Sentences with phrase «without accepting the authority»

How can you claim to be a Christian without accepting the authority of the Bible?

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Unfortunately, many of us have already been conditioned to accept these proclamations as fact without even conducting any independent research on our own to (1) determine if the authoritative figure is even an authority on the topic, which in many cases, he or she is not; and (2) determine if what the authoritative figure is stating is actually true or not.

You can not accept this kind of authoritarianism, and neither can I. Nevertheless, «authority» can have an admirable meaning, and we could not live without it for a single day.

@ Thinking man:» They had witness something so momentous, so extraordinary that when the authorities threatened with them death if they didn't shut up about Jesus Christ, they accepted death without fear.»

Giving magisterial authority to the death penalty, Pope Innocent III required disciples of Peter Waldo seeking reconciliation with the Church to accept the proposition: «The secular power can, without mortal sin, exercise judgment of blood, provided that it punishes with justice, not out of hatred, with prudence, not precipitation.»

Jerusalem remained the headquarters of the Church as a whole, and the authority of its leaders seems to have been accepted without question by the new churches which had been established outside Palestine.

If a Catholic educational institution accepts this mission for its theology programmes it will naturally function with a respect for magisterial authority and teaching, a love for the Church's tradition and a desire to transmit it without modification.

We call this process experimental, which basically means that we don't know the answer with certainty at the beginning (nor can we simply accept an answer on authority without testing it), but only when the experiment is over.

One can not arbitrarily accept any one religion, historical document or personal experience as the final authority without first relating it to the rest of life.

Since revelation comes from without in history, it must be accepted on authority.

Jesus agreed always with the scribes of his time in accepting without question the authority of the (Old Testament) Law.

By the same authority I release you from the office of prior... I do not want you to complain that I have judged you without a hearing, or that I have not accepted your defence... You have done as much as you had grace to do...» But «it is not enough that a man be good and pious by himself.

Meanwhile, Len Duvall, chairman of the Metropolitan police authority, said the release of the two men from the Forest Gate raid without charge had not undermined his confidence in Sir Ian - although he accepted the Met must explain why the raid was necessary.

The Act holds that: Detainees must be made aware of various immigration status issues; Detainees may not be held without a criminal warrant; County agencies and employees shall not perform the duties of Federal Immigration Authorities, engage in the enforcement of federal immigration law, or accept requests by Federal Immigration Authorities to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Without quality, a dissertation will not be accepted by the higher authority.

Although my problem with RBC Direct invoved specifically their ignorance of capital gain tax excemption for securities donated to registered charities, it was their arrogance and unwillingness to accept any responsibility for not keeping me, their, client informed by continuing to forward the company's bullletins, etc. and for surrendering my shares for cash without my authority or even my foreknowledge of their actions, that leads me to say «Don't trust RBC Direct».

All SDO's will know from this occurrence that they can proceed as they wish, inter alia, accepting funding from, and granting supervisory authority and drafting choices to whomever they wish, without fear of discipline by the Council.

By and large, successful legal professionals working in government are comfortable taking direction, able to accept authority (sometimes without question), deferential when warranted and possess a fair amount of professional confidence.

Without authenticity, which no document can be accepted as an authority.

Confronted by the grave warnings thus issuing from courts of great pan-European authority, citizens of countries whose Muslim population is increasing very rapidly by immigration and a relatively high birthrate may ask themselves whether it is prudent, or just to the children and grandchildren of everyone in their country, to permit any further migratory increase in that population, or even to accept the presence of immigrant non-citizen Muslims without deliberating seriously about a possible reversal — humane and financially compensated for and incentivised — of the inflow.

No doubt Wall would much prefer all parents — intelligent or not — to accept his total authority on the issue without question!

While Stanley Burnton J did — but «not without considerable hesitation» — accept as lawful the additional reasons, in the course of his judgment he extracted the following useful propositions from R v Westminster City Council, ex p Ermakov [1996] 2 All ER 302 and other authorities: - Where there is a statutory duty to give reasons as part of the notification of the decision, so that (per Mr Justice Laws in R v Northamptonshire County Council, ex p D [1998] ED CR 14) «the adequacy of the reasons is itself made a condition of the legality of the decision», only in exceptional circumstances, if at all, will the court accept subsequent evidence of the reasons.