Sentences with phrase «questioning whether man»

Justice Antonin Scalia opened the Supreme Court's new term Tuesday by questioning whether a man deported to Mexico after a drug conviction would be «abstaining from tequila» for fear of violating his U.S. parole terms.The remark came as justices heard an immigration case involving a Texas man, Reymundo Toledo - Flores, who was deported in April after being convicted of illegally entering the United States.

Others find themselves eating too many carbohydrates and seriously questioning whether man is intended for flight.

Furthermore I've seen many a believer get really upset (I mean, like really really upset) that atheism leads people to question whether man has any cosmic significance, why is this so important?

But apart from that fact, a more fundamental question awaits us, the question whether men's opinions ought to be expected to be absolutely uniform in this field.

THE paramedics targeted by a vile note as they battled in vain to save a patient have questioned whether the man would have ever apologised if he hadn't been caught.

In its present briefing material, the coalition claims that: «It is an open question whether man - made contributions of greenhouse gases have contributed, or will ever contribute, to an «enhanced greenhouse effect».»

So the question whether man - made warming will be catastrophic depends on the assumption of strong net positive feedbacks in the climate system.

The current political cycle is dominated by shrill attacks on anyone who questions whether man - made emissions of carbon dioxide are driving global warming.

Ninth International Conference on Climate Change The Ninth International Conference on Climate Change is expected to attract nearly 1,000 speakers, scientists, and guests willing to question whether man - made global warming is a problem worth addressing.

In this situation, there would be the question whether the man has been sexting in the USA or Turkey (legally).

Some question whether men are actually generating more business or simply better at getting credit for doing so.

Not exact matches

Whether either man can shepherd a community of nations against the planet's most pressing threats is still very much an open question.

For a generation of business - hungry black men in their twenties and thirties, there is another question to answer — and that's whether it's too late.

In fact, eight of the 12 companies on the list drew higher scores from women than from men in response to questions about whether they believe they're paid fairly, if they're satisfied with stock / equity compensatio, and if they're satisfied with their benefits.

The questions is whether or not people are willing to see God as an old man in a robe with who creates essence out of nothing, or if people are willing to see God as the «creative» event that occured, a so - called actual essence of energy that was the over-all reason why we are here now.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

I'm not a member of the Southern Baptist Church, but if I were, my opinion would be as to whether a black man should be elected to the presidency is: does he / she have the qualifications: that is the most important question.

In this post, I look at how Piper responded to a question about whether men should listen and learn from Beth Moore.

Then, too, we have to face the question whether there can be any point of contact between the Christian view of things, and the way educated men look at the world and its history today.

No; the question is whether the «nature» of man is realizable.

He points to the crucial distinction between growth - inhibiting and growth - enabling religion: «There is no one without a religious need, need to have a frame of orientation and an object of devotion... The question is not religion or not but which kind of religion, whether it is one furthering man's [sic]

This word supplements the cross and makes its saving efficacy intelligible by demanding faith and confronting men with the question whether they are willing to understand themselves as men who are crucified and risen with Christ.

For the triumph of the liturgy at Vatican II took place just when the question arose whether man was still capable of worship and liturgy, whether the «demythologization» of Christianity ought not to be accompanied by a «desacralization», and whether Christianity ought not to cease to be a religion at all.

The question is not whether the nature of man can be discovered apart from the New Testament.

I discovered, to my surprise, an entire body of literature devoted to the question of whether or not there ever was a real man, Jesus.

The truly important questions about the birth stories are not whether Jesus was born of a virgin, or whether there was an empire — wide census that took Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, or whether there was a special star leading wise men from the East.

In the hands of men who evaded the real moral issues and who were narrower in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 1939.

It is urgent because it foregrounds the question of whether we would have been better off with a women's movement that respected the family, the complementarity of men and women, and the satisfactions of having and raising children — or, alternatively, with a form of feminism that derides men as oppressors and champions alternate sexualities.

One must ask the question as to whether these newer systems of thought and Islam as it got filtered through them perceived God - man; theology - anthropology poles differently than did their conservative antecedents living within the sterile Semitic environments.

The collapse of what I called the big story has raised the question whether there is any sense in talking about the span of man's life as a little story, and with the collapse of the little story it is a severe question whether the new does not become noise rather than information.

Nevertheless, I would like to raise the question whether Whitehead is not after all guilty of emphasizing and generalizing some factor that may indeed be peculiar to man and the higher animals, at the expense of another factor which could offer more genuine grounds for generalization.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

The question is not whether the ministry will reflect the institutional forms of leadership in the world but whether it will reflect these with the difference that Christian faith and church life require, whether, in short, the minister will remain «man of God» despite the fact that he is now a director instead of a ruler.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

How far complete clarity about oneself, as to whether one is in despair, may be united with being in despair, where this knowledge and self - knowledge might not avail precisely to tear a man out of his despair, to make him so terrified about himself that he would cease to be in despair — these questions we shall not decide here, we shall not even attempt to do so, since in the sequel we shall find a place for this whole investigation.

The occasion for a dispute to arise was a superficial one, a matter of whether Jewish and Gentile Christians could eat together without the Jews incurring defilement (Gal.2: 11 - 16), but Paul at once raised the real and profound question whether the Law had not been superseded by the new and universal gospel that men can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

In so far as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives death of the body to the estate of an irrelevancy.

But also when this is assumed, the stiff - necked and tough - lived difficulty returns, prompting the question whether at the instant a man began to obscure his intelligence he was distinctly conscious of what he was doing.

This leads some men to pick and choose among the myths, retaining those which are not too impossible and rejecting others, but this procedure fails to get at the root of the matter, for the radical question is whether the truth of the New Testament can exist outside its outmoded mythological picture of the world.

Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of evil, human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.

«16 Thus there is no abstract ethic for all practices, but rather the question of whether «my action is at this moment helping my neighbour to become a man before God.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gWhether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gwhether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

Whether or not God has employed an evolution of millions of years for the purpose of creating man is the critical concern of the natural scientist; it is not a critical question for faith.

Such a case amounts to the same thing as the question whether a Catholic of the kind we need to postulate in this instance, namely a man with a scientific, philosophical and theological formation, could, without guilt, come to the subjectively honest conviction that he can no longer honestly and in conscience believe and affirm the Church's authority.

This doctrine of freedom can pass over the question whether it is described as a property of the «natural» essence of man or emerges only through the call of God, who reveals and communicates himself as love.

Even mohammad's own men evidently questioned whether they should be pursuing and killing people who did not pose a threat to them, since it seemed to contradict earlier, more passive teachings.

In the first paragraph of the first essay of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton introduced the basic theme: «It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.»

In that way it is possible to answer the question whether a conflict between a theological and a scientific account of man is even really particularly likely.

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.