Sentences with phrase «even as a believer»

We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally sanctified and otherwise in process as to experiencial sanctification.
Even as a believer I have no problem with empathizing with both prisoners.
Even as a believer in God, I must say that there is a funny post; however, I would add misguided or false to the religion statement.
Sure, I recognize that even as believers no one is perfect, but is is set in his stubborness.

Not exact matches

Even the sales hiring managers, who didn't want to abandon their random interviewing tactics, have become believers as turnover has dropped.
Even worse, people will call believers stupid, and refer to your dieties as sky fairy, invisible man, etc etc..
Thank - you Cecilia, but if you don't believe, then you are where you are because of your unbelief, and what fellowship does a believer have with an unbeliever: We are not of the same Spirit: Therefore it can not be, even as is written:
Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.
As an agnostic I can't fathom how someone can go from being irreligious to a believer or even vice versa.
Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and abused» but it was always every crime made by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.
Liberal and old school Theologians as well as non believers find their way based upon the light they are given even though they may be miles apart on understanding what is the meaning of the Angel of Lord.
Even though some Christians advocate for the total abstinence of alcohol as a moral mandate for all believers, the Bible never requires all believers to abstain from alcohol.
@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God, when in reality it is not a fact at all.
It is far more significant to me that no believer, not even a top - dog charlatan shaman such as any Pope - A-Dope, can not provide factual, independent, verifiable and objective evidence for their cult's beliefs.
Cpt You may have a point as even the Apostle Paul felt compelled to comment when believers in his day thought forgiveness allowed for more sin: «What then?
Frankie, Sadly many churches have become organizations that are concerned with administration, who's in charge, politics, money and lots of other things, but a fellowship of believers who have Jesus as their center often isn't «the» thing or even «one of those things.»
To imply that this was suggesting «monogamy / fidelity» as the only standard for believers is reaching well beyond the text... even if we were to accept that Paul's mandates carried the same weight as God's.
Mark takes for granted the apostolic faith; for he writes as a Christian, a believer, not as an outsider or critic — not even as an historian or biographer.
So, at least indirectly — though actually quite directly, I believe — Stalin did persecute and kill religious believers because of his own Communist atheist orientation, even though this was mixed with a significant amount of his own personal megalomania, as Collin suggests.
(B.H. Branscomb, Commentary, p. xxii) He also takes for granted the apostolic faith; for he writes as a Christian, a believer, not as an outsider or critic — and not even as an historian or biographer.
If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.
It is just as likely, of course, that these Jewish believers in Jesus had started their own «Christian Synagogue» patterned after the Jewish traditions, and it was this they should not abandon, even in the face of persecution (cf. Jas 2:2; 5:14).
I'm not saying that when you'll do this you'll become an atheist (though personally I believe if you truely do think about it, that you will become one soon enough) there are a few people on this board (like JW) who has thought long and hard about god and rationalized it enough to still be a believer and make some sense, but fred, I will not be even remotely swayed to understand your point if you only use the bible as your bullhorn.
(2) While what you say, i.e. that even believers can deny the Lord, as Peter himself did, is true.....
I prefer that approach as well, even if I am not a «believer»....
As we have seen, he does not demonstrate even to believers, and even less so when faced by unbelief.
I as a non-believer I never force or even try to change the mind of a believer, nor do I judge someone who does believe.
As a result, even our pastor is starting to realize that what started out as «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing thingAs a result, even our pastor is starting to realize that what started out as «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing thingas «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing things.
I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz
I am not entrenched, it is the BELIEVERS that are, since they have accepted NOTHING as evidence of belief and then have to attempt to defend belief in something that even they can not verify.
He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way» is NOT the Holy Spirit through believers hindering him from comming till they be taken away in the «rapture»... It is The Holy Spirit Himself who is restraining satan from comming ahead of God's appointed time for him to come, because satan has done it thru many attempts in past history, even as his last of the attempt was through Hitler, desiring to establish his kingdom on earth.
Even though I categorize myself as a «believer,» being on this path is a struggle as believers know and I pray day and night to God to make me among those who stead fast to this belief and conviction.
I've found that in the past, when I've «submitted» (or tried to) to my pastor's leading, it undermined my own authority as a believer, and even made me 2nd guess.
I don't assume all Christians or believers are hateful, wallowing - in - the - mud, ignorant fools, even though your post comes across as such.
As important as elections are, there are some things even more vital, and religious believers should be the first to know that, and demonstrate it in their own liveAs important as elections are, there are some things even more vital, and religious believers should be the first to know that, and demonstrate it in their own liveas elections are, there are some things even more vital, and religious believers should be the first to know that, and demonstrate it in their own lives.
Sha'ul tells them in regard to their being SetApart from evil that they were to receive and expect this, because YAHWEH was working it in them, this work many believers pass right by as obscure, «Now YAHWEH our ABBA, and our Master YAHSHUA, may they direct our way to you and may our Master increase and overflow your love, one to another, to all people also, even as we love you.
I can see where I got irritated and yet after I was saved I realized the Spirit used it all to lead me to Him - even the awkward and stilted and even the rude - because it put God in my mind and as a non believer that's the last thing I wanted in my mind.
Beside I feel that the same descriptions might be required to be asked or be questioned to Muslims of Different Doctrines, Races and Cultures, who might have among them that who are similar to your nations, such as those who are Atheists, Agnostics or even Satanic but there still will be those who are considered as religious believers «Moderate or Extremes»..!
They do believe that there are three degrees of heaven, though believing they are different planets is not as literal as you might think, they just believe that there is a place for people, even if they aren't the most devout believers.
using your own criteria, the writings on an uncontrolled blog.Their are many believers posts testifying to the existence of God, there is even a poster identified as» God».
One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a person for love of him, because in our human mode of existence the only reciprocal relation with us that exists is a personal one.
Even the Europe of the Reformation may be seen as a commonwealth in which believers maintained communal horizontal bonds with one another on the plane of culture while establishing independent bonds between themselves and God.
sorry got a little off track we as believers are screwwing up big time we are using His word, Big and HUGE uncool thing, we are still normal, we all fall short of the glory of God, So because of this deception or lack of the proper teaching of the way of the cross we have a huge on set of actual so called Christians that cant even get along, and tell me this dosent exist in the muslim home or what ever cult mindset you are following and that includes the Christian church if they are more consirned with getting you in and keeping you there then setting you FREE!
Even though the believer has been consciously looking for something to satisfy his longings, and searching for some purpose in life, his embracing of the Christian faith does not mean that at last he has found what he is looking for, so much as the strange conviction that he has himself been found.
St. Augustine defines a sacrament as the outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace; but he does not lose sight of the community of believers as the mediator of grace, nor should we, even though our doctrine of the relation of grace to the visible Church may declare considerably more freedom for the Holy Spirit than is the case in some traditions.
They even went so far as to say that a believer need not be a professed Muslim, for faith is a confession of the heart while Islam is an outward or public confession of the tongue.
Yet even the man Jesus is not tangible for the believer, and never has been, for it was only subsequent to the earthly life of Jesus, that Christian faith was focussed upon the risen Jesus as the Christ of faith.
Even some who come to the Bible to try to discredit it find that they come to faith; David Wood being one example, who tried to prove Christianity wrong while in a prison cell, but left it as a believer.
Yes, and one of the reasons it has is because its most committed believers, while refusing to conform to the world's ways, have just as strongly refused to run away from evangelizing it» and this, even when faced with persecution or death, and when the odds seemed overwhelmingly against them.
I will continue to pray for all non - believers as well as believers... even if you don't want me to!
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