Sentences with phrase «if believers»

If I were a climate scientist who believed in AGW, I'd try to get a group of skeptics from the T administration together with a group of believers, and see if the believers can convince the skeptics that AGW is a real problem.

KIA:» f I were a climate scientist who believed in AGW, I'd try to get a group of skeptics from the T administration together with a group of believers, and see if the believers can convince the skeptics that AGW is a real problem.»

If believers of catastrophic man - caused global warming had science conclusions that were above reproach, they'd welcome debate at any opportunity — shooting «live ammo» against their opponents» «blanks» — in order to show everybody just how solid their science is.

But if believers try to invoke their beliefs as a defence for treating other people badly — denying them a service because they are gay or claiming a right to preach at them in a professional context — the law is right to prevent them.

From this starting point, Anselm is said to have shown that if believers understand their faith, they «are the only ones who do understand it» (p. 22), from which it would follow that it is only lack of understanding which leads a person to reject theistic belief.

If believers in the US really leveraged their liberty and lived according to God's eternal purpose, I wonder if more Americans would lay down their treasures and follow Jesus?

If believers would behave like those who believe in astrology, there wouldn't be a problem.

If believers want to congregate in their special buildings and run their lives by their books - of - magic, no problem, but the instant they try to push their silliness in public, they should expect to be asked to justify their position with something much more substantial than «this book says so» or because their charlatan leader says so.

If believers stopped doing that then the non-believers would back off.

If believers wish to accept the Bible as the word of God, then we have his own admission that he is not the only god.

---- I didn't mean in my first reply to make it sound as if believers shouldn't be noticable.

The only way they are not mutually exclusive, is if the believers doesn't apply his intellect to his beliefs.

In other words, if believers can't successfully argue that a newborn is born a member of their cult, they will argue that the newborn should be put in some indeterminate group rather than a non-cult group such as Nones, skeptic or agnostic.

It is of course somewhat petty to care overly much about captious atheists at such a time, but it is difficult not to be annoyed when a zealous skeptic, eager to be the first to deliver God His long overdue coup de grâce, begins confidently to speak as if believers have never until this moment considered the problem of evil or confronted despair or suffering or death.

If the believers only appreciated Darwin they would be at least consoled by the fact that gay behavior is genetically self - selecting out of the gene pool.

If any believers out there contact me, I will be able to get rid of their various bank accounts and any personal posessions that might be able to fetch some monetary value at auction... Ill donate 70 % to needy kids or something like that, you have my word

If you believers are so concerned about kiddie p - orn, why haven't you jumped in to condemn islam for allowing 10 year girls to be married off?

The larger point is what would happen if believers were to increase their giving to a minimum of, let's say, 10 percent.

Forget about if believers are logical or not, it does not matter as you are outside of the norm.

If believers start seeing this aspect about God then you will see many more walk away from what we know as «church» and venture out in the flow and ebb of the Uncontrollable God.

I wonder if the» problem» of biblical illiteracy would fade somewhat if all believers at the gathering together of the church were able to exercise their spiritual gifts instead of being a captive silent audience to the same person, week after week, year after year, lecturing on the bible until the bible becomes associated with dry boring sermonising.

The question isn't if believers are biblically literate, but are believers reading and allowing God's word to transform them into the image of Jesus?

Perhaps if believers could come up with something we could work on the discussion would be more interesting.

In any event, if the believers are all wrong, what's there to lose?

But if believers refuse to live according to the values of the Kingdom of heaven, then obviously, they can not enter into the experience of the Kingdom of Heaven.

What I can't infer is if these believers are followers of the same religion as the object of their hate, a different one, or if it refers to all believers in general.

If believers, you focus on education and discipleship.

I think it would be much more interesting if believers had to defend the foundation of their beliefs, the existence of some god, in court...

If believers can not defend these things, then we should give up the idea that there is any connection between faith and reason.

A Nigerian archbishop has warned there could be a civil war in his country between Christians and Muslims if believers take revenge for the continuing attacks against them.

I was making the argument that if the believers was just a poodle, then the worst would be a mess on the rug.

I could care less if believers would reduce it a thousand percent.

@Nominus: «If the believers kept their faith out of other people's lives, Atheists (not that I am one or speak for them) might not feel the need to comment»

If believers give up their childish delusional beliefs in some god and the jesus and other myths, I will give up showing them how stupid they are.

If all you believers of» heaven» want to leave so soon and don't like it here then why is it taking so damn long?

If the believers don't want to participate in civil marriages, they can form their own religious unions.

What difference does it make if it was a Friday or not?why do we find it relevant to remember the day of the crucifixion?to me it seems as if believers are getting wrapped up in the remembering of days and rituals of what those days represent...

If believers do enough self - analysis, they might one day figure out what atheists already know...

If the believers misunderstand their god, and that god really exists, the fault is ultimately with the god.

If believers behaved like astrologists (quietly doing whatever astrologists do) there would be no problem.

The contradictions should be pointed out and if the believers want to pretend they don't exist then fine.

If believers have been wrong in the past when they claimed God did something, they could be just as wrong in claiming God did something else, such as create the universe.

If believers can't even agree among theselves, what right do they have saying atheists are wrong?

Given that 70 + % of all abortions in the USA are had by believers, the abortion issue could be significantly reduced if believers simply followed their cult's rules.

If believers simply kept to themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

If you believers were content to keep your religion in your homes, churches, and communities, then I really would not care.

If believers had the ability for logic and rational thought, and the willingness to apply it, they wouldn't be believers.

Besides if the believer are telling the truth the people that killed him had no choice (God set them up even before they were born).

Jesus states unequivocally that if a believer asks in his name nothing is too big and it will be done.

Fishon... what tradition do you belong to where if a believer dies (before he can say «forgive me, God, I repent») yet struggling with sin, he goes to hell?