Sentences with phrase «as lack of faith»

Some kind of religion - police pointing out your violation such as lack of faith, not prayerful enough or having unconfessed sins.

This understanding of sin does not go so deep as does the interpretation of sin as lack of faith through a refusal to accept the Love that is offered.

And how do you define their lack of a specific label as a lack of faith?

This humility will get interpreted by some as a lack of faith or as a lack of conviction and certainty.

Peter sees his situation as a lack of faith rather than a lack of fish, and he blurts out, «Get out of here, Jesus,» literally in the Greek «Get out of my neighborhood!»

I would have to speak of the meaning, as I understand it, of my lack of confidence, which I think is not at all the same as a lack of faith.

Not exact matches

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

Your souls shall be forgiven for your lack of faith, just as all souls will be forgiven in time.

Religion and faith are a personal choice and journey as is the lack of either; I raised my son and daughter much in the same ways I was raised and I am proud of their understanding and acceptance of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, that they do not look down on or speak ill of others who believe differently than they.

There is a reason that phrase, «You must be as children» (paraphrased) is in the bible... because you really would have to be a child lacking wisdom and critical thought to believe the ridiculous books of the Abrahamaic faiths, and you'd have to ba an even bigger fool to think they are the last word in spiritual truth.

The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

Milosz often sensed a lack in his own faith, and he confesses this in the Treatise, as elsewhere (see «Distance,» below): «Why not concede,» he asks, «that I have not progressed, in my religion, / past the Book of Job?»

It is true, that the theologies or lack there of puts us in a place of trusting the leadership to rightly impart the truth, even as each of us on our faith walk seek the self same for ourselves... that is trusting Holy Spirit, who was given the job to draw or bring us to the truth and lead us to Jesus and the Father.

They view the questions that rise in their minds as evidence of a lack of faith, which surely disqualifies them from being authentic believers.

It is not the expression of hope or faith that makes these lines sentimental; it is the lack of need for hope or faith, the shortcut to the light, that makes them objectionable both as art and as testimony.

Thank you for sharing your POV with those of us who lack faith in ourselves as infallible.

How can Islam be true, full and authentic when it lacks one element that historically has been understood as a sine qua non of the faith?

The only reason he wants to think of himself as an atheist is so he can blame all his woes on his lack of faith.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

God found him righteous only because of his faith which the rest of the world lacked, but he was just as guilty and deserving of justice as the rest of the world.

It doesn't bother me, as long as people don't judge me for my lack of faith.

It is this last option that Matthew's Gospel condemns so heavily, and describes as hypocrisy — though a better description might simply be lack of faith.

In those days I tried to think of myself as an atheist because I was pretty sure that the God Christians proclaimed loathed me for my sins — my laziness, my incompetence, my general lack of faith, and most of all my lack of love toward people in my life whom I knew I was supposed to love.

He would warn against promising what can not be delivered or regarding ill health as necessarily a sign of lack of faith.

What is a pagan, damned to Limbo forever for his lack of faith, doing as guide in a Christian poem?

and would you consider your lack of belief in fairies, which you aslo can't prove do not exist, as a form of faith?

But we must also be thoroughly aware that when we, as Christians, hold a discourse on violence, it is our lack of faith that speaks.

[I know many of you have expressed concern over a lack of faith - based curriculum that presents theistic evolution as an option.

Mark 16:14 - 16 — «Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

I think that (and this is where I would like input from a greek scholar) Romans 1:5 and Romans 10:16 link belief as a agreement of the report, and then also links belief in the Gospel report as obedience, which would then be for lack of a better term - the lowest common denominator of faith.

If we were to read even that biased evidence more critically, we would notice the professionals upbraiding the mass of ordinary people for lack of faith, as if the gift of which, we are told, modernity has deprived us was always rather the exception.

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 don't necessarily defend a lack of knowledge about other religions (I scored 15 out of 15 on Pew's sample quiz on their site), but neither do I see it as relevant to compare the (implied) question «Do you identify with A religion (or faith in God)» with «what is your general knowledge about ALL religions», and presume this is going to generate a meaningful result.

They betray a lack of real faith in the student as a person who must develop his own unique relation to the truth.

Christians can use faith as an excuse for a lack of answers, that's the nature of a religion.

Again, the very frank admissions of weakness or stupidity or lack of faith or downright blindness and disloyalty on the part of the disciples are sometimes explained as due to Peter's lifelong penitent self - accusation: he could not recall incidents from the life of his Master without breaking into tears once more, as once he did outside the high priest's house in Jerusalem.

The statistical reality, so far as I can tell, is that Judaism in the contemporary world is far more threatened by a simple lack of interest by Jews in Judaism, and hence an inability to pass on (as a religious faith) beliefs that are not broadly held.

That you aren't as convinced of your own faith or lack of faith as much as you think.

Anxiety over the situation of insecurity does not become operative as sin until lack of faith enters in.

There is simply no biblical support for proof obviating faith, or the faith that God desires requires a lack of proof as to His reality.

So long as liberals attempt to go it alone, or display a readiness to pass resolutions voicing concern and decrying injustice but lack resolve to work out of their faith, an ineffectual witness is guaranteed.

It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our time that we lack the patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about by coercion (or with means raised by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers.

Jesus foresees continued lack of faith as he prophesies his own resurrection.

I know this will peeve a lot of people out there but I think as long as you treat your fellow human beings the way you want to be treated then regardless of faith or lack thereof the gates of heaven will be open for you.

If all men had kept faith with each other from the first act of free loyalty onwards, and if men in their freedom had always trusted God as the sparrows trust him in their lack of freedom, then Jesus Christ might have been welcomed as the perfecter of faith, its universalizer and guarantor.

Perhaps, but doubts as to the «mere subjectivity» of practicing morality based upon your moral intuitions and your moral imagination is precisely a lack of trust (aka faith) in the Spirit.