Sentences with phrase «were in existence before»

It's the same principles of time management that were in existence before always connected smartphones came on the scene.

And those testing requirements were in existence before the Common Core standards were developed,» said Atkinson.

«And those testing requirements were in existence before the Common Core standards were developed,» Atkinson said.

Rather, they come from traditions well known to have been in existence before the time of Jesus.

The Origin The festival has not always been a week - long though it has been in existence before independence.

One exception occurs if you have a «grandfathered» plan — a policy that was in existence before March 23, 2010 and hasn't changed significantly since.

Not exact matches

In the UK, most grocery stores require a # 1 coin to be inserted into the trolley before use, and wonky wheels are the bane of many shoppers» existence.

The most important thing you need to know before filing your taxes is that a record of all financial aspects of your businesses should be in existence.

Additionally, under a special Code Section 162 (m) exception, any compensation paid pursuant to a compensation plan in existence before the effective date of this public offering will not be subject to the $ 1,000,000 limitation until the earliest of: (i) the expiration of the compensation plan, (ii) a material modification of the compensation plan (as determined under Code Section 162 (m), (iii) the issuance of all the employer stock and other compensation allocated under the compensation plan, or (iv) the first

A 2011 International Atomic Energy Agency report noted the existence of Project Amad and the role SPND played in continuing its work — four years before the nuclear deal was signed.

Was «gravity» in existence before creation?

You also disregard previous ancient religions that existed before christianity, & had done so for longer that christianity has been in existence presently.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

Some of the questions raised here (and many times before in history) are: 1) Who made hell: God, Satan, humanity, an unavoidable consequence of the existence of free will?

Well if it's slightly more evidence of the existence of a man outside of Italy in the 1st century who was born of a virgin, died for 3 days before resurrecting himself, then explained he only died because of «original sin» which is the idea that a woman ate magical apple given from a talking snake in a garden at the beginning of time which caused all humans to go to hell when they died.

The words of the law of Moses and the teachings of the Scriptures were not in existence before Abraham.

Belief in the existence of a personal God has declined as men have found the influence of mutually relative natural agencies, — environment, natural selection, organic composition, conditioned functional reaction etc., able to account for natural phenomena that before were related to more general causes or even to the First Cause.

The terms «Zionism» and «Zionist» had in fact been coined only three years before; andChesterton's use of them predates the existence of an actual Zionist movement: the first Zionist Congress took place in 1897.

The early Christian movement spread first of all in the synagogue and derived its earliest forms and practices from it before being eventually cast out to live an independent existence.

Only because of his growing sense of what it might mean to walk wholeheartedly before God and because of the wondrous existence of the long - promised heir in Isaac was Abraham able to lose Ishmael, as he had lost Lot before him.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves.

Even if you can't bring yourself to call it «God,» it is undeniable that the cause, whatever it is, must be transcendent and preexistent, as it had to have existed before everything else in order to have caused everything else; it must be immaterial, as its existence preceded the existence of matter; it must be intelligent, as evidenced by the complexity of the universe it caused; and it must itself be uncaused, existing necessarily rather than contingently.

«whatever it is, must be transcendent and preexistent, as it had to have existed before everything else in order to have caused everything else; it must be immaterial, as its existence preceded the existence of matter; it must be intelligent, as evidenced by the complexity of the universe it caused; and it must itself be uncaused, existing necessarily rather than contingently.»

History of al - Tabari indicates a number of versions of the story of al - Khidr and its connection with the Qur» an 18:61 - 83.53 Contrary to Ibn Ishaq, al - Tabari favors the story where al - Khidr is believed to be in existence from before Moses.

I will say this however; a truly just and beneficent God would also consider the separation of knowledge and understanding between this life, and the life before and after (that being the energy or spiritual existence as energy is not destroyed) and in so knowing this a just God or «father» would simply have the ending of the material life be a moment of coming home, learning, and changing over into understanding of all that occurred while we were away.

muslimism, absurdity of a muslim secular, ignorant self centered, who reveled truth of flow of fresh and salt water flowing together in seas, but never mixing with each other, hundreds of years before muslim s, non believers could see it with their own eyes, None other than truth absolute, GOD, foundation of existence and consti tuion of USA, designer and creator of world HIMSELF.

Tallulah13, I was in USA before; that's why I know the Hollywood perverts are not the only Americans in existence.

Rightly understood, and with the reservations of which I have already spoken, the concept of existence in this sense is not open to any objection: it simply means man standing before God in judgment and grace.

The essence of the demoniac mode of existence is anxiety before the good, a shrinking back from the redemption which God offers in the person of Jesus Christ.

As a Christian, I know that my Bible describes the earth as having already been in existence, before God ever said «let there be light» and before the first day of this creation.

From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.

Today, writes Buber, «the question about man's being faces us as never before in all its grandeur and terror — no longer in philosophical attire but in the nakedness of existence.»

The child knows the Thou before it knows the separated I. «But on the height of personal existence one must truly be able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.»

The effective success of this effort, transforming the whole of existence, is to be found in the first millennium before Christ and is the defining mark of axial man.

Despite all this, Jaspers is correct in seeing the developments of the first millennium before Christ as of utmost importance for human existence.

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

The space between the frames in the cinematographical show that plays before the mind is always already filled in by the metaphysical continuities of concrete existence.

In the middle part of the millennium before Christ a new type of thinking arose, reflecting a new type of existence, called by Karl Jaspers, «axial period,» and what distinguished axial man was the new role of rationality in the structure of his existencIn the middle part of the millennium before Christ a new type of thinking arose, reflecting a new type of existence, called by Karl Jaspers, «axial period,» and what distinguished axial man was the new role of rationality in the structure of his existencin the structure of his existence.

The same could be said for personal existence and, indeed, for axial existence in general, or of civilized existence, or, before that, of human existence as such.

Although a number of features of Jaspers» presentation are highly dubious, significantly similar developments in human existence did occur in the first millennium before Christ independently in China, India, Persia, Palestine, and Greece.

Descartes» certainty in his own existence was determined before he undertook the task of discovering a proof for the existence of God: «Since I am but a substance that thinks» (39).

As Ogden indicates, this can be expressed in nonmythological language: «Jesus» office as the Christ consists precisely in his being the bearer, through word and deed and tragic destiny, of the eternal word of God's love, which is the transcendent meaning of all created things and the final event before which man must decide his existence.»

The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our relation to our own and other people's freedom.

Perhaps it would require many centuries before He would be able to say that in regard to temporal existence.

Consequently we know nothing except that man was created by God as God's personal partner in a sacred history of salvation and perdition; that concupiscence and death do not belong to man as God wills him to be, but to man as a sinner; that the first man was also the first to incur guilt before God and his guilt as a factor of man's existence historically brought about by man, belongs intrinsically to the situation in which the whole subsequent history of humanity unfolds.

Novitas Mundi is radically Catholic precisely by being apocalyptically Catholic, celebrating an absolutely new thinking which is the unleavened bread of existence itself, as over against the essential finitude of past thought: «What happened before now in the Mass exclusively (missa solemnis) now happens in the Mass inclusively (missa jubilaea)» (page 347).

Gay behavior was long established as a s - in, long before the ten commandments and the old covenant came into existence — and was reiterated as a sin after the old covenant ended.

All others are merely rules that were long in existence before they were made part of christianity.

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».