Sentences with phrase «belief as»

They insisted that the Church could not ignore its historic doctrinal position and that it had to be concerned with belief as well as with practice.

«It seems to me», writes Wisdom, «that some belief as to what the world is like is of the essence of religion.»

I wanted to hold on to this belief as one of my core convictions.

a grand idea based on superst.ition from an age of ignorance... why is such an improvable idea held with such belief as if it is true?

@JustinW But Justin you just DID show judgment in your statement by belittling someone's belief as a fantasy.

It is, moreover, important to recognize that the hierarchic ordering of religious identifications with community and caste is achieved in at least two closely related ways: first, the positing of the unstable and indefinable category of «private religious experience» as a separable, essentialized reality falling outside historical affiliations of caste or community; and, second, the isolation of belief as extraneous to determining an individual's membership in the community.

This position corresponds to Christian belief as well as to the practices of most civilizations.

This is essentially a restatement of Hartshorne's position, noted above, that «God has the activity of my belief as an activity of his part, but this is passivity of himself, as a whole, to the part, and thus the belief is felt and enjoyed but not believed, except by the part.»

They look at others with pivotal moments of belief as strange.

And ironically your arguments have just contradicted your belief as an Atheist.

Respect each others beliefs and we will respect your belief as well.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

This has to do with whether or not it's ok for a corporation to not follow the law and infringe upon the rights of its employees with religious belief as their only excuse.

Since I believe noone can act as if this is so, I regard adopting such a belief as a profound philosophical weakness.

Faith, to me, has gotten a bad wrap by being associated with belief as the word has evolved.

It is so important to instill belief as a first step in the placebo process, that doubters must be threatened with eternal torture if they resist belief.

And if you reply and deny, that will be a form of trying to manipulate my belief as to your motives and purpose.

Though this group of heresy - hunters often say they're motivated by concern for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, their practice of labeling every diverging belief as heresy has the opposite effect.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

We accept religious belief as playing a large role in human history.

They state their belief as opinion.

Though in one sense belief in God is the necessary presupposition of belief in miracles, it is not belief in God as an explanation of the phenomena of the world (for the world always hides God, if He does not will to reveal Himself by miracle), but belief as the obedience which is ready to perceive the claim of God upon man in all situations.

We take issue with believers using their belief as an excuse to push their ideas onto people who don't share their god - belief and claim superiority over other «infidels.»

Naturally, they believed that they were denying notions that were unworthy of deity when they said that God is not passive, contingent, dependent, and effect; but Hartshorne labels such belief as pure prejudice.

I don't think of Alise's belief as denial so much as a difference of opinion, akin to taking opposite sides on a political issue.

Not everyone holds the Christian belief as truth!

Most important to me was Freud — not his diagnosis of religious belief as an infantile longing but his list of defense mechanisms (sublimation, projection, reaction formation among them).

I wouldn't take something as important as someone's belief as Spam.

My antinationalistic Zionism, apart from my gut aversion to all apartheid regimes, is born of my belief as a Christian that «salvation is of Israel,» that the Jews are chosen of God and indisputably have suffered terribly in bearing the ontological burden of the election God has laid upon them.

C. F. Evans sums up by saying, «It is plain that Matthew's final chapter furnishes neither reliable historical information nor early Christian tradition about the resurrection, but only an example of later christological belief as it had developed in one area of the church, and of the apologetic which had been conducted in that area in the face of Jewish attacks.

Even now, all Jewish rabbis proclaim this belief as god - given truth.

What is revealed about God in the Jesus Christ event identifies something about God that is not reducible to generic belief as found in other religions or in the philosophy of religion.

Mary Karr, one of the writers Gioia mentions, shares this belief as well, confessing, «Poets were my first priests, and poetry itself my first altar.»

They cite their certainty in this belief as reason enough to suppress stem cell research that could save millions of lives, amongst other harmful decisions.

I agree with Tyson: using belief as an excuse for ignorance is a dying maneuver.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

On the other hand, your argument treats a lack of belief as fundamentally equivalent to affirmative beliefs.

Making the question about a stories creation (by a god or a man) is a complicating a more basic question about a gods existence, and attempting to present a lack of belief as a belief.

Furthermore, the covenant of grace given to mankind through Christ Jesus held the same place in Puritan belief as in Pilgrim.

@derp Again great point And your right many of us disagree on our belief As for if Deliverance thinks I'm going to hell.

Atheism is as much of a belief as any religion; there can never be conclusive evidence that proves there is no God, just as there can never be conclusive evidence that proves there is one.

Yes, Atheism is a religion / belief as is other relgions / beliefs.

guidedans, That is how you view the world, and it explains your ability to easily dismiss objective evidence and hold onto evidence - free belief as Truth.

The Christian theologian therefore properly takes this belief as one of the «facts» to which a theological position should be adequate, even if it is not a fact in as strong a sense as hard - core commonsense ideas and very well - grounded scientific and historical ideas.

It could be used to attack religion, prop up one belief as better than another, etc, but that has no value, IMHO.

To make your assertions, you must have excluded the other possibilities, otherwise, you are just forwarding belief as if it were true, which is completely dishonest.

I'm an agnostic because it's just as dumb to have faith in the nonexistance of something without a shred of evidence to support your belief as it is to have faith in the existance of something without a shred of evidence to support that belief.

She may have referred to «light» and «dark» because those are images that most people can relate to, regardless of belief in one or more deities, or non belief as well.

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.

I don't mean to label or brand any particular church, but the Lutheran Church was and might still be very guilty of having this belief as their credo.