He removes the human sense of justice from his concept of God ; i. e., humanity is not the image of God: " To God all things are fair and good and just, but people hold some things wrong and some right.

Lewis offers several analogies to explain this abstract concept: that of Jesus " paying the penalty " for a crime, " paying a debt ," or helping humanity out of a hole.

Instead, the Bahá ' í concept of the Manifestation of God emphasizes simultaneously the humanity of that intermediary and the divinity in the way they show forth the will, knowledge and attributes of God ; thus they have both human and divine stations.

Bahá ' í's refer to the concept of Progressive revelation, which means that God's will is revealed to mankind progressively as mankind matures and is better able to comprehend the purpose of God in creating humanity.

The concept of the tree of life appears in the writings of the Baha ' i Faith, where it can refer to the Manifestation of God, a great teacher who appears to humanity from age to age.

Here Humboldt states that ' the ultimate task of our existence is to give the fullest possible content to the concept of humanity in our own person [...] through the impact of actions in our own lives '.

The basic concept of the X-Men is that under a cloud of increasing anti-mutant sentiment, Professor Xavier created a haven at his Westchester mansion to train young mutants to use their powers for the benefit of humanity, and to prove mutants can be heroes.

However, unlike Herbie, Giskard grasps the philosophical concept of the Zeroth Law allowing him to harm individual human beings if he can do so in service to the abstract concept of humanity.

However, the US representative objected to references to " law of humanity " as being imprecise and insufficiently developed at that time and the concept was not pursued.

The Bahá ' í concept of the intermediary between God and humanity is expressed in the term Manifestation of God, which are a series of personages, such as Jesus and Bahá ' u ' lláh, who reflect the attributes of the divine into the human world for the progress and advancement of human morals and civilization.

In trinitarian Christian teaching, God became incarnate in Jesus Christ, sacrificing his first-born son to accomplish the reconciliation of God and humanity, which had separated itself from God through sin ( see the concept of original sin ).

The concept of the Mitochondrial Eve is based on the same type of analysis, attempting to discover the origin of humanity by tracking the lineage back in time.

The Übermensch ( German ) ( English Overman or Superman ) is a concept in the philosophy of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche — he posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra ().

One central concept is Maggot Brain ( Maggot Brain, 1971 ), which is an unenlightened small-mindedness, and which must be overcome for humanity to avoid its destruction and decay.

This was not simply a derogatory description: it was part of a mentality that integrated the concept of civilization with the idea of humanity, picturing the alien groups living outside the pale of Chinese society as distant savages hovering on the edge of bestiality.

A notable usage of the concept that the gods are either indifferent or actively hostile towards humanity is in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P.

Moreover, in The Ego and its Own ( 1845 ), Max Stirner extends the Feurbach analysis by arguing that even the idea of “ humanity ” is an alienating concept for the individual man and woman to intellectually consider ; Marx and Engels responded to these philosophic propositions in The German Ideology ( 1845 ).

On Aristotle's view, the universal humanity is the same in all humans ( i. e., all humans have that exact same type in common ); and this allows us to form a concept of humanity that applies to all humans.

" The story's central concept is that most of humanity is insignificant -- they do what they do, because they must.

Regarding the concept of race as defined – in a comparatively more limited manner – by Anthropology, Sociology, and other disciplines, Blavatsky did not encourage superiority by any person or group, promoting the idea of the common origin and destiny of all humanity, and establishing the principle of universal brotherhood as the First Object of the Theosophical Society.

Additionally, the concept of Tawassul recognises the existence of Good Spirits on a Higher Plane of existence closer to God, and thus able to intercede on behalf of humanity.

Broadly speaking the concept of evolution fitted the spiritualist thought of the progressive development of humanity.

Petulia ( also with a score by John Barry ), as well as the darkly surreal anti-war movie How I Won the War co-starring John Lennon, which he referred to as an " anti-anti-war movie "; Lester noted that anti-war movies still took the concept of war seriously, contrasting " bad " war crimes with wars fought for " good " causes like the liberation from Nazism or, at that time, Communism, whereas he set out to deconstruct it to show war as fundamentally opposed to humanity.

A concept of responsibility is in process of articulation and establishment.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??

For it is their catastrophic concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions rather than Kemble's gradualist approach which dominates the field.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

The concept of trans-illumination ( as shown by the photo on p. 92 ), as just one example, offers an entirely new approach to lighting problems -- no matter what industry is involved.