Sentence examples for finite creature from inspiring English sources
The phrase "finite creature" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts discussing the limitations or bounded nature of living beings or entities. Example: "As a finite creature, I am aware of my limitations and the constraints of my existence."
Therefore, it is possible for the self-thinking divine essence to understand itself in a single act of understanding so perfectly that this act of understanding not only understands the divine essence as it is in itself, but also in respect of all possible ways in which it can be imperfectly participated by any finite creature.
After the sermon, I also asked him, "In the light of our understanding of time and space, quantum physics, and reality, God's answer to Job is essentially that what God created out of the chaos of the beginning of our reality is ultimately beyond a finite creature's comprehension.
Might not their obligation, as finite creatures, be to do the best they can?
Because authors are finite creatures and stop writing and fall off their perches, these rebootings can satisfy readers' needs.
That's part of the tension of ethical decision making: at once wanting things to be ideal while at the same time realising that we as limited and finite creatures can only produce incomplete solutions.
So unless we can accept finitude, that we live for a fixed time, and if we can't come to grips with the fact that we are finite creatures we're never going to be happy.
The language of finite creatures has always been an imperfect tool for describing the transcendent, infinite God.
Even at the limit of inquiry, finite creatures will not be able to decide every question, and truth may transcend what coheres with their beliefs.
He returns to the contrast between absolute God and contracted creatures that he used throughout Books I and II to interpret and contrast the relation between infinite God and finite creatures, even though there is no real proportion between them.
Realists in general see it as a fatal weakness of anti-realism that it does not permit fallible, finite creatures to be radically mistaken in the beliefs they form about the world.
(1) The most popular model for dealing with evil is found in the philosophy of Spinoza who regards both error and evil as distortions that result from the fragmentary view of finite creatures; phenomena real enough to the finite beings who experience them but which would disappear in the widest and final vision of God.
