Sentences with phrase «than a revelation of»

If Jesus was right, this is no less than a revelation of the deepest reality of our existence.
The question as to whether or not the Prophet performed any miracle other than the revelation of the Qur» an thus depends on the definition of a miracle.

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In the wake of the recent Heartbleed SSL bug revelation, it's more crucial now than ever to update all of your online passwords.
Among the data's revelations are that in many parts of the Deep South, people have less than a 5 % chance of going from the bottom income level to the top.
Following the revelations, YouTube said it would step up its efforts to prevent children from seeing that type of content by restricting access to inappropriate videos to users that are logged into the site and are older than 17.
The revelation, then, is that the Silver Snail is much better positioned for the future than HMV or a host of other pop culture purveyors — see Borders, Blockbuster and so on.
Financial group Skandia was rocked by revelations of huge bonuses to executives more than a decade ago, while telecom group Ericsson faced shareholder protests in 2007.
The revelation came from a trove of more than 11 million internal documents from a Panama - based law firm leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with reporters around the world via the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.
Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.
Following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, the company's stock dropped precipitously, wiping more than $ 60 billion off its market capitalization from its prior period of stable growth.
Friday's sudden departure of AMP chief executive Craig Meller provides a less than fitting end to the scandalous revelations this week at the Hayne royal commission.
The 2018 revelations of data abuse caused an unprecedented controversy for Facebook, which is the world's most widely used social network, with more than 2 billion users.
Fueling the company's most recent plunge was the revelation that it encountered some unexpected drilling delays that would push the initial production of certain wells into next year, as well as the fact that its wells are producing more gas than expected.
With the recent revelations that a Russian group took advantage of social media algorithms on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to try to divide Americans, the stakes are higher than ever.
The revelations around Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections which boasts of «handling» 100 election campaigns in more than 30 countries across five continents — principally by manipulating Facebook data — are shocking, and we're not going to tolerate such data manipulation any longer.
We found that diversified portfolios have, in fact, been less risky, but only up to a point: A portfolio that allocates 60 % or more of its investments abroad has actually taken more risk than one that doesn't diversify at all — an interesting revelation.
Read Revelations and look this up * Spirit to be poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28) * Universal apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 4) * The watering down of the gospel, teaching the doctrines of man rather than those of God.
What made the contents of a book or the «revelations» of human being more important to us than humanity itself.
But nothing more crazy than a Julian of Norwich claiming to have received a revelation of divine love from Jesus himself...»
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.
Its easier to related to Muhammad than to Jesus or Buddha because he never claimed that he was of divine origin, he was as shocked at his revelation as anybody else, he frequently said many times «I'm a man amongst men,» he frequently said «all the good that happens comes from Allah and everything that is not good is my fault,» he's very human and that is what makes him relatable.
You will run into trouble whenever you parcel out God's Word, rather than understanding the Bible as a progression of revelations and solution to the human condition, with the common thread and purpose of Jesus Christ running throughout from beginning to end, to further the glory of God.
And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
They are usually more shocked at the revelation of the sickness than they are with the healing.»
Nonetheless, what this past year's massive congressional effort has taught us we can not afford to forget: that more than any House leak or Senate revelation, the subversive activities of the FBI, CIA and Department of Defense have seriously undermined the security of the Republic, within and without.
Of my original assertions, none encountered more uncompromising rejection than did my claims concerning the rationality of the Christian faith in God's revelatioOf my original assertions, none encountered more uncompromising rejection than did my claims concerning the rationality of the Christian faith in God's revelatioof the Christian faith in God's revelation.
In this way, we can say that the Hebrew Scriptures are more of a revelation about man than a revelation about God.
That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.
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.
Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.
And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.
Shatter, my God, though the daring of your revelation the childishly timid outlook that can conceive of nothing greater or more vital in the world than the pitiable perfection of our human organism.
Thus we see that during the Prophet's lifetime there was no source of legislation other than the Qur» an and the Prophet's interpretation of it either through revelation or discretion.
121:8.13 The memoranda which I have collected, and from which I have prepared this narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus — aside from the memory of the record of the Apostle Andrew ---- embrace thought gems and superior concepts of Jesus» teachings assembled from more than two thousand human beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the time of the inditing of these revelations, more correctly restatements.
And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.
In this sense, «the diversity of Scripture — and the tensions that this diversity introduces — bears witness to God's revelation rather than detracts from it.»
«For early Christianity Scripture is no longer just what is written, nor is it just tradition; it is the dynamic and divinely determined declaration of God which speaks of His whole rule and therefore of His destroying and new creating, and which reaches its climax in the revelation of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit by the risen Lord... The full revelation in Christ and the Spirit is more than what is written» (TDNT I: 761).
Either Israel is the chosen people and receives a revelation from God, so that what it holds, transcribes, and transmits is a Word of God and not its own ideas, or Israel is not the chosen people and its ideas and myths and writings are of no more interest than those of the Aztecs or the Japanese.
For Christianity, although it is a religion in the sense that it links the life of man with the Life of God, is far more than one of the world's great faiths: it is the revelation of the way of true living.
The point of the foregoing is that the distinction which is made by Mascall between the historic and the systematic dependence of natural theology on revelation has an even smaller relevance than he seems to suppose.
Preachers personlized interpretations of Revelations are in about the same class than the Mayans or Nostradamus.
The last alternative could be an affair with one you love, with whom you share many things, an affair discreetly carried out with no threat of revelation, with no demands other than the beauty of those special moments together.
A Church That Can and Can not Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan, jr. university of notre dame press, 280 pp., $ 30 Doctrinal development follows a different course in social ethics than in the realm of revelation.
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.
«30 But no earlier than in Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas does the philosophical relevance of revelation - theological content assume reflexive shape.31
Any one, therefore, holding a religious rather than a materialistic philosophy, will think of the process of Biblical development as dual — seen from one side, a human achievement; seen from the other, a divine self - revelation.
He argued that the Semitic tradition of divine revelation has created more problems than it solved.
Christians often argue that, as in human life the most adequate form of communication is by personal meeting rather than the written word, so God's fullest revelation also needed to be a human life.
For some theologians this has meant that our knowledge of the one God who created heaven and earth comes to us through revelation rather than philosophy.
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