Sentences with phrase «abandon my faith in»

I'd abandon my faith in virtually anything if shown that my belief is held in error.

Why do you have to try and push your beliefs on everyone else by saying we should abandon any faith in God simply because YOU do not believe?

Those taken into Babylonian captivity, as well as those left behind, now had even greater temptations placed before them to abandon faith in their God, and to turn after other gods who were clearly more powerful and victorious.

Imagine, however, that the Internal Revenue Service had been after Bob Jones to abandon faith in Jesus Christ as Son of God and Savior, the bedrock on which Christianity rests.

Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:

But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.»

This doesn't mean Labour should abandon its faith in the state.

The gloom doesn't begin to lift until Harry and company abandon faith in their elders and institutions and re-create a young magicians» insurgency that Harry's father helped form the last time Voldemort loomed; from that moment on, director David Yates slowly and subtly restores warmth to the film's palette, to the point where the images mimic the hard luminescence that distinguished The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Goblet of Fire.

Not exact matches

Eventually, the final refuge of speculation is to abandon historically reliable measures wholesale, resting faith instead on the advent of some new era in which the old rules simply don't apply.

Abandoning the culture of «no debt» that they created has undoubtably been difficult for the PCs as they embraced a new faith in capital financing.

I appreciate it may be difficult to reconcile your religious faith with the available evidence, but despite the claims of fundamentalists, one doesn't need to abandon their religious faith in accepting what the physical evidence indicates.

In this work, the well - known postmodern thinker urges the Catholic Church to abandon the truth claims she connects to her faith.

Evil tempers lead to evil actions, which in turn lead some Christians to abandon the faith and put their eternal salvation at risk.

Wrestling with one's faith in God (as most American atheists did at one point) and abandoning the god concept altogether are quite different.

Moreover, B'nai B'rith seems not to understand that, in asking the SBC to «repeal» its resolution, it is asking Southern Baptists to abandon what is for them an article of faith, namely, that it is the obligation of Christians to try to bring absolutely everybody, including Jews, to a «saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.»

In my case my doubts and questions didn't cause me do abandon my Christian faith, they allowed me to move into a better faith.

When my husband was shot to death in a robbery in front of my building, leaving me very much alone with a 5 year old son, this tragic event actually caused me to abandon my delusions of faith.

Those who find little or no value in the institution however, rather than abandon the faith and Jesus, may make the choice to choose to follow Jesus outside the institution.

A British - South African hostage held hostage in Mali for six years has revealed he abandoned his Christian faith during his time in captivity.

So you want me to abandon my faith for your faith that rest in blind process that know no origins.

At the same time, encounters with people of faith throughout the world led him to question and then, in The Desecularization of the World, to abandon a central tenet of secularization theory» that the future of religion is extinction» he had advanced in The Sacred Canopy.

Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

We shall not try to compensate our sins by good deeds, but we shall return to faith in Christ and abandon the certain sin, which we have fallen in.

If we abandon our saving faith in Christ, we return to being slaves to unrighteousness and produce the fruit which leads to death.

Modern man can no longer go along with the idea that to have faith, one has to abandon the historical, secular and earthly, that, in effect, he has to surrender his very humanity.

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

Inevitably, the orthodox expressions of Christianity abandoned an eschatological ground, and no doubt the radical Christian's recovery of an apocalyptic faith and vision was in part occasioned by his own estrangement from the dominant and established forms of the Christian tradition.

Only by abandoning its original faith in the dawning Kingdom of God that is in actual process of realizing itself could orthodox Christianity arrive at its belief in the transcendent and solitary God who is the Wholly Other.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful future.

In September, the Greens filed a lawsuit against the federal government, stating, «These abortion - causing drugs go against our faith... We simply can not abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate.»

They may have had faith, but they didn't engage in deception or abandon logic.

Agony now is the way of achieving that reconciliation, that breaking down of the barrier of enmity — which the madness of men prevented love from accomplishing, and the frustration of which is the most refined torment in the sufferings of the Messiah — a universal agony in the likeness of that of the Savior, both the agony of the racked, abandoned Jews and of the racked, abandoned Christians who live by faith.

His is the early - nineteenth - century's liberalism of Friedrich Schleiermacher, an «enormously courageous move» that, «focusing on religious experience rather than religious ideation as the object of theological reflection,... combined faith in one's own experience with faith in the God who will not abandon those who trust in Him.»

Hey Alex, Hitler was A baptised catholic, but abandoned the faith early in life.

Meriam was initially sentenced to death for apostasy in May amid claims she had abandoned the Muslim faith.

In 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul says «The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons»In 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul says «The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons»in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons».

As Bailey puts it:» [Catholic] loyalty was still very great; few Mexicans had formally abandoned their faith — but they had, like most people in other Western nations, compartmentalized their lives.

This is something Christian Evangelicals are discovering in no uncertain terms, as their youth abandon their limited and limiting faith in droves.

Those who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.

And yet, in 1816, when the edict went out from the Prussian government that no one of the Jewish faith could serve as a lawyer or an apothecary within the kingdom, Hirschel Marx abandoned his Jewish faith and embraced Protestantism.

It makes no difference if everyone in the world abandoned the faith.

I keep hearing believers complaining that the billboard in question is somehow an attempt by atheists to «force» people to abandon their faith, or that it is «pushing atheism» on society.

He is one of the founders of The Simple Way, a «new monastic» Christian community in Philadelphia, USA, that promotes radical faith in Christ and radical engagement with the global poor through principles of peacemaking, communal living and hospitality in «the abandoned places of empire».

They were wed in St. Edwards church, the formerly abandoned cathedral into which homeless families relocated in 1995, launching the beginning of the Simple Way community and a new phase of faith - based justice making.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

Modern man can no longer go along with the idea that to have faith, one has to abandon the historical, secular and earthly — that, in effect, he has to surrender his very humanity.

Everything turns upon how precisely we abandon natural causation in favor of supernatural explanations — i.e. whether by the «nevertheless» of faith (cf. Glauben und Verstehen, pp. 214ff.)

The men who deserted Ali and abandoned their faith became famous in history as unbelievers and were known as Kharijites — the people who have forsaken their faith.