Sentences with phrase «because of their lack of faith»

Only people who doubt God is searching for evidence that will not be given to them because of the lack of faith.
They're wrong, in which case, they're headed for hell and damnation for eternity because of their lack of faith.
At one point we thought it was because of lack of faith on our part.
But there's another kind of evil lurking around the halls of the depressed, and it's the belief that those who are stricken with depression (or any mental illness) are suffering because of their lack of faith in Jesus.
Because of your lack of Faith.
Having been raised in a Christian home, the reality of people like this convince me that more and more deductively reasoning people are staying out of the churches, not because of lack of faith, but fear of these idiots.
I do not by any means think that people are generally not healed because of a lack of faith.
Mark Osler; you are for gay marriage because of your lack of faith in God.
On the other hand those of us that have no need to believe should not be berated or called names or have religion shoved down our throats because of our lack of faith in a personal deity.
As with most religions fear and intimidation is used because of lack of faith by the respective church.
It was because of their lack of faith that our prayers went unanswered.
But now after months of reading on them I see the hate as pain in many hearts because of lack of faith in God.
It is a perversion of the gospel to suppose that the person who dies of cancer suffers because of lack of faith.
In short, politicians borrow «objectivity» from science because of a lack of faith in the inherently subjective nature of democratic politics — the need for political engagement and discussion.

Not exact matches

It wasn't exactly a superheist, but it does nothing to assuage forfeiture critics or Bitcoin adherents, many of whom embrace the currency precisely because they lack faith in the integrity of governments.
All part of the PR biz, unless, of course he did so because a lack of other symbols of faith.
The problems of America have risen because of its lack of righteousness and faith.
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.
Your comment is interesting because in the midst of begging for respect for your own views and claiming to respect the views of atheists you imply without faith or the «spirit» they lack strength, will, a positive outlook, morality and a desire to do good.
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.
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.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, should be slaughtered because of faith / lack of it.
And I can't tell you the grief I carry still over the people that were caught in the crossfire consequences of that teaching, believing that their darkness or grief or sadness or despair or sickness was their own fault because they simply lacked faith.
Jesus confronted the Pharisees because of their lack of exactness concerning inward purity, justice balanced with mercy and their lack of faith in God.
Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence... Faith is not allowed to justify itself by argument.
I guess the shorthand of my response would be that we shouldn't be too «sure» of what we have faith in, not because we lack trust but rather because we trust the One who makes the promise so much that we can accept it if what He has in store is better than what we could expect.
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.
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...
Do not say there is not a right and wrong in this debate; there's a right, and an ignorance of the right, whether that ignorance is because of lack of education in biology / chemistry / theoretical physics or a choice to ignore facts so that a person can comfortably keep their faith intact or both.
I believe your lack of faith in God is not due to lack of proof, because that proof already exists in hte life of Jesus Christ.
Because celebrities are subject to such intense public scrutiny, it is frequently the case that their faith — or lack of faith — is general knowledge.
This too shall pass... in the form of dung, gas, sands through the hourglass, but Beck and those who make a buck off someone else's fear, faith, lack of fear, lack of faith, etc. will be with us to the last nanosecond of time, because what God in His or Her right omnipotent mind would want to listen to a ponitificating brat like Beck banging his gums in the back seat ad nauseum ad infinitum?
The Church for him is something like the uniformed units in God's array, the point at which the inner character of man's divinized life is manifested in tangible historical and sociological form or, rather, in which it is most clearly manifested because, to the enlightened gaze of faith, grace does not entirely lack visible embodiment even outside the Church.
Part of me wonders if our resistance to telling the story is our lack of confidence in recognizing that just because Christians practice the faith incorrectly and inappropriately at times doesn't mean Christianity is false.
My answer is simply this, that it is because at present our magnificent Christian charity lacks what it needs to make it decisively effective, the sensitizing ingredient of Human faith and hope without which, in reason and in fact, no religion can henceforth appear to Man other than colorless, cold and inassimilable.
But if this content is preached, how is the preacher to escape Bultmann's charge that his sermons are history lessons calling for consent, a consent which lacks the courage of faith because it requires the support and legitimization of historical evidence before it will say «yes»?
Each faith fears and fights any other system that may contradict it (including science), because faith is inherently fragile due to the lack of any tangible proof.
And guess what, atheism isn't based on faith because by definition, atheism is LACK OF FAITH in a dfaith because by definition, atheism is LACK OF FAITH in a dFAITH in a deity.
The «Christian response» will be that you lack «faith» and an understanding of Christ etc etc.... that somehow YOU are defective because their belief is undefensable.
It demonstrates a complete lack of any faith, because only in that state could someone decide to «try» something new.
And therein lies the cycle you people need to give up... you have no faith in this country because you refute faith altogether... you remain vain in the face of truth... you believe our country is hurt when it is strong... your pessimism and lack of faith is what leads you to believe your own self concieved disastrous state of our nation.
Please stop trying to defend your lack of faith, because it makes little or no sense.
When a person's belief drives them to take a man's children away from him for no reason other than who he loves, or drives them to rape a lesbian woman to make her straight, when a person's faith tells them it is good and right to kill another person because of their faith or lack thereof... these are harmful.
They succeed because of their faith, those who are not as prosperous as them lacks faith.
I mean his scientific books and papers that has brought him so much recognition means nothing to the villager because he does not have the substance to relate the the wonderful works of Hawkins.In the same token, the wonderful works and word of God will remain a myth to all those who lack the substance of faith.
Because it lacked a sure sense of authentic advantage in being the undertaking of a community of faith, it tended to look uncritically to the best - financed institutions as its models, and these invariably were secular or secularized.
Just because we are in the persuit of knowledge does not mean we lack faith in God or things we can not explain.
Everybody else ends up feeling like more of a failure, because obviously, the accountability group works for some people, and it must be their own weakness, or lack of spirituality, or little faith, or failure to read their Bible and pray enough, or whatever it might be to grant the success that others experience.
In fact we all should have some private devotions and should question seriously if they are lacking, because they provide that helpful link not onlywith the liturgy but also with the traditions of those who have gone before us in the practice of faith.
Passing judgment on people's eternal destination when you alone aren't to judge on people's fate is a wish just because you don't agree with their lack of faith in what you believe ~ that is intolerant and hateful.
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