Sentences with phrase «traditional beliefs in»

It's my understanding that most atheists reject the traditional beliefs in gods including the Abrahamic god; but do not necessarily assert or try to prove that there can not be any deities.

They may be helped by the traditional belief in guardian angels.

Whether the traditional belief in providential design is truly «outdated,» as Sauer believes, is another matter.

The main question remains: Can relational theology contribute to traditional belief in subjective immortality or only critique misplaced emphases within that belief?

And this was no diluted, traditional belief in miracles, according to which events in themselves natural are called miracles on account of their significance or their surprising or terrifying character.

In this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the traditional belief in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scripture.

Not exact matches

And so, media outlets were forced to lend Trump legitimacy, in part to stay in business and in part because of traditional journalistic beliefs about objectivity.

students in the traditional lecture became more novice - like in their attitudes and beliefs about physics over the course of a semester

Spiritual: staying true to and furthering profoundly held beliefs and values, whether they're expressed as a traditional faith or simply resound in the way life is lived.

In the traditional model of leadership, there is this belief that leaders need to give those they work with power.

And in his new book, The Power Paradox: How We Gain And Lose Influence, he explains why our traditional beliefs on leadership power must be tossed away if our goal is to succeed in motivating 21st Century workers.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

Jed McCaleb (Ripple, Stellar) designed the exchange in 2006 in the belief that this would be an easy way to trade Magic Cards like stocks, instead of the traditional meet - up trades.

Of course, doing that work is incredibly hard, but the difference is the occurrence of risk — in traditional startups, it occurs at the jump point — for service based folks, the «risk» is simply having the belief that the work you'll put in to create the equity while employed will pay off.

More specifically, he voiced his belief that regulation in the US will not adversely affect BitFury as it does not perform the functions of a traditional financial services provider, instead only mining bitcoin and selling computer hardware for such operations.

This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

They want to make God in their own image, conforming to their ideals, backing up their own prejudices and traditional or cultural beliefs.

A traditional Catholic belief, in the Middle Ages, was that when a good Christian woman died, she would be transformed into a man when she entered heaven.

Some use religious terminology to describe personal experience and belief but do not believe in any of it literally and reject all traditional notions of deity, relying upon cohesive natural law as «god.»

Not to mention, for those of you who have a belief and has ur faith in Traditional Christianity (along with any other religion); YOU WILL SUFFER the 7 last plagues of God, due to the mark of the beast that is about to be enforced by a resurrected ROMAN EMPIRE that is arising now in Europe unless you can repent and turn to the ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD!

The charity also stated that it wants «politicians to recognise pressures on Christians in the public sector to affirm beliefs contrary to traditional faith.»

Those holidays, along with every denomination and belief that is apart of Traditional Christianity ALL come from the Catholic Church; which is FALSE AND IS IN ERROR itself!

I think that religion, and to a greater point, belief in gods will be relegated to the scrap pile of harmless traditional myth.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Schweitzer's disenchantment with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral concerns to move beyond traditional theism.

No portrait is more radical and disturbing to traditional Christian belief than that put forth by the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who regularly meet to sort out the historically valid from the invalid in the New Testament narratives.

For some traditional Christians the doctrine of the virgin birth is integral to belief in Jesus» divinity.

We do not just go to the world; rather, we bring with us beliefs which determine the kind of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in which the scientist uses only the cold light of reason while the theologian uses the light of faith is not strictly true.

Our definition of religion and religious belief departs from the traditional one in which Marxism, naturalism, scientism and positivism are classified as ideologies, not as religion, the implication being that they are formulated and attained by pure reason alone.

Young people whose pattern of thinking is historical and secular no longer find the traditional explanations of belief as formulated in the context of a static universe significant and meaningful.

Nevertheless, at specific points such as the time and manner of creation and the expectancy of divine intervention in an established order, the defenders of traditional Christian belief have had to make more adjustments than have the exponents of the scientific spirit.

Even if the date and place of Jesus» birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered human history is central to traditional Christian belief, as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated in his poem «Christmas»:

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

We are not trying to imply that belief in the traditional formulation was unreal or fictitious.

When however to the legacy of criticisms ancient and near - modern there is added the firm acceptance of evolutionary philosophies of materialism or idealism contradictory in trend to Christian teaching, then every new difficulty, every fresh confusion of unabsorbed knowledge, every apparent retreat of conscious mind before reflex conditioned action, is taken as a new refutation of traditional Christian belief.

I shall begin by saying that I no longer find the so - called traditional «proofs» for God's existence meaningful for clarifying my belief in God.

Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Atheist, etc.... however all are American first One is not comfortable with the other, however each lives with the other based on inter faith and universal values All share the same primary core belief... the belief in freedom of rights and religion This core belief is a reliigion in itself, which all worship before their «traditional religion» It is, as Daniel said... the «god of fortresses»

Then the Great Awakening not only creatted a belief in the new man which tended to question traditional values; it also created an image of a new age.

The discrepancy between the orthodox teaching of an eternity of punishment for those predestined to damnation and the belief in God's love is one of the too rarely examined problems in traditional Christian doctrine.

Being spiritual and not believing in religion means not having to adhere to dogmas, it means LESS limits, limits (in thinking and belief) that traditional religions often impose.

I am very «Traditional» in my core beliefs; but rather unconventional in the way my beliefs direct my faith practice.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.

Silence was highly related to belief in traditional church doctrines: 95 per cent of the modernists preached on Proposition 14 while only 29 per cent of the traditionalists did so.

His «Credo of the People of God» reaffirmed traditional beliefs that were being called into question in some theological circles.

Thus the writer does not give the traditional and classical arguments for belief in God.

Conservatives need to be careful that we do not confuse a love of the merely historical and traditional with a belief in the truth.

The student is invited to fill in the blank or, more commonly, to accept the answer provided by the writer of the textbook who simply knows, as everybody supposedly knows, that «traditional» belief and morality are no longer relevant.

The traditional religious beliefs of his in - law family may have struck him as a hodgepodge of philosophy and religion with no real consistency.