No valid proof has ever been
presented for the existence of god.
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Throughout much of its first decade of
existence, the search engine company
presented itself as a different kind of company, one that cared about changing the world
for the better first and making money second, an ethos exemplified through its famous «don't be evil» motto.
based in part on their business line performance, and thus
presented the potential
for excessive risk taking, the HRC concluded that the emphasis on overall Company performance in compensation decisions, the
existence of robust compliance, internal control, disclosure review and reporting programs and clawback policies, the Code of Ethics prohibition on, and right to discipline employees
for manipulating business goals
for compensation purposes and its prohibitions on derivative and hedging transactions in Company common stock, and the Company's stock ownership guidelines provided adequate safeguards that would either prevent or discourage excessive risk taking.
Employer demands
for a two - tier wage system is a fact of life in the
present economy, condemning younger workers to a permanent low - wage
existence.
Furthermore, given that the global gold demand - supply balance indicates the
existence of a small market surplus of less than 200 tonnes at
present, the introduction of Islamic investors could dramatically tighten the market, resulting in a hugely bullish outcome
for gold prices during the coming years.
â $ œIt would seem unfair
for God to
present proof of His
existence only to some and then judge the rest
for not believing.
It would seem unfair
for God to
present proof of His
existence only to some and then judge the rest
for not believing.
The past is out of time, and depends
for its
existence on the reinstatement of
present experience.
Gravity is proven to exist (even if we don't know exactly what it is) and can be measured... gods have no evidence
for existence, past or
present, and can not be measured.
In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the
present provides
for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical
Existence, p. 309).
They can not exist in the substance of bread since the bread is no longer
present and they can not have their
existence in the substance of Christ's body because the substance of a human body is not the proper substance
for the accidents of bread: human bodies simply do not have the texture, colour, and so on, of bread.
Camus» objection to any future goal to judge the
present, whether a Christian's hope
for immortality or a Marxist's dream of a future classless society, is that it leads to an «ideal of the spirit» that fails to appreciate the temporal enjoyment of bodily
existence.
Lord Jesus, you are the centre towards which all things are moving: if it be possible, make a place
for us all in the company of those elect and holy ones whom your loving care has liberated one by one from the chaos of our
present existence and who now are being slowly incorporated into you in the unity of the new earth.
For Islam, the present world is but a transitory existence to be followed by the Eternal World which is better by far, «And verily the latter portion will be better for thee than the former» (Surah XCIII,
For Islam, the
present world is but a transitory
existence to be followed by the Eternal World which is better by far, «And verily the latter portion will be better
for thee than the former» (Surah XCIII,
for thee than the former» (Surah XCIII, 4).
If one's dis - ease is in part an
existence without a meaningful story by which to integrate
present, past, and future, then a prescription
for wholeness will also include a means by which to write anew one's story.
I have reviewed all the actual evidence
for the
existence of any god that has been
presented to me or that I have found and have formed the opinion, based on the available actual evidence, that the probability of any god existing is very small.
This national universalism, in Buber's opinion, is the only answer to the
present conflict between national sovereignty and the need
for international co-operation: «A new humanity capable of standing up to the problems of our time can come only from the co-operation of national particularities, not from their being leveled out of
existence.»
For what keeps the distantly past actualities in
existence if not the intervening concrescences, when they were themselves
present?
Bonhoeffer maintained that interpreting the Bible in terms of the
present age is to make man the measure of the Gospel rather than to learn from the Gospel the true norm
for human
existence.
«Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his
present high condition through a struggle
for existence,» Darwin reminded the reader, «and if he is to advance still higher he must remain subject to a severe struggle.»
Once we establish what will prove
existence of each, we can start
presenting our supporting evidence
for verification.
Because it is an abstraction, it is false to compare the
present with the future,
for they are not two entities, the
present having
existence and hence empirical, while the future, having no
existence, is not empirical.
Now, you can
present the
existence of a deity responsible
for the creation of the universe as a hypothesis
for the observation that the universe exists, but the whole point of a hypothesis is that you test it to see if it's accurate.
The reverence he anticipates is
for the
present because it «holds within itself the complete sum of
existence backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time which is eternity» (AE 14).
But if there is a state in which the soul finds a solid enough base to rest itself on entirely and to gather its whole being into, without needing to recall the past or encroach upon the future; in which time is nothing
for it; in which the
present lasts forever without, however, making its duration noticed and without any trace of time's passage; without any other sentiment... except that of our
existence, and having this sentiment alone fill it completely; as long as this state lasts, he who finds himself in it can call himself happy... with a sufficient, perfect, and full happiness which leaves the soul no emptiness it might feel a need to fill....
It's a way
for science to show that gravity was absolutely
present and involved in setting the universe as we know it now in motion, but it it doesn't say that it caused the matter and energy to spring into
existence, only into action.
What this all comes down to, then, in respect to the main subject of the
present book, is that all
existence, and particularly
for our purposes human
existence, stands continually in a genuine relationship with God.
Images of paradise invariably testify to a longing or a nostalgia
for an original paradise, i.e.,
for participation in an original cosmic Totality, a Totality
present in a primordial time prior to the advent of the rupture between the sacred and the profane, a time when suffering, death, and alienation had not yet come into
existence.
In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively
present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility
present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation of human
existence with God's intention
for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.
A new era has dawned; a community has come into
existence — in effect a new Israel — in which there is offered forgiveness
for the past, spiritual power
for the
present, and hope
for the future.
In our
present state of
existence, it is hope
for fulfillment and not fulfillment itself that constitutes our life.
She said that
for Reinhold the Christian faith was «a
present fact, and a
present truth about life that illumines our
existence and gives meaning, relieves us of some of the miseries of guilt in which all men are involved,..
For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons
For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol,
for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons
for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's
existence, universally
present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32
The intuition that Christ is the fulfillment of a cosmic promise, one that has a breadth that carries revelation beyond the sphere of human
existence, is already
present in Paul's letter to the Romans: «The creation waits with eager longing
for the revealing of the sons of God.
At any time or place in which humankind is led to find value and significance in
existence, it is the working of God which is
present to provide the ground and explanation
for such a realization.
For two reasons: One, there is no reason to believe in the
existence of a supreme being until irrefutable evidence of that
existence arrives — and, being a person, I can always change my mind once such evidence is
presented.
They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire
for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas,
for example, understood God as «intimately
present within everything that exists since God is
existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5
For if the data of experience consisted only of universals, then the experiencing subject would have to infer the
existence of other individual actual entities, just as Descartes claimed to infer the
existence of a real man in the street from the sense - data
present to his eyes.
Although this might be their stated reason
for existence, this often isn't their operating or
presenting reason
for existence.
The Bible is clear that everyone has been
presented with so much natural evidence
for God's
existence that they have no excuse
for not believing in his
existence.
Yet if what is looked
for in them is not logical consistency but a life setting that deals both with
existence in the kingdom in the
present and an expectation of its coming, there is wholeness and unity.
So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human
existence: a plea
for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea
for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the
present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.
This does not
present us with facts of the past in their bare actuality, nor does it lead to encounter with human
existence and its interpretation, but, as a sacramental event, it re-presents the events of the past in such a way that it renews them, and thus becomes a personal encounter
for me.
The whole idea of God is hence endangered;
for it has lost its meaning, if God is not thought of as the Power which determines man in his
present existence.
In this way, the insistent craving is justified — the insistent craving that zest
for existence be refreshed by the ever -
present, unfading importance of our immediate actions, which perish and yet live
for evermore.
The question is: What is the reason
for man's
existence on earth, as a living person, as an ethical personality, as an entity stretching out towards something beyond this
present life and finally embracing the eschaton?
[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument
for the
existence of God,
presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».
I was a devout Christian
for decades, and never once was
presented with any evidence of the
existence of God other than the Bible itself.
He has stated elsewhere,
for example, that the fact that evil
presents no serious logical or probabilistic argument against God's
existence or goodness will be cold and abstract comfort to a person who is faced with «the shocking concreteness of a particularly appalling exemplification of evil» (AP 35 - 36).