Christian Apologists insisted that God's future judgment of humanity implied humanity must have the ability to live righteously.

Kelly has stated: " Tertullian followed the Apologists in dating His “ perfect generation ” from His extrapolation for the work of creation ; prior to that moment God could not strictly be said to have had a Son, while after it the term “ Father ”, which for earlier theologians generally connoted God as author of reality, began to acquire the specialized meaning of Father and Son .".

Apologists for Islam have defended the Quran using rationalist and empiricist arguments, and using cosmological and embryological arguments in an attempt to prove God's existence.

Apologists for the Vatican's role during WWII have cited Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address as evidence that the Papacy and the Roman Catholic establishment did indeed condemn Nazi genocide but the relevant passage ( a single short paragraph ) in this address is so vague, obfuscated and un-specific as to offer little support for this claim.

Apologists who acknowledge the issue with Philo point out that he lived in Alexandria, and the actual Jesus may have been so minor at that time that Philo simply missed him.

Apologists also doubt that the disciples could possibly have sneaked past a Roman guard at a sealed tomb, and that attacking the guards would be even more implausible.

Apologists such as Thomas Harper argued that the wage-employee system of the North was more exploitive than slavery itself.

Apologists later claimed the e-mail was not intended to spark a public relations nightmare.

Apologists of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the " Luciferian path ," or the " energies of Lucifer ," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light ; the very antithesis of dark, satanic evil.

The Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists mostly dealt with topics other than original sin.

Apologists and defenders of the Western viewpoint make the valid point that Germany's allies were more than once rescued from disaster or rendered capable of holding their own or making substantial gains by the provision of German troops, arms or military advisers, whereas those allies did not at any time provide a similar function for Germany.

Apologists were found to say that he had killed only men who would not submit themselves to the law or respect the rights of others.

" Apologists also note that, although the revelation permitting polygamy was not published until 1852, it was actually received by Joseph Smith sometime in the 1830s.

At the end of the 19th and the beginning 20th century a group of conservative American economists and social scientists became known as the American Apologists.

These are considered Apologists.

Apologists who follow Van Til earned the label " presuppositional " because of their central tenet that the Christian must at all times presuppose the supernatural revelation of the Bible as the ultimate arbiter of truth and error in order to know anything.

Included among the topics on which he wrote are: the Apology of Aristides ( 1891 ), the Didache, Philo, the Diatessaron, the Christian Apologists, Acts of Perpetua, The Odes and Psalms of Solomon ( 1906 ), the Gospel of Peter, and other Western and Syriac texts, and numerous works on biblical manuscripts.

Apologists currently working for Catholic Answers include Director of Apologetics Tim Staples, speaker Jason Evert, Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin, Catholic Answers Live Radio Host and Speaker Patrick Coffin, and staff apologists Peggy Frye, Michelle Arnold, Jim Blackburn, Leah Darrow, Matthew Fradd and Fr.

Apologists for the movement note its ethnic diversity and argue that it encompasses a variety of views.

* Sims, John A., Missionaries to the Skeptics: Christian Apologists for the Twentieth Century.

Apologists consider it implausible that grave robbers would risk robbing a guarded tomb when surely many unguarded ones existed.

Under Sen's theory of informational broadening, even complete interpersonal comparison of utility would lead to socially suboptimal choices because mental states are malleable.

Most definitions of normality consider interpersonal normality, the comparison between many different individual's behaviours to distinguish normality from abnormality.

Social comparison and interpersonal attraction: The case

The argument against this is that interpersonal comparisons of utility are meaningless because there is no good way to interpret how different people value consumption bundles.

* That interpersonal utility comparisons are impossible ;

This function embodies value judgements about interpersonal utility.

This information assumption allows for interpersonal comparisons of utility differences, but utility levels cannot be compared interpersonally because the intercept of the affine transformations may differ across people.

Lionel Robbins questioned whether mental states, and utilities they reflect, can be measured and, a fortiori, interpersonal comparisons of utility as well as the social choice theory on which it is based.

John Harsanyi agrees that full comparability of mental states such as utility is never possible but believes, however, that human beings are able to make some interpersonal comparisons of utility because they share some common backgrounds, cultural experiences, etc.

But few who have experienced marriage can dispute the fact that the focus of interpersonal relationships is different in marriage than in a pre-marital situation.

Psychotherapy is aimed at alleviating core symptoms, recognizing episode triggers, reducing negative expressed emotion in relationships, recognizing prodromal symptoms before full-blown recurrence, and, practicing the factors that lead to maintenance of remission Cognitive behavioural therapy, family-focused therapy, and psychoeducation have the most evidence for efficacy in regard to relapse prevention, while interpersonal and social rhythm therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy appear the most effective in regard to residual depressive symptoms.

All languages have resources for construing experience ( the ideational component ), resources for enacting humans ' diverse and complex social relations ( the interpersonal component ), and resources for enabling these two kinds of meanings to come together in coherent text ( the textual function ).

Proponents of several of the theories below have gone further to assert that there are yet other issues necessary to the analysis, such as interpersonal power struggles, community interactions, personal biases and other factors involved in deciding what is seen as truth.

Online and offline distinctions have been generalized from computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships.

Views on gender-based differentiation in the workplace and in interpersonal relationships have often undergone profound changes as a result of feminist and / or economic influences, but there are still considerable differences in gender roles in almost all societies.

Internet relationships are interpersonal relationships, often including intimate relationships, between people who have met online, and in many cases know each other only via the Internet.

Males with the FMR1 premutation and clinical evidence of FXTAS were found to have increased occurrence of somatization, obsessive – compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, phobic anxiety, and psychoticism.

The male counterpart, for men who have similar interpersonal relationships with gay and bisexual men is fag stag, part of hag-ism, the identification of a person with a group — usually united in terms of sexuality, gender identity, or shared sex — of which he or she is not officially a member.

Unlike the term premarital sex, which can refer to more than one occasion of sexual activity and can be judgment neutral, the concept of virginity usually involves moral or religious issues and can have consequences in terms of social status and in interpersonal relationships.

Humans have used rituals to create social bonds and even to nourish interpersonal relationships.

Groups and trainings such as Lifespring, Erhard Seminars Training, IMPACT Trainings, The Forum, Newfield Consulting, Seres Naturales and Landmark Education claimed to have worked to improve people's overall level of satisfaction and interpersonal relations through group interaction.

* Charisma Power: a manager who has charisma will have a positive influence on workers, and create the opportunity for interpersonal influence.

Finally, groups or even nations may have relations with each other, though this is a much broader domain than that covered under the topic of interpersonal relationships.

Studies show that both the act of telling others about good events and the response of the person with whom the event was shared have personal and interpersonal consequences, including increased positive emotions, subjective well-being, and self-esteem, and relationship benefits including intimacy, commitment, trust, liking, closeness, and stability.

Some theories of interpersonal relationships also have a role for shared feelings or understanding of another person's feelings.

Researchers have also reported some positive outcomes for interpersonal psychotherapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

There have been several studies of the round-robin dating systems themselves, as well as studies of interpersonal attraction that are relevant to these events.

The second group of needs is those of relatedness-the desire we have for maintaining important interpersonal relationships.

Sources at NASA have reported that psychologists with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency cited Soyuz 21 as ending prematurely due to unspecified " interpersonal issues " with the crew.

Because these feelings can have very destructive consequences, ranging from interpersonal conflict to international terrorism, Lindner has called them the " nuclear bomb of the emotions.

Both motivations have some interpersonal and personal facets for example individuals would like to escape from family problems ( personal ) or from problems with work colleagues ( interpersonal ).

The second group of needs are those of relatedness-the desire we have for maintaining important interpersonal relationships.

This article discusses eyes and facial expressions and the effect they have on interpersonal communication.