The incarnate Word breaks a path
through human nature, one might say, and thus changes the journey for all others who travel the human road.
If grace perfects
through human nature, then the enormity of the vision of God given to Paul comes to him piecemeal as he struggles to live his new life fully.
This will be given in a way that fits in with man's nature and through the Incarnation God shows us how: His Son becomes man and He relates to
us through His human nature, and this includes the flesh, since this is an intrinsic part of our ability to relate to others and also to God.
The universe, as scientific study has disclosed it to us, is open to this kind of subtle and vigorous movement of spiritual power working in and
through human nature.
To be a personal union it must be effected
through human nature, body and soul, according to human laws of growth and encounter.
The Incarnation, God becoming present in and
through human nature, is the exemplar and foundation of all sacramentality.
By postulating the existence of two natures in this one person, the Doctrine of the Incarnation allowed one to say that the suffering of Jesus as reported in the Gospels was experienced by the one human - and - divine person
through his human nature, which avoided a run - in with the prevailing wisdom of the time.
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through human nature.
But she is His mother
through His human nature.
That is how God works
through human nature, and nature itself is a gift of the Creator.
On the other hand, it is
through His human nature that Jesus suffers — it is impossible for the divine nature to suffer.
But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and
through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.
Not exact matches
«This knowledge of
human nature and its overlapping impact on trading gives them strategic advantage in building greater wealth
through leverage.»
Sometimes, we tend to forget that putting words out
through a computer can rob us of our
human voices; one way to reclaim a jovial
nature is to use emojis and emoticons.
This only conditions a child's mind to notice these things and view them as forbidden, rather than training them for self - control
through the simple acknowledgement that
humans are by
nature sexual beings, and that the female form is beautiful, something to be appreciated and not objectified.
When progress is achieved, it is
through prudent recognition of the limitations of
human nature.
Unfortunately,
humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to
nature to guide us
through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.
Here's the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately,
humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to
nature to guide us
through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at....
Through all the accomplishments man can boast himself through knowledge, science and tech - advancements, none of those have ever improved nor changed the fallen human nature of man and stopped the corruption of human carachter, but only even further expo
Through all the accomplishments man can boast himself
through knowledge, science and tech - advancements, none of those have ever improved nor changed the fallen human nature of man and stopped the corruption of human carachter, but only even further expo
through knowledge, science and tech - advancements, none of those have ever improved nor changed the fallen
human nature of man and stopped the corruption of
human carachter, but only even further exposed it.
Human nature is brought into union and communion with Godhead as its proper environment — its principle of life and life more abundant —
through the Self communication of God the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
It is a way of loving in which
nature works
through grace to restore the love in
human relationships to God's original intention.
The effects of the redemption (the healing of
human nature) are communicated to us
through the Church, and especially
through her sacraments.
In her femininity she responds to God's Life - giving decree and gives birth to him with a true
human nature through the consent of her will and the fruit of her womb.
In the case of matter below man this is
through relationship to the Mind of God that frames the whole of creation, and in the case of
human nature through direct integration with the individual and personal centre of control and direction (intellect and will) that we call the «soul».
For example, He works miracles
through His divine
nature — it is impossible for
human nature to work miracles (that's why they are miracles!).
If
nature is indifferent and moves blindly
through time, its purposelessness could hardly provide an «example» for
human purpose.
Such cultural pluralism is consistent with the requirements of
human nature for a determinate social matrix, and it provides for continued enrichment of the life of mankind
through a variety of contrasting traditions.
The belief that the Incarnate One possessed both
human and divine
natures raised a few additional questions on this matter: Did Christ's divine
nature also have an external appearance
through its union with the
human one?
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David [as far as his
human nature went], but who was marked out as the Son of God with power [by the holy Spirit]
through resurrection from the dead — Jesus Christ our Lord.»
First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of
human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or
nature,
through which refreshment and companionship have been given.
A knowledge of these relationships adds specificity and richness to the universals of
human nature revealed by and
through the natural sciences and mathematics.
The supernatural element in
human life, whether it comes to us
through conscience as
human beings or
through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world of
nature and social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction of the individual with his world.
For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas
through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the
human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine
nature, and directly created at conception.
Any honest survey of the situation makes clear that there are very considerable differences in the movement of God in and
through nature, history, and
human life.
In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of
human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word
through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.
By this act of recreating
human nature, God mysteriously created the new possibility of individual man's divinization
through incorporation into that glorified
nature.
God in His will
through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of
natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we
humans is one with Him.The cost of
human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences
They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior
nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence,
through whom
human life could be «deicized.»
your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because
nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no
humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in
nature, with our coming and education
through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us
through experience.
before the arrival of
humans 200,000 years ago, the earth had already existed billions before that, so all the events was directly related to gods conciousness
through nature, now with our evolution to higher level, it is gradually shifted to us, we call that free will, but actually we are only part of it, that we have to realize the extent of our responsibility, and that is happening now, that is one of the proof.
Since there was a «seed» of this cosmic principle of reason in each and every
human being,
humans,
through the exercise of reason, could understand the
nature of reality and seek «the good life.»
Certainly, similar to secular society the Church, too, rests on certain presuppositions which are not produced by the free decision of her members and their free association as such, but are the very conditions of her existence, namely
human nature, the saving will of God, redemption
through Jesus Christ, the general call of all men to the Church and the resulting «duty» to belong to her.
With its emphasis on
nature as a vast web of interdependence that is alive
through and
through, it affirms with Schweitzer that individual creatures,
human included, have intrinsic value.
Study of Scripture
through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil
nature», and
humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»
For the Christian who operates from a stance of hopefulness, believing that God is getting his work done
through human history and
through the history of
nature, the inclination will be to place the burden of proof on those who oppose a given type of scientific research.
Then those that are left (surviving genocides and «
nature») will get a clue and realize that only God has the ability to create the complexities of the
human eye, circulatory system, the fact we have (had) the needed water and atmosphere was not a random perfection that just occurred... will change their minds and ask for forgiveness that was already granted them
through Jesus, if they chose to accept it.
In particular, I shall provide an illustration that is especially relevant to the problems of identity
through time and the
nature of the
human mind.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who
through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the
nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to
human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
Human nature is not subjected to corruption and depravity
through the fall of Adam, as if Adam's fall has made humankind a mass of sinners.
It is Whitehead's merit to have described the fundamental continuity running all
through the world of
nature, from its most rudimentary forms to it most complicated and highest development known to us in the mental life of
human beings.