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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

These are considered Apologists.

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 of the interpersonal comparison of utility have argued that Robbins claimed too much.

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

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

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

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

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Ducking inside, he found that three rifles were stacked in a corner.

But what few containers they found were inadequate.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

Morgan and his corps were placed on the west side of the Schuylkill River, with instructions to intercept all supplies found going to the city and to keep a close eye on the movements of the enemy.

The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

The dark views about the Puritans found in The Emancipation Of Massachusetts were never altered.

they found out who they were and what they could do, then within the limits of their talent they did it.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

Rather large differences were still found between reaction cells from different manifold fillings.

Once again, both anti-A and anti-B activities were found in the insoluble material precipitated during dialysis.

Similarly, both types of antibodies were found in three regions of the chromatographic eluate, having extremely low, low, and high anionic binding capacity, respectively ( Fig. 3 ).

No fasciculations or sensory defects were found.

Some of the sinusoids contained large numbers of nucleated red cells, and cells of the granulocytic series were found in small numbers.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

Individual differences in Kohnstamm reactivity to controlled Kohnstamm situations were found among the subjects used in the study.

We found that a labor dispute existed, and that the workers had left their jobs, which were then vacant because of the dispute.