Sentences with phrase «as a matter of faith»

No, at least not in the sense that religion is a revealed doctrine, surpassing human reason and accepted as a matter of faith.

You probably believe your own statement simply because it fits in with your beliefs, accepting it as true as a matter of faith alone without proof.

Christian believe the resurrection as a matter of faith not science.

It was taken as a matter of faith that financial gains would be invested in upgrading the enterprises once they were privatized, installing new machinery and hiring more labor to provide better service while increasing output at falling prices.

That almost all the new voices in theology are voices of emerging peoples who are driven to toss off the heavy layers of fate and circumstance, and who press justice as a matter of faith, only intensifies this theological trend.

Shortly after the attacks on New York and Washington, Kauffman received a call from a Blade columnist who wanted to know what someone who «is a pacifist as a matter of faith thinks about the events.»

(For example, a Christian woman once told me earnestly that even if biologists were able to demonstrate common descent to a certainty, she would still reject it for a simplistic interpretation of the Genesis creation account as a matter of faith.)

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

It is unfortunate that Mr. Blanshard has presented his material in such a way as to confuse criticism of many particular applications of Catholic teaching with what seems to be an attack on the freedom of a church to have its own authoritarian structure as a matter of faith.

If you haven't thought of climate change as a matter of faith, Rev. Bingham hopes to inspire you to do so.

Groia says the law society can continue to promote goals of diversity while respecting the freedom of lawyers by exempting those who will not sign a statement as a matter of their faith or conscience.

It is, in fact, downright impossible to believe a word in the report unless you suspend all faculties of disbelief and merely accept as a matter of faith that they «could be» right.

As a matter of faith we simply take Jesus at his word when he said «This is My Body» (as Cardinal Pell said during his own response).

They assert, as a matter of faith, that it is impossible to improve their odds in any meaningful way.

You should take it as a matter of faith that science is partial, conditional, provisional and quite often wrong when reaching overarching conclusions from limited and often conflicting data.