Sentences with phrase «seems likely»

Adopting this interpretation would require major change in some aspects of process thought, but seems likely to permit additional development of great value.

That the episode is a duplicate of that of Exodus 17 seems likely in the repetition of the etymological explanation of the name Meribah (Contention).

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/07/14/why-arent-atheist-parents-raising-atheist-children/ It seems likely there's a social aspect to this, with some identifying as religion since it is socially acceptable.

It seems likely they will never concede that they are fully products of their brain.

And the Administration has decided to arm the Syrian opposition — a decision that seems likely, over time, to result in arming the Syrian Islamists.

Theologically speaking, then, the 21st century seems likely to underscore three aspects of the perennial struggle to understand the world and our place in it.

It seems likely that without the drastic disruptions resulting from the First World War activism would have remained little more than a literary mood and Fascism as a major political movement would never have been born.

It seems likely that only occasions of considerable complexity and vitality could profit from the novelties in their antecedents in this way.

As we noted earlier, the story of the Garden of Eden almost certainly had a prototype in ancient mythology, where its original theme seems likely to have been man's search for immortality.

Enforcement seems likely.

Le quart vide de catholicisme in North America is about to become this continent's premier state - sponsored killing ground of the inconveniently ill and elderly; and it seems likely that the severely disabled won't be far behind.

Our current understanding of physics seems to imply that we only see a small «slice» of our own universe, and by looking into other «slices» of our universe (QM) it seems likely that our universe is itself a «slice» of a larger construct..

Nevertheless, if we could all sit down and talk things over, it seems likely that we could come up with a few basic fundamentals of the faith.

In light of the involvement of diplomatic forces in the case it seems likely that she will eventually be allowed to leave, but it is still possible that some new legal action will be brought against her.

This general similarity between the two stories does not necessarily mean that one story was derived from the other, although it seems likely that both written accounts originated in the tenth century.

He claims, for example, that «Traditional free will theism has a problem insofar as it seems likely to people that God should have intervened to prevent the tragedy in question.»

If there is any kind of higher life form and / or consiousness that is responsible for «everything» it seems likely that «it» is either incapable or unwilling to come right out and tell us all which of the many religous belief systems has got it 100 % right.

It seems likely, then, that American journalism has also provided its spokesmen for the civil religion.

It seems likely that if God was whispering truth to non-Israelite people like Melchizedek and Balaam, they He may also have been whispering truth to people whom we know nothing about.

It is true that it seems likely that Mark, the earliest of them, was written some three decades after Jesus» death.

It seems likely that the intuitions that prevent them from doing so are humanistic ones whose perpetuation is not an explicit part of their program.

That seems likely to remain the case in the immediate future, even though the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision permits state legislatures to enact some modest regulation of abortion practice.

It hardly seems likely Jesus meant for us to embrace all of that as a moral obligation to taxation.

And it seems likely that they will have already assumed the easy grace of age or a tough - minded stance toward conflict, depending on whether their career paths were smooth or difficult, and on their personality type.

Whether or not that's true, it seems likely that Francis's remarks about those who have been «quietly sidelined» are directed at the allegations in the book.

One should no doubt think twice about offering up someone else's confessional, but it seems likely that the prayer Moses Herzog offers to God could be spoken by Bellow as well: «How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense.

On the pre-biotic Earth, it seems likely that there were vast numbers of locations, including many energy - rich ones, where such complex reaction - systems existed.

As to what he did say — that is, as to his positive teaching about the will of God — it seems likely that although it was related closely to his thinking about the coming kingdom, it was not in the usual sense eschatologically conditioned; indeed, quite the contrary.

But we must» slowly, prayerfully, and with great deliberation and serious debate» prepare ourselves for what the future seems likely to bring under a regime in which the courts have usurped the democratic process by reckless exercise of naked power.

In terms of structure, however, it seems likely that the people who bore various titles in the first century — such as bishop or elder or healer or teacher — were not «officials» holding formal offices, as the bishops, elders, and deacons came to do in the early second century.

Another kind of position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.

So great is the change in the political climate that it seems likely we will have to pay more attention to the danger of uncritical enthusiasm for religion in public, especially when religion is promoted as an instrumental good for the achievement of sundry purposes public and personal.

That he was aware of and sensitive to the political situation goes without saying; that he was on the whole silent about any particular technique for solving it seems likely.

Some success seems likely with population control, arms control, and some kind of moderately stable international security arrangements, though probably not a «world government.»

If the broadening of options in our society continues, as it seems likely to do, then equal partnership will mean different things for different people.

(5) The authors concluded that it seems likely that relatively few new members of evangelical churches come from outside the Christian community....

As an outcome of the elections, it seems likely that pro-life measures will have a more difficult time, good judicial appointments may be stymied and the Bush doctrine of promoting democracy in the Middle East may be abandoned.

It seems likely that the «Neocats» are going to be of great value in the re-evangelisation of Europe, so it is interesting to read about how this particular movement began.

Had the Supreme Court thought in the terms he suggests, it seems likely, for example, that the flag - burning cases would have come out differently.

Since the other two sets of words are parallel, it seems likely that this third set is also parallel.

Such are the «Pastoral Epistles» to Timothy and Titus, (It seems likely that these epistles, in their present form, were composed round about A.D. 100, partly out of shorter letters treasured as relics of the great apostle, and partly out of the oral tradition of his teaching and practice.)

In any event, Paul Johnson's argument is probably prescient as well as provocative, and it seems likely that it will be around for a while.

The best of the three, which seems likely to endure long enough to find it way into hymnals, sets a 20th century translation of the 13th century «Veni Sancte Spiritus» to a flowing and singable melody, harmonized with unorthodox parallelisms, its rhythm marked by alternating measures of four beats and three.

It seems likely that Peter wept because He could not believe that the the person He thought was the Messiah had died.

This does not deny the existence of God, but if God does exist it seems likely, based on our current perceptions, that it would be a macro-manager.

We can access and understand much of God through Jesus, but it just seems likely that there is more that we won't understand until we are spirit?

The growth rate, the meaningful statistic in making future plans, is down now to slightly less than per cent per year, and it seems likely that the RLDS church will continue as a modest but important ecclesiastical establishment, providing Latter Day Saints with an alternative to Utah Mormonism.

It seems likely that unjust acts will be committed, also by our side, and when they are known they must be condemned.

Therefore, if we simplify our lifestyle and reduce our needs as part of the radical response, it seems likely that this reduction in needs will be followed by a reduction in income.

Yet despite the churches» traditional teaching on the subject, the demand to reject all forms of discrimination seems likely to lead to growing acceptance of different lifestyles and patterns of relationship, although this is already a divisive matter between conservative and more liberal Christians.