I honestly can't
think of any other question that could be more important.
Not exact matches
The admissions committee at Rotman
thought him confident and articulate, though it had
questions about
other aspects
of his application, including the fact that he was currently unemployed.
This is why I
think a
question such as «Do you show up to work every day with the intention
of helping
others succeed?»
There's no
question that body language plays a huge role in your ability to persuade
others to your way
of thinking.
Trump responds to
question «Why don't I just fire Mueller» «Many people have said you should fire him... we'll see what happens, I
think this is disgraceful and so do a lot
of other people, this is a pure and simple witch hunt» pic.twitter.com/llJrXhig4 2
I asked all the
questions I could
think of that
others should know and might
think to ask.
They bring with them proven success (where unknowns carry a ton
of question marks), familiarity with company culture and processes (which means less training) and a reminder to coworkers
thinking about leaving that the grass isn't always greener on the
other side.
«The answer may be entirely innocent,» Mr. Denton said, musing on the
question of whether Mr. Harder was paid by someone
other than Mr. Hogan, «but I
think in order for people to understand what's going on here, what the stakes are, I
think it's important that it be out in public, or at least that he'd be asked the
question in public.»
As I said, authorship
of most
of the books
of the Bible are in
question and tend only to be variants
of the
other stories, roughly in the same time period and «neighborhood» — most often with no specific author — therefore it is very reasonable to
think they are just variations on the same story.
@mama k» As I said, authorship
of most
of the books
of the Bible are in
question and tend only to be variants
of the
other stories, roughly in the same time period and «neighborhood» — most often with no specific author — therefore it is very reasonable to
think they are just variations on the same story.»»
You failed to answer my
other questions to you about what you would do if you didn't have the bible as a guide - so please tell us, do you
think you'd be incapable
of being good?
Funny, I'm an atheist who
thinks that his «brand»
of christian religion is dumb lies (just as dumb as the lies from any
other), yet his believe is the very last thing on my list
of questions.
Can you
think of any
other diagnostic
questions that help determine whether a church is missional or traditional?
No one with a shred
of self respect would willingly return to a dogmatic belief that requires, at its core, the negation
of thoughtful
questioning, the denigration
of thinking, a prohibition against careful evaluation
of beliefs and assumptions, and relegates those who honestly disagree with the doctrine and its conclusions to the status
of a despised, damaged, and damned «
other».
the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its
thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the
question of God's activity in the
other sects and traditions and in the wisdom
of humankind.
Nobody
thought much
of religions
other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had
questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some
of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed)
of my peers.
The
other problem I
think (and this is not the result
of the manic depressive side
of my profession as someone who works in «Asile» (refuge), an organisation dealing with migrants) is that we must add to the central preoccupations
of our
thinking the
question of refugees and asylum.
It just seems that people like Hawking ignore religion completely when a HUGE part
of science is
questioning all beliefs including your own which I don't
think human beings do as much as they should, or respect
other people's opinions.
While I definitely agree that his response is great in many circumstances and (without knowing the context
of that conversation) may have been the perfect thing to say at that moment, I
think calling this statement «a template that can be used to respond to
questions concerning sexuality, gender and
other important issues» reduces a very complex issue down to a very simple response that doesn't really answer any
questions for anyone.
There are lots
of other physics that disprove the possibility
of this, but I
think this is enough to seriously put it in
question.
I
think also
of the Ethiopian eunuch (from Acts 8), a man who was ethnically and sexually «
other,» who was welcomed and baptized without
question or hesitation into the early church, but who would no doubt fail all
of Mark Driscoll's rigid categories for a what makes «real man» were he a part
of the American evangelical church today.
As for your practical
question - how to navigate the mess - I
think of Solomon's divide - the - baby option, except that in this case, it's more like a divorce with lots
of kids involved, and sometimes the warring parties are happy to take a few
of the kids they like and let their «ex» take the
others.
Answering his own
questions, Piper says, «Here's my rule
of thumb: the more responsible a person is to shape the
thoughts of others about God, the less Arminianism should be tolerated.
But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in
question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works
of James and Royce; partly from the poems
of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most
of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to
think about life and death and
other fundamental
questions.
Studying theology leads me to a better understanding
of God and His word, which changes who I am and how I
think, and better enables me to help
others by being able to answer their
questions, or guide them away from snakes.
Ok, so first off, I
think in terms
of proof, the only thing that would justify as proof to me would be direct contact with a «god being», but even then a lot
of questioning and experimentation would be needed to rule out
other possibilities.
But when it comes to some
of these
other issues, I don't
think the
question is «who is right and who is wrong» but rather, «does this interpretation help us look more like Jesus?»
I
think I addressed some
of your
questions in those
other posts.
The latter is a tangled problem at best, but it is clear that among the important founders
of the process perspective — specifically I mean James, Peirce, Bergson, Whitehead, Dewey, and Hartshorne — it is Hartshorne's work which comes closest to being a kind
of personalism.1 Whitehead explicitly sets aside the personalist perspective in Religion in the Making, considering its claims beyond the possibility
of being established.2 On the
other side, a number
of personalists have been sympathetic to process
thought, and Brightman is surely principal among them.3 Here I will not investigate the
question of whether personalism in general, or even the idealistic type, is reconcilable with process
thought.
Others say they have read the Bible cover to cover and
think it's a fine novel but
question the fact that it actually is the word
of God.
For Heidegger, as perhaps for no
other philosopher, the distinction between life and
thought has meaning only if one perceives Heidegger's philosophy itself as self - confuting: So, the task is left to me, an outsider, to raise what may really be the quintessential Heideggerian
question: the relation
of his life to his
thought.
I
think we are talking past each
other on the point
of whether the geometry
of the universe is a
question of mathematics.
Well, the answer to this
question is that the backslider does not deserve to be saved but deserves to go to Hell; that
other people will often
think that he is not saved; that he himself is likely to doubt his salvation or to believe that God has forsaken him utterly; but, thank God, the backslider still is a child
of God.
The general position
of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim
of divinity for himself and that the doctrine
of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries
of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness
of Jesus in the mythological language and
thought forms
of the Greek culture
of the time.While recognizing the validity
of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions
of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians
question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept
other than incarnation might better express the divine significance
of Jesus today.
«I
think if we change that step and really become students
of each
other's narratives and ask
questions about why people perceive certain things in a certain way instead
of jumping to judgment, then I
think we'll be better equipped to have more diversity in local churches.»
In John 18:5 - 6 Jesus sais «I AM he» and The power
of his declaration
of BEING GOD brought them to their knees... This clearly coincides with Exodus 3 when God appeared to Moses and Declared that his NAME was «I AM who I AM» Do you REALLY
think that that is not by design??? Is this not also a very clear foreshadowing
of the future (Romans 14:11, and Philliapians 2:10 - 11) Please oh please see how the Bible is so intricately intertwined and full
of the The masters handiwork... Everything, all
of life's
questions are all within this book, not
other sources, if one but will accept them, pray over them, and get the Lord's guidance... This is why I brought up 1 Cor 2:14, Which you took EXTREMELY out
of context in the way I meant it to be discerned, which the verse itself explains I might begrudgingly add... John 8:24 after he tells them I am not
of this world.
Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business
of sacrifice to appease Someone who
thinks that shows «love,» I
question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each
other and their «gods.»
One that was based on a survey
of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety
of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their
thinking on racial and social
questions as well.
So long as you
think, as Bergson does, on the one hand,
of an actual experience which is sheer qualitative flux and variety, and on the
other of a geometrical ready - made framework
of sheer non-qualitative abidingness, there seems to be no possible answer to the
question how such a «matter» comes to be forced into the strait - waistcoat
of so inappropriate a «form,» except to lay the blame on some willful culpa originis
of the intellect.75
Although the explicit denial
of bodily form to Yahweh was late, the early depreciation
of interest in any such
question forced Hebrews to
think of God in some
other way.
It can raise
questions and encourage
thought on the part
of people who come from
other perspectives as well.
When speaking
of the above «correspondence» he says «the
question why this has to be so is a real
question, and one which has to be remanded by the natural sciences to
other modes and planes
of thought - to philosophy and theology.»
I
think that attempts to answer these (and
other)
questions leads to the ever - increasing institutionalization
of the church.
The «overwhelming evidence for naturalistic evolution» no longer overwhelms when the naturalistic worldview is itself called into
question, and that worldview is as problematical as any
other set
of metaphysical assumptions when it is placed on the table for examination rather than being taken for granted as «the way we
think today.»
The
questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability
of religious speech but concern quite
other issues: methods
of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set
of powers in our public life; and ways
of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses
of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses
of powerful religious groups — hardly
questions a secular culture had
thought it would have to take seriously!
Thinking about these and many
other questions, I have the sense that the community
of reflection is now diminished by the absence
of Oscar Cullman.
@Colin &
others I'm not going to argue your claim that orientation is genetic because I
think there is some truth to it, however, I have
questions about the evolutionary shift to growing numbers
of LGBTs.
«I
think as atheists we should have the right to recruit much like any
other religion, and to
question other ways
of thought, just as religions do.»
If you've never
questioned your beliefs seriously, if you only accept the beliefs
of your parents as right without examining the
other possibilities, if you can not articulate why you
think one way as apposed to another, you've never
thought independently and you maybe never will.
I'm
thinking you might have some
other powers that might help us get to the bottom
of some all - important
questions.