Sentences with phrase «than a revelation about»

In this way, we can say that the Hebrew Scriptures are more of a revelation about man than a revelation about God.

It may appear more like exercises in picture - making than revelations about a place or thing.»

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The Facebook data scandal rocked the internet world due to the revelation on how much data the social network collects from its users, but Google may know much more about us than Facebook.

Part of you is still reeling from the revelation and trying to reconcile the fact that a man who you respect (ed), who taught about things like integrity and honesty, was apparently more able to speak those truths than live them out.

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.

Preachers personlized interpretations of Revelations are in about the same class than the Mayans or Nostradamus.

We know more about (logos) God and we know more of God (pathos) than Job ever did, namely through the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

Mike John the apostle was given revelation before he died that is all about the last days and what is to happen in the future so he saw our future unfold before him.So the message Jesus gave was true like everything God does it is not how we would understand it.I suspect Paul also may have seen alot more insight on what was to come than he talked about also.brentnz

Once more Paul was relating the trouble he had with speaking to his being perceived as a fool; yet on the other hand he «saw» more things than others, he had revelations and visions in abundance, and for him that was the ultimate sanity, a thing to boast about.

We need to be careful about what CS Lewis calls «Chronological Snobbery» where we think we know better simply because we are further along the timeline than those who came before us, but at the same time, there is something to be said about progressive revelation.

Also thank you for the revelation about Romans 10:9 which talks about the salvation over the power of sin rather than eternal life.

The future directed view, by contrast, is that revelation about God and religious truth is a continuing thing and, in fact, a lot more of it is ahead of us than is behind us.

So there will be plenty of pieces about what they believe and how their revelation is so much more modern than the Christians revelation.

Hence, faith in revelation's word about the ultimately trustworthy character of reality is no less rational than is the trust in truth, goodness, and beauty that makes all academic pursuits possible.

To him was given more revelation about the church (and when I say church I mean the body of Christ) than anyone else.

To those who would find such conceptual wavering unlikely; Ford's answer is that Whitehead never actually abandoned the concept of God as formative element in Religion in the Making, the fourth and last part of that book, where Whitehead writes about God as the conceptual valuation of the realm of ideal forms, is nothing else than the result of «a theistic projection based on the revelation of Western religions» («Growth» 11).

Similarly, Aquinas shows a great deal more respect for unbelievers, such as his beloved Aristotle, who knew nothing whatever about Christ and His revelation than he does for heretics.

He reportedly replied that there was no longer much of anything in it for him.7 He certainly entertained unorthodox views about the Bible, once suggesting that it should have ended with the Funeral Speech of Pericles rather than with Revelations.8

if christian zionist actually believe this than maybe they are right that it will bring Gods will about in revelation, however, they will have been doing satans will in the process so i am sure they will get the «get away i never knew you» break up speech

On one side you have Tolstoi saying, «Where love is, there God is also»; and on the other side is Joseph Wood Krutch, one of the finest nontheistic humanists of our time, who, seeing in goodness no revelation of the Eternal, says about man, «There is no reason to suppose that his own life has any more meaning than the life of the humblest insect that crawls from one annihilation to another.»

The NYT editorial board: «Each new revelation about the degradation of New York's subways seems more shocking than the last.

More than half of Britons believe Gordon Brown is not fit to be the next prime minister in light of last week's revelations about the impact his 1997 tax reforms had on the pensions system, a new poll has shown.

It was about the shift in the reaction to the Snowden revelations from less than a year ago to now.

Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.

Evangelicals have lower science education and participation rates than the general population, suffer from a strain of anti-intellectualism within their ranks, are not always well served by a commitment to revelation over discovery, and possess undue trust in religious leaders — particularly in areas about which those leaders generally have little expertise, he said.

Humans colonized the New World earlier than previously thought — a revelation that is forcing scientists to rethink long - standing ideas about these trailblazers

And this is [an] extremely funny lesson about humanity, and as I say it was a real revelation to me, and Martin one of his sacred causes for his entire life was to combat pseudoscience; and he did it more masterfully and more intensely perhaps than anyone else on the surface of the Earth, and I think that's one of his great and permanent legacies.

IPCC faces more criticism from politicians than ever: In the wake of the revelations about the Himalayan glaciers data, the U.K. director of Greenpeace called for Pachauri to step down; so has Senator John Barrasso (R - WY) and others.

About Site - The Director of a Christian apologetics organization James White is author of more than twenty books, a professor, an accomplished debater & an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.He believe the Bible to be the written revelation of God, complete and sufficient in all respects.The Scriptures to be «God - breathed» and therefore fully authoritative in and of themselves.

Phoenix, AZ About Blog The Director of a Christian apologetics organization James White is author of more than twenty books, a professor, an accomplished debater & an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.He believe the Bible to be the written revelation of God, complete and sufficient in all respects.The Scriptures to be «God - breathed» and therefore fully authoritative in and of themselves.

There seems to be more than meets the eye when Wahlberg's Billy Taggett discovers even darker revelations and twists about those in the City Hall corridors of power.

He is hailed as a national hero but as revelations start to surface about his personal life Whitaker finds himself quickly becoming entangled in the red tape of lawsuits, policy and moral ambiguity leaving him more an anti-hero than a national saviour.

But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

There's more to Arrival than this but to write at any length about where the movie goes and what revelations occur would be to spoil the viewer's journey.

But with Dexter more obsessed than the average viewer about things like whether the Trinity Killer keeps souvenirs and whether his love for his family is real or carefully crafted camouflage, this episode's big revelations about Trinity don't seem as significant as they should.

But no less than Sisters (which is referenced in a mid-film revelation about identical twins), the film's ripe cheesiness has a whiff of satire to it.

As Kyle surveys his brother's shelter expansion, and wonders about its cost, his concern is far more direct than any long - term concerns about the revelation: «You take your eye off the ball in this economy, you're screwed.»

Summary: Students who took the 2014 - 15 PARCC exams via computer tended to score lower than those who took the exams with paper and pencil — a revelation that prompts questions about the validity of the test results and poses potentially big problems for state and district leaders.

In close proximity, not much can stay hidden for long, and as revelations and long - held tensions come to light, nothing is more shocking than the unexpected guest who's about to arrive...

Our far - ranging conversation explores more than I've previously revealed to any interviewer about my writing methods, the merits of self - publishing, the challenges authors face in marketing and promotion, as well as some personal revelations.

At almost the same time, revelations about lower than expected display resolutions for highly anticipated games on the Xbox One hit the internet.

Though the revelation is finally here, we don't know too much about the upcoming title other than a few key points.

Properly titled Assassin's Creed: Revelations, little has been revealed about the title other than its new location, but «lots of new features» have been promised, something very exciting for a series already brimming with open - world gameplay.

Hearing this, Andre had a revelation about his own practice, realising that: «the wood was better before I cut it than after.

The McNay, it turns out, has one of the largest collections of Diller drawings anywhere - more than 40, spanning his career from the 1930s to the mid -»60s - and Burgoyne Diller: Abstract Pioneer, an elemental exhibition of about 30 Diller works in the intimate Lawson Gallery, is a revelation - sort of like discovering an artistic missing link.

As far as I can tell, especially given recent revelations about the financial crisis, the standards of business ethics are considerably lower than those of science.

When I began my intensive search for anything showing the «reposition global warming» memo in its full context, what I found in just the first day was essentially wall - to - wall quotes about Ross Gelbspan's big revelation of it to the world — except for one lone exception, which was a March 13, 2008 US News & World Report article noting phrase was part of Kivalina v Exxon court case documents (more on that separate problem here) which themselves led me to the New York Times revelation of the phrase and the ICE campaign, over six years earlier than any accolades about Gelbspan's exposé.

Rather than any of the current uproar about skeptic's conflict of interest being some kind of new revelation to investigate, the situation instead begs for investigating why it has only a single highly questionable and literally unsupportable source for the «corrupted skeptic scientists» allegation, and why no journalists over the last 20 + years have ever checked the veracity of the allegation.

The second revelation is that the Paris agreement is likely to be more about money than about carbon.

After the revelation of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media giant has admitted that as many as 87 million people's data was affected, or about 27 million more than originally reported.