Sentences with phrase «unalterable meaning»

In the post-modern West, well before believers can proclaim revealed truth, they're forced to combat the epistemological consequences of the dictatorship of relativism — to explain the possibility that truth claims can have real, objective, and unalterable meaning.

Not exact matches

I have often wondered if some uses of the word «eternal» could actualy mean unchangable or unalterable.

God, as preserving the past in its unalterable state, becomes the «measure of reality»; that is, by preserving the past «as it actually happened» (whatever that might mean), God makes possible our various perspectives and interpretations of it.

I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom of the stairs I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man's head when he was shut up alone in his books, a healthy dose of «real life» (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all «that sort of thing» just couldn't be true.

It is possible to argue that an unalterable tendency toward homosexuality, when it means the impossibility of traditional marriage, must also mean that one is called to celibacy (the renunciation of sexual activity for God's sake).

In that theory, invariant developmental outcomes can not be identified with an organism's «nature,» if by that term is meant a set of predetermined and unalterable features, such as a genetic blueprint.

While the deeds and events of the past are unalterable, the meaning we ascribe to those experiences is malleable and the damage repairable.