Sentences with phrase «as tests of faith»

A series of in - game modifiers known as Tests of Faith alter gameplay on the fly and ensure that matches rarely — if ever — play out the same way twice.

You love your god because he causes miscarriages as a test of faith?

Some would no doubt explain suffering as a test of our faith by «the devil».

Christians explain it away as a test of faith.

Christianity is a faith where suffering is promised as a test of your faith so your perseverance can be developed.

What do you think of the idea that god planted these fragments as a test of faith.

Maybe God planted the Bible as a test of faith, and everyone who takes it literally as 100 % true is failing?

Hispanic families are in turn more likely to use religious coping styles positively and view the challenge of raising a child with ASD as a test of their faith and part of a divine plan.

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That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

Those with any moral clarity at all have heard a better voice in this campaign: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification, but the test of values and integrity, and a president who respects family and rights of faith is better than one who, like you, claims a religious label but then opposes family and faith.

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.

«32 Out of a well - conceived pastoral theodicy, the pastor will help the oppressed to understand that their affliction may be a meaningful test of faith: «See how I tested you, not as silver is tested, but in the furnace of affliction; there I purified you» (Isa.

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

Unfortunately, the 1959 UCC Statement of Faith has attained quasi-creedal status for some UCC people, and functions in a number of churches as a kind of modern confession test.

It must play a second and opposite role, as the place where the faith of the community can be tested against the faith of the individual.

He also could have easily placed the fake bones on dinosaurs under the ground to test those lacking in faith... as well as removed any evidence of the global flood after the fact because leaving definitive proof of biblical events is unnecessary when all you should really need is faith...

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

Personally we should expect persecution when we are following Jesus and walking by the spirit Jesus said that as he was persecuted so will we.It may not be to the same extent that other believers in foreign countries who are losing there lives for there faith.But persecution for righteousness is necessary for us to grow in our faith just as a tree that is buffeted by winds grows stronger roots.You could call these tests or trails or tribulations or persecutions of a type.What ever comes our way we know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.brentnz

As a result, in America, there are no tests of faith for public office.

They insisted that they were protecting the faith delivered once and for all to the saints, so they seized upon these phrases as the tests of correctness.

Test 3: «Under the doctrine of [new] continuing revelation [such as the Book of Mormon], Latter - day Saints believe that Jesus, under the direction of Heavenly Father, leads the church by revealing his will to its President» This is in direct contradition to Jude 1:3 which says that the faith was «once for all delivered unto the saints.»

The majority incline to believe that they are purposely given as a trial in order to test the strength and validity of man's faith.

Those who do test their faith in the crucible of human experience do become certain that the witness of the Scriptures, rightly interpreted, is true and the God that Jesus proclaims as Loving Father, not the Cosmic Bully proclaimed by the Pharisees, is the True God.

Put otherwise, one can see Jesus as a charismatic but misunderstood teacher within a traditional Jewish context (my own view) or one can see him as the savior of humanity, but one can not reasonably see him as the savior for Gentiles and a mere test of faith for Jews.

There is a story out of Iowa - a story about a faith community that has matured beyond voting for the «most evangelical» candidate as a «statement» and takes seriously the responsibility of electing someone to occupy the Oval Office at a time of great national testing.

If anything, my own faith has grown stronger as I've pushed past my fears, exposed myself to new ideas, and tested my faith in light of them.

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

the story of a man who was told to sacrifice his son on an altar, by his «god», to show his faith as a test??

Can theology point to anything comparably rigorous and objective as a context for testing the truth of faith's trust in the self - emptying mystery of God and the promises given to us in revelation?

Jeremy i think satanic forces is more likely in that particular storm with Jesus and his disciples in the boat that was to test his disciples faith and they failed the test.Jesus rebuked the storm there was a power that was out to destroy them why else would he rebuke it maybe he was waiting foir them to rebuke it themselves they had prayed for people and seen healing they had commanded evil spirit to come out of people so they were aware of the power of God.Yet they were in fear of there lives faithless and afriad.Paul on his way to rome was caught in a storm and through an angel paul was told many would die Paul interceeded for the crew and lives on board and God promised that all would be spared.Paul had warned them before the voyage that it would end in disaster but they did not listen.Satan wasnt happy with that plan because he had hoped to kill as many people as possible there was over 300 souls on board and many had been expected to die.So satan attempted to kill Paul and he was bitten by a snake but satan is no match for Jesus Christ he has been defeated and so Paul lived and continued to preach the gospel was many being saved.brentnz

It involves building connections between the traditions of Christian faith and the aspirations and values that emerge as many traditions and philosophies test the limits of humanity and community in contemporary experience.

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love him..

Faith is tested and questions are raised as the makers of the documentary ask: can you really love your neighbour as yourself and then punch him in the face?

The sheer affirmation of one or another faith by those unwilling to submit their assertions to testing in a more neutral court is dismissed as fideism.

We likely entered the novel as skeptical as are the Japanese, but having heard the story, we now face a test of faith: Which do we believe?

satan was responsible for his own actions as Adam and Eve were and so are we.Its interesting that because of satans fall satan is now Gods lap dog he gives him a leash and tells him his constraints and he allows him to test his people so that through testing he builds our faith and so we can say that all things work for good to those that love God.brentnz Holiness in the prescence of sin makes it more holy so they help to define what is holy and what is evil or sin.We see that all the way through the bible so they co-exist temporarily until evil has run its course and then God will judge and we know that satan is cast into the fiery pit for ever.Even towards satan God is merciful.brentnz

He offers an outline of Genesis that breaks each chapter into three or more parallel points - «Faith's High Point: Gen 22:1 - 34» lists «The Incident as a Test, The Incident as a Triumph, The Incident as a Type.»

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

Hero Trinity had to prove that its faith involved not only routine domestic actions such as worship and fellowship but also unfamiliar, venturesome tests, the devising of programs to assuage hunger, despair, homelessness, and unemployment.

The significance of the historical Jesus for Christian faith is that knowledge of this Jesus may be used as a means of testing the claims of the Christs presented in the competing kerygmata to be Jesus Christ.

And as for whether our various faiths are a help or a hindrance to the success of this particular nation, I see no reason why that question should be the test of our convictions.

Of course, they could have tested a WFPB diet, too, but what can one expect from a medical profession which has so little faith in supporting lifestyle change as the answer for most patients in a pill - popping culture and an obesegenic environment?

That Lee was able to make a $ 100 million dollar movie about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I felt that the film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction, religious friends took it as an affirmation of their faith) even more so.

-- Kurt [LOVED] A handsome slow burn horror movie in the spirit of Jonathan Glazer or Stanley Kubrick, thick with atmospheric dread as a devout family have their faith tested by a dark force lurking in the woods.

It said children might need to take tests for several schools on different days and that further complications came from the use of banding (where schools take a proportion of children from different ability bands) alongside other criteria such as catchment area, feeder schools or a pupil's faith.

Three years ago, the Wooster City School District (WCSD) took a leap of faith, signing on with the state education agency as a partner district to help design and test the development of a statewide improvement process that could be used by any district, regardless of size and demographics, to improve student learning.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.