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 d
faith because by definition, atheism is
LACK OF FAITH in a d
FAITH 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.