Sentences with phrase «arguing for their faith»

Before you say that arguing for faith is a cop - out and that you just can't have faith, remember it takes just as much faith - maybe more - to believe there isn't a God as it does to believe there is.

Steven Pinker says our gloomy outlook for humanity is misplaced, and argues for faith in science, reason and democracy

Not exact matches

Faith in blockchain technology remains, however — with some even arguing that these struggles will only clear a path for the true victors in the industry.

Counsel for Ms. Ernst argued that these were inapplicable in light of the pleadings that Alberta Environment had acted in bad faith (these provisions explicitly limit immunity to acts or omissions taken in good faith).

Bondholders and bond insurers argued that Stockton's refusal to demand pension concessions shows that it failed to negotiate in «good faith» with creditors, a prerequisite for municipal bankruptcy.

Most of the «rules for blogging» I have come across — like Alan Jacobs's «Rules for Deportment for Online Discourse» — focus on very basic things like avoiding ad hominem attacks and not arguing in bad faith.

What you seem to be arguing for is a direct inputting of information into Luke's mind, which you are expecting me to take on faith when various cult leaders all claim to have the same link to God telling them to sleep with young girls, and so on.

So perhaps you should come to terms with the one fact that is truly undeniable, infallible and that links all together as one people: regardless of what any of us believes, the thing that gives us the certainty to argue for our beliefs is simply faith.

Today, though, many argue for the value of contemporaneous voices of faith.

The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, whose members integrate faith and learning, submitted a brief (accessible here) that argued that all faculty in its institutions should be covered by the ministerial exception:

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

The movie served to give me a different platform to discuss faith from, not to argue that my belief system is right and someone else's is wrong, but instead to point out that the world is hungry for questions about the soul and what we don't see right in front of us.

Martin points out, for example, how Evans argues «on faith» that Jesus possessed foreknowledge, but then endorses an interpretation of a New Testament story in which Jesus expected something that did not happen.

Either this criminal is mentally stronger than most you as just by mere one sentence that God made him do so he has turned you guys into questioning and arguing about the existence of God, Religion and Faith... For a change, what about discussing the nature of his crime and a just punishment for him???... you bunch of Sherlock HolFor a change, what about discussing the nature of his crime and a just punishment for him???... you bunch of Sherlock Holfor him???... you bunch of Sherlock Holmes

A few argue that faith is a work, and so simply by making faith a human condition for salvation, we are making salvation by works.

An ordinary reader might think that Martin's argument for openness to supernaturalism is intended to give aid to conservative Christians who reject secular scholarship because, they argue, the believing historian is just as justified in bringing her faith in supernatural intervention to life - of - Jesus research as the secular historian is in rejecting it.

Standing under the word in prayer while waiting for the clarification of the Spirit will satisfy neither those who argue for «justice now» nor those for whom the faith itself is at stake in this issue — and those people will necessarily continue their professions and protestations.

As seen above, Calvinists sometimes argue that faith would be meritorious if people could believe in Jesus for eternal life, and therefore, faith is a work.

Critics also argue that the division of pupils in faith - specific schools deters integration and fails to prepare students for life in a multi-faith society.

Rife argues that sports are the «greatest teacher for wrestling with one's faith.»

Dr Dudley Plunkett FAITH Magazine March - April 2008 The Heythrop Institute Study On the Way to Life [1] argues for a «Catholic sacramental imagination» as a response to the «turn to the subject» that is characteristic of contemporary culture.

Because the interior sense of the faith belongs to all of the people of God, some Latino Catholic theologians have argued that it creates space for the folk theology of popular Catholicism.

Newman goes on to argue that claiming that faith must always proceed works in living the Christian life is «mistaking a following in order of conception for a following in order of time...» In fact, he writes, our works are «the concomitant development and evidence, and instrumental cause, as well as the subsequent result of faith.»

I never argued whether the resurrection was true or false (that's a matter of faith and people die for their faiths all of the time), but the fact that he lived was my point.

If you are going to argue that your perspective is more true than ours, then you should really take a look at the foundation for your beliefs and see if you can really put faith in that foundation.

They do, however, also argue that if faith came from ourselves, or was in any way something we do instead of God doing for us, then it is in some way meritorious, and since that does not jive with their understanding of total depravity, then they must claim that saving faith must only be from God, and not a response or action of any sort on our part.

But this was contrary to the Old Side orthodox view, which stressed the strict adherence to a confession of faith and argued that the presbytery, and ultimately a synod, determines the fitness of a man for the ministry on the basis of his education and doctrinal beliefs, and an external call from a congregation.

Whilst this approach was disturbing for many Christians at the time, it again meant that defenders of Christianity, instead of calling for a leap of faith, could start from historical events and argue from them to the divinity of Jesus Christ His divinity was seen as the perfection of his humanity and this fitted with the approach of Schleiermacher, who saw Jesus, whose consciousness was entirely taken up with awareness of God, as «the ideal representative of religion».

For those who argue that other faiths are not given equal treatment in for example many Middle Eastern countries, i say that this is not just any Eastern country, it is America and our fundamental general beliefs as a people are different from those of extremist Islamic countriFor those who argue that other faiths are not given equal treatment in for example many Middle Eastern countries, i say that this is not just any Eastern country, it is America and our fundamental general beliefs as a people are different from those of extremist Islamic countrifor example many Middle Eastern countries, i say that this is not just any Eastern country, it is America and our fundamental general beliefs as a people are different from those of extremist Islamic countries.

Beckett's apparent insistence, later in the book, on the importance of Catholic sympathies (e.g. in Shakespeare and Samuel Johnson) suggests apologetics, not aesthetics, and reminds one uncomfortably that arguing the case for reasonable faith and faith - based reason is tremendously difficult without straying into what appears to be a partisan position.

Such a view, Williams argues, does not mean that some criterion of truth is set above Christian faith, for all perspectives are relative.

Whilst Fr Edward Holloway, founder of Faith movement, argues that such is positive evidence for God, Stoeger caught the mood of the conference by simply saying it was not inconsistent with there existing - above and beyond science - a «theological teleology, a reason for it all», and thus it was not inconsistent with the existence of God.»

I am not arguing for the normative authority of Scripture and tradition as deposits of faith in a static external sense, but for a more commonsense view that they are the major vehicles of Christian meaning through the centuries, and their importance can not be ignored in systematic theology.

I would argue that Tebow has accoplished a similar task for the christian faith..

In a peculiar article at The Huffington Post, Rossano argues that scientific evidence for the existence of God is fatal to both the faith of the atheist and the believer:

The fact that the Jesus who became the basis of the Christ of faith was a true man in every way does not need to be argued away by Christians, for in fact it is basic to the uniqueness of the Christian heritage.

Keller's column, «Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,» argues that the crop of candidates competing for the White House next year should be grilled on their religious beliefs and on how those beliefs inform their political views.

Some Christians acknowledge the distinction between the Gospel stories and the history behind them and argue that the starting point for Christian theology is not the faith of the New Testament but the teaching and ministry of Jesus.

His books, Jesus For President, The Irresistible Revolution, and Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, are gentle yet challenging introductions to a way of life that much of the Western Church has forgotten, but which, he argues, has always been central to our faith.

Although we are not prepared to argue for the authenticity of any of the narratives concerned, we are arguing for the authenticity of such an element in the historical ministry of Jesus: he did help those who confronted him in their need in a way his contemporaries regarded as remarkable, and he did link this with the «faith» of the people concerned.

Before I bounced for a week or so Reality you were argueing about those people of faith who were praying for that atheist speaker.

Arguing that Islam is universal and comprehensive in its message («for all of life,» as Christians would say about their faith), Ramadan offers European Muslims a fresh reading of Islamic sources to help them integrate faithfully into their pluralistic settings.

For example, in order to salvage the «core» of Christian faith for the scientifically informed, Rudolf Bultmann argued that revelation has to do primarily with God's address to the hidden subjectivity and inner freedom of each persFor example, in order to salvage the «core» of Christian faith for the scientifically informed, Rudolf Bultmann argued that revelation has to do primarily with God's address to the hidden subjectivity and inner freedom of each persfor the scientifically informed, Rudolf Bultmann argued that revelation has to do primarily with God's address to the hidden subjectivity and inner freedom of each person.

This of course can not be the case so typically, especially among blind faith believers, people will align themselves with one or the other and argue passionately for the view they have become convinced (or want) to be true whilst more objective believers such as AW Tozer and CS Lewis recognize the dilemma.

Trying to argue for intellectual diversity and good faith by sticking up for kink is like trying to get high - school students excited about reading Romeo and Juliet by comparing it to Fifty Shades of Grey — it's not just ridiculous, but dishonest.

I thought that this subject could really augment our discussion surrounding my recent post about A New Kind of Fundamentalism, in which I argue that a commitment to love God and love people provides the foundation for the Christian faith.

I don't believe I can control God through prayer or through faith, I don't believe God is waiting for me to «prove» that I have enough faith or know enough Bible verses to argue the points.

[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....

According to CTV News, CAS support worker Tracey Lindsay admitted that the girls were well cared for and argued that she «never asked [the Baars] to lie or betray their faith».

Though a vocal Christian contingent argues that such analysis is hostile, it is necessary for us to examine the faith of those who profess it.