On 7 March 2016, BMW Group will be celebrating 100
years of existence as a company.
Not exact matches
But Zuckerberg himself has said being too «focused on the positive» for the first 10
years of Facebook's
existence blinded the company to much
of the abuse it was enabling
as well
as to emergent effects
of social media like hyper - polarization.
Perhaps
as a result, for the first many
years of Amazon's
existence, Bezos frustrated investors by refusing to realize Amazon's profit potential.
In its 16
years of existence, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), an initiative within the UN which began
as a simple list
of 10 principles businesses could sign onto, has mobilized a vast network
of companies.
But
as the blockchain crossed its 6th
year of existence, Bitcoin users become smarter in terms
of saving their funds.
Hardly, our
existence or perception
of reality
as we see it has been influenced by thousands
of years of people believing in God or gods.
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.
Science theories satisfy my fundamental answers, for me such event
of unimaginably scale and precision such
as the big bang that brought everything into
existence 14.7 billions
of years ago simply can not just happen, by chance, or without intent.
Considering what happens when I die is easily summed up - it's exactly the same
as the billions
of years before my
existence... which didn't bother me a bit.
It was written by many people over the span
of hundreds
of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy
of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full
of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith»
as your proof
of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away
of reason i.e. belief without evidence.
Awareness is not tethered to the physical but relationship with the physical There is no such thing
as non
existence physically or conceptually Agency
of time and space must be outside our subset
of existence and predate singularity Our known world is configured to be appear concentric Probability
of intelligent life in only 14 billion
years is one out
of ten to the power
of 127 assuming one universe.
That just
as all the products we use came into
existence through a mind, these being consistent with reality, so likewise
of not only the earth with its marvelous ecological systems, but all the universe by which we keep time, from the passing
of one day to the passing
of one
year allowing to keep track
of time, that all these diverse, but harmonious systems are the product
of a Supreme Designer for the benefit and enjoyment
of mankind.
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.
The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine
of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500
years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up
as tribes, and destroy their political
existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»
Apart from his spiritual significance, he was not an emperor or king and was not mummified, so its about
as likely
as you being able to prove the
existence of my ancestor from 4000
years ago.
Shiaism hindu Mithra ism, savior ism invented little over 100
years after Sydana Mohammad pbh by tribes
of Kujar
of north Africa and imposition
as Fatmid Khalaphit by force by denial
of Hidth and Quran, justified by hindu Judaism, pagan secularism to impose hinduism, racism by hindu, fabricated relationship with Family
of Syadana Mohammad pbh to justify
existence of hindu criminal Kings, a violation
of fundamental commandment, human equality under the LA.
God is evolution in His process
of will implementation, humanity change in this process but not necesarily aware because our
existence is very limited in time.and we are not
as individual the ultimate objective, but God himself, Our
existence is just part
of the process for Him to become Himself in the future.We exist only in our time
of existence.From pure Energy which is Him 13.7 billion
years ago, to us humans 200,000
years ago, to what we are now today, to super humans in the future, to what He will be in the far Future.THE ULTIMATE HIMSELF Is the objetive, you are just part
of the process you IDIOT.
Underlying this erroneous tendency,
as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty
years, is the implicit or explicit denial
of the transcendence
of God, the Divinity
of Christ, the historical objectivity
of revelation and the authority
of the Church in matters
of faith and morals, and also the denial
of the spiritual soul
as a principle
of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity
of our human nature.
For
years, I have wrestled with difficult questions concerning God's goodness (even His
existence),
as I observe the incredible suffering around the world and the continued prosperity
of the Church in America.
In fact, our best theories suggest that energy, space, matter, and even time itself, came into
existence around 14 billion
years ago in a sudden period
of expansion, known
as the «Big Bang».
This suggests that the first 6,000
years of the world's
existence have been given to mankind, to do
as he pleases, and following this there will be 1,000
years when Jesus Christ will rule, and instead
of the chaos and injustice
of man's rule there will be justice and peace.
Interestingly, even secular non-believing historians have debunked the «never existed» myth... Jesus is still under attack today
as He was two thousand
years ago... Efforts to rid human history
of His
existence, and reason for coming here have failed, and continue to fail.
Evidence for the
existence of King Gilgamesh is found in inscriptions crediting him with the building
of the great walls
of Uruk, references to him by known historical figures
of his time (26th century BCE) such
as King Enmebaragesi
of Kish and the Sumerian King List that says he ruled for 125
years.
This insight explains the vehemence
of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just
as it illuminates his behavior» during his first
years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses
of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive
of an affirmation
of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures
of natural
existence.
the belief on the
existence of the devil was concieved by theologians
of the past thousands
of years, there was no other way
of explaining the bad experiences
of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind
of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part
of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part
of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part
of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality
of the universe ahead
of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part
of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point
of not believing the practices
of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it
as part
of their learning process.
It seems highly probable that
as recently
as ten thousand
years ago the structure
of man's
existence was still quite different from ours.
The German - American thinker Paul Tillich, who died only a few
years ago, believed that the Christian faith could only be rightly understood when it was recognized
as providing the «answer» — not
of course in words or propositions but in the reality which is behind such statements — to the «problems» which are posed by human
existence as such.
They are what the Church is for; they characterize its very
existence as the Church; and they are believed — here we come to the highly significant matter — to be the will and work
of the God who was disclosed and whose power
of love was released in what took place in Palestine two thousand
years ago.
As McGrath reminds us, William Paley's Natural Theology (1802) set out a demonstration
of the
existence of God, based on observations
of the natural world, that was highly influential in its day, and for many
years afterwards.
A powerful example is the effect that the evolutionary development
of an organism that existed millions
of years ago (such
as the first organisms) has on my present physical
existence.
In an article nearly forty
years ago Hartshorne spoke
of the (seeming) paradox that every determinate character,
as an essence, «involves its
existence,» though that
existence is contingent (see SDE 142).
I thought it had heralded the truth, and for three decades afterward I felt it to be binding truth, but at fifty - three
years of age, I now see it
as error, an unfortunate one whose cost to me was an anti-spiritual, depleted
existence through the prime
of my life.
Yet when he came to publish these lectures in June
of that same
year, he included several additions, among which was a chapter on «God,» arguing for God's
existence and describing his nature
as Whitehead then conceived it.
I've listed this several times, but apparently Atheists seem to want the clouds to open up for them for proof
of God's
existence, but prophecy fulfillment is excellent proof for the divine authorship
of Scripture... I could talk about prophecies regarding Israel's captivity to Babylon, Cyrus called out by name hundreds
of years before his birth
as the one that will rescue Israel from Babylon, the destruction
of Babylon foretold, the destruction
of Jerusalem and its Temple foretold, the destruction
of Tyre and specifically how it was to be done, how the city
of Petra would be destroyed... These are just a few verifyable examples...
Its nice to see people using their science books, and Pedro its nice to see you've read some science
as well
as religious books, I would just like to say that no one has actually figured out how the first cell came into
existence billions
of years ago.
As I showed in my review, no appeal to consensus can achieve the aim that Collins and Walls have in mind, because there was broad consensus for at least a thousand
years about the
existence of an apostolic succession in the episcopate — a doctrine that the authors consider themselves free to reject.
not sure i said this before or not, i have been on cnn.com for over a
year — anyway — i have been going to random churches, temples, really place that worships any form
of the
of abraham and others — i have yet to get anywhere but where i started from — which is what i am, what i am meant to be, and what i was... only this has been gained — gained is a gift
of a word for i knew all
of this before i started and so i view my time
as wasted only for this the reason
of getting somewhere — i did meet many great people with great views but all required the very real
existence of god which was something lacking and why they had a constant failure yet what they called «keeping the faith» att itude type results... something was missing or missunderstood — your take?
What Jesus had said and done not only told others about God; it was a human
existence, in all its integrity, in which God had acted and wrought, so that within a hundred
years, at the most, Jesus himself was described
as an act
of God.
In him divinity and humanity were genuinely united; his human
existence was the organon (
as Athanasius later put it in the early
years of the fourth century) for God in the outgoing world - ward expression
of the divine reality.
When we humans were primitive thousands
of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our
existence, We
as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because
of many synthetic products our
existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind
of concern for us to correct some
of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect
of reality, in the spiritual part
of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness
of our
existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?
It is knowledge that,
as we come to know it more and more deeply over many
years, will give form and substance to our entire imagination, to our whole way
of being in the world, to our very
existence.
For example the statement «The meek shall inherit the earth» and «Love your neighbor
as yourself» were already in
existence within the sayings
of Buddha written 500
years before Jesus showed up.
A college founded by another church has in the latter
years of its nearly 170 -
years existence redefined itself
as «nondenominational.»
First
of all, that human life in our span
of years and so far
as man's history is concerned is, like the created world itself, derivative from a realm
of heavenly
existence which abides eternal over against the transient, mortal, and uncertain span
of our
years.
Dan the Man, the historical writings
of Jesus by his followers only 100
years after his death are stronger evidence
of his
existence than we have for many other figures accepted
as real.
When Cardinal Pell interjected that the problem for Dawkins is that he only accepts sense experience
as proof, the presenter let Dawkins off the hook and turned the question on the Cardinal, asking: «Why would God randomly decide to provide proof
of his
existence to a small group
of Jews 2,000
years ago and not subsequently provide any proof after that?»
The subject
of those talks was the meaning
of human
existence, in its various relationships,
as understood in that sort
of theological inquiry with which for many
years I have been associated — namely, Process Theology.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out
of the sky, «You deny my
existence for all
of these
years; teach others I don't exist; and even credit creation to a cosmic accident.
In the case
of the national bicentennial four
years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full
of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep
as well
as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues
of American
existence.
Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands
of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for
as long
as anyone can remember and, in fact, many
of them grow up not knowing about the
existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such
as myself,
of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction
of the temple, and after thousands
of years living in the frigid north, with low levels
of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land
of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and
of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that
of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!