Word: human
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is an infinitely wise, omnipotent three-person God Who created the universe and Who maintains an active concern for human affairs...
...believe that every human being inevitably becomes involved in sin and cannot attain salvation without God's intercession, even though man does not merit...
...There is a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe and which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call...
...whole, the Church stands for the best in human life, although certain minor errors and shortcomings are necessarily apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel I can give it my active support. 16 The Church is a stronghold of much that is unwhole-some and dangerous to human welfare. As far as I am concerned, the sooner its influence declines, the better...
...agnostic's view came in a close second; after it came the traditional Christian formulation and then the belief in "a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe...which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call 'God.'" And 33 people felt moved to sketch their own conceptions of the Deity since the poll hopelessly failed to offer them a satisfactory approximation...