Sentences with phrase «beliefs about the existence»

To push your beliefs (or non / anti beliefs as it were), is no different than a religious group pushing their beliefs about the existence of a god.

The movie, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix, stars Ejiofor as a real - life religious figure, Bishop Carlton Pearson, who shook the church when a message from God urged him to shift his beliefs about the existence of hell.

The study presents both correlational and experimental evidence confirming that cultural cognition shapes individuals» beliefs about the existence of scientific consensus, and the process by which they form such beliefs, relating to climate change, the disposal of nuclear wastes, and the effect of permitting concealed possession of handguns.

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to claim that is the essence of your belief (and it is a belief) about the nature of existence & live as though there is actually some subjective purpose... it's simply existential schizophrenia.

Why are there so many beliefs about god's nature, and why can't any believer prove his existence?

Religion is mostly about belief in the supernatural, and evidence of the natural can not be used to support the accuracy / existence of the supernatural.

Why aren't atheists ever swayed into belief by WLC's meanderings about his hypothetical «uncaused caused» (named god) which is made of nothing but poofed everything into existence from its nothingness?

If you read the details, despite belonging less to churches and praying less «young adults» beliefs about life after death and the existence of heaven, hell and miracles closely resemble the beliefs of older people today».

Your belief in God is based on nothing more than a simple desire to believe a comforting narrative because the alternative is to believe harsh realities about your existence.

The existence of such a god would not validate your beliefs about your god.

If this is the same methodology you use to arrive at your beliefs and convictions, you have a far worse issue to worry about than trying to prove the non existence of God.

Of course, for most people, before they can ever believe in Jesus for eternal life, they need to have other beliefs about themselves, the existence and nature of God, and some other biblical truths.

If the article above was written by a grown adult about the existence of Santa Claus, and if that argument was essentially based on asserting Santa Claus» existence based on faith and the popularity of the Santa Claus myth, then anyone would be justified in scorning those beliefs, especially when that argument extends to declaring that recent findings confirm the existence of Santa (after all, children are still receiving Christmas gifts).

Beneath the various attempts to articulate the content of Christian faith lies a «vision of reality» with implications for beliefs about God, the world in general, human existence in particular, and even some historical events, especially about Jesus.

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.

... we are offended when people, even people like Oprah, make childish statements and claims that because every so often our beliefs about the world and existence happen to overlap means that we Atheists OBVIOUSLY really believe in «god» after all because to the believer those rare similarities in belief don't mean common ground... they mean «SEE, you are one of us no matter what!»

In speaking about his views of eternity on Wednesday, answering a question from a caller based in Atlanta, Romney was echoing Mormon beliefs about the eternal nature of human existence.

Belief in God is about the philosophical questions that existence raises.

But, agnosticism is not an alternative to atheism or deism, it simply refers to a belief about «proof» rather than a belief about «existence.»

If our most basic beliefs about the stuff of which nature is made preclude the existence of some other, radically different metaphysical stuff from which a transcendent deity might be made, then we must admit, as an inescapable consequence, that no such transcendent being exists.

When the text thus interprets its interpreter, it does so not through re-engaging belief in ancient religious categories but by raising questions about the would - be interpreter's existence — his estrangement from himself and others, his experienced «fulfillment gap» between what he is and what be could be.

There is no way to grasp Luther's milieu of experience and faith unless one has an acute sense of his view of Christian existence between God and the Devil: without a recognition of Satan's power, belief in Christ is reduced to an idea about Christ — and Luther's faith becomes a confused delusion in keeping with the tenor of his time.

fact [fakt] something known to be true: something that can be shown to be true, to exist, or to have happened truth or reality of something: the truth or actual existence of something, as opposed to the supposition of something or a belief about something piece of information: a piece of information, e.g. a statistic or a statement of the truth

When they insist they will never question their belief in God or never doubt his existence or will never ever not trust the wonderful feelings they have about God, when they feel assured deep in their being about God, then I wonder if they are being invited further into the abyss perhaps we have all feared and are firing off their final rounds of defense.

Most atheists would change their mind to align with YOUR viewpoint about god's existence if that PROVEN method showed your belief to be reasonable.

This was its linking belief in God with belief in posthumous careers for human persons, in spite of the fact that, in the Book of Job for instance, although the divine existence is there taken for granted, there is not a whisper about Heaven or Hell, or about posthumous rewards or punishments, or any other prolongations of a person's experiencing after death.

But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.

Both couples appear to subscribe to the belief that nothing can go wrong at home that they can't make it to hospital in time to fix, with one couple being particularly convinced about the existence of «the cascade of interventions» and the notion that bad things mostly happen as a product of OB interference.

The government's new Immigration Bill is about two things: making it easier for the Home Office to forcibly remove and deport people, and creating a «really hostile environment» in the belief that people will leave the UK if their existence here is made impossible.

Their announcement in 1982 of the existence of a «ribozyme» — an RNA molecule capable of catalyzing chemical reactions — upset beliefs about the nature of enzymes, but soon other catalytic RNAs were discovered.

Info and task sheet based on belief about God 2 sets example exam answers to mark Set of info posters on God's existence that I used as a walk around activity Mini (A5 size) revision cards with spaces, questions etc for students to complete and use as revision Starter activity sheet focusing on arguments for God's existence

Students will consider the existence of life after death before completing a fill in the gaps sheet on Muslim beliefs about the afterlife.

Man - made climate change is a hot topic and, regardless of your beliefs about the effect of man - made emissions on the global climate, it's inevitable that the internal combustion engine will eventually be all but wiped out of existence.

How do you convincingly dismiss most of civilization's beliefs in the hereafter and still arrive at fresh optimism about the meaning of our all - too - human existence?

Richard, I give you this quote from your comment on the Christmas thread at December 29, 2012 at 10:50 am, talking about rgbatduke: «And, as do most atheists, he fails to recognise that his religion is as faith - based as any other: agnosticism rejects faith but belief that no deity exists (i.e.atheism) is a religious faith of identical kind to belief in the existence of one or more deities (i.e. theism).»

In short,, though simplified, its the confusion of non certainty of an outcome with belief therefore that there is no relevant knowledge about the range of outcomes, or that that knowledge can not support the existence of a problem or challenge that would be highly counterproductive to not address.

Do you dream about being part of an organization that holds its culture, its belief in people and its support of high performing teams at the very heart of its existence?