They act on the premise that Jesus did not hold an apocalyptic worldview, an opinion that is controversial in mainstream scholarly studies of Jesus.

The Christian thinker James W. Sire defines a worldview as " a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions ( assumptions which may be true, partially true, or entirely false ) which we hold ( consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently ) about the basic construction of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.

The Brights movement is a social movement that aims to promote public understanding and acknowledgment of the naturalistic worldview, including equal civil rights and acceptance for people who hold a naturalistic worldview.

# Gain public recognition that persons who hold such a worldview can bring principled actions to bear on matters of civic importance.

Instead, the focus is on making visible to society the largest possible constituency of people who hold a naturalistic worldview.

So persons who can declare their naturalistic worldview using the term bright extend beyond the familiar secularist categories, as long as they do not hold theistic worldviews.

A nationwide telephone interview of 1, 002 adults conducted by The Barna Group found that 70 % of American adults believe that God is " the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe who still rules it today ", and that 9 % of all American adults and 0. 5 % young adults hold to what the survey defined as a " biblical worldview.

It was then that he developed a worldview — anthropological, political, ethical — that he would hold to and advocate until his death.

Camp Quest, founded in 1996, is the first residential summer camp in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway specifically for the children of nontheistic or freethinking parents ( including atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, skeptics, rationalists, and others who hold a naturalistic worldview ).

People who hold this view are often referred to as ‘ compatibilists .’ It was generally claimed that non-philosophers were naturally incompatibilist, that is they think that if you couldn ’ t have done anything else, then you are not morally responsible for your action.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

Try pegging down each separate branch to the earth, using a bobby pin to hold it there.

And there is a way in which he might hold that badness did in this case precede our own feeling of disapproval without belonging to the pain itself.

And this would mean that we live in a mechanistic universe, governed by the laws of cause and effect, bound in chains of determinism that hold the universe on a completely predetermined course in which there is not room for soul or spirit or human freedom.

For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

The gods hold court there every day at the Well of Urd, beneath an ash tree, Yggdrasil, debating the fates of men and gods.

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world.

Others hold that an Alford plea is simply one form of a guilty plea, and, as with other guilty pleas, the judge must see there is some factual basis for the plea.

It was intended to hold about three million people, and only those with either with connections or those who were chosen by lottery are allowed to live there.

However, there are some Jews, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do hold public readings of the Book of Job on the Tisha B ' Av fast ( a day of mourning over the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies ).

Though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith.

Churches worldwide hold a one-hour service each Sunday, consisting of hymns, prayer, and currently, readings from the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible ( although there is no requirement that this version of the Bible be used ) and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

While there have been open elections of union leaders, the Government of Djibouti is working with the ILO to hold new elections.

It is difficult to estimate the number of Discordians because they are not required to hold Discordianism as their only belief system, and because there is an encouragement to form schisms and cabals.

Based on these conclusions, Zwicky inferred that there must be some non-visible form of matter which would provide enough of the mass and gravity to hold the cluster together.

In 1239 Emsworth was granted the right to hold a market ( in those days there were few shops and if you wanted to buy or sell anything you had to go to a market ).

Critics of experimental parapsychology hold that there are no consistent and agreed-upon standards by which " ESP powers " may be tested.

Clementines ( which hold an AOC designation ), lemons, nectarines and figs are grown there.

Traditional scholars hold that religion is there to regulate human behavior and nurture people's moral side and since human nature has not fundamentally changed since the beginning of Islam a call to modernize the religion is essentially one to relax all laws and institutions.

Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie had decided not to hold the defences on the Egyptian border, because the defensive plan there relied on his infantry holding defended localities, while a strong armoured force was held back in reserve to foil any attempts to penetrate or outflank the fixed defences.

At the top of the Grand Gallery there is a step giving onto a horizontal passage approximately long, in which can be detected four slots, three of which were probably intended to hold granite portcullises.

These certifications hold great legal weight and are required in most states as a prerequisite to doing business there.

Weapons are individually licensed by local police forces, however there is no limit on the number of licenses an individual may hold.

Note that due to the reduced number of colors in the image, there are obvious display issues. GIF is palette-based: the colors used in an image ( a frame ) in the file have their RGB values defined in a palette table that can hold up to 256 entries, and the data for the image refer to the colors by their indexes ( 0 – 255 ) in the palette table.

The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.

But that is too simple, and won't hold up.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.

The long-range objective is to hold the damage from destructive agencies below the level which would seriously interfere with intensive management of the National Forest System under principles of multiple use and high-level sustained yield of products and services.

It is equipped with electronic controls that can be set to hold precise tension and speed.

The avocado should have a `` give '' to it, as you hold it, when it is ripe.

The best procedure is to have a few friends hold the planking in place while you mark it off.

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

The size of the press is usually expressed in terms of chuck capacity ( the maximum diameter tool shank it will hold ) or distance between the spindle center and the column.

The only area in which American boys hold their own is the baseball throw.

Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.

If the direct-sum decomposition ( A ) is valid, how can we get hold of the projections Af associated with the decomposition??

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

In a B reorganization, followed by a section 332 liquidation, those cases which hold that section 203 is inapplicable to transfers in liquidation appear to permit the successor corporation to sue for refund of taxes paid by the transferor.

It is not hard to find that concurrence of opinion which Fromm finds so remarkable when you ignore all who hold a different opinion.

Image intensifiers based upon the multipactor principle appear to hold promise as far as obtainable resolution is concerned.

This leveling system will hold the platform on-level, automatically, as long as the system is actuated.

A useful by-product of this system is that the information necessary to set the gyro drift biases is available from the currents necessary to hold the system in level.