Sentences with phrase «as believing»

Why should this one unbelievable thought be something that I stop using my rational thought process and accept an idea as out there as believing my neighbor can shoot boltz of lighting out of his eyes if I play my music to loud.

Or the pair of evangelical professors who wrote an article in The New York Times, criticizing evangelical leaders for their «rejection of knowledge» and for embracing «discredited, ridiculous and even dangerous ideas» — such as believing that homosexual behavior is sinful and that Darwin was wrong.

When Martha said that she believed that Jesus was the Christ, was the same thing as believing that Jesus was the resurrection and the life?

To doubt for no good reason is as silly as believing for no good reason.

The same as believing the world is flat.

That's just as faith - based as believing there is one.

This is probably a lower - than - real number as well because there are many who identify as believing in God because of their culture, but in actuality probably do not.

You do realize that almost everything you've outlined here takes just as much faith to believe as believing there is a God or a heaven?

It is a meeting of persons who represent the reality of the church as a believing, sacramental, ministering community.

Following Jesus is not the same thing as believing in Jesus.

Anyway, as for your last questions, of course believing in Jesus for eternal life is the same as believing Jesus.

However this argument is illogical because it is not as simple as believing and not believing.

Doing so would be just as silly as believing in a higher power.

Others confidently assert that only their literalistic interpretations really count as believing...

Just as believing in a God does not dictate morality.

People should be having a total fit over this — this dude is possibly going to die for something as simple as believing in something (why it's being done is another topic).

That makes him somewhat consistent with Billy G who has been quoted as believing in planned parenthood.

That is to say, Nehemiah is portrayed as believing that for God to have vividly before him, in its importance, something done in this world — in Nehemiah's case his dedication to the rebuilding and welfare of the city of Jerusalem; for God to have that as part of the divine memory was to establish the accomplishment for ever.

unknown11 I know this is very hard for you to grasp but not believing in something is not the same as believing in something else.

Others confidently assert that only their literalistic interpretations really count as believing the Bible to be true.

In addition to being an ungrammatical raving lunatic, I guess you can't process that not believing something is not the same as believing in something else.

«The belief that the unfathomable intricacies of every living thing on our earth formed themselves completely at random seems just as fantastical to me as believing in a Creator»

That would be as ridiculous as believing in one.

Interesting: Your statement: «The belief that the unfathomable intricacies of every living thing on our earth formed themselves completely at random seems just as fantastical to me as believing in a Creator» is not an accurate reflection of what evolutionary theory posits.

That's almost as funny as believing Jesus could have possibly, in any way, been a white guy.

As far as the subject can tell, it is possible that the experience is erroneous, so the subject's epistemic situation should be described as believing that it experiences actual, objective causation or that it appears to him or her that it does.

Also, if you want to look at atheists as believing after having considered the evidence and that definition is synonymous with «knowing», then that's fine.

As a believing Christian, I believe it's important to reflect humility which promotes healthy dialogue and cooperation.

believing in everything is the same as believing in nothing.

In the gospel of John 6:29 the Lord defines the work of God as believing in the one he has sent.

Right Brian, it's completely unfair to label all religious people as believing in the May 21 nonsense.

Just as believing that the earth orbits around the sun does not give me eternal life, so also, none of the beliefs I have just stated in the previous paragraph will give me eternal life by believing them.

The confusion on the Assembly floor in Vancouver reflected the fact that Christians have not been enabled to think theologically about the religious faith of their neighbors, as believing and praying (or meditating) people with a spiritual history and tradition of their own.

Fredriksen reasons that Jesus, as a believing Jew, made the festival pilgrimage to Jerusalem regularly.

My statement is the same as this: IF the sun exist, then «believing» the sun does not exist is the same as believing gravity does not exist.

We have a moral duty to use our resourceswisely not just in education, but in every aspect of our life as a believing community.

This is why we atheists will frequently define «faith» as believing in something without evidence, or in spite of evidence.

To not believe in GOD is as bad as believing in Climate Change.

Calling the mystery «God» is not the same as believing in a deity.

Not believing in a God is not the same as believing there is no God.

When you make a generalization such as those believing in some sort of religion are the jokes in the intellectual world... I assure you that you are not conversing with the intellectual world.

After being married for 12 years I can assure any of you that feel this way that is as crazy as believing jumping on a smaller grenade won't hurt as bad (not that getting married is like jumping on a grenade).

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To clarify, I would define «faith» simply as believing in something to be true.

Nigel Rees, editor of an engaging newsletter that tracks down quotations, reports that Chesterton's fictional Father Brown said things very much like that, but he suspects the source is Emile Cammaerts» 1937 book on GKC, which paraphrased him as believing that «The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.»

Not believing in something does not equal hate, just as believing in something does not make it real.

This position is every bit as irrational as believing that the universe was created last Thursday.

Disbelieving in God could be looked upon the same as believing there is no God, and therefore it's a belief.

Cal - OSHA is required to investigate any claims that are made, regardless of whether they have merit or are baseless (as we believe these are), and we always provide our full cooperation.

The future might be as bleak as some believe it will be.