Not exact matches
I had in my heart and tongue the Name
of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression
of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no
faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to
believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs
out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
I did not pull anything from a flier.you seam to be an educated and knowledgeable person.maybe the law
of entropy in thermodynamics is now outdated.most likely changed to try to make some scientists reasoning work.honestly what are the chances
of the earth and man to come
out of nothing.it takes more
faith or blind fanaticism to
believe that.
The Christian
faith and the other
faiths that
believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much
of the Islamic world) have reached
out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.
Mormons
believe we all just have a chance to be there by our
faith in Christ but if we aren't worthy enough, then we will still live in a lower heaven but eternally
out of the presence
of God the Father.
Some
of the good theological quotes did make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «
faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens
of anything if we
believe» to make sure viewers walked
out feeling good about themselves.
It takes more
faith to
believe that than to
believe in the One who created special designs for life
out of the chaos and has given us the internal desire to have meaning beyond our physical bodies.
FOR ONCE, a person
of public
faith who doesn't seek to prescribe to me or judge me, but instead turns her focus inward to find
out exactly why she
believes as she does, and then writes about the experience so I and others can weigh the merits and decide for ourselves.
Instead, I
believe he may have been using «reflective listening» for the dual purpose
of drawing
out the woman's
faith, and training his disciples.
And yes, even the demons
believe that God EXISTS — that has nothing to do with
faith IN God, that means, trusting Him in the darkness
of our lives that He will lead us through it all and that all things will turn
out fine — in the end.
Colin, what percentage
of people are «deceived»
out of all those people who have
faith in the god
of the bible and sincerely
believe that they are saved?
So you expect people to leave their
faith for your
faith and just
believe DNA appeared
out of mindless process when it can not even be replicated in a lab.
But it is no more a cop -
out than a blind person
believing in the concept
of «color» because the sighted person tells them it exists, and they are willing to accept it «on
faith.»
It is amazing how many people who do not
believe in God go
out of their way to click in the religious or
faith articles and stereotype and bully those who have
faith.
In a polarising debate that has already played on the public's fear
of creeping Islamisation, those who
believe in the inherent value
of faith - based schools will be hoping that the baby Jesus doesn't get thrown
out with the bathwater.
In fact, it turns
out that the statements «I
believe in God» and «I don't
believe in God» are, equally, statements
of faith.
When it didn't work
out and he questioned the tenets
of his
faith MAYBE instead
of throwing everything he
believed out the window he could have realized that his approach to belief was simply wrong.
It turned
out not only did almost all
of them
believe in this invisible power, but they presented evidence from presentations every bit as fake and crackpot as you basic
faith healer cr @p.
He added: «I
believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role
of faith - based organisations, and, frankly, more evangelical about a
faith that compels us to get
out there and make a difference to people's lives.»
Seventy percent
believed that if a person converted to the Christian
faith, it would help him lift himself
out of poverty.
What remains when we examine our
faith and try to sort
out our reasons for wanting to
believe (a way
out of tragedy perhaps), our reasons for needing to
believe (an unresolved Oedipal conflict possibly)?
But you who have been called
out of darkness into the light are expected to
believe with a whole heart; your
faith shall dominate the combined attitudes
of body, mind, and spirit.
Fight against such
of those to whom the Scriptures [Old and New Testament] were given as
believe in neither God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His apostle [Muhammad] have forbidden, and do not embrace the true
Faith [Islam], until they pay tribute
out of hand and are utterly subdued.
So why is it that a grown person who
believes in Santa would be laughed
out of town, whereas someone who
believes in something far, far, far, far less probable, with no evidence whatsoever, they are applauded for their «
faith»?
Because that would be being a hypocrite -
believing in something
out of pure
faith.
If he
believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises
out of his
faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner
of God's presence and the way
of his working in the strange person
of Jesus
of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy
of his death.
Because
of my
faith, I have always had a motivation to seek
out why people
believe what they
believe, and most importantly, why I
believe what I
believe, and the history
of what I
believe.
I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set
of views dictated by an organized religion, I
believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed
out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones
faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.
Much like how you like to bash on people
of faith for
believing in something that may or may not exist, you have to remember that you
believe in things that have yet to be proven, but toss them
out as if they are hard facts just to counter what you dislike.
On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people
of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal
faith in human progress, a way
of making sense
out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way
of life they can
believe in.»
But he also
believed in an «indirect» vindication
of Christian
faith — namely, that «it makes more sense
out of more facts» than any
of its alternatives.
I
believe that although Mary asks a question here, she is not asking
out of unbelief and doubt as Zacharias was, but
out of faith and trust.
well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings
of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices
of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts
of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to
believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all
of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth
of knowledge and understanding
of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage
of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point
out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak
of blind
faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities
of the present and the potential
of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision
of the future based upon the past?
«If you do not
believe in Christ, God, religion and
faith, get the hell
out of here and go spread your BS elswhere.»
It would be interesting to find
out why these 50 %
of people in the UK profess no
faith in God... I imagine it is because they
believe the «God»
of the Bible is full
of anger, wrath, and violence, and they can not
believe in such a god.
Third, although the Bible calls people to
believe in Jesus for eternal life, Lopez points
out that if
faith is a gift that comes as a result
of regeneration, then people should not be called to
believe in Jesus (for they can not), but should instead be called to hope and pray to God that He might regenerate them.
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Believe in Jesus Christ, that he died for you This requires that you get rid of your old sinful ways If you TRULY believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and
Believe in Jesus Christ, that he died for you This requires that you get rid
of your old sinful ways If you TRULY
believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and
believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come
out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator
of your
faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all
of this God is very patient and loving
To
believe in Christianity you have to
believe that God has an important message for humanity and to give it to us, relies on languages that die
out, relies on 40 year testimony from the actual date
of the resurrection and relies on
faith instead
of evidence.
I do in a sense have
faith but my
faith lies in
believing in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own
out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a belief in sucking up to an invisible man in the sky for «great reward» after I die).
Be very mindful how you pin a name on your brother sister; remember the church is there the burden and those who have sinned yet we become so eager to judge; the word has already judged him, God at this very moment is dealing with him in ways that no man can as we judge him, we have judged ourself, we can easily forgive when his sin is like ours, but when it is not; they killed CHRIST CAUSE HE SAID HE COULD RISE THE TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS; to the people
of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for
believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must
believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way
of making something good
out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the
faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive all;
I
believe Dante would have parabalized it as the trip into an
out of the inferno, where Pericles absent
faith combined with intelligence was stuck in a that circle.
The word
believe implies a continual process
of reaching
out to God in
faith and obedience, not only to avoid eternal destruction in hell, but also to avoid wasting our lives on earth by experiencing God's purpose now.
Rick Santorum, whom I firmly
believe would be the best president
out of the current crop
of candidates, does not back down when questioned about the influence
of faith on his life.
I
believe the church can give form to these vague yearnings
out of the treasures
of its own eschatological
faith.
And yet this movement is the movement
of faith and remains such, even though philosophy, in order to confuse the concepts, would make us
believe that it has
faith, and even though theology would sell
out faith at a bargain price.
Christians aren't even considering building a Church near ground zero
out of tremendous respect for the vast amount
of variety
of faiths of the victims even though we firmly
believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God, we will not shove that on ground zero.
If people fancy that by considering the outcome
of this story they might let themselves be moved to
believe, they deceive themselves and want to swindle God
out of the first movement
of faith, the infinite resignation.
I commented on this cause a lot
of people don't
believe it... It's a
faith thing... You called me
out on the simple matter
of metaphor which to me is
out of the question but none the less true.
More conservative theologians, on the other hand,
believed that his constant criticisms
of Bibelglaube (
faith in the Bible rather than the one to whom the Bible witnesses), «credo - Credo» (intellectual assent to the tenets
of the Creed) and
faith as a bloss Fürwahrhalten etner Lehre (a mere holding
of certain doctrines to be true) risked throwing the baby
out with the bath water.
The foundation
of faith is
believing that which can not be proved — if Jesus had wandered the earth without ever sweating, getting dirty, or lashing
out against the Pharisees, anyone who saw him would have immediately seen something divine in him without needing to understand his words.
11:6 As you exercise your
faith and
believe in Jesus and begin to put that
faith into practice through obedience to what you understand
of his Word, then things start to make a lot more sense, like how the Bible evolves naturally
out of the Torah.