Sentences with phrase «facts for faith»

Together, they wrote Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions in 2009 (it's being reissued this year), a book, in which, just as importantly, Hayhoe, an active and well - published leader in her field, came out to the scientific community as religious.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

Not exact matches

for example school prayer, i know it is a hot button issue but its a fact, school lead prayer isolates children who are of differant faiths.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

If it's all just alternate explanations that work with the evidence, I would much prefer people change their theory to meet the facts (as the Dalai Lama, for instance, recommends) than keep going with some simplistic idea of «faith».

How about all the Christians who have been killed for the simple fact that they were Christians and refused to denounce their faith?

You betray the fact that your Faith is a placeholder for knowledge.

So perhaps you should come to terms with the one fact that is truly undeniable, infallible and that links all together as one people: regardless of what any of us believes, the thing that gives us the certainty to argue for our beliefs is simply faith.

Your peculiar American Fundamentalist view, is not really the traditional Christian view, which, in fact, DID have a place for legitimate, good - faith non-belief.

I have and will never shy away from the fact that for me faith enters into the equation.

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

I realized one day as a young adult that the fact I was searching for answers so intensely was a clear sign I had faith in His existence.

Secularization, the view that human beings are collections of atoms, sexual freedom, the scramble for wealth, careerism — these are facts that infiltrate everywhere, including our souls, making the beauty of an integrated life of faith elusive, difficult, and rare.

Faith for the media means acknowledgment of a set of «facts».

They should not forget to tell Mitt that they know for a fact that is what Mormon's believe in because they heard it from someone else, or read it from a source keen on discrediting the Mormon faith.

Given that faith is subjective to the individual and based on their own interpreations of what their faith is, it's impossible for it to be a reliable tool to determine what is in fact, despite our perceptions, the reality of the situation.

Nothing gets in the way of a Christian and his / her faith, not even logic, and something most Christians do is confuse faith for fact.

The similarity ends with the way of phrasing it however, because I «believe» in evidence, not in something like «faith» (or «brainwashing» I would say) for which there is no evidence, and in fact there is MUCH EVIDENCE to conclude «faith» is a form of mental illness.

In fact, the 29 - year - old Lumberton resident doesn't call himself by any of the 12 faiths he practiced for a month at a time last year.

... to give us life - saving metaphors for faith or life - saving facts that science cd support.

The fact that the new testament is in question over and over within these conversations cast any person's faith; whose beliefs are based in part on comments penned by or for Paul, into question.

If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Mountains of «theories» that are unproven but for some reason accepted as scientific fact, that are then the basis for more theories... I've always said, atheists have WAY more faith then Christians LOL

Reis: No, I know for a fact I wouldn't be the person I am without my faith.

Noel: Rom 1:16: «For I am not ashamed of the good news; it is, in fact, God's power for salvation to everyone having faith..&raqFor I am not ashamed of the good news; it is, in fact, God's power for salvation to everyone having faith..&raqfor salvation to everyone having faith..»

Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging symbols.

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

The worst one for me, is the fact that though I prayed, and kept hope & faith that He knew what was best, I still denied Him..

All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

What is true, and maybe paradoxical, was the fact that Georges Lemaître, a priest deeply rooted in his faith and his vocation, introduced for the first time a way to describe, not philosophically or theologically, but from physics, the notion of the beginning of the universe.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

We know for a fact that faith = salvation forever.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

Newman goes on to argue that claiming that faith must always proceed works in living the Christian life is «mistaking a following in order of conception for a following in order of time...» In fact, he writes, our works are «the concomitant development and evidence, and instrumental cause, as well as the subsequent result of faith.»

Nevertheless, the fact remains that here the historical Jesus becomes disjoined from the Word of faith, and all too naturally the priestly followers of Bultmann have reinstituted a quest for the historical Jesus as a means of reviving a Protestant form of orthodoxy.

Nobody saw the evengelists writing their accounts of the bible — It is impossible to prove who wrote it 2000 years after the fact — But what we do have is faith, for this no proof is needed.

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that the Reason is set aside, that Faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the Eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge.

«don't think that can be said any longer, for our insistence that our faith is a fact and that others» faith is a lie is, I think, a cancer that eats at the heart of Christianity»

I don't think that can be said any longer, for our insistence that our faith is a fact and that others» faith is a lie is, I think, a cancer that eats at the heart of Christianity» (page 39).

Included in the advantages mentioned were the natural entree to the family, confidentiality of relationship, the fact that there are no fees involved, that many people naturally take their problems to their pastor, and, most important, that the minister has the dynamic of the Christian faith and fellowship available for helping the alcoholic.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

I never argued whether the resurrection was true or false (that's a matter of faith and people die for their faiths all of the time), but the fact that he lived was my point.

Where as for science, we ask questions and then seek fact to come up with truth; in faith some things will never be and never can be proved.

... Intellectual doubt has become particularly acute for many Christians due to the fact that there has been a hollowing out of faith in many sectors of Christianity.

But in point of fact Bultmann's theology helped to keep many individuals within the great tradition of faith in the eternal God, the God revealed in the crisis of the gospel of Christ; for in the jargon, although his work was to «demythologize,» he refused to «dekerygmatize.»

But for now a lot does come down to faith and the fact that we have limited mental abilities to understand some things.

As for belief, I'm absolutely fine with people saying, «My belief is such and such», However, when their beliefs are presented as facts, or as «THE TRUTH», and when questioned, they fall back on faith, that is when I have issues with it.

Let us know when your «theory» or empty praises for your faith actually meet up with the real facts.