Sentences with phrase «aim at the faith»

During the political conventions in August and September, the group put up billboards attacking Mormonism and Christianity, taking aim at the faith of both presidential candidates.

Academy Award winning actress Mira Sorvino is the star of the latest film aimed at the faith community.

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Her evolution appears aimed at least in part at keeping faith with younger Democrats, a bloc that's nevertheless rejecting her, en masse, in favor of a septuagenerian with a «60s vintage message.

Noel Murray at The Los Angeles Times also wasn't much of a fan, but wrote that we should «give credit to the filmmakers for making a faith - affirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin.»

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

And when a Roman executioner approached Perpetua with a sword, her last words before collapsing were aimed at her Christian companions: «Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.»

My analogy was attempting to suggest an incommensurate gap between rational logical positivism (on the one hand) and the kind beyond literal and metaphorical thinking that aims at representing — well, religious faith, for sure, and all sorts of varied artistic representing.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

This instruction aimed at further deepening their discipleship, which in turn formed them into people capable of receiving further knowledge about the faith.

My question was aimed for the majority of peope that also disagree with you as much as me and cling to their faith so violently that if someone even broaches the subject, they immediatly lash out and try to either convert the unbeliever, condem him, or bring up the inane, breathtakingly stupid argument of «I can't prove there is a god, but you can't prove there isn't so we're at an impass» — I think that argument is probably the most frustrating thing EVER

Because disagreements about the nature of the Christian faith are not at stake in the abortion controversy, this task could be undertaken ecumenically, aiming at transdenominational consensus.

These goals are so awesome in scope, so radical in what they propose, that any adherent to Judaism could easily be left paralyzed into inaction at just pondering the aims of their faith.

In public education, then, the initial aim of instruction in the religious heritage is to help adherents of each tradition — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Ethical Culturists, Religious Naturalists, and all the others — to realize to the full the resources for the embodiment of religious faith available in their tradition at its best.

We have to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.

They aimed at a thoughtful faith and an informed piety.

Islam, like all other great religions, has a theology of its own which aims at the establishment of its fundamental articles of faith and the refutation of heresy and innovation.

Where Plinio Correa de Oliveira focussed on an enemy which put itself forward in open hostility towards the Church and civilisation as traditionally understood, Trower takes aim at a vague, ill - defined and chameleon - like philosophy which is hard even to identify clearly, a philosophy which does not really have a name, a philosophy which is frequently embraced by Catholics and other Christians all unawares that it is not compatible with their faith.

In their Tuesday letter to Graham, the NAACP faith leaders, which included the presidents of the National Baptist Convention USA and the National Baptist Convention of America, took aim at the MSNBC interview.

Seeker services aim at introducing the unchurched masses of our post-Christian culture to the rudiments of the faith, teaching them the elementary truths of the gospel in ways that liturgical worship and doctrinal preaching might not.

As far as matters of faith and morals are concerned, both booklets are aimed primarily at nudging vaguely practising parents in an orthodox direction.

When there are similar billboards aimed at Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and any other of the myriad faiths in the world, then these Athiests can actually show that they truly do not believe.

Your post would be more thought provoking if it were not clearly aimed at basically being 500 words to state «Don't have a faith because I said so.»

Between phone calls, mailings, and knocking on doors, Reed estimated his pro-family, pro-free market group had 58.8 million voter contacts aimed at the conservative faith community.

Or are we just taking aim at Tebow because he's obviously THE most ignorant athlete alive when it comes to displaying faith in the public sphere?

The present task of New Testament criticism is to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.

Presenting the research findings at a conference in late March, project director and Search president Peter L. Benson explained that the study posited that «the primary aim of congregational life, is to nurture a vibrant, life - changing faith.»

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

But if Christian experience of genuine exemplification of divine aim among us through Jesus Christ is valid at all as I have described it, this unification and transformation of humanity will exhibit striking coherence from the perspective of the historical Jesus, and congruence with him, and will manifest the «truth» of Christian faith in a way that is deeper than mere doctrine.

More recently, at the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, the Holy Father said that the aim of Vatican II was to revive a living and personal faith in Jesus Christ in individual hearts and minds.

Who he is: If there's a major project or campaign aimed at the evangelical community, odds are, Johnnie Moore has been involved with it — and that includes the My Faith Votes event, which brought 900 evangelical leaders to New York hear from Trump earlier this week.

The Church of England has launched its #GodWithUs Christmas campaign, aimed at encouraging people across the country to start or strengthen their faith journey.»

Science is not a sinister enterprise aimed at destroying faith.

A faith - based PR firm has started a campaign aimed at engendering a spirit of civility in America.

We all know that few people are argued into faith, and apologetics aims as much at those within the Church as at those outside it.

Page after page recounts interrogations, torture, brainwashing, deception, and killing sprees — all aimed at wiping out faith in anything other than the State, and especially faith in a God who transcended the State.

It's aimed at nursery - aged children and plans to introduce them to «values common to different faiths and cultures such as generosity, empathy and honesty» according to the BBC.

Could he have urged anyone to «aim at righteousness, faith, love and peace» (II Tim.

When Luther's views of the gospel and of Christian faith and life as well as his criticisms of the Roman Church took hold of others, the discussion of the issues of the struggle in books, tracts, and pamphlets led to concrete action aimed at the abolition of Roman Catholic orders and practices.

The only way you can rank players is by the positions they play not this kind of random grading which is done in bad faith aimed at denigrating some of our loyal players who have done such a fantastic job for the club this season.

After all the negativity aimed at Ozil in England and Germany in the last couple of years, that show of faith from Joachim Low must have been a real boost to our record signing and will surely have meant a lot to him.

We believe that faith - based admissions criteria are wrong, and it is for this reason that yesterday we supported the Accord Coalition when they launched their new campaign taking aim at VC admissions.»

In June 2013, the Fair Admissions Campaign was officially launched, [36] the campaign aims to abolish the selection of pupils based on their faith or that of their parents at state funded schools in England and Wales.

Flanked by local Hispanic pastors and conservative Democratic South Bronx State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. — a minister himself — Mr. Astorino promised to inaugurate a faith - based initiative aimed at encouraging fathers to take an active role in child - rearing.

The site aims at bringing people of Islamic faith together for marriage, not for the people interested in casual dating and non-Islamic relationship.

This site is aimed at helping all people of a pagan faith to find a partner.

Take Christian Dating, for example, which aims at bringing singles of faith together in the one place.

Our niche dating sites on the other hand are aimed at people who are looking for like minded individuals who perhaps share the same cultural back ground, faith or ethnicity.

The former is for singles who value their faith during matchmaking, while the latter is specifically aimed at seniors who are actively looking for love.

As one of the leading pagan dating services, this site is aimed at helping all people of a pagan faith to find a partner.

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