Now all of may look at the church now and throughout history and point out abuses that have happened, wars with the excuses being church dogma etc and argue about coming to a more enlightened place
with human reasoning.
For it begins with God, not
with human reasoning, and how we conceive of God is dependent on the nature of the reality that is presented to us — in the language of the Bible, that which is seen.
Martinetti (and Benedict) affirm that Christianity implies a priorithat any such «extrarational» revelation will in facthave a reason and be in profound harmony
with human reason.
There are all sorts of people who are either evasive about, or downright dismissive of, the authority of God in scripture, but who continue to affirm the resurrection of Jesus and all sorts of other things that do not fit
with human reason.
Unlike many of the early church fathers who, under the influence of Greek philosophy, sought to identify the image of God
with human reason, Niebuhr, following Augustine, saw the image of God as the self - conscious and self - transcendent character of man's whole self.
Many people identify, all of us some of the time, personhood
with human reason.
Not exact matches
The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as
human smuggling and drug trafficking as
reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied
with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.
«One
reason I hate the term «robo adviser» is that
with our model, every client gets a dedicated advisor, a flesh - and - blood
human being.
Cycorp charged itself
with figuring out the tens of millions of pieces of data we rely on as
humans — the knowledge that helps us understand the world — and to represent them in a formal way that machines can use to
reason.
With increasing processing power, AI would simulate closer how
humans learn,
reason, understand, and make decisions.
Steve Mitchell, whose Fox 2 / Mitchell poll in Michigan found Clinton
with an identical 5 - point lead heading into Election Day, chalked up his miss to a very specific
reason:
Human error.
The most important
reason the test
with James looks fake is that there isn't a
human driver, which is pretty much what will happen
with every Uber or Google (and sister company Waymo) test happening now.
These cold, hard numbers are pretty convincing, but if you're looking for more
human reasons to go along
with the startup visa plan, there's no shortage of stories of promising entrepreneurs desperate to create American jobs but held up by their immigration woes.
And the
reasons for that have a lot less to do
with Facebook and a lot more to do
with human nature.
The specialization begins
with a foundational course that considers alternative approaches to managing
human resources, provides a background to the U.S. legal context in which employees are hired, fired, rewarded, and managed, and outlines the different
reasons that people are motivated to work.
The
reason is that, as Geoff Colvin points out in
Humans Are Underrated, we increasingly need humans to do jobs that machines can't, chiefly working with other h
Humans Are Underrated, we increasingly need
humans to do jobs that machines can't, chiefly working with other h
humans to do jobs that machines can't, chiefly working
with other
humanshumans.
Worse, voluntarily makes poor choices that run counter to
reason and actual goal achievement,
with the ultimate result of
human annihilation, to no purpose except machine contrarianism.
They eliminate the factors associated
with human trading since they trade without any attached feelings and they, therefore, don't suffer from greed which is the main
reason behind the losses that most binary options traders in the world make.
But others, like Paul Krugman, who in 1998 predicted that the Internet's impact on the economy would be no greater than the fax machine's, were dead wrong, though for understandable
reasons.11 Timelines for the adoption and extension of new technologies are inherently unpredictable, primarily because their ultimate impact will be a result of how
humans interact
with them.
«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 how do you go from that
reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do
with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of
humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
Any weapon, once created, can and will be used by anyone
with a
reason to seize it; the Civil Rights Act created a whole arsenal, and fallen
human nature provides ample
reason.
So, by your
reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along
with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up»
with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «
human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.
Nick, arrogance in the extreme is claiming to understand God's motives,
reasons & justifications or personifying him
with human emotions like jealousy, vanity & vengance... Between athiests & believers, who do you think does this?
Religion in this case was people hearing the very real loving voices of other people, inspired to love one another for whatever
reasons they might think they have, and attaching themselves to that love in order to deal emotionally
with the struggles we face just by being
human.
LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because of that, all
human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed
with some of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to
reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.
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?
And what if, instead, there's a supreme being who says, «let me reward those who have used their
human faculties,
reasoning and intellect,» and to add the drama that you so love, «and let me punish for eternity those
with weak will who blindly adopted the fantasties and fairy tales pushed upon them without ever questioning...» What do you do then???
In another publication, Fletcher wrote that «I am afraid that reality has overtaken Meyer's book and its flawed
reasoning» in pointing out scientific problems
with Meyer's work by citing how RNA «survived and evolved into our own
human protein - making factory, and continues to make our fingers and toes.»
I am not sure what you mean
with your comment about
human reason.
Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural
reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of
human women, and the animals are usually associated
with fertility and female symbols.
The existence of God the Creator can be known
with certainty through his works, by the light of
human reason....
He concludes
with «the world is perfect, and the
human opportunity is to see that and conform to that fact,» and immediately adds, «If this doesn't sound distinctively Christian, the
reason is that it isn't.
If a first
reason for legally protecting the sacred interplay has to do
with all those who approach it - whether to engage in that interplay or affirm it otherwise - a second
reason has to do
with those new
human persons who result from that interplay.
to Jake, in every era or times in the past,
humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform
with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the
reason we become
humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.
Human beings have a long history filled
with situations in which they simply decide, for no rational
reason whatsoever, to attribute ordinary natural events to supernatural forces.
They are tangible evidence of the special forms of rationality that characterize a certain
human group, as contrasted
with the products and processes of
reason that apply universally.
What is required by the criterion of
human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted
with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of
reason.
Lewis» confidence in
human nature,
with its capacity for
reason and susceptibility to myth, gave him a measure of patience
with those who did not see the truth or saw it only dimly.
In fact, the religion «
with a
human face» does allow itself to be judged by
reason, but by
reason guided by its own truth and not just any old
reason.»
This is in fact a resurgence in other terms and
with other objectives in view — of the error always committed by Christians who intervene in the sphere of
human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good
reason for doing what he does.
However vigorously the Catholic Church defends
human reason, a necessary presupposition of freedom for love, even defining that
reason can know
with certitude God's existence, the
reason envisaged can not be a deterministic
reason that would banish all ambiguity and freedom.
Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of
human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays
with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good
reasons.
«In CV, however, you will never find a statement of religious origin without an accompanying
human and rational justification, upon the condition, quite naturally, that
reason complies in full
with its duty and that the sciences do not let themselves be guided by ideologies.
God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a
reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we
humans is one
with Him.The cost of
human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences
With the philosophy of Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), the nature of reality was no longer seen as writ large over the universe only to be discovered by the exercise of
reason but rather was what the
human mind perceived, interpreted, made it to be («Cogito, ergo sum.
On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation
with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in
human consciousness;
with greater
reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.
It seems to have been proved within out time that the problem of
human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, and holidays
with pay — desirable as all these things may be for other good
reasons.
That realm of nature which used to be beyond
human understanding and control,
with which, therefore, one could only establish a creative relation by means of this hypothesis «God», is now more and more being conquered by
reason and technique.17
Thus, for
reasons quite different from those associated
with the origin and meaning of the western calendar, the year 2000 appears to mark a significant turning point in
human history.