is it possible that He will be a non biological supercomputer, or that
stage of existence will just be part of a process of a very complex future reality?
It is probably impossible to describe the next
stage of existence in earthly terms, and it would be childish to take literally the picture - language of the New Testament writers who make some attempt to hint at its unimaginable splendors and possibilities.
Now although Christianity leads human thoughts and aspirations far beyond the limitations of this present
stage of existence, and is thus in a sense an other - worldly religion, it is also incurably earthly.
Therefore, while he works on hopefully and cheerfully in this imperfect
stage of existence, he never expects to find anything approaching the final working out of God's purpose within the confines of life on this planet.
Life's race - course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to
each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, and the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age» each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.
Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and
stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.
I did make the point that life begins at conception, and that there is no ground of principle on which the embryo or fetus could be regarded as anything less than human at
any stage of its existence.
We should learn something of the underlying purpose beneath the shifting human scene, and how we could cooperate with it; we should learn how we could make the best of this limited imperfect world and how men could best prepare themselves for the next
stage of their existence.
We, when mounting
this stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings.
Vintage Wine Estates strives to respect brands in
every stage of existence.
A piece of the Internet that costs more than it should at
this stage of its existence.
This suggests that the Neanderthal population size once was much bigger than that estimated for the final
stage of their existence.
If so, it may be identical to the rocks that came together to form the Earth, which means that studying its composition would tell us what the chemistry of our planet was like in the earliest
stages of its existence.
2 min readWe can all agree that when it comes to eBooks, we're still at the very early
stages of their existence.
Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place — even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and
stages of existence.
Even for a mutt, getting the right nutrients in sufficient amounts can help support the different growth, development, and maturation needs of dogs in various
stages of their existence.
How do you get people talking about a game that is in the early
stages of its existence?
Kintsugi honors the story of an object, looking to its once - shattered remains as
a stage of its existence and place on the shelf, rather than hiding its broken history.
, now you find yourself on the cusp of the next
stage of your existence but without any clear idea of what to do next.
Despite some of their flaws — mostly due to their very early
stage of existence — I also think there is a future for bitcoin securities exchanges and in any event the concept has been proven by the successful listings of several entities.
Economically, profitability was the reason miners weren't mining BCH during the early
stages of its existence, not liquidity.
For crypto investors, arriving at BHC's intrinsic value has been nearly impossible in the early
stages of its existence.
He's thrown out pretty big numbers for Bitcoin at different
stages of its existence.
We hope that a meeting with friends, collaborators and other people, who contributed to the growth of the Laboratory of Psychoeducation on certain in various
stages of its existence, will be an opportunity for a fruitful discussion concerning psychotherapy — its achievements, current condition and future perspectives.
Not exact matches
«The
existence of early -
stage capital is missing in the ecosystem,» Sahay says.
Business owners find plans useful at all
stages of their companies»
existence, whether they're seeking financing or trying to figure out how to invest a surplus.
Pre-money valuation is the «magic» number that everyone hypes because we're led to believe that it validates the
existence of early
stage ventures.
If pre-product, pre-revenue companies (i.e. loss making, just idea
stage) can be valued for $ 10 — $ 20 million, why can't Financial Samurai, which is highly profitable, has six years
of existence, can pay a nice dividend if it wants to, has way less risk than all these new startups, and can grow revenue by triple digits every year with promotion, be worth a similar range?
Early -
stage tech companies raise money through a stubbornly analog process — an irony for an industry based on the conviction that computers will upend every aspect
of human
existence.
It seems to be in this context that the second
stage process is termed a personal «judgment
of existence», and thus the whole process is, as Mr Deighan terms it, «orientated towards the real.»
In the early
stages of Biblical history men regarded the major good
of existence as physical — ample creature comforts, a long life, a large family, and victory in war — and for these benefits the Hebrews besought Yahweh.
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.»
In the totality
of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will
of God even to the point
of death, there is the enactment, on the
stage of history and in the circumstances
of human
existence,
of the right relationship
of that
existence with God.
All great civilizations at their early
stages are «life - systems» built up around a supreme principle which pervades the entire
existence of the group.
I have grouped these two
stages of human development together because, despite the great sociological differences between them, I see them as expressing a single continuous process in the development
of human
existence.
The three
stages of Christian
existence are thus sketched out: first is the time
of the manifestation
of God's glory through Christ to the disciples; second is the new form
of presence
of Christ in the church after his death and resurrection (this is where John was, and where we are now); finally, there is the consummation
of the church in the perfect love
of the presence
of God.
The New Testament contains the deposit, in writing,
of the continuous tradition about Jesus at various
stages of its transmission during the first century
of the church's
existence.
Not only are the
stages of preaxial development treated only formally and the axial cultures
of China and Persia wholly omitted, but also developments in Greece and Palestine have been dealt with schematically in such a way as to ignore other modes
of existence which took shape within them.
There are six
stages of willing, according to Assagioli; (1) the
existence of a purpose to be achieved; (2) deliberation on the various goals and their relative importance; (3) making a decision on one important goal and setting aside the others; (4) confirmation
of the choice by an affirmation
of this goal by will; (5) development
of a plan to achieve the goal; (6) directing the implementation
of the plan.
4) Next, during the Depression
stage, you will cancel all your pre-Christmas plans with friends and family in favor
of hiding under the covers and questioning the
existence of God.
The
existence of religious health resorts since antiquity, the expulsion
of «evil spirits» in the Gospel, sacramental prayer over the sick — those practices signify far more than a surpassed
stage in the history
of medicine.
If the mediaeval doctrine is presupposed, and it is coming to the fore again, that the spiritual soul only comes into
existence at a later
stage in the growth
of the embryo, several pre-human
stages will lie between the fertilized ovum and the organism animated by a spiritual soul.
It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological
existence, at the beginning
of anthropogenesis,
of a prehominid fossil
stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid
stage Mankind seems to have been made up
of a more or less divergent sheaf
of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)
However powerful its impetus in the early
stages of the course
of biological evolution into which it has thrust itself, the Marxist anthropogenesis, because it rules out the
existence of an irreversible Center at its consummation, can neither justify nor sustain its momentum to the end.
There is no doubt that man passes through some
stages of life without freedom
of choice, as when he was hidden in the potentiality
of the father, then in the womb
of the mother, and then attained his
existence in the world.
But science would find little support in certain other philosophies, such as an extreme existentialism which deprecates man's reason and looks on the impersonal aspects
of the universe as a meaningless
stage for the drama
of personal
existence.
Every religious order seeks to arouse its followers to struggle against this first
stage of the self and to wipe out all traces
of this level
of existence.
Humanism knows merely the development
of humanity with its possibilities and its different
stages; here the true value
of man is the ideal self, which is beyond his concrete empirical
existence, and because
of which no man can be wholly lost.
Paul
of course assumes that Christ was the incarnation
of a divine being; therefore his
existence embraces three
stages, one prior to his incarnation, one during his earthly - historical life, one following his resurrection and exaltation.
Our precious little planet, the blue - green cradle
of life with its rosy mantle, is in one
of the most critical
stages, perhaps the most critical
stage of its whole
existence.