Sentences with phrase «so free creatures»

Therefore, it is morally justified to allow evil so free creatures can freely choose good.

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If you feel so strongly that there is a creature that you call your god, feel free to present a compelling argument.

In this sense, too, if God wills to extend his love to creatures, in doing so he is free.

As mentioned before, the specialness will be only partially a function of God's doing; the creature must actualize God's aim for it to a sufficient degree, so the specialness will also be partly a function of the creature's free response.47

There is no other world that God might have created, not because he is bound by necessity, but because he is infinitely free, and so nothing can hinder him from expressing his essential and infinite goodness perfectly, in and through the freedom of creatures created to be the fellows of his eternal Son.

I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that there be some free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.

Many can now understand such judgements as that of Loren Eiseley, who did not speak of human difference from other creatures in the glowing terms of the Enlightenment: how we are «rational,» capable of «free will», and so on.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

Eternal hell only exists on the condition that some of God's free creatures reject God's love and grace and persist in doing so.

God leaves Adam free to make this choice («to see what he would call them,» says the passage, so that «whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name,» Gen. 2:19).

Is it the kind of power that must be in absolute control of every detail, OR is it the kind of the power that is so wise and powerful, that it can truly give away power to free creatures?

It was, as a matter of fact, the impact of the Judaeo - Christian tradition on Western civilization that is chiefly responsible for the awareness so prevalent among us today that history presses forward toward novel achievements, that the future is open and full of promise, that man is a free creature whose own decisions and deeds enter into the shaping of tomorrow's world.

But there is certainly nothing inherent in the standard free - will perspective that requires the FWT to hold that God's primary purpose for creating free creatures was to make it possible for God to «enjoy the value of knowing that those of us who developed moral character and spiritual virtue... did so freely» (ER 18).

So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and richness of experience which were God's aims in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures of a «lower» order.

Even as God's work as Creator is in the deeper interest of every creature in a cosmic order that frees it to realize its own interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all its fellow creatures, so right actions toward others and, even more so, right structures of social and cultural order are byway of realizing the same deeper interest, thereby carrying forward God's own work of creation.

Thus we now recognize not only that we have the power in principle to transform these structures so that they more nearly allow for the realization of all relevant interests but also that it is in the deeper interest of all creatures that there be a social and cultural order that frees each of them to realize its interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all the others.

If, however, we separate creativity from God, so that each creature is self - creative, then clearly God does not work the will of the creature, thus effectively sustaining a free will theodicy.2

In God, Power, and Evil in response to the traditional question as to why God created free beings, I said: «Of course, in process thought all actualities have some freedom, so that question has to be modified to ask, Why did God bring forth creatures with high degrees of freedom?»

Double Fine designed Rhombus to be a PlayStation VR experience, so instead of being an action platformer with adventure game - like elements, you'll primarily use the power of Clairvoyance to jump between people and sea creatures in order to solve puzzles and help free the party from their induced psychic states.

Longtime del Toro collaborator Doug Jones brings the creature of mystery to life who also must find other means of communication beyond speech which only draws more similarities between him and the maid who frees his soul and so much more.

So you get creature comforts like a 3 - zone climate control, front seats with massage function, electric adjustment for front seats and hands - free boot opening.

Ban commercial breeding and societies that are free of it will be better off all round - financially, ethically and morally better off - so don't fall for the sales talk - these are living creatures that are being taken advantage of.

But the most notable creatures by far were the dozen or so scarlet macaws that flew around the park, attracted by the free fruit on offer.

As the narrator explains, your main goal is to kill creatures to set NPCs free so that you can progress to the next level of the castle.

Players will need a copy of Pokémon Black, Pokémon White, Pokémon Black 2, or Pokémon White 2, a 3DS or DS, will need to have acquired the Pokedex in their respective game, and can have no more than 11 Wonder Cards in order to download these Shiny Legendary creatures; so yes, you do have to do some work in order to get these free goodies.

You have limited slots and the more powerful creatures will fill more than one, so you must often decide if you should free up slots to make use of their abilities.

The characters in Banerjee's paintings and sculptures are creatures who take ownership of their identity, metamorphosing into surreal forms, free to do so as a result of the city's celebration of self - invention.