Sentences with phrase «understanding of right and wrong»

Screen time — the time spent watching television, playing computer games, and being on the internet — is a big influence on kids» understanding of right and wrong and the way they develop socially.

It's pretty bad when the unbelieving world has a better sense of justice and a better understanding of right and wrong than Christians.

I get that I could visit, but that, unless I was willing to turn over responsibility for my own salvation to you and accept your understanding of right and wrong ahead of my own, visiting is all I can do.

If making you ethical was the aim, then ethics education would be either redundant or hopeless: critics are probably right to think that a basic understanding of right and wrong is either there by the time kids enter university or it isn't.

They typically had strong ties to communities that espoused rather straightforward and unsophisticated understandings of right and wrong.

So my question is this: How does that logic not make our understandings of right and wrong completely arbitrary and meaningless?

Not exact matches

Reading these won't guarantee excellence in ethical decision - making, but they will help you understand what is fundamentally at stake in our ongoing exploration of what behaviour is right, and what behaviour is wrong, in the world of business.

Sometimes I get it really right and sometimes I got it really wrong, but I always have a deeper understanding of the topic when I've finished writing about it.

The purpose of these conversations was to explore what, if anything, is unique and measurable about the governance of family firms, and to understand what the BSCI gets right and wrong.

Right, but my understanding (may be wrong) is that they look at your current and last 5 years of resources to pay for a nursing home.

Likewise when God says «Let there be light,» that is much more understandable by saying it means the «Light of Understanding,» like invention of language and tools, and the knowledge of right and wrong.

A historical compilation of man, his understanding of himself as far as what was right and wrong... and a means to control the masses.

So the real questions are: 1) how can there even be a universal understanding of «right» and «wrong» without a creator 2) how can purely random genetic mutations preserved by natural selection have resulted in the desire to do «right» even amongst those that do not believe in life after death?

So I figured Lewis was wrong... But what if Lewis was right, and it was I who was wrong in my understanding of Scripture?

Christ not only presupposes the difference between right and wrong but also the capacity of all people to be able to communicate and understand this difference.

Thus, the struggles against torture and terrorism require us to recover and recast a genuinely ecumenical and normative public theology, one willing to engage in the patient yet urgent task of identifying, clarifying and defending those universal principles of right and wrong inherent in the Christian understanding of life.

I agree with not going trying to change the world as in change to people by telling them they are wrong and I am right (IF I have understood your point of view) but I guess I'm not so convinced when it comes to society, and just accepting what ever **** is in there or anywhere.

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?

I'm speaking of the power — or our limited power — of observation, which influences our understanding of what is right and wrong.

Augustine thought he understood the biblical message, as did Luther and Calvin and Wesley; but God has finally given it to us to know that all of them are wrong and we are right.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

She begins by setting aside the paradigm of sin and forgiveness as the basic understanding of what is wrong and how it is made right.

Well and Saul may have not even understood his own mind in terms of right or wrong.

To your last point, when I said choice is an illusion, I wasn't referring that it is impossible to make that choice, but rather that there is a «right» choice and a «wrong» choice, the «right» one being that you worship god, regardless of how weird some of the rituals might be, making you a little more than a robot, acting out a script your given, we're just slightly better because we can justify why we're acting out a command, but it takes years to understand that justification, in the beginning, you do these rituals because you're given a script and if you don't want to do it, tough.

Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.

That is to say, the Greek spirit had not the courage to assert that a man knowingly does what is wrong, with knowledge of the right does what is wrong; so Socrates comes to its aid and says, When a man does wrong, he has not understood what is right.

This understanding has been destroyed, he believes, by the pestilence of legal positivism, the idea that right and wrong have no existence or meaning apart from the provisions of law.

And in the next place, describing what properly is defiance, it teaches that a man does wrong although he understands what is right, or forbears to do right although he understands what is right; in short, the Christian doctrine of sin is pure impertinence against man, accusation upon accusation; it is the charge which the Deity as prosecutor takes the liberty of lodging against man.

But this sense of the matter has taken hold precisely because the media and the public have absorbed the understanding put forth by the courts of the rights and wrongs of these matters.

I do not understand Jesus» words to love one another to include the bickering, the «I'm right and you're wrong and that means you're going to hell», the anger, snarky remarks, intolerance and general lack of love that I find not only in the comments on many «Christian» blogs, but also that I read and hear expressed by «Christians» elsewhere.

The sailors on board the ship reveal a better understanding of God, and life, and justice, and right and wrong than Jonah reveals in his answers.

As Stephen Carter has written, it isn't simply a matter of understanding right from wrong and learning what the rules are; every employee also has to learn the «rules about following the rules.»

A pragmatic or instinctive understanding that there is a right and a wrong life for man, which some of the old philosophers called Natural Law?

you don't need to be religious to understand the fundamentals of right and wrong.

As to your claim about the keys being used to determine moral right and wrong, I don't see that anywhere in Matthew 16 or Isaiah 22, and although the Jewish people may have understood this as referring to such judgments, they understood then (and even today) that moral judgments are made by God alone and through a proper understanding of what God has said in Scripture.

In both cases, the sailors on board the ship reveal a better understanding of God, and life, and justice, and right and wrong than Jonah reveals.

the only real control one has is the outward interactions with others and if those who claim to hold to a moral code show a lack of understanding on said claims then it is the duty of those seekers of truth to right the wrongs committed in the names of others by ignorant fools.

It is one of the oldest of sociological generalizations that any coherent and viable society rests on a common set of moral understandings about good and bad, right and wrong, in the realm of individual and social action.

Set aside your hypocrisy for one damn minute and understand that regardless of what you may think the posters here are excercising a right that you would like to see taken from them - their right to freedom of speech - if it doesn't meld with what you believe, you see it as wrong... it's not the way the world works... get your head out of your buybull huney and live in the 21st century!

For a penetrating survey, see Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Guide to Understanding the Bible (New York: Harper & Bros., 1938) in the chapter on «The Idea of Right and Wrong.»

To understand how to treasure what was right and good in that complex past and how to abandon what was wrong or outdated will take all the wisdom and guidance which Christians seek in their worship of God as known in Jesus Christ.

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

Those who reject the notion of a deity however could say that it is an evolutionary development in that groups who become societies have a far greater likelihood of success and survival with the basic understanding of things like right and wrong and justice.

I know CNN and others keep trying to convince America that we are stupid and believe this junk, but in our hearts we are smart enough to know that the scientists have it right (or close anyway) and just because we don't understand every aspect of the «proof» behind it doesn't mean it is wrong.

Illustrating the influence of economists, Lord Keynes wrote: «The ideas of economics and political philosophy, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.

When we decide to follow, we are called to lay down some of our most valuable possessions: our understanding of the world, our view of right and wrong, our assumptions about whom God favors and whom God despises, our ways and our thoughts.

«I don't think it's a question of right or wrong so much as I think it is of the ability to raise critical questions, to try and develop new understandings of the theological tradition and in this case of the moral tradition.»

Now and then a flaming word torn from the heart of some German speaker revealed the intenseness of his loyalty to the lost cause, and one began to understand a little the temper which in extreme cases believes that the whole matter of the rights and wrongs of the war must yet be investigated but that only Germans possess the scientific qualities of mind necessary for an adequate investigation.

Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the others wrong nor acquiesce in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.

Mocking you lunatics has nothing to do with mocking God... I believe there is a God, I don't understand it, or pretend like I do, whether I'm right or wrong has no bearing on anyone else... but by no means to I believe he would destroy what was somehow created... only a complete idiot would quit their job and tour around the country warning of the Rapture... now go look yourself in the mirror and admit you're an nutjob... don't try guessing what God will, or won't do, just live your life and hope for the best...