Sentences with phrase «special creations of»

no longer accepting that we are the special creations of an elusive being that chooses to communicate through very controversial ambiguous methods..

It allows for the possibility that man's physical body developed from previous biological forms, under God's guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul.

Believing you're the special creation of a supernatural being (without even a shred of proof!)

I am okay with not being a special creation of a supernatural being.

It allows for the possibility that man's body developed from previous biological forms, under God's guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul.»

In most of the points that are to be regarded as historical (Denzinger 2123), it is not difficult to see that, as regards creation, the special creation of man, the equality of the sexes, 6 the unity of the human race (from the experience of the unity of the history of redemption), man's original condition (which in Genesis has not the fullness of content which can be recognized only since Christ).

All that Catholics need believe is that Man (as in full human beings with a soul) were a special creation of God and that at some point the first Man and Woman sinned against God.

Not exact matches

Several Russians with murky ties to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), the Kremlin - backed «troll factory» that special counsel Robert Mueller indicted last month, were reportedly behind the creation of the game called «Hilltendo.»

Over lunch, Canadian Business will celebrate the entrepreneurial successes of this year's PROFIT 500 and STARTUP 50 winners, and give special recognition to companies for achievements in such areas as revenue growth, international trade and job creation.

Play on these emotions by offering specials within the holiday season, whether it's 24 - hour - only coupon codes for online purchases, the creation of limited - time - only gift basket availability or a limit on the number of buy - one - get - one - free deals you'll offer on a certain product.

It can easily be modified for a vegan - friendly option, just ask for no special sauce and the multigrain bun or build your own custom Beyond Burger creation under the «Be My Burger» section of the menu.

Furthermore, to base one's ID position on a non-literal reading of Genesis, incorporating the central tenet of special creation by the biblical deity, is, in fact, an exercise in bible - based reasoning.

There is not one shred of truth from science to account for the presence of life upon the earth by any means other than a special creation by the great original first Cause - God - Who is life and the fountain source of all life!

No, I think if you are rational you will have to accept the fact of a special and necessarily instantaneous CREATION.

God has given them, through nature, a set of instruments to use on their special mission to help Him in the creation (pro-creation) of children.

Therefore, the Son is all of creation — not just one special individual within it.

Christianity, for example, is essentially based on the twofold belief that man is in a special sense an object of pursuit to the divine power throughout creation, and that Christ is the terminal point at which, supernaturally but also physically, the consummation of humanity is destined to be achieved.

Unfortunately, some defenders of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view of the complex machine and its maker and associated it with the view that such special forms of the machine as the human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.

Humans have their own special part in the creation of novelty, for we are a conscious part of the dance of order and randomness.

It is there that they sense that women are the special depositaries of the power of creation and of the mystery of life.

But to remedy the situation the commission recommends measures looking to centralized government control (which would only invite more federal interference and also infringe on the citizens» liberties); for example, development, on the federal level, of a plan for coping with disorder, and the creation of a special police force for suppressing riots.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

Not only in the glory of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky of the Alps» and not only in his misericordia did God share with us insight into the special characteristics of his love, but also in sending us a human model of it in sending us his Son, who called us his friends, and sacrificed his life for us.

Of course, special creation could fit this data, but only in an ad hoc way, whereas evolution provided an elegant explanation of the patternOf course, special creation could fit this data, but only in an ad hoc way, whereas evolution provided an elegant explanation of the patternof the patterns.

One must be of bad faith to tie this in with scripture, that clearly presents the Earth to be a special creation, equal to the «heavens».

Along with biblical ways of thinking it affirms a special significance of humankind within the context of creation, recognizing, as Conrad Bonifazi puts it in the context of explicating Teilhard de Chardin, that «in human beings evolution has revealed its profoundest energy and significance» (TNE 311).

This query seems to lead inescapably to the conclusion that, in this case, there would be a successive actual infinite, namely, the actual asymmetrical infinitude of divine experience — not mere time — prior to the hypothesized act of special creation.

But it was a special place made for Adam, not a second (and thus contradictory) description of creation as a whole.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Are the personal Creator's thoughts, feelings, enjoyments to be excluded from the class of events in time, once we have admitted the reality of time prior to special creation?

Eden is a special creation made for Adam on day six AFTER the rest of the world was populated with animals.

In a single brief paragraph, Artigas states the case for asserting «the special divine creation of every human soul.»

Most of the rest of the schools — about 25 percent — mix progressive creation and young - earth creation, both having an emphasis on God's intervening acts of special creation.

the events that happened in history is His will.In panthrotheism the whole universe is God, we are only the conscious part of Him, it is more than belief in Him but we have to implement His will which is for the future good of humanity.We are the center of His creation because we are the special part of Him, and ultimately the ultimate reality of His manifestation.

But we are mortals whose special place in creation - and whose longing for something more than this life alone can give — has been vindicated by the triumph of Christ.

By virtue of the emergence of Thought a special and novel environment has been evolved among human individuals within which they acquire the faculty of associating together, and reacting upon one another, no longer primarily for the preservation and continuance of the species but for the creation of a common consciousness.

Here Aulen finds special significance in Irenaeus» doctrine of the divine action as a reconstituting (recapitulating) of humanity's history of creation and fall and the restoration of man's rightful maturity and direction.

The famous Dr. Charles Hodge of Princeton Seminary pointed to this when he said that in Darwinism «species owe their origin, not to the original intention of the mind; not to the special acts of creation calling new forms into existence at certain epochs; not to the constant and everywhere operative efficiency of God, guiding physical causes in the production of intended effects; but the gradual accumulation of unintended variations of structure and instinct.

However, there are clear observations which contradict special creation / co-existence of all forms followed by a single massive annihilation via flood, e.g. the progressive order of the fossil record, the Coconino sandstone, etc, etc..

Oh, right — I keep forgetting how the all - loving god of compassion and benevolence has such a hair trigger when it comes to condemning his special creation to eternal fire and pain without respite, ever.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

The current special effort of some devout and sincere Baptist men to «keep women in their place» is based on their official assertion that «man was first in creation, and woman was first in the Edenic fall,» which twists the meaning of Eve's creation from Adam's rib and puts the blame for original sin on females.

Einstein's Special Relativity speaks of «the creation and annihilation of matter», but I do not know what the elaboration of this amounts to.

It suggests that the latter should more properly be called «special - creationism», for what it really teaches is that every life - form is made by a special act of creation, and it counsels Christians not «to present God's creative design as if he were granddad in the potting shed with components on a shelf, a workbench and a pencil behind his ear!»

Reference was made to Tradition, especially to the Decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909 which laid down that a special creation (peculiaris creatio) of the first man was to be held to be the literal historical sense intended by the second chapter of Genesis.

For precisely all that has been said can also be objected to the doctrine of the immediate creation of every human soul in the course of history, if this creation makes of God's action in a special manner a member of the chain of created causes, even if only in regard to a particular finite being, which in contrast to others and by its special individual and temporal features has no intra - mundane ground and basis.

Is the creation of the soul of man at the beginning of the history of humanity and at the beginning of the individual life of each particular person, as this is understood by traditional Christian philosophy and the Church's magisterium (as a truth of faith), an exceptional, extraordinary occurrence whose special ontological features contradict everything that is otherwise understood regarding the relation of the first cause to second causes?

Set within a time - dominated framework running from creation to consummation, the Bible witnesses to the purpose of God to call into being a special people loyal to him and through them to open up for all men the prospect of a glorious fulfillment in a Kingdom of peace, harmony, and joy.

What the existence of suffering and death before the fall does throw light on is why the creation and fall of our first parents took place in a special enclave, the Garden of Eden.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between evolution and creation, accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.