the place 60 One could also argue that Krsna's role as pārthasārathin, namely, co-charioteer or driver to Arjuna in the framing episode of the B˙h˙a˙gavadgītā which precedes the great Mahābhārata battle
“The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.” (In an appearance onAlien Planeton May 14, 2005) “I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed ...
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”– Christopher Hitchens “The theory that religion is a force for peace, does not fit the fact of its history.”– Steven Pinker “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be ...
Unity, therefore, precedes the number one. Two gods would thus postulate before the number one the existence of unity. In all these demonstrations Baḥya follows the evidential argumentations of the Arabic schoolmen, the Motekallamin. In reference to God's attributes, Baḥya is of those ...
itself into passing phases or expressions of being and attaining self-consciousness in the souls of men; and (c) the combined materialistic-idealistic, which tries to steer a middle course and, without sacrificing mind to matter or matter to mind, would conceive the existing universe, with ...
πρόθεσις] can neither be so taken, that the ἐκλογή precedes the πρόθεσις in point of time (comp. Romans 8:28), which is opposed to the nature of the relation, especially seeing that the πρόθεσις pertains to what was antecedent to time...
Being a disciple, leading to transformation, necessarily precedes being a disciple-maker. “My prayer is … that all of [my followers] may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have...
When the name Adonai itself precedes, to avoid repetition of this name, Yhwh is written by the Masorites with the vowels of Elohim, in which case Elohim is read instead of Yhwh. In consequence of this Masoretic reading the authorized and revised English versions (though not the American ...
to say that faith is a gift of God to the unbeliever because it too is part of the package of “by grace you have been saved through faith” which was given by God. Of course, even if this fourth view is correct, it does not necessarily require faith itself to be a gift of God....
‘Tradition’ The passing of knowledge and information from one person to another orally and by example generally precedes its being written down – for example, most of the Christian scriptures, including the four gospels, are subsequent collations of oral traditions. ‘The Church, in her teaching...