Sentences with phrase «think about justification»

thoughts about justification recently, though I am not sure what to make of it.

I want to say quite simply what a Catholic Christian thinks about justification, or, to express it more cautiously, what he is allowed to think.

Not exact matches

And, as the normal way of thinking about moral obligations was to understand them as the commands of God, the first defense or justification of this belief was an attempt to show that this is what God commanded.

I also must leave aside the question why theologians on both sides could not agree, or at least thought they could not agree, about the subject of justification.

R In 1879, W. K. Clifford had never thought about epistemology and had not acquired the concept of rational justification, so that he didn't believe that he was rationally justified in believing that ship owners ought not to send their ships to sea without checking their seaworthiness.

Questions about justification are certainly in order, but for a number of reasons I think these are not the right ones.

I read again the passage in «Justification» about Romans 3:21 ff (which the reviewer mentioned) and I think Wright's book clears it up beautifully (cf. pp. 201 - 210).

This definition does not imply that metaphysics does not deal with reality and only refers to thinking about reality.19 As stated above, in An Essay on Metaphysics, Collingwood does not intend to expound his own metaphysical ideas, but to give a justification of the metaphysical project.

When I came to justification reading through Romans, I spent about 6 hours on my patio in the cold and snow and confessed everything I could think that I did wrong.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

I hear you also about our using hurts as an excuse to go our own selfish way — I know my mind does entertain those thoughts as a justification at times.

In the end, the only justification for metaphysical thinking is that it throws light on human experience in its widest and deepest ranges.12 Proof is out of place in speech about God, but we can seek insight where the tradition has left us in confusions and obscurity.

My justification for thinking He did not is the revelation we have about God in Jesus Christ, who never sent destruction on anyone, but always forgave and even died for rebellious sinners like us.

And please read and think about some of the responses to your demand for justifications down thread.

The empirical justification is an important one for me because it is so often asserted that conditionality is about «punishing people» when I think it is about engaging with people and not saying that the limit of our aspirations for them is to be left alone (often with not much money).

Think about Russia's recent moves to dissect Ukraine, and particularly the flimsy justifications Vladimir Putin provided.

In response, Mr Bradshaw said: «I think if it was about the things the cardinal referred to, creating babies for spare parts or raiding dead people's tissue then there would be justification for a free vote.

Yet as the story unfolds, Egoyan gives us plenty to think about, from the plight of a homosexual German to the various motivations and justifications of the guards, without preaching, showing gruesome flashbacks, or making his points too obvious.

As researchers, we were interested in helping teachers think about and experiment with changes in practice, and their justifications for doing so.

Could you talk a little bit about the justification behind the Volcker Rule and the effect you think it's had on the market?

I've said before that the price of a game doesn't affect my final opinion since pricing is always a subjective thing, so as always my closing thoughts in the next paragraph will just be about the game, but that doesn't mean I won't talk about the price and in this instance I just don't see the justification for price - tag.

Some people think, with some justification, that romhacks are mostly about seeing how many dongs someone can fit into a single game.

Kirsch writes «like abstraction, for which music was both inspiration and justification, Picasso's interest in negative space grew out of thinking about music; not musical form and language, but music production.»

«Whilst it is always important to think about the future in the light of changes we observe to the Earth's climate, in trying to draw conclusions so far ahead based on what we know, the IPCC scientists are speculating far beyond any reasonable scientific justification.»

It's stunning when you think about it, that a comment like yours should be called for at this stage, as if some justification for the underlying view were yet required.