Sentences with phrase «very existence at»

In the midst of this chaos, a new threat appears that will put Earth \'s very existence at risk.

Batman struggles against Superman's regime, as a new threat appears that will put Earth's very existence at risk.

Will she have the mettle to stand and fight for what is right, even if doing so puts the paper's very existence at risk?

I'm undecided whether this fits in my closet or not but I'm encouraged by its very existence at Anthropologie!

When a clubs owner and board allow that lifeblood to be cut off, WHICH IS HAPPENING BIT BY BIT, they put our very existence at risk.

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«Hate,» he said «is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence.

No, the memorable aspect was the very existence of a cash for gold company commercial on the Super Bowl at all.

Instead, the 74 - page lawsuit was aimed at DACA's existence from its very beginning by the Obama Administration in June 2012, arguing that the program was always illegal under federal immigration laws and always was unconstitutional.

Explained Fake, «Over the past decade, when you looked at the social environment online and the great hegemony of Facebook and kind of owning your social existence, that was frankly very discouraging for a lot of us [who helped build early online communities].

Who is more believable, person A claiming Jesus did a few miracles requireing very little relative energy from a vast creator God, or person B that claims «nothing» knew what to do to make all the matter in existence all at once....

This guy is working at a place that depends upon its very existence on the Earth being round and the Earth going around the Sun.

To be a person at all is to be one whose very existence is partly constituted by the presence of God.

Thus, reason implies in its very meaning the existence of its Ground, and the fact that it evolves at all implies the reality of its Ground.

Christianity does not replace them, but from the very outset sheds upon everything a light that makes it possible to enhance all the tiny or huge pieces of truth and charity present at each and every level of existence.

would be tantamount to doubting its very existence, so the fact that I exist at all as a rational being already implies that God exists, as Descartes, for example, saw.

Many commenters avoided quibbling with Helminiak's logic, instead taking aim at the piece's very existence.

This tendency is wrong, for the worship of God in spirit and in truth has its place at the very centre of the Christian existence; hence it is all the more important not to aggravate

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

page 285 ^ Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies existence) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price «Jesus at the Vanishing Point» in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X page 61 [10] Michael Grant (a cla ssicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.»

Even, at times when I truly begin to feel intensely guilty for my thoughts and fear punishment, I remind myself that God even has mercy towards Satan, the very enemy of God, by not utterly and completely destroying his existence but given him free will to operate in this world and to do evil.

They refuse, reject and scorn God, then turn around and very arrogantly DEMAND an explanation from God whom they hate, while at the same time deny His existence.

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

what i am pressing against is a view of existence which at the outset denies the reality or knowability of the objective and yet is appealing (knowing or unknowingly) to that very objective in its self - defense.

But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well - being in heaven.

He is «man of God» at least in the sense that his office is as such a human acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God, as the Church in its very existence is a confession of faith in God.

Yet this pure mode's very existence is denied often and, at the same time, its characteristics become «bad» from the culture's point of view.

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.

It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)

Every moment of our existence before death is now colored by the realization, however dim it may be at any given moment, that now is the time — «the accepted time», if I may use here St. Paul's phrase in a very different context — when we must find ourselves in others and become what nowadays we have learned to style a man «for others».

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

Now, this is not only fully in accordance with the relationship between sin and suffering as understood by the Jews at the time of Jesus (John 9.2), but it is also the reason for the very existence of an exorcism - healing element in the ministry of Jesus.

But for the prophet, Israel nevertheless stands at the very hub of existence as the nucleus of the vast area of God's concern.

We're talking about the human beings right now, at this very moment, in different parts of this world with no concept of the existence of Christ and christianity.

«Although such [explicit] revelation can not be necessary to the constitution of human existence, it can very well be necessary to the objectification of existence, in the sense of its full and adequate understanding at the level of explicit thought and speech.»

John Platt makes a passionate plea for an immediate, large - scale, emergency mobilization of the best scientific talent available to work at the imminent crises of war, population, hunger, and pollution that threaten our very existence.

But we must recognize that at stake is also the very mystery that defines our existence as a church: the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

New lights have been vouchsafed us — the reality, capable of definition, of a Cosmogenesis; the discovery of a genesis of the atom, of the increasingly «molecular» aspect of living organisms pursued to the infinitesimal, and of the persistence of this «molecular» characteristic in the mechanisms of heredity and evolution rising to the highest organic types; the existence of a center of indeterminacy at the very heart of every element of Matter... The cumulative effect of these revelations has been to open our eyes to a very different and quite otherwise alluring possibility.

One of the obvious difficulties with these suggestions is that the fundamental issue as to how the individual churches themselves have internalized different understandings of baptism as being a part of their existence and self - identity, an existence and identity which has very often been at least partially shaped as a reaction to the teachings propounded by other churches, has not been adequately addressed.

In discussing why proofs for the existence of God are valuable, even though people might still reject them, Hartshorne points out that, at the very least, the proofs illuminate the price of rejecting the conclusion: namely, having to relinquish some of their premises or habits of inference (pp. 257f).

Further, the finding of a Gospel of Matthew left with the Christians by Bartholomew is very strong evidence to the existence of a Christian community in India in the first century at the time of the visit of St. Bartholomew.

But the sacred «center» is an interior depth or a transcendent beyond which reveals itself to be all in all as a consequence of an absolute negation or reversal of the profane, whereas Zarathustra's «center» lies at the very heart of a profane or immanent existence, and it becomes manifest as being everywhere only as the consequence of an absolute negation or reversal of the sacred.

Where YOU lie, is how you insist that I'm «misrepresenting evolution», and YET, at the end of the day... evolution STILL can't explain «something from nothing»... and if you insist on relying on evolution as the thesis for the existence of life... my dictionary analogy very much applies.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

Believing in gods is at the very least unreasonable because, without evidence to support the existence of gods, there is no reason to believe in any.

At the very least, it would seem that a good god would make his existence as known as gravity — so that all believed generally, and then maybe allow confusion throughout the ages and across the globe..

The largest Nation in existence at its time Rome, the very same that put him to the cross later Bowed to him... Thousands witnessed his Miracles and converted on the spot... and this is all recorded historically... unlike many religions around the globe, this was witnessed and recorded... yet you refuse to believe it... But you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and believe what a scientist postulated... a theory that requires as much if not more faith to believe in than Any religion... A theory that if you believe... you must throw out the natural laws of Physics...... But you call me stupid for believing in God... Wow... My bad i guess i should believe in Magical particles that always existed that randomly exploded and caused everything to exist....

In being prior to the intelligible and created «essential» realm it has been identified with the very «Act of Existence» of God himself as well as being at the root of the school of Existentialism.