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How To Use pre-existent In A Sentence

• Universal creationism - the doctrine or belief that the universe was created by God out of no pre-existent entity.
• That light was pre-existent, but at that moment the awakened seers received the vision to see light.
• I introduce a general method, the amphibologization method, to generate amphibologies in pre-existent logical calculi.
• Schemata theory studies how to interpret a text by taking advantage of the reader's pre-existent knowledge.
• This was known to the Hindus even before the Buddha, for Kapila, the author of Sankhya, says: “The effect is in the essence, pre-existent to the apparent cause.” What is the destiny of man?
• That is to say, the Word, a pre-existent divine being, became incarnate in the skene tent/tabernacle of David, i.e., in a fleshly body. Did Jesus Predict His Death? The Witness of Mark and John
• So, in John 2:19-22, we appear to have this interpretation of Amos 9:11: 1. The “I” is Jesus as the pre-existent Logos 2. The skene tent/tabernacle is the body of Jesus 3. It is fallen in the sense that it has been slain by the Jews 4. It will be rebuilt in the sense that it will be restored to life—being, thereby, raised up from the dead—by Jesus as the Logos. Did Jesus Predict His Death? The Witness of Mark and John
• In this case, in John 2:19-22, the interpretation of Amos 9:11-12 is this: 1. The Lord doing these things is Jesus and he is, as such, a pre-existent divine being “known from the ages” 2. The skene (tent/tabernacle) of David is the naos (temple) and this, in turn, is the body of Jesus 3. It is fallen in the sense that it has been “destroyed”, i.e., slain, by the Jews. Did Jesus Predict His Death? The Witness of Mark and John
• It is in fact a negation, which must prësuppose a matter once in being and possible to be denied; it is an abstraction, which cannot happen unless there be somewhat to be taken away; the idea of vacuity must be posterior to that of fullness; the idea of no tree is incompetent to be conceived without the previous idea of _a_ tree; the idea of nonentity suggests, _ex vi termini_, a pre-existent entity; the idea of Nothing, of necessity, prësupposes Something. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
• In fact, proper legislation simply codified laws that were pre-existent.