Kreeft says that being all-powerful doesn't mean being able to do what is logically contradictory, e. g., giving freedom with no potentiality for sin, c ) God's own suffering and death on the cross brought about his supreme triumph over the devil, d ) God uses suffering to bring about moral character, quoting apostle Paul in Romans 5, e ) Suffering can bring people closer to God, and f ) The ultimate " answer " to suffering is Jesus himself, who, more than any explanation, is our real need.

: Throughout the different levels of explanation for punishment, the ultimate purpose is always the eschatological aim and promise of God's love and complete Messianic redemption.

By imagining an ultimate intended meaning of a piece of literature one could infer an ultimate explanation for it.

If one asks why God is identified as the ultimate standard for goodness, Alston replies that this is " the end of the line ", with no further explanation available, but adds that this is no more arbitrary than a view which invokes some fundamental moral standard.

These same studies show that children born to a young mother are more likely to have below average educational and behavioural development, again suggesting an ultimate cause of resources and family status rather than a purely biological explanation.

Subtitled The Scientific Basis for a Rational World, it is a whirlwind tour and explanation of theories, both physical and metaphysical, regarding ultimate causes.

An ultimate explanation based on sexual selection states that females who display preferences have more vigorous or more attractive male offspring.

Thus, the costly signalling hypothesis provides an ultimate explanation for religion, while the immediate benefits listed are proximate explanations.

Whether the attacks were anything more than a case of mass hysteria, if the individual reports were connected, and the ultimate explanation for the events all remain debated.

It also plays an important role in modeling the spiritual journey, where the adept begins in Malkuth, which is the every-day material world of phenomena, with the ultimate goal being at Kether, the sphere of Unity with the All.

As his thought continued to develop, Bion came to use " reversible perspective as an analytic tool for examining psychoanalytic phenomena from both sides to get a stereoscopic ( binocular ) perspective "-something which may be linked to his increasing concern with what he termed " O "-the unknowable, or ultimate Truth.

The constant transmutation and interdependence of phenomena mean that nothing can be said in terms of ultimate truth to have a fixed identity.

He did not follow the incessant attempts by Aristotle to refer phenomena to their ultimate foundations, or his attempts to unfold the internal connections between the latter, and between them and phenomena.

He also followed positivism in his insistence that it was only possible to have genuine knowledge of phenomena and hence that it was idle to speculate about the nature of the ultimate reality.

In the Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdeśa, the Buddha links the tathāgatagarbha to the Dharmadhātu ( ultimate, all-equal, uncreated essence of all phenomena ) and to essential being, stating:

In this sense, biosemiotics takes for granted and respects the complexity of living processes as revealed by the existing fields of biology – from molecular biology to brain science and behavioural studies – however, biosemiotics attempts to bring together separate findings of the various disciplines of biology ( including evolutionary biology ) into a new and more unified perspective on the central phenomena of the living world, including the generation of function and signification in living systems, from the ribosome to the ecosystem and from the beginnings of life to its ultimate meanings.

In conventional existence, all phenomena can be said to exist, have names and so on, but in the Sanlun school, the ultimate truth is their empty nature.

Adopting the Kantian standpoint that we can know nothing but phenomena, Lange maintains that neither materialism nor any other metaphysical system has a valid claim to ultimate truth.

Thus, Koirala presents a passionate plea against the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, which assumes that the world is but an illusion and thus makes life and death a meaningless phenomena and that the observance of one's own duty is the ultimate priority.

Media reception of " Omry Maak " was in majority enthusiastic, with the Riyad Newspaper saying the album is like " a state of euphoric love between the lost of human senses and the phenomena of passion in its ultimate summit ".

* Tathagatagarbha sutras: Several major Tathagatagarbha sutras, expressive of an ultimate, immortal spiritual Essence within all beings / phenomena

According to a Shentongpa ( proponent of Shentong ), the emptiness of ultimate reality should not be characterized in the same way as the emptiness of apparent phenomena because it is prabhāsvara-saṃtāna, or " clear light mental continuum ," endowed with limitless Buddha qualities.

A three-day confinement week, with a month's vacation and shorter hours all around could be an ultimate demand from cell occupants of the nation, with fringe benefits including: 1.

Procreation, expansion, proliferation -- these are the laws of living things, with the penalty for not obeying them the ultimate in punishments: oblivion.

We said there that it was necessary `` that a registrant be given an opportunity to rebut ( the Department's ) recommendation when it comes to the Appeal Board, the agency with the ultimate responsibility for classification ''.

Even if gymnastics are not the ultimate goal, the good tumbler will be a better dancer, a better athlete, and a human being with a greater margin of safety in any activity.

There seems to be a rough correlation between the initial and ultimate lengths, starting with the smallest ( boa constrictor ) and ending with the largest ( anaconda ).

A number of religions also satisfy for many the need of being linked with the ultimate and eternal.

Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.

This something leads to a conception of an over-all Social Plan with a meaning interpretable in terms of ultimate ends ; ;

The great ultimate ends of religion have served as magnificent beacon lights that lured people toward them with an almost irresistible force, mobilizing energies and inducing sacrifices ; ;

A philosophy which attempts to supply ultimate answers in an ultimate way reveals its acquiescence in the shortcomings of men, an impatience with partial, tentative solutions.

The same consideration should govern the choice of the second-stage phosphor screen for matching with the spectral sensitivity of the ultimate sensor ( e.g., photographic emulsion ).

For in a world as yet unacquainted with the horrors of the mushroom cloud, poison gas was still regarded as the ultimate in hideous weapons.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

A person is merged with the God or ultimate power when he discharges only & only good Karmas in last birth and the same is called as " Moksha " or " Nirvana ", which is the ultimate goal of a true Hindu.

The ultimate root of " amaranth " is the Greek ( amarantos ), " unfading ," with the Greek word for " flower ," ἄνθος ( anthos ), factoring into the word's development as " amaranth.

The system should not force him to lie under oath, nor to go to trial with no promise of the ultimate outcome concerning guilt or punishment.

Public interest in, and debate over, Hill's testimony is said to have launched modern-day public awareness and open discussion of the issue of workplace sexual harassment in the United States with the ultimate result that the behavior is less tolerated today.

The ARIN membership elects the Board of Trustees ( BoT ), which has ultimate responsibility for the business affairs and financial health of ARIN, and manages ARIN's operations in a manner consistent with the guidance received from the Advisory Council and the goals set by the registry's members.

The Oki 900 was the ultimate tool of cell phone hackers because it could listen in to AMPS phone calls right out of the box with no hardware modifications.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

The consequent severe operational disruption to the national network and the company's spiralling costs set in motion the series of events which resulted in the ultimate collapse of the company and its replacement with Network Rail, a state-regulated, not-for-dividend company.