faithful servant has made me a better person in general, i was really doing alot of wrong in my lifetime before accepting JESUS into my life, GOD blees you all.

It doesn't seem that there is any point of view that Muslims should be accepting of Americans (or maybe I just never get to see that media because I don't live in a nation that has a large Muslim base).

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

The unity movement, a vocally accepted way of life in the 1950s, reached its high point in the early 1960s, at a time when society had a sense of working together.

So in reference to the orginal article and my first point, I would only echo Pascal's Wager: if I live life accepting of God and «love my neighbor,» but it turns out to be wrong because there is no God, I have no regrets; if I live life unaccepting of God and He does exist, well I guess Ghandi and I will be sharing a room...

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

Yet it is precisely the privilege of Dillard's background that she knew would clip her wings and force another life upon her: the country club and its obsessive cultivation of a suntan; years of dancing school and white cotton gloves; the fate of young ladies to take custody of unquestioned codes, to be «vigilantes of the trivial,» to accept their destiny («to marry Holden Caulfield's roommate, and buy a house in Point Breeze, and send our children to dancing school»)

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

Donald Johanson put the point effectively, if crudely: «You can't accept one part of science because it brings you good things like electricity and penicillin and throw away another part because it brings you some things you don't like about the origin of life.»

Of course from my stand point I refuse to accept that he will be pay in the after - life, thus the reason we don't leave this sort of stuff for «god» to deal with, the courts see it similarly... if god is all powerful and all knowing he would never have allowed this to happen in the first placOf course from my stand point I refuse to accept that he will be pay in the after - life, thus the reason we don't leave this sort of stuff for «god» to deal with, the courts see it similarly... if god is all powerful and all knowing he would never have allowed this to happen in the first placof stuff for «god» to deal with, the courts see it similarly... if god is all powerful and all knowing he would never have allowed this to happen in the first place.

It was, in the end, a remarkable turning point in my life, it was not quite the beginning, but the start of a fresh push in coming to a place where I could come to accept myself, to love myself (a journey that is never quite complete but I'm doing much better with) and to reconcile a number of contradictory beliefs that had torn my life apart, like being quartered by a horse, for many years.

The hope that continues beyond the point of death is that one's life will be accepted by God as having fulfilled some part, at least, of the purpose for which one was created.

For those who accept a religious interpretation of the world and human life, as we are doing in this book, there is another and related point.

1) going along that line, it's interesting that the authors even knew the lineage of Mary or Joseph and they also make it a point to include that jesus has a royal bloodline (presumably to hammer home that Jesus fulfills the prophecies) and the second part is that the messiah is said to be born in Bethlehem (which is widely accepted that jesus was) and Bethlehem is Josephs (not mary's) fathers land, but they do end up living in Nazareth, so it makes you wonder a couple of things, why take a very pregnant mary to Bethlehem to have her son?

We do not know the exact point in his life in which this consciousness came upon him, unless we would accept the baptism in the Jordan — where, according to Scripture, the Spirit of God came upon him — as the breakthrough of this consciousness.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

I am trying to learn to accept it as part of the messy, bittersweet, beautiful aspect of living that you rightly point out.

So at some point, you're not guilty by association, but... you kind of have to accept the criticism and scrutiny along with all the good times you have / had as a member of Greek life.

However, after a couple of months of crippling anxiety and being at the point where I could barely function, let alone take care of my kids, I accepted that at THIS time in MY life, medication was / IS what I NEED.

i guess i've come to the point in my life where i accept birth and death as part of the life cycle.

At the broadest level, women need the social support of friends and family; we need to progress to a point where breastfeeding is accepted as a social norm and a part of life.

Previously he separated himself from Biblical literalists by accepting the antiquity of life and the Darwinian principles of common descent, and here he points out that certain shared features in the DNA sequences of chimps and humans show beyond any doubt that we and chimps share a common ancestor.

I'm still not sure about the mathematics of this, but I do my best to try to at least keep surfaces clean... though in the summertime I will say we do live with a lot of sand in the house, which at this point I've come to accept as inevitable.

Perhaps the key point made by Hayflick, both above and in a recent paper titled, «Biological aging is no longer an unsolved problem,» (and generally accepted among leading gerontology researchers) is that the body's repair and maintenance systems are the primary determinants of longevity.14 The question then becomes, «What causes these systems to lose their ability to outpace the damage of daily life?»

The point is that even if most of us consider living in a modern community, we still have an issue in accepting people with another type of sexual preferences and orientation.

Founder Amy Baglan says: «In the same way things like whole food diets and yoga were once fringe trends, we've experienced a tipping point where enough people have accepted these things as an integral part of their lives.

Accepting a prize for «Mr. Fox» five years ago at the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. awards dinner, Anderson wryly noted the roller - coaster trajectory of reviews to that point, beginning with rapturous notices for such movies as «Rushmore» and «The Royal Tenenbaums» and then leveling off for 2004's «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou» and 2007's «The Darjeeling Limited.»

I did this film for all of us that in our age are still wandering and questioning what... life is about, what's the point of all this,» Inarritu told the audience as he accepted the prize.

I've been with groups of charter school teachers who have expressed their frustration — even to the point of tears — because they are vilified on a daily basis for making the choice to teach in schools that have the ability to reach children in innovative ways and accept lower salaries because of the direct impact they are able to make in the lives of our children.

To qualify for Mensa, you must have scored in the top 2 percent of the general population on any one of more than 200 accepted, standardized intelligence tests — including Mensa administered admission tests — at any point in your life.

So it does make sense to accept a higher level of risk at this point in my life.

The most widely accepted definition for probiotics is the one proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization / World Health Organization working group and recently reaffirmed by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics: live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host.1, 2 The definition thus highlights three major points: 1) the viability of the microbes, 2) the dose, and 3) the documented health benefit.

It has often been pointed out that we live in a disposable society and as long as this is accepted as the norm we will continue to see too many animals, not enough homes, and too many disposed - of pets.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

i think that's inaccurate shx, the scientists did their work, and from what i could gather tried very hard not to overstate their case, the media did the scare - mongering and the media have then turned like the whores they are in the other direction, al gore's film upped the tempo and although it seemed like a good thing at the time, i think with hindsight it was a poisoned chalice, but lets be clear, doing research in multiple areas and having the results point to potentially catastrophic climate change and asking for changes to be made to avert this is not scare - mongering, its common sense, accepting that their is margin for error but erring on the side of caution since the stakes are life on earth as we know it is not scare - mongering, it is the application of the precautionary principle and common sense

The Council of State accepted that some questions pertaining to the way in which the applicant experiences, sexually or otherwise, his sexual orientation or how and when the applicant became aware of his sexual orientation may be contrary to the right to personal integrity (art. 3 (1) Charter) and the right to private life as guaranteed in Articles 3 and 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and asked the CJEU for guidance on this point.

Why can't we accept and clearly state the fact that the mothers of children born in Canada get to decide if those children will live or die up until the time that child is born at which point the law says the children get to live?

Canadian society became more inclusive and accepting of different kinds of people and ways of living that most likely did not exist in the imaginations of many of the people who share the current government's point of view.

At this point, however, we are not aware of any life insurance company that is currently accepting applications from those who have tested positive for HIV.

If the DMV will accept the course as gravity for the reduction of points, you will only have 12 courses taken in your entire life.

The GetDefensive.com Municipal Judge, City of Pernitas Point Live Oak online driver improvement course will accept payment in the form of credit card or online check.

We've all received bad career advice at some point in our lives and this tends to translate itself into a mess of buzzwords, catchphrases and meaningless drivel that we believe is commonly accepted, that everyone puts on their resume due to a lack of resume skills.

I accept that, from the point of view of their academic life, the children are doing very well in High Level.

Settling is just that, resigning oneself to accept that this is the starting point of a new life based on the opinions of others whose only investment in the case is their salary.