Sentence examples for non-eternal from inspiring English sources

The former makes sense for Gelug because the appearance arises from causal conditions, and whatever arises from the causal conditions is a non-eternal or non-permanent.

The reason, of course, is that there is no independent empirical evidence to support the universal statement that whatever is audible is non-eternal.

His view might just be that eternal truths exist in non-eternal finite minds and are eternal in the sense that their truth values do not change.

Requiring that there be at least some thing different from sound which is both audible and non-eternal is an obvious and plausible way to eliminate such patently unpersuasive arguments.

Following Parfit, she argues that a self may last through time without being identical to any later self at the later times; that is, "identity is not what matters for survival"(6) Each of these non-eternal selves, then, counts as the continuation of the previous one, and is everlasting in the sense that it is a temporal part of an everlasting whole, God.

In the temporal dimension of the sublunary world where what becomes is something after not having been it, possibility requires a substratum (matter) and becomes material potency: it thus explains a non-eternal thing, which is brought into existence "after being non-existent" (Ilāhiyyāt, IV, 2, 181, 7 12).

Medieval critics found the allegedly Thomist idea of the presence of each instant of time to God's non-temporal eternal vision problematic.

This idea contrasts neatly with traditional forms of theism that hold God to be or at least conceived as being, in all respects non-temporal (eternal), unchanging (immutable,) and unaffected by the world (impassible).

Right-wing groups derive more from (supposedly) essential, non-negotiable, "eternal" or "immortal" identity categories – race, nation, creed – that are inherently exclusive.

On the dying planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Ruling Council sentences three attempted insurrectionists, General Zod, Ursa, and Non, to "eternal living death" in the Phantom Zone.

Similarly, God must be just, self-existent, invulnerable to suffering, merciful, timelessly eternal, non-physical, non-composite, and so forth.