Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe
ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.
It's religion that professes to have
the ultimate truth with no objective evidence.
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It has something to do
with acknowledging that, in its very essence, all reasoning involves a venture of trust in an original orientation of
truth to the mind and of the mind to
truth, and in the
ultimate unity of the two; and that, therefore, any attempt to argue from rational premises to rational conclusions that resolutely refuses to invoke what is and has always been revealed — in the mind's most primordial encounter
with reality — is not really a process of reasoning at all, but a journey toward absurdity.
But
Truth and Method moves steadily forward, past the preoccupation
with the humanities, «horizons,» the «historical and aesthetic consciousness,» past conversation and language to its
ultimate task, which is breaking down the «ontological prejudice» that modernity has housed in a thousand institutions.
But
Truth and Method opens
with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's
ultimate objective.
But what I've always wondered is, if there is an
ultimate truth, why doesn't God stick it smack in our faces, so we can't make these mistakes of whether women can preach and teach men, whether blacks can marry whites, whether slavery is OK, and whether we can worship
with instruments or not?
What doesn't compute
with me, and probably a lot of your readers, is equating those
truths with the complete and
ultimate revelation of God which was Jesus.
I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the
ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version)
with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.
Dominic, you are the one claiming that the Bible is the «inherent word of God» and the «
ultimate truth», so it is up to you to back up your claim
with proof.
That the
ultimate mark of a Christ - like follower is the ability to love that which is disgusting and to sacrifice self in order to share
truth with those that are ungrateful and disgusting.
With so many different opinions, it's natural to pick a side and fervently declare that our
truth is the
ultimate truth.
It is a call to come out of the ignorance of our killing prejudices, the blindness of presuming that our view of life is objective, the slavery that comes
with identifying our partial
truth with the
ultimate truth.
Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the
truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As
with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the
ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.
Thousands of years and we're still somehow wrestling
with what should be
ultimate truth?
They will know that whatever may be the real and
ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that
truth as when we say
with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or
with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or
with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again
with Christ.»
Temporary meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die
with the death of the universe — there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God - What are these eternal, unchanging
truths that you refer to?
No, I actually read the Bible, it is the
ultimate source of
truth, ------ Your bible is rife
with errors and inaccuracies.
The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the
ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «
with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic
truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»
Be does not intend to channel universal movement by means of universal concepts and categories (quantity, quality) into the form of various kinds of movement (local motion, change) or various patterns of movement (for instance, circular motion),
with the
ultimate aim of utilizing the constant diversity of these kinds and patterns of movement, and hence the essence of identity, to make a case for the
truth of a timeless and imperishable being belonging to things.
Guilt of being born
with a sin, fear of eternal damnation, and the ignorance to believe in what some other fool has passed down the line as the
ultimate truth.
Repentance is recognizing that God is the
ultimate authority and willingly realigning your thoughts to correspond
with the
truth about who God is and what our right position is before Him.
«39 The present writer has found great inspiration, much
truth, wisdom, and beauty, fervent witness to the numinous character of
ultimate reality in the great Hindu writings through the ages, and hopes to learn still more from them; but he can not agree
with Radhakrishnan's conclusion that «Jesus» own testimony, philosophical
truth and religious experience alike demand that He should be brought in line
with the other great saints of God, who has not left himself without a witness in any clime or age.
Faced
with the
ultimate question of where the ordered energies of the universe and ordering laws of science themselves come from, many atheist materialists simply abdicate the search for
truth and say that there is no reason.
God says in His Word, your either for Him or against Him, their is no middle ground, and to say that the Bible is not Gods Word, or to say that God's Word is not
ultimate truth or is
with error is to say God is
with error, and that my friend is not the spirit of God in you that leading you to that conclusion.
If religion is concerned
with ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications for the whole of life, private and public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.
This tendency to look for fixed meanings, authoritative images, sacred words, divine revelation,
ultimate moral norms, the
truth, is finally the expression of our own insecurity
with human relativity and a symbol of our desperate need for security.
Maybe this is why some people wish to abort persons like my father and me: Perhaps we confront them
with the inconvenient
truth of their own mortality and the
ultimate futility of their existential rebelliousness.
To be consonant
with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the
ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective
truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.
I have no idea what
ultimate Truth is — but I know what it isn't and that is finding fault
with people just because they are comfortable
with beliefs that are contrary to my own.
Mr. Astorino has learned the
ultimate truth, if you lie down
with dogs, you end up
with fleas.
I say the function of theory is to find things out by any available tool,
with the
ultimate goal being to determine the
truth.
That monument has come under fierce attack these days — from postmodernists (to whom
truth is subjective and cultural), from creationists (to whom
truth is biblical), and from religion in general (where faith is often seen to compete
with reason as the fount of
ultimate answers).
I share
with you today my
ULTIMATE favorite
truth / bible passage that has been my rock in my life and has truly proven itself true time and time again...
As a committed Christian, I'm looking for a «spiritual leader» who views relationship
with God not merely as an aspect of life, but as life itself, and sees God and His
Truth as the
ultimate source of emotional wholeness, healthy relating, wise decisions, etc..
I love the idea of Robohamlet and I had a good chuckle at how you told me off for apparently claiming to tell the «
ultimate truth» and then you say, «The sad and bitter
truth is that there is nothing wrong
with the film.»
With strong performances by a very intriguing cast, particularly by Kate Winslet, Little Children manages to overcome the obstacles of the artificiality of the characters and situations to deliver
ultimate truths about the human condition, particularly in the lives of people who normally wouldn't make for interesting study.
By the end of my first hour
with the game I was completely invested in unearthing the
ultimate truth behind the world of Rime and the mysterious figure in red who called to me
with nothing more than their presence.
So Socratic dialectic did not end up
with a blend of two ideas, but rather a way of either dismissing one idea as a candidate for an
ultimate truth or, indeed, a way of identifying an idea that might be an
ultimate truth.
Things are never fair in love and war, but Braelyn is about to learn the hard
truth about trading what she has at home for a sizzling infidelity
with her
ultimate fantasy...
But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing
with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the
truth - the
ultimate betrayal - that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...
These groups routinely twist and distort real facts,
with the
ultimate result being that
truth becomes gray and shaded.
By the end of my first hour
with the game I was completely invested in unearthing the
ultimate truth behind the world of Rime and the mysterious figure in red who called to me
with nothing more than their presence.
«I was completely invested in unearthing the
ultimate truth behind the world of Rime and the mysterious figure in red who called to me
with nothing more than their presence.»
Benefits Supervisor Resting is regarded as Freud's
ultimate tour de force, a life - size masterwork in the grand historical tradition of the female nude, painted obsessively
with intense scrutiny and abiding
truth.
- Unlike the experts, you hold the radiosonde data as the
ultimate truth, despite the homogenisation problems associated
with decadal data.
With this tentative spirit and measurable candor, the mind satisfies its moral sense, and deceives itself with the thought that it is proceeding cautiously and impartially toward the goal of ultimate tr
With this tentative spirit and measurable candor, the mind satisfies its moral sense, and deceives itself
with the thought that it is proceeding cautiously and impartially toward the goal of ultimate tr
with the thought that it is proceeding cautiously and impartially toward the goal of
ultimate truth.
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Or, perhaps, in dealing
with our fears, we may come to know a deeper, more
ultimate truth — one that we might have never found any other way.