Islam and or Muslims are not to be afraid off it is the Fear of the unknown that is
the weakness of us humans is kept us in our shells until and unless we have an open heart and open mind we will never be able to find the Truth, The Truth that will give us Peace and make us love each other in solving the problems of this short temporary life, As a matter of fact all the Prophets brought in one and same message check the following link.
And yes, there will be much chaos and many hard cases to deal with in the meantime, but we are not free to compromise the teaching of Christ for
the weakness of human beings.
Not exact matches
Shorn
of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers
are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains
of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.
You might agree with the Times about how a wizard
of Dumbledore's moral superiority should
be immune to the
weaknesses of human sexuality or you may side with some
of Rowling's fans who think a strong gay character
is leap for gay rights.
«It
's in the director
's handling
of the story
's human factor that his sensitivity falters, and the
weakness for racial stereotyping that has sometimes marred his work comes to the fore,» Chang writes.
«If
human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead
of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.»
«The foolishness
of God
is wiser than
human wisdom, and the
weakness of God
is stronger than the strength
of Man» 1 Cor 1:25
I leave it to one
of the greatest minds
of all time who wrote... Quote: «The word God
is for me nothing more than the expression and product
of human weakness, the Bible a collection
of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish.»
As Albert Einstein wrote: «God
is nothing more than the expression and product
of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection
of honorable, but still primitive legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish.»
But do we recognize that this Light
is that
of the Word made flesh,
of God made man, that
is,
of a divinity that does not crush the
human, but assumes it in all its liberty and
weakness?
He did however, say this: «The word God
is for me nothing more than the expression and product
of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection
of honourable, but still primitive legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish.
But I have long ago stopped regarding it as a perfect text so I
am willing to look past the
human weaknesses there to find many nuggets
of wisdom.
Bonhoeffer says that the one who «puts a halo on his own head for
being a zealot for the truth can take no account
of human weaknesses.
In a time in which the
human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the
weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering
of his Redeemer, for the «mystery
of salvation happens when Christ
is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will
of the Father.»
It
is also intended, as far as we
are able, to prevent inevitable
human weaknesses from harming or distracting from the central work
of Faith.
Brad
is exactly right to point out the potential
weaknesses for abuse in any system
of theology (in any
human system at all, really).
«The word God
is for me nothing more than the expression and product
of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection
of honorable, but still primitive legends,» Einstein wrote in German in a 1954 letter that will
be auctioned on eBay later this month.
It
's sad
of course, but mental
weakness is what it means to
be human.
It
is no accident that Shakespeare
is translated into most
of the major languages
of the world, because the characters that stalk through his plays, though they wear the costumes
of Englishman, Italian, Dane, or Jew,
are timeless
human figures whose loves, hates, ambitions, fears,
weaknesses, courage, and heroism
are those
of every man.
His depiction
of a Christ who has moments
of human weakness (he
's physically exhausted after performing miracles) and carries a heavy burden raises all sorts
of interesting and thought - provoking theological questions.
There can
be no doubt that this dependence on others for a rich doctrine
of human beings was a
weakness of process theology.
Moses did this not because he believed it
was the perfect will
of God, but rather as a concession to the demands
of human weakness.
He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our
human responsibilities and enduring our
human weakness; yet in him the sin
of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God,
is overcome.
Christ's sufferings
were imposed by the conspiracy
of demonic malice and
human weakness.
Religious people speak
of God when
human knowledge (perhaps simply because they
are too lazy to think) come to an end, or when
human resources fall — in fact it
is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution
of insoluble problems, or as strength in
human failure — always, that
is to say, exploiting
human weakness or
human boundaries.11
And most critically
of all, «God's
weakness is stronger than
human strength» (1:25).
The word religion or god
is nothing more than an expression or product
of human fear and
weaknesses or imagination in some cases.
That
's not a sign
of weakness or failure but instead a reminder that we
are gloriously and imperfectly
human.
I can now accept my
human weaknesses as normal as well as accepting others
weaknesses as just part
of them
being human too.
Just for you, Tarver... «The Word
of God
is for me nothing more than the expression and product
of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection
of honorable, but still primitive legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish» — Albert Einstein
Sometimes such prayers
are tainted with
human weakness, as in David's rejoicing that God had put Nabal out
of his way by death.
This
is why Bonhoeffer could also urge that it
is a grievous mistake for a preacher
of the Christian gospel to appeal to
humans only in their
weakness.
«The word God
is for me nothing more than the expression and product
of human weakness, the Bible a collection
of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish.
The programme sets out marriage as the morally right context within which sexual intimacy may
be expressed while,
of course, acknowledging that this moral teaching
is rejected by many and infringed by others through
human weakness.
Not much experience
is needed to
be fully aware
of human weakness and to understand that
human beings and especially the young, who
are so exposed to temptation need incentives to keep the moral law, and it
is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.
Although Barth himself
was one
of Hitlerism's «most determined foes,» Barthian theology abetted Hitler's type
of reactionary politics: «Here,» said Niebuhr, «religious absolutism which begins by making the conscience sensitive to all
human weakness ends in complacency toward social injustice» (June 6, 1934).
«By this ingratiating treatment
of human weaknesses, what
is base and mean
is generated ever anew.
Through this brush with death my awareness
of how God's strength
is made perfect through
human weakness has deepened.
«
Human failure and
weakness are part
of growth and perfectly normal, not something to
be ashamed
of.
In the words
of an ancient prayer, it
is the visible expression
of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection,
weakness, error, and even the sin
of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world
of time and space the abiding reality
of God's operation in the event
of Christ for
human wholeness.
And though in the Fourth Gospel the notes
of agonizing struggle, or even
of ordinary
human weakness and suffering,
are muted, if not hushed, and the death
is, as Vincent Taylor says, «no longer a (Greek word) but a shining stairway by which the Son
of God ascends to his Father,» (The Atonement in New Testament Teaching, p. 215.
The fundamental inadequacy from which the other
weaknesses are derived
is his impoverished view
of the nature
of human beings.
But this
is to argue that
human weakness necessarily involves some aspect
of sin.
But the idea that every
human law
is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities,
weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard
of what he
is able to do.
And so, in all other particulars, the Father
of all
is in no degree similar to
human weakness.
Having lived in solitude for so many years, the ascetic has touched the pains and joys
of being human and
is humbly aware that no one
is excluded from frailty,
weakness and sin.
While many wish all
of Christian tradition to
be true and accurate, the failings
of human weakness are rife in all religious teachings.
Though the problem
is so rooted in the nature
of both Church and secular society that it
is always present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the modern church which
is confronted with unusual evidences
of misery in the life
of human communities and
of weakness within itself.
It means, furthermore, that in spite
of our
weakness and unwisdom, God can use in the making
of peace any gift that
is brought in love for the service
of human need.
They might take the preacher more seriously if he would
be honest about what he has to offer, namely, that sometimes he has little to offer, and can only stand humbly before the
human question with the hope that God will
be able to speak and act out
of his honest
weakness.