Sentences with phrase «purpose is to»

The difference between today and Athens circa 400 B.C. is that Socrates paid for his convictions with his life, while the ACLU's present purpose is to create a media environment of intimidation that results in people losing heart and shutting up.

His purpose is to provide for our needs as we walk in faith and obedience.

Dialogue's purpose is to overcome these dual errors.

My purpose is to nail down bluntly three areas where we Christians in North America are not doing much reflection these days: God's holiness, sound teaching, and capitalism in the church.

This is an essentially meaningless bill whose sole purpose is to score political points for its proponents, who have already wasted hours upon hours of taxpayer time and money pandering to the religious right with unnecessary initiatives and bills.

Commercial messages will attempt to convince her that she is owned by a great economic machine whose purpose is to make her a voracious consumer.

As the Westminster Shorter Catechism teaches, man's purpose is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

Their purpose is to control others» perspectives.

The purpose is to ensure the government can suppress dissent, not so every hater can spread his hatred with propaganda films.

I don't see how killing anything would be a good thing unless the purpose is to feed oneself or family.

His purpose is to fight, and if you offer resolution or reason, it threatens his ability to fight.

Thus it is clear that there is an inescapable moral aspect in all preaching, an aspect whose purpose is to awaken conscience and to move the hearers to do what Kierkegaard once styled «the works of love.»

What I DO oppose is the poorly regulated sale of weapons to private citizens whose sole purpose is to kill a lot of people very fast.

He writes at Digging the Word, where his purpose is to encourage his readers to read the Bible daily.

But its main purpose is to be recognized in the comprehensive and systematic account which it gives of the teaching of Jesus Christ.

Their express purpose is to educate men who will direct the affairs of church institutions, especially local churches.

Their ultimate purpose is to destroy every culture.

War's only purpose is to kill.

In other words, ordered liberty is liberty with purpose, and that purpose is to produce virtuous citizens and a virtuous society.

The purpose is to examine the value judgments and moral reasonings that inform current debates and practices, and to reflect on their similarities and dissimilarities with the Holocaust.

Its great systemic purpose is to break the immemorial chains of poverty which had held the human race in serfdom for millennia.

A secondary purpose is to encourage process philosophers and theologians to explore the joys of computing through this Whiteheadian - like programming language that is at the forefront of current computer science development.

The global Pax Americana serves neither the globe nor the American people — its purpose is to perpetuate wealth generation for a select few.

Their only purpose is to kill many people quickly.

Its only purpose is to ease the mind of the sheeple.

A couple who put a plug on their fertility may be acting out a kind of «sorcery» whose purpose is to gain control over nature by wrongful means.

The Gospel of Jesus commands us to take care of the poor and needy, but its main purpose is to save the lost.

This book's purpose is to help us to read, hear, and inwardly digest Christian language without preconceived understandings getting in the way.

My purpose is to show that If my efforts are successful, we then have before us the prospect of unifying the major thrusts of twentieth century philosophy (viz., analytic, process, and phenomenological) under the single theme of intentionality.

theology's purpose is to give a «rational account of the truth of faith,» as Pannenberg stated in his essay «Faith and Reason» (Basic Questions in Theology, Volume 11 [Fortress, 197 11, pp. 52 - 53).

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

It's purpose is to show us how we may partake of that Salvation.

The purpose is to cause Christians to be horrified and reject Romney because of obvious departure from tradittional Christian views.

The HHS mandate allows religious exemption if the organization meets the following criteria: (1) its primary purpose is to promote religious values; (2) it primarily employs persons of the same religion; (3) it primarily serves persons of the same religion; and (4) it is a nonprofit organization under specific sections of the Internal Revenue Code.

Your only true purpose is to be a child of God and do as he asks.

If your purpose is to «unconvert» believers you are an anti-theist.

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

Bodies whose sole purpose is to excite and entice.

It might seem that a book whose purpose is to present an intelligible view of religion ought to begin by stating what religion is.

Far from that, its purpose is to give us knowledge of the mystery [of Christ] through things that make the word about him clear and true.»

It is within the context of an evolutionary view of time that I shall attempt to get a proper understanding of God's time, first because our general purpose is to make God's eternity relevant to our modern evolutionary world, and second because this seems to be the context in which the Scriptures thought of God's time.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

Again, my purpose is to point out that the economists» description of how most of us act in our economic dealings most of the time has become a norm.

(Not that God is assumed to be an individual in this sense, but that it is not assumed that he is not, in the statement of the classification, whose purpose is to state, not to answer, controversial questions.)

The purpose is to prevent inflation.

My purpose is to show how the doctrine of the orders of creation can be revised and why in fact it is necessary to do so.

The ways in which these transactions are conducted inevitably work to symbolize to the school's neighbors that its local purpose is to underwrite the status quo, or, alternatively, that the school functions in and through its transactions with its neighborhood to raise and address questions of local justice.

Robert Jewett has long pointed out the American infatuation with superhero figures with mythic powers whose sole purpose is to rid the world of evil, though they never seem to succeed completely.

Theological schools are usually classified as «professional» schools whose overarching purpose it is to educate persons ready to fill with competence the roles of the professional clergy.

Quite the contrary, its purpose is to argue that the fundamental Thomist vision of finite existence as pointing to its self - sufficient cause is fully compatible with a doctrine of God that can embody the real strengths of the Thomist position without entailing its religiously and logically unsatisfactory conclusions.