Sentences with phrase «accepted by faith»

He accepted the fulfillment of the promise, he accepted it by faith, and it came to pass according to the promise and according to his faith — for Moses smote the rock with his rod, but he did not believe.

The Atonement is not a thing anticipated by human wisdom; but once the truth of the Atonement is accepted by faith, it symbolizes all that man can and can not do.

It was a message which could be accepted by faith, if believed to have come from God.

No, we made unknowability one of God's attributes, which we quite smartly, we thought, accepted by faith.

This dilemma should be accepted by faith in humility, looking to God to give final meaning to existence.

At the root of both positions are certain elements that must be accepted by faith.

Need to test beliefs — A conviction that dogmas, ideologies and traditions, whether religious, political or social, must be weighed and tested by each individual and not simply accepted by faith.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

I agree that the Word is accepted by Faith, but it doesn't stop there.

We are not all God's children until we accept Him by faith, and that means more than just saying the words.

, but by accepting by faith that God loves us completely, and wants us to break free from sin even more than we do.

This is the most interesting point for you atheists, because there's no way to get out of this but accepting by faith the premise that not only God exists, but also is good and won't fool you.

When those who do not have the actual knowledge of God do what is required of them for salvation, that is accept by faith they too have been saved.

We still have free will, but eternal life is linked to us through Christ, if we accept Him by faith.

Not exact matches

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

It is by Faith you accept Jesus, and the holy spirit will «prove» himself to you.»

Faith - By your method, if someone makes the decision to accept Jesus then you would expect the Holy Spirit to «prove» himself to them, correct?

Every person of every faith can make the same argument, and by that logic, it means EVERY god that has ever been posited should be accepted because there is no evidence to the contrary.

So as Chirstians when we ask Mormons if they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, that they believe Jesus died and rose again on the third day to take away our sins and they say yes, they are not saying that they believe by confessing this that they automatically will live in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are and when they acknowledge our faith they don't believe that we will automatically be there based only on the blood of Jesus alone either.

@sciper: ok so you're saying that faith, which requires no proof works well with science that requires not only proof, but is only accepted if challenged by peers and tested over and over again... sure they get along great.

On philosophical grounds, this form of accommodationism is inadequate for purposes of dialogue because its portrayal of the other faith (whether by Jews of Christianity or by Christians of Judaism) is one that the other faith — in good faith — can not possibly accept about itself.

Quite a reward for blindly accepting a doctrine by faith alone.

To be chosen by God, and by accepting His gift of Faith, we are receiving the most precious gift in the world.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic — humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to reason with her, but without success» I accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?

If you are too blinded by your faith to see that the facts we accept fit with reality more than the apparent facts that you accept do, this is your issue - not ours.

By the simple definition of faith, the ability to accept something without proof, and that's OK with believers.

These folk need to embrace the Son of God by faith, not «accept the love of Jesus.»

People who live by faith and personlaly accept that teachings of God and Jesus are a metaphor of the verb and not noun, these people are the happiest I have known through life.

But, if you find an answer not deemed «correct» by your religion, and accept it as the truth, then won't you probably find yourself outside of that faith?

Santa do you not understand science is accepted by me, its why i have faith.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

By accepting and having faith in Jesus Christ.

Then there are the Bad Attitudes of the immature in faith: I have a hard time accepting myself; I feel overwhelmed by all the responsibilities and obligations I have; My life is filled with stress and anxiety; I tend to be critical of other people; I do not want churches getting involved in political issues; I do not understand how a loving God can allow so much pain and suffering in the world.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

«3 Altizer agrees by stating that «faith can never accept the ultimate reality of being....

While Lewis's remarks do not indicate any careful reading of Luther, it is true that Camus rejects a notion of «salvation by faith alone» on the grounds that it eliminates human freedom and, to that extent, would not accept the God of Luther, Calvin, or the later Augustine.

'' The great trouble with religion — any religion — is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, can not thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.

@Robert Once a given proposition has been accepted on faith, said proposition is no longer amenable to examination by reason.

More profoundly, it recognises that by accepting Jesus Christ in faith and loving Him, that choice is grounded in God Himself.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

Theologians interpret that to be a «test of faith» by God for Cain and Abel where Cain gave his offering in pride and self - righteousness while Abel gave his with faith and humbleness as a sinner; therefore, God accepted Abel's offering as opposed to Cain's.

But precisely for this reason it is difficult to know whether we accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

It would be a strange thing, would it not, to be accepted by God into covenant relationship through faith in Jesus Christ, all sins having been forgiven, and then transition into a walk where even petition wouldn't be sufficient for forgiveness of sins but overcoming would supplant petition.

You must accept it freely by faith.

But a theologian may not accept this presupposition from the beginning, or he may try to eliminate it implicitly or explicitly by demand - ing that the Church should revise her faith or her idea of herself according to his theological opinion or that she should accept the latter as of equal right.

But, to say it once again: This dialogue is conducted in the hope of an ever new reconciliation be - tween the individual and the collective consciousness; nevertheless, it may easily - be replaced by a theological monologue unless the theologian accepts the indisputable faith of the Church also as his own condition for this dialogue.

2000 years of tradition and all books of the Bible which are divinely inspired do not mention «a wife» The current canon was adopted at the Council of Trent by the Catholic Church and it is also accepted by Protestant faiths.

Thomas Aquinas accepted a similar claim that reason unaided by faith could move from a consideration of causes and effects in nature to a consideration of the existence of an unnamed First Cause or Unmoved Mover.