Sentences with phrase «than a punishment from»

Yes, when we begin to see the crucifixion of Jesus as a supreme act of love and revelation, rather than a punishment from God, this has a domino effect on everything else we think about God and Scripture and ourselves.

Social diseases were also violent and fearful and were thought to be nothing less than punishment from God for violating the moral code.

Not exact matches

Makes a hell of a lot more sense than an all powerful all knowing god needing to give birth to himself, so that he could sacrifice himself to himself in order to save humanity from the punishment that he condemned us to.

Eugene Methvin, who has reported on the U.S. criminal justice system for more than forty years and who served (from 1983 - 1986) on the President's Commission on Organized Crime, has done extensive analysis on crime and punishment findings.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Ok but can god take away a person from hell and put him in heaven and if god loves us so much then why he doesn't destroy satun or put him in prison forever and why doesn't he tells the holy spirit to forgive whatever any person says just like him and Jesus i want to know thst but i noticed in all your replies except one that you were telling me everything i was asking except this in short if i say «he allows us to hate him» and i also want to know that if a person is sent in hell for his sins then will he go back to heaven after completing his punishment or stay there forever and also will any person who have commited the unforgivable sin one day be freed and allowed to go to heven or be reborn on Earth and if god has infinite love for us why don't he force us to belive in Jesus just before dying and then as he goes to heven show Jesus to him and then give him a rebirth as soon as his turn comes and then countinue this becaude going to heaven would be better much more than going to hell especialy for those who have commited the unforgivable sin

From Simon: The story of the rich man and Lazarus is problematic on many levels — it posits that we enter bliss or punishment immediately, rather than after resurrection and judgment.

I'm not opposed to disciplining our sexual desires any more than I am opposed to keeping our food intake at a healthy level; but I really don't think that the draconian punishments are going to have the transformational affects that we are hoping for from grace.

Either way it results in christians being saved, and either way the focus is on departing from old works, and either way it is concerning chastisement and punishment rather than damnation, but I do think it is important to fully understand.

Fear of punishment in some imagined afterlife isn't stopping people from behaving badly any more than imprisonment or a death penalty is stopping murderers from killing.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

But his rationale ends with an economically worded warning whose implications are exceedingly far - reaching and implicitly add a very strong rider to any conclusion that might be drawn from his doctrinal expose, such as that indulgences should be widely granted and the people strongly encouraged to use them: `... yet other works of satisfaction are more meritorious with respect to our essential reward, which is infinitely better than the remission of temporal punishment».

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

«What I would like to see as an absolute minimum is a six - game ban — but a far more severe punishment than simply being banished from the touchline.

If you're being the coach and encouraging your child along the way, rather than the judge with the reward or punishment at the other end, your child will definitely gain a sense of being capable and develop higher self esteem from the inside (as opposed to hanging their self esteem on external approvals).

It's not exactly clear what's behind the trend of more parents moving away from corporal punishment — it could be a result of doctors and other child health and welfare experts spreading the word about extensive and well - researched evidence showing a clear link between corporal punishment and negative outcomes for kids, or it could be that this form of punishing kids is less socially acceptable than it used to be, or a combination of both factors.

Two Thousand Kisses is based on guiding your child from infancy to adulthood using connection and encouragement through the ups and downs of life rather than punishment and control.

I think the proper use of positive time outs (meaning avoiding using them as punishment) can have a positive affect on some children younger than others and that most likely stems directly from the child's temperament.

From my experience, at least part of the problem is that parents want to change their discipline techniques but either don't know how or don't trust that anything less than punishment will work.

The goal of positive discipline is to teach children inner - discipline, which comes from a highly developed conscience rather than the use of punishments that may include external force, shame, humiliation, isolation or coercion.

According to Straus, it has decreased only slightly from 1985 when studies showed 90 percent of parents used corporal punishment on toddlers and more than half continued to inflict it on children up to the early teen years.

Children who are subjected to corporal punishment are no more likely to refrain from bad behavior than those who are not.

Tool: Try reverse rewards Age: 3 to 8 years How it works: Take a page from teachers everywhere: Kids respond much better to positive reinforcement than to reproach and punishment.

More than 100 Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to reduce Rangel's punishment from censure to reprimand, but that motion was defeated.

... than would be applicable in a criminal case, since people are assigned the office of President for the benefit of the country, not the benefit of the people serving the position, and as such removal from office might not be viewed as a «punishment» akin to those meted out by criminal courts.

Focal theory - Females are seen as less blameworthy than males, females are viewed as being intrinsically less of a risk to society than males, and it may be perceived that females need to be shielded from harsh punishments.

There are almost as many methods of training as there are trainers, but over time the basic strategy has shifted away from punishment or avoidance training (negative reinforcement) to positive reinforcement, where the dog is rewarded for doing the correct thing during most phases of training rather than being punished for not doing what the trainer wants.

Scientists found that norms were internalized in both instances, They also discovered that punishment from one's peers encouraged cooperation more than promoting teamwork and participation.

Crowe plays this note fairly well in his early scenes, his downcast eyes and reserved, low voice in front of the king indicating that fealty that comes from fear of punishment rather than devotion — a fear thoroughly justified when Robin's frank talk to his sovereign on the justness of these «holy wars» lands him in the stocks with proto — Merrie Men Will Scarlet (Scott Grimes), Little John (Kevin Durand), and Allan A'Dayle (Alan Doyle).

The best thing that can be said about Rob Schmidt's Crime and Punishment in Suburbia — aside from the fact that it's over in less than two hours — is that it doesn't glorify violence committed by sexy teens.

The Ancient Greeks considered exile from their beloved city - state to be a punishment worse than death.

As Barbara, a physician exiled to an East German provincial town as punishment for having applied for an exit visa from the GDR (the film is set in 1980, almost a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall), Hoss exudes such fierce wariness and disdain for her colleagues, whom she realistically suspects may be spying on her for the Stasi, that the film's suspense lies less in whether she'll be able to smuggle herself out of this country she detests than whether she will exhibit any humanity, any crack in her icy demeanor.

The film does not approach this idea from a hectoring perspective; Jay as a character is being punished, but her punishment feels more like the random hand of fate than some puritanical rejoinder against premarital sex.

There are 1000 rules that nobody can recall, punishment tariffs that absorb more time from adults than children, and bureaucratic processes so long - winded that nobody has ever read them.

Restorative practices let schools grow as a community and give students permission to learn from failure and forgiveness rather than punishment.

Restorative practices differ from punitive justice in that the ultimate goal is mediation rather than punishment.

Across the United States, black and Latino students are far more likely than their white classmates to be removed from school as punishment.

Nothing in this title shall be deemed to exempt or relieve any person from any liability, duty, penalty, or punishment provided by any present or future law of any State or political subdivision of a State, other than any such law which purports to require or permit the doing of any act which would be an unlawful employment practice under this title.

But as failing to repay a loan is a civil rather than a criminal issue (assuming you did not take the loan under fraudulent circumstances, such as with the plan of not repaying the payday loan from the start), jail time is simply not a possible punishment.

Always remember that a dog learns faster from praise for doing the right thing rather than punishment for doing the wrong thing

There is no greater punishment for a sheepdog than to be taken away from the sheep by a handler who is not pleased with what it has done.

In fact, she endures more mental and physical punishment than most other characters by the end of the first hour of gameplay and it only gets worse from there.

She's looking to get 50 % off any launchers when she has rage on lock or a 60 damage low sequence from d1 +2 RD. I don't think she has many weaknesses in T7 other than 10f standing and later WS punishment.

Chris on the other hand comes with just 6 item slots, however he is much stronger with weaponry and can absorb a lot more punishment than Jill — oh, and he will also have a flamethrower where Jill would have the grenade launcher and a nifty lighter right from the get go.

If the departure from scientific method and professional integrity of «The Team» has been hateful and destructive to the physical sciences throughout the Western world, the activities of the mainstream media, our politicians, our financial sector, and our «environmentalist» screaming hysterics have been nothing less than criminal fraud, for which they deserve the harshest punishment imaginable.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.

By drawing from more than 50 years of combined experience and the determination to fight aggressively on behalf of our clients, we've proven that we can protect them from even the most serious punishment.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

In other words, if the child isn't subject to too much parental control, it is more likely that their «good» behavior will stem from their own inner motivation rather than being motivated by external rewards or because of fearing punishments.