Unlike some larger companies
who are in existence to simply earn a...
So the government should try to contact the leaders who will be able to connect these various groups by knowing
those who are in existence or using names, that is all.
Not exact matches
Was it the guys at Secret
who launched the app, got uptake
in the app, then
were allowed by investors to sell millions of stocks after only six months of
being in existence?
Even if such a bailout
were to occur, investors should
be careful what they wish for — virtually none of the major bailouts
in the financial crisis ended well for shareholders
who usually found themselves diluted out of
existence or with their stock outright cancelled.
But it seems everyone from James Clapper, to Louis Lerner, to Eric Holder, Susan Rice etc. etc. seems to
be constantly contradicted or exposed as
being less than truthful, whether it
's IRS Targeting, tapping journalists, blaming Benghazi on a video, the
existence of WMDs, a search for yellow - cake Uranium,
who ordered Fast and Furious putting automatic guns
in the hands of Mexican drug - lords, drone strikes, or... the nature of PRISM.
Some
who are bullish on the growing number of cryptocurrencies
in existence believe they could collectively pass the trillion - dollar mark this year
in terms of value.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase
in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans
who are less likely than at any point
in recent history to self - report their
existence to the...
This
is nearly the same as a straight A 13 year old
who still believes
in Santa Claus even though it
is completely unreasonably to believe
in his
existence.
Most self - described atheists
are Agnostic Atheists
who do not believe
in Gods, but also do not make epistemological claims about God's
existence (or lack thereof).
I see a lot of Atheists responding to the last 2k years worth of mankind's legacy of irrational fear
in trying to explain
who God
is, using those silly fears interpreted
in the Bible (although yes I agree, they stated them as fact) as justification to deny the
existence of God, & not the concept itself.
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....
Contrast that with the 95 % of the world
's population (that
's approx. 6.7 billion people)
who believe
in the
existence of a supernatural
being.
Once we leave this mortal
existence, I believe we will
be reunited with our loved ones
who have passed to the other side and we can enjoy the same socialty we experienced with them
in this life.
Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to
be Christians: the other five sixths then,
who do not believe
in the Jewish and Christian revelation,
are without a knolege of the
existence of a god!
@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others
in Israel right where they
are supposed to
be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it
is said Abraham believed God and it
was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you
are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God
who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance
is your choice but that will not negate the
existence of God
in any way.No one that i
am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there
are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more
is discovered.I find it amazing that God
is big enough to share discovery even with those
who would reject Him.
Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers
who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts
in Spain)
were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's
existence could
be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.
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?
You said, «And no atheist
who believes the
existence of God equals belief
in the Tooth Fairy
is going to concede the possibility of the
existence of gods because there
is no such possibility for the
existence of the Tooth Fairy.»
In a 2000 interview with Women's Quarterly, the great critic displayed about as much indifference to the
existence of God as
is humanly possible; he had neither the commitment of a true believer nor the paradoxical loyalty of the atheist
who kicks against the pricks:
(By the way, we believe
in pre-mortal
existence where we
were born as spirit children, which we also believe
in every living thing having a soul two but anyways thats not revelant...) Which
was when they
were at the «drawing board» of the plan of Earth and everything and how they
were going to do everything i.e.
who was going to
be the savior (because every body needs an atonement so we can go back and repent).
Hence, he didn't want to express the denial of the
existence of God
in the cultural context of his time and due to his sincere sensitivies to those around him
who he loved and
were religious, but he personally did not believe
in a God and certainly had abandoned Christianity or any religion for that matter.
Christians can not imagine that anyone could possibly contemplate death without having the «assurance» that a beautiful heavenly
existence awaits them, but
in fact most true atheists (as opposed to those
who are simply indifferent, which
is a growing segment of the population) have given this quite a bit of thought and have come to a different conclusion.
On the other hand, people
who categorically deny the
existence of God and live life
in the «nothing matters here on Earth» philosophy, those
are the people
who are bitter, often depressed, and find no hapiness
in life.
I
'm not like some Americans
who support the perverts
who can not distinguish friendship and romantic love and
who show lust towards almost everything
in existence or support those women and scientists
who slaughter human babies.
I don't fear any «invisible man
in the sky»
who hasn't produced one credible, empirically based instance of his
existence in over 3,000 years What
is needed
is for people to stop living by the rules of myth and mysticism and start living by the realities of the here and now
@ Ray - There
's not one relevant, main stream Christian theology
in existence that portrays God as a «Giant Guy
in the Sky»
who controls every move on Earth by humans like so many chess pieces.
(To those
who reply to me, respectfully, I
'm not interested
in a debate on the
existence of God..
Most importantly, note this: I
am a Christian, I
'm gay, I
'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe
in Evolution, I believe the universe
is 13 billion years old and that the Earth
is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam
was the first man
who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe
in hell but I do believe
in Satan, I do not believe the Bible
is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it
is rather a «Human
Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ
was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity
is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should
be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used
in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.
This position
is usually referred to as just «theist `, since people
who believe
in gods, usually also think that their
existence can
be known.
Like a smoker
who constantly ignores the ominous sign of a persistent cough because he
is in love with the smoke, the sinner ignores the obvious fact of the
existence of the Creator because he
is in love with his sin.
«An atheist agnostic
is someone
who does not believe
in gods and also thinks that the
existence of gods can not
be known.
That said, those
who ARE looking for something apart from empiricism and existentialism, those who are looking for some purpose and meaning to existence, need to see authenticity and integrity in the church i.e holine
ARE looking for something apart from empiricism and existentialism, those
who are looking for some purpose and meaning to existence, need to see authenticity and integrity in the church i.e holine
are looking for some purpose and meaning to
existence, need to see authenticity and integrity
in the church i.e holiness.
A theist gnostic
is someone
who believes
in a god / gods and thinks that the
existence of gods can
be known.
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.
What seems apparent to us
is that these people
are taught to create their own evidence for God's
existence, just as some of the folks
who believe
in reincarnation
are taught to interpret the sensation of déjà vu as evidence of their past lives flashing
in their memories.
Yes, those
who like to say that there
are moral absolutes inherent
in people, places, or things
are clearly shown to
be wrong by the simple
existence of an unstable and diverse and contradictory bunch of «holy books».
igaftr, yes you
are right cats and all the animals
in the world including you
is part of the universe, eveything
is God, it took Him 13.7 billion years for us to arrive what we
are now, meaning the true reality of our
existence, you
are probably less than 50 years old, so how can you expect to equate yourself or pretend to understand Him, God
Who is 13.7 billion years old.
Now we
are instructed and nourished by the striking affirmation about «the God
in whom he [Abraham] believed,
who gives life to the dead and calls into
existence the things that do not exist.»
I have decided that, rather than
be someone
who denies the
existence of the mountain entirely — whatever that represents
in the moment — or simply gives up
in despair, that I will
be a woman
who picks up small stones and moves them.
Even the noble king could perceive the difficulty of such a method, for he
was not without insight into the human heart, and understood that the maiden
was at bottom deceived; and no one
is so terribly deceived as he
who does not himself suspect it, but
is as if enchanted by a change
in the outward habiliments of his
existence.
But the theologians
who worked out this conception
were also devoted Christians
who centered their own religious faith upon Jesus of Nazareth, for them the very incarnation of God
in human
existence.
The artist,
who dedicates himself to beauty, «teaches us that man can not
be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his
existence in the order of nature.
Nothing, Lord Jesus, can subsist outside of your flesh; so that even those
who have
been cast out from your love
are still, unhappily for them, the beneficiaries of your presence upholding them
in existence.
Lord Jesus, you
are the centre towards which all things
are moving: if it
be possible, make a place for us all
in the company of those elect and holy ones whom your loving care has liberated one by one from the chaos of our present
existence and
who now
are being slowly incorporated into you
in the unity of the new earth.
Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active
in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.&raqu
in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead
is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes
are of fire, and whose feet
are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you
who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you
who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of
existence; it
is you to whom my
being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «
In truth you are my Lord and my God.&raqu
In truth you
are my Lord and my God.»
Christian
existence is the common mission to proclaim the Incarnate Son
in the power of the Spirit
who extend their shared life with the Father to a world mired
in the disease of sin.
The believer
who says no to our historical present,
who refuses the
existence about and within him,
who sets himself against our time and destiny, and yet seeks release
in an «eternity» having no relation, or only a negative relation, to our present moment,
is succumbing to the Gnostic danger.
While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «
In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164
In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which
is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth,
in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164
in all those things there
are evidences (for the
existence of God) for those
who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).
Accordingly, Eternal Recurrence
is a symbolic portrait of the truly contemporary man, the man
who dares to live
in our time,
in our history,
in our
existence.»
In one talk, Bill re minded the convention: «When we remember that in the thirty years of AA's existence we have reached less than 10 percent of those who might have been willing to approach us, we begin to get an idea of the immensity of our task and the responsibilities with which we will always be confronted.&raqu
In one talk, Bill
re minded the convention: «When we remember that
in the thirty years of AA's existence we have reached less than 10 percent of those who might have been willing to approach us, we begin to get an idea of the immensity of our task and the responsibilities with which we will always be confronted.&raqu
in the thirty years of AA's
existence we have reached less than 10 percent of those
who might have
been willing to approach us, we begin to get an idea of the immensity of our task and the responsibilities with which we will always
be confronted.»