Sentences with phrase «actual faith experience»

My actual faith experience has been onion layers rather than one specific story.

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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.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

The idea that «religion» describes people who are not sincere in their faith flies in the face of billions of actual people's lived experience.

It allows no room for people's actual lived experiences and as people of faith — we are called to love each other.

Part of the reason for this is that the typical theological explanation of death's meaning seems unsatisfactory, inadequate to the actual experience of death, artificial or forced in attempting to articulate a faith response to the question: What does it mean to die?

Since God is for Jesus not an object of intellectual investigation, his affirmations of faith about God have not the character of universal truths, which are intellectually valid without being grounded in the actual life experience of the believer.

For the church in which we believe, on which we count as the supporting, interpreting community of faith, is actual, interpersonal reality, not a form, but an action, trust and loyalty experienced over and over again...

Our incarnate faith is no esoteric one, no stranger to our actual condition: belief is also an empirical experience that disdains not even sensory experiences.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

Judd identified actual space as «inherently more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,» a sentiment characteristic of Minimalist faith in the productive reality of embodied, as opposed to purely visual, experience.1 Hammons, however, combines the purified geometry of a Judd or an early Robert Morris with the cast - off traces of African - American urban life.