Her rationale for such a view seems to rest upon (1) a highly questionable interpretation of one text in Process an Reality and the claims (2) that only such a view is compatible with human freedom and (3) that only such a view is compatible
with human faith.
Not exact matches
«Such social doctrine provides directions but,
with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent
human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good
faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»
So while I agree
with her that political life may help renew
faith in
human dignity and so make
human rights believable, the politics of
human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the
human experience.
I think it \'s just
human nature and it should be OK
with everybody else as well that we feel that way.There is no explaining away feelings, emotions or
faith they are to each of us whatever they ARE.
Humans are created
with the instinct to believe and have
faith in something, anything.
I frankly believe while there is plenty of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in
human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions of these endevours, religion is at its bottom line a matter of
faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated
with science.
With faith in your heart, you do not need to pursue proof or empirical evidence through
human means which you will never find because God Is Spirit, thus, so much greater than mortal men which He created who have limited knowledge.
rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic —
humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone)
with rational argument — I tried to reason
with her, but without success» I accept nothing on
faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?
I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree
with it... Believe me... no matter your
faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved
with... on the face of death if you are
human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...
The Apostle Paul was a man of deep
faith, who when confronted
with external pushback, responded, «Am I now trying to win the approval of
human beings, or of God?
In his communication through creation, his Son and the Bible, he gave only enough evidence for those
with faith to follow the deductions to truth about him, but yet without defying
human freedom.
Moreover, in keeping
with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's
faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of
human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.
From the Garden of Eden to David's adulterous affair
with Bathsheba, from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage people of
faith to tell the whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish
human decisions and the consequences of sin.
In an article about his
faith, he wrote: «In order to answer this question once and for all: although there is no football God, I believe that there is a God who loves us
humans, just as we are,
with all our quirks, and that's why I think he also loves football!
For every explanation you offer I can, and on many occasions have, offered an alternative explanation that's consistent
with what we know about
human psychology and
human history, yet mine require no leaps of
faith in a God whose existence I can't prove.
I suspect that this man will happily return to his
faith, but he will do so
with a greater understanding of his fellow
humans, and a greater respect for others.
For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian)
faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his
human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations
with Ratzinger.
but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had
faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one
with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its
human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.
What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine
with our unaided
human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by
faith.
What resonates
with me is that, if
faith is an imposed «gift» (an oxymoron) then we
humans bear no responsibility for any part of the salvation process.
A Question Of
Human Dignity I applaud James Legge for directing attention towards questions to do
with the relationship between animals and man (
Faith, January / February 2004).
One need merely approach it
with an open mind to see that its authors were no mere robots, but
human beings endowed
with their own particular insights, virtues, customs,
faith, and — as
with all people — their own misconceptions and misunderstandings.
The significance of this chapter (III) lies in its attempt to describe the
human impression Jesus made upon people in a way clearly suggestive of the meaning Jesus has for
faith, as if a
human contact
with Jesus were — at least potentially — an encounter
with the kerygma.
Our own Ralph Hancock, in conjunction
with the brand new John Adams Center, is hosting a conference entitled God and
Human Rights: Are
Faith or Foundations Necessary?
An adequate religious
faith should be intellectually humble, morally strenuous,
with a sense of the tragic dimensions of life and a sense of
human hopefulness.
It is only when descriptive science grows arrogant, and, not content
with describing what lies within its province, makes naturalistic pronouncements which eliminate or belittle God and the
human spirit, that Christian
faith is affronted.
I have no issues
with the Christian
faith when viewed through the poetic lenses of the
human story.
Did the rest of the Christian world agree
with Augustine that Jesus had a particular
human face, but that his particular appearance was immaterial to
faith?
John Montague came by his mature
faith honestly: Sent back to his family's Ireland from the Brooklyn of his birth, enduring separation and a simple life in the complex North, he married in his works the intimately
human and the broadly historical
with a seamlessness that few have achieved.
Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian
faith, and at no time in
human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone upon the
human scene
with greater clarity and power.
They have been led by experience to conclude that the only power in
human life able to counterbalance the dark and divisive
faiths of our time is a still stronger
faith, a
faith concerned
with Reality rather than
human wishes.
Berger wishes to speak of «a God who is not made by man, who is outside and not within ourselves,» but he limits his act of
faith in such a God to projections outward from common
human experience, i.e., to signals of transcendence70 The result is that Berger is left finally
with his own experience alone, a consequence that weakens his understanding not only of Christian theology but ultimately of play as well.
I'd take a deep / meaningful conversation
with a
human being (of any
faith / non-
faith) over a volume of systematic theology any day.
Nevertheless, the crucial point is that Kierkegaard could identify authentic
human existence
with existence in
faith.
Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian
faith because they identify it
with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than
with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate
with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love
with them.
The
Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the
human soul in his image)
with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.
My final say as a
human to
human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and
faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash
with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?
Corrections please,,, My say as a
human to
human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and
faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here
with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!
And for the Christian
faith, the claim to be made is that the moment of greatest intensity is the emergence in the sphere of history and of
human life of the person of Jesus Christ,
with all that he was and all that he continues to be, all that he did and all that he continues to do, all that he meant and all that he continues to mean for those who respond to him in heart's surrender.
Nevertheless, the Christian
faith in immortality has an important connection
with the idea of man's dignity and worth, for according to the Christian outlook every
human soul has a value great enough to be appropriately thought imperishable.
But nothing less than the recovery of real Christianity,
with its ineradicable emphasis upon
human compassion, and its inexorable insistence upon the transience of this world and the reality of eternity, will ever put back into the disillusioned the
faith, hope, courage and gaiety which are the marks of a
human being cooperating
with his Creator.
(Galatians 5:4 - 6) Religious experience had been to Paul a difficult struggle; now by
faith he is so joined
with Christ that there is a mutual interpenetration of the divine and the
human, so that «it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me.»
After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my
faith over the years, how walking
with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the
human population for hell
with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.
actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us
humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same
with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made
faiths to conform
with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But
with the accelerated evolution, these
faith again is threatend
with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic
faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang
Though the various aspects and
human developments of this grace - given event may be described in the scriptural terms of
faith, hope and love, the event itself in its entirety can also be defined
with St. Paul simply as «
faith», and it may then be said that we are justified by
faith and by
faith alone.
If
faith, simply as a
human phenomenon, can do these things, then why is there any need to be concerned
with some additional special kind of
faith known as the Christian
faith?
In short, the central theme of
faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential
human response to God, one
with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).
They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious
faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized
faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired
with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom
human life could be «deicized.»
after clarifying the validity of this evolving
faith based on the material process, the big challenge now is for us
humans a coresponding development in the spiritual aspect of our existence, though we are confident of His guidance through evolution, we
with our limited insights and intellegence will be able to develop and come up
with guide lines in our moral lives.
It is essentially a way of
faith, by which man, in whatever generation he lives, is summoned by the Word of God to concern himself
with the
human scene, for this is God's concern.