Sentences with phrase «ultimate authority in»

Since when are you the ultimate authority in what good gaming is that you act like some god wielding force that says pleasing you is the only thing that matters.

The ultimate authority in the party, Annual Conference decides the policy framework from which the next manifesto will be drawn and sets party rules.

A woman is the ultimate authority over her body, and a child's parents are the ultimate authority in their family.

Further, the distribution of the peoples of the earth is represented as being in accord with divine purposes; even if not ethically determined, at least it was an expression of that impulse which the writers believed to be the ultimate authority in human life.

He also accused Catholicism of investing ultimate authority in one human, the pope, rather than in the divinely created Church.

However, the ultimate authority in this country is the Cons ### tution which is why the conservatives so much wanted an amendment about marriage.

The experience of the whole man, evaluating Scripture, tradition, and reason, through the vital action of the Holy Spirit, becomes the ultimate authority in religious certainty.

I don't object to God and the Bible being the ultimate authority in my life, just the incorporated church that has changed the facts about both of the above.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has ultimate authority in setting up the rules regarding equity - based crowdfunding, but the SoMoLend case should be a very clear reminder that state securities» entities may be potent as a regulatory force.

Not exact matches

«The minister of finance, supported by the Department of Finance, has ultimate responsibility for the financial system and authority for all financial sector legislation,» he said in a speech in Vancouver in 2009, slamming the door on the efforts of some in Ottawa, including former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, to create a more robust system of financial oversight.

The company's ultimate valuation will depend on decisions that are expected to be made by Saudi authorities in coming months, including the tax rate that Aramco will pay as a public company, and the portion of Aramco's huge and diverse array of assets that is included in the listed entity.

The powerful Cyberspace Administration — the ultimate authority over what is online in China — also shut down dozens of blogs and social media accounts for covering celebrity news and gossip that month.

Just over half (53 %) are of the view that the ultimate authority rests with the federal government, while just under half (47 %) say provincial governments should have the power to «veto» projects in their jurisdictions.

In my worldview with the Bible as my ultimate authority, I can account for these things.

In other words, «Rather than consider the wisdom and authority of God, I'll be my own ultimate authority.»

THe only «ultimate» authority we need to worry about are the ones we put into power in our democratic society.

Case in point, it is not logical to suggest there is «good» vs «bad» if there is no ultimate moral authority, no higher power that created everything, including free will and the ability to choose whether to heed that drive to do what is «good» vs doing what you want to do at the expense of «good» and of other people.

«Case in point, it is not logical to suggest there is «good» vs «bad» if there is no ultimate moral authority, no higher power that created everything»

Likewise, sola Scriptura meant that ultimate authority is vested in what God says, and not in the words of men.

We are left asking questions in a process of interrogation that is partly, though not entirely, self - interrogation, to which we see no easy end; but this may be as it is because the mysteries that set our inquiring in motion have their authority over us, thus continually to disturb our minds, only because they do touch what is ultimate, which is at once within and yet wholly beyond our comprehension.

Sure, the church you attend... whatever,... but the religion you believe in teaches right from wrong and claims a connection to, or understanding of, or words directly from, the supposed ultimate moral authority does it not?

When I speak on the subject of infallibility, I often say that it was necessary in the modern era for an ultimate authority to claim that it is never wrong.

There's seems to be more in some ways on the risks of weilding authority, though, too — placing ultimate responsibility on those who manipulate others.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.

«Although the direct source of the Review Board's authority lies in Article 9 of the [Dallas] Charter, the Board's ultimate authority lies in church law.»

In those answers there has always been indirect reference to the ultimate power that lies behind all human authority, but the defined source of authority has been some mediate principle.

Not understanding the necessary interworking of traditional, Biblical, and contemporary sources (even in a theology that seeks Biblical authority as its ultimate norm), certain evangelicals have fallen prey to a new form of «traditionalism»; others have retreated to a «Biblicism»; still others have found themselves in theological bondage to contemporary standards.

But one's starting point in the knowing - process need not, and must not, be confused with one's ultimate theological authority.

Frogist, so I understand what you believe in, you do believe in a ultimate authority being you will be «interview» with?

In this way Scripture becomes the ultimate authority for what the Council authoritatively teaches.

Since The Romans had (as they always did, eventually) taken the ultimate legal Authority from the Jewish Rabbis in Israel (the Sceptre) and the Messiah had not come (as the Rabbi's still claim, then surely Abraham (the Father Of faith) is a false prophet?

In Jerusalem the new movement will present itself to the authorities of the country; in Jerusalem the ultimate verdict must be pronounced; in Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realizeIn Jerusalem the new movement will present itself to the authorities of the country; in Jerusalem the ultimate verdict must be pronounced; in Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realizein Jerusalem the ultimate verdict must be pronounced; in Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realizein Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realized.

When we conclude the Lord's Prayer with the words, «For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,» we affirm this divine kingship and our trust in God's ultimate authority and sovereignty.

The ultimate authority, they say, is in will, not reason.

The reformers insisted that Scripture, read in this way, was the ultimate authority.

We do not all agree in the Christian Church about the proper forms of authority in the ministry; but whatever they may be, we can not escape the truth that God in his decisive word to us has left us no ultimate reliance upon institution or tradition save that which arises from personal trust in him.

All of this confirms yet again the desperate need for a new theological synthesis capable of encompassing not only science and religion but also a new social vision that will re-vindicate the authority of Christ in his Church to be the ultimate source of control and direction at the heart of human affairs.

God is: the supreme or ultimate reality, perfect in power wisdom and goodness — Merriam Webster the creator and ruler of the universe, the source of all moral authority, superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature — Oxford Dictionary the one Supreme Being the creator and ruler of the universe — Dictionary.com

In the Middle East no one knew Buddha... — I'm not sure of the accuracy of this statement, but the greater point it brings up is interesting and is the reason no single religion can claim authority as «ultimate truth».

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

Yet even among teens with what they considered to be a significant affiliation with a religious organization, there was a sense in which teens see themselves as the ultimate authority over which religious symbols are or can be made meaningful.

These people will be easy to engage in dialogue, since they will not claim ultimate authority for themselves nor fear to admit their own limitations.

Reverence for tradition, respect for the biblical word, and reliance on the authority of the church embodied in its priests and scholars are finally idolatrous because we look to a human word or institution to express ultimate meaning for all time.

Pinnock acknowledges the diversity in Scripture as the ultimate authority but appeals to continuity within diversity and the early creeds as the basis for theology.

(19) The first question in matters religious (maybe the second: the first queries are always epistemological) is: What constitutes ultimate religious authority?

On the other hand, if the ultimate criterion in scholarly disputation is reason, then publicly claiming prior authority for revelation is a breach of ethics and is rightly reprehended by secular scholars.

The group has a quasi-military setup with rigorous discipline and ultimate authority resting in the hands of the leaders.

Secondly... those who adhere to the scriptures as their ultimate authority have splintered themselves into literally hundreds of factions who are often quite combative in their defense of their specific interpretation of scriptural authority.

The atheist by saying condecending crap like «atheists don't claim to have ultimate moral authority over other people from a magical man in the sky, while Christians do.»

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