Rather than reporting the change in trend for the HadSST series that had been illustrated in the first two figures of the realclimate post (SST series had been at issue in Thompson et al 2008 and the subsequent discussion), Schmidt estimated changes in trend for HadCRU by combining the HadSST changes
with unchanging CRUTEM (70 % HadSST; 30 % CRUTEM), only reporting the decrease in land - and - ocean trend (and not the decrease in SST trend.)
A wide range of extreme weather events is expected in most regions even
with an unchanging climate, so it is difficult to attribute any individual event to a change in the climate.
With unchanging facial expressions, the uncanny marionettes attend to grave issues; at times, the marionettes» mask - like faces seem to critique greedy political leaders.
The piece,
with its unchanging title, Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night?!
This time he isn't just a mute blank slate
with an unchanging expression whom you foist a personality onto.
Likewise, and continuing
with the unchanging theme, my weighted average interest rate for my taxable account remained the same at 15.05 %.
Let's start with the easier one — the fixed interest rate, as the name suggests comes
with an unchanging interest rate.
For some time people had allowed themselves to think that the victims of that notorious order had been swallowed up in the dark night of oblivion, that the only people you would come across in the street or the square were the formerly blind,
with their unchanging appearance, the peaceful tap - tap - tap of their sticks — the kind of blind people everyone's eyes and ears were long accustomed to.
Why the gains that it produces later dissipate and the gaps that it narrows later widen has much to do
with unchanging home and neighborhood situations.
The data taken throughout this experiment are consistent
with an unchanging gravitational constant in a distant star system.
Such a play could have the danger of plodding,
with its unchanging set, use of silences and grunts from the men as central to the dialogue, and its lack of interval.
With that unchanging formula, most gets eaten.
He says, indeed, that the Christian revelation tells us that «God has shown to us, so far as is compatible
with the unchanging plenitude of his nature, a love like to that of self - donating and self - giving».40 But how far is this compatible?
We've spent the last 2000 + years trying to square our progressive ideas on what is morally right
with the unchanging dogma of the texts.
The solution may reside in a distinction between creativity as such and creativity which refers to God as propulsive in accordance
with his unchanging structure.
Even what in itself is mutable can be binding on us if in the Church's judgment it is here and now the safest, what presents least danger of coming into conflict
with the unchanging spirit of the Gospel.
God acts in accordance
with His unchanging nature.
Not exact matches
That's why innovation in Laozian terms doesn't come from seeing a given situation — a landscape, a relationship, an industry — as
unchanging, and then coming up
with a fresh tactic within that stable situation to neutralize an opponent.
With the many failings of Christians in full view of the public, it is no wonder there are so many that doubt there is a true and
unchanging God.
Any behavior can be ascribed to this alleged
unchanging nature when combined
with the convenient explanation of mysterious ways, unknown plan, and the other horn of the dilemma, i.e. whatever the deity does is invariably good because it is the deity acting.
How do you reconcile them
with a supposed
unchanging God and
unchanging morality?
Regarding your second fold, God Himself is
unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He kept renewing His Covenants
with man who could not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.
Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the
unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and
with the eye of my soul, such as it was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»
The writer to the Hebrews in the NT, makes it clear that God contracted an
unchanging purpose
with Abraham and that this is «an anchor for the soul, firm and secure...» This makes it clear that God's purpose was always the same, to redeem creation, establish the Kingdom of God in God's presence on the new heaven and new earth and bring the exiles back to the garden.
Justin Martyr lifted up the Logos of God as the means, or bridge, by which an absolute and
unchanging deity can have relations
with the created order.
It is now the job of the Ordinariate, he believes, to bring Englishness back to Catholicism «
with a deliberate emphasis, always, on reverence, beauty and a robust,
unchanging tradition that transcends time».
To this point there is agreement
with some members of the first group who are engaged in quite radical revision of past formulations in their efforts to reformulate the
unchanging gospel.
Ogden's own view is to look upon God as Process, as a social reality that interacts
with human persons in a relational way, and who is temporal and historical because he grows, matures, evolves and becomes, while at the same time being God because he is likewise infinite, eternal,
unchanging and immutable.
In short, the steady state theory was put forward by physicists to be consistent
with religious beliefs that the universe was
unchanging and immutable.
The hypothesis of a definitive halt in terrestrial evolution is, to my mind, suggested less by the apparently
unchanging nature of present forms than by a certain general aspect of the world coinciding
with this appearance of cessation.
One might have expected that a course in moral reasoning based on the teachings of Jesus would include an introduction to the idea of natural law and some discussion of traditional moral teachings, but Cox disagrees
with many of the basic tenets of orthodox Christianity and doubts our ability to identify
unchanging and absolute truth in religion or morality.
From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of
unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life
with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.
You will immediately protest that I am canonizing every syllable of the New Testament as if it were part of the
unchanging wisdom of God, and that I am varnishing its errors and its obsolete thought
with the splendor of abiding truth.
If we believe that it is worth saving, then we must know what it is that we wish to save, not holding
with a deathly grip to an
unchanging past but seeking the inspiration to undertake that reformation, reconstruction, and reconstitution which are necessary.
Indeed, to talk of «substance» here is in itself misleading; for the use of that term, despite all the protests of the neo-Thomists and others, is certain to bring us to think of God in terms of
unchanging and unchangeable inert stuff — and to do that is to deny, ab initio, the possibility of a God who responds in complete faithfulness and
with the utter integrity of His own nature, yet
with deepest awareness and sympathy.
Considerable fruit has come when the Church engages fully but carefully
with the best possible explanations of reality available at the moment, knowing that such conceptions can and do change over time and that the
unchanging truths of Christian faith are able to adapt without any loss.
If we equate
unchanging culture
with good and transforming cultures
with bad, then we miss the call of Jesus to leave this world behind and follow His ways.
It is the idea of God as an
unchanging absolute for whom no act of men could possibly make any difference that is inconsistent
with religious relevance and availability.
Needless to say, the notion that God has a receptive side is a denial of traditional, substantialist views that identify perfection
with that which is eternal, immutable,
unchanging.
Thus, God is
unchanging with respect to our temporality, even if not ultimately.
The id mode, which correlates
with the mode of causal efficacy, is characterized by acceptance of the
unchanging given which is perceived vaguely.
Temporary meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die
with the death of the universe — there is no ultimate purpose in a universe void of God - What are these eternal,
unchanging truths that you refer to?
Salvation is always the ending of the minds fascinated identification
with the dead and
unchanging image of what it was.
In my book «American Jesus,» I demonstrated how American views of Jesus, rather than adhering strictly to the
unchanging biblical witness, have shifted
with the cultural and political winds.
Funny how the
unchanging guidance from their «god» shifts
with social trends and mores.
But the essence of the Hellenistic idea of God is that deity is by nature all that men by nature can not be: God is uncompounded, absolutely simple, hence static (a state identified
with perfection),
unchanging, subject to no variation, eternal, impassible, unmoved.
Granted the need to recognise legitimate doctrinal development in the Church, along
with the important contributions of Vatican II, the Church does provide the security of a tradition that rests upon
unchanging, divinely revealed truths.
But
with regard to halakhah, resistance to change is not only due to the need for legal stability, but is also based on a most powerful religious dogma, that the Word of God is
unchanging and His Law immutable, this Word and this Law being mediated through the Talmudic Sages and through no others.
How can you justify logic, which is eternal,
unchanging, and immaterial
with a worldview without God?
The Bible tells us of a faithful God whose purpose is
unchanging; hence whatever he does will be consistent
with his ultimate objective, while the created world will not be the scene of irrelevant and meaningless intrusions.