Sentences with phrase «belief in the authority»

At one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because of their belief in the authority and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection of all the dead in some bodily form.

This malady seems to be everywhere, but it is surprising to me how common it is among the most conservative of Christians — those who speak often of their belief in the authority of Bible.

Though some of my fellow church folk may wonder that it could be so, I must affirm that it is my belief in the authority of Scripture which led me to the schools I attended, to the beliefs I cherish, to the ministry of teaching I enjoy, to the theological method I apply.

Albert Einstein «Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.»

At the end, when admonishing those that «raised your hands in denial of the truth,» he should have come full circle to remind them that uncritical belief in authority and consensus has caused the death of over 100 million people.

While Leon was a fake, playing on the Applicant's belief in his authority as a spiritual leader who could bring him positive benefits, i.e. protection from evil spirits and from prosecution, Leon did nothing to interfere with this Applicant's ability or right to worship, nor did he coerce him to disbelieve or disavow his religious beliefs.

Not exact matches

An important and useful element of the thinking at the time was the replacement of the earlier «control theory» approach to policy (i.e. the belief that the central point was to find an appropriate spot on the Phillips curve and to stay there), towards a «game theoretic» view, in which the critical issues related to behaviour — the interaction between the monetary authorities and the public.

As further exposition of how blind compliance to authority and the «It Won't Happen to Me» belief pattern work together to prevent us from taking the protective measures we need to take right now, consider a November 2014 article in which a financial analyst stated, «it's time to ditch your golden faith, embrace the truth — and make gold a barbaric relic of your portfolio's past.»

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I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Both of these statements are nothing more than declarations, like so many others often used by Christians, to add the semblance of authority to a belief which in reality has no basis whatsoever.

In this case, if you consider the Talmud / OT an accurate authority you may quote from them to justify your stance, also stating your belief in their doctrineIn this case, if you consider the Talmud / OT an accurate authority you may quote from them to justify your stance, also stating your belief in their doctrinein their doctrines.

They taught me it was ok to challenge authority, the status quo, even my belief in God.

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

However, the insult is in the explicit denial of the authenticity of Christian baptisms, on the basis of the Mormon belief that the power was lost upon the death of the original apostles, and was restored when they returned as angels and appeared to Joseph Smith, granting him authority which now resides only within the Mormon organization.

Therefore you contend that belief in religion based on authority is rational given everyone else has done it.

It points out that in Islam no man has authority over another person's beliefs, and that only God has authority to introduce beliefs and to require or receive worship.

This is so because central to Keen's thought has been his belief that all theology, including a theological understanding of play, must be defined solely in terms of one's own autobiography («I may speak of grace only in the first person») 34 This solipsistic reduction of religious authority to personal experience has led Keen to characterize incorrectly both theology and the play experience itself.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

Unfortunately, their belief in their own righteousness, on their own authority, gives them a disdain for those who dare disagree.

I have discovered that most atheists claim sole authority over the realms of science and reason and promote a view that belief in a creator is incompatible with them.

Chris, however, sees belief in papal authority as standing in direct contradiction to the doctrine of sola scriptura — the Bible alone being the infallible guide for faith and doctrine.

Another aspect of the modern world that concerns all fundamentalists is the loss of belief in a fundamental authority undergirding the value system.

Belief in evolution is a necessary component of atheism, pantheism, and all other systems that reject the sovereign authority of an omnipotent personal God.

It is clear then why the question of biblical authority is so important to evangelicals: belief in the infallibility of the Scriptures is the pillar which supports our theology - without it the edifice would surely crumble.

Critical scholarship is supposed to have proven the unscientific nature of belief in biblical authority.

Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.

You are just another arrogant toad, pretending to have authority, when in truth all you have is an emotional attachment to a bronze age belief system.

It's belief in a God who dictated the rule of the Bible that gives it any authority over people today.

But it would require accepting others» authority, just as your authority is accepted in your congregation, to manage their churches in accordance with their beliefs and faithful to their understanding.

«Inclusivity,» which in the context of the new authority is interpreted as the amalgamation of people with vastly different beliefs and ways of life, thus becomes not only the method but also the end of authority's exercise.

In ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of livinIn ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of livinin respect both to belief and ways of living.

Authority, therefore, does not separate ruler and subject; it rather links them in a shared bond of fundamental belief and in a common form of life.

In both church and state, the extent of the authority one enjoys as an officeholder is not delimited by beliefs shared with the people over whom authority is exercised.

The authority of office is not one based in common belief and life but in «agreements» and «rights» on the basis of which buffer zones are placed between persons who are not civic friends or brothers and sisters in the Lord but adversaries with differing interests.

Belief in God requires Christians to affirm «absolutist» truth claims, but such claims are divisive, establish relations of authority, and encourage rigid distinctions between right and wrong.

Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular society in question.

It would appear that the crisis in authority we now face has been caused by the dissolution of a common standard of belief (what used to be called the rule of faith) and a common form of life (what used to be called «the way»).

In this battle, a view which presupposes that it is not only impossible but wrong for authority to protect and further common beliefs and ways of life gains increasing control of our imagination, and as it does it erodes the foundations necessary for a church to remain a church.

So prominent has been this debate that outsiders have often regarded evangelicals as holding, not to a distinct view of the sole authority of Scripture (as was argued in the previous chapter), but to a belief in Biblical inerrancy.2

How about a candidate that very correctly holds the Consti.tution as the authority of this nation (not any religious book) because our founding fathers very deliberately separated church from state in order to protect the beliefs of everyone?

One style of faith typical of children but also frequently found among adults is founded upon a deep sense of belonging to a community in Which faith is expressed through the «heart» and belief is dependent upon external authority.

Consequently, Descartes» texts and writings indirectly advance Judeo - Christian beliefs and traditions in a manner acceptable to the ecclesiastical authorities of his time.

@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

The Unitarian Universalist church body's Web site upholds a belief that «personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.

Even a test - act that required officeholders to declare «their belief in the being of a God, and in the divine authority of the scriptures,» would not have satisfied, since it is easy to dissemble.

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) calls for openness, yet the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) strongly affirms traditionally held beliefs concerning the Church's structure and authority.

Though critics usually look upon the UUA as a union of unbelief and uncertainty, the church body's Web site upholds a belief that «personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.»

Being is the doctrine that «everything stands still,» a fateful doctrine resting only on belief in philosophical and theological authorities, not on the nature of reality (TSZ 218f.).