Sentences with phrase «believing in something without»

Faith is believing in something without proof.

Obviously at the start of the thread you were originally refering to «faith» as believing in something without proper evidence, when asked whither you apply that faith to other things you then switched to its other meaning of evidence based faith, you are not being honest with us or with yourself.

I was condemning religion, or more specifically blind faith (i.e. believing in something without proof).

I think it's just that they can't get around believing in something without any proof.

Considering that there is actually no evidence for God (which is why in the first place you have faith...), and hopefully you all do know the definition of faith — Believing in something without evidence, already states that there isn't evidence for God... no going back to Atheism.

The answer given at the Bible group was, «Faith is believing in something without having absolute proof.»

FAITH is believing in something without understanding it.

No, faith by definition is believing in something without any evidence.

That's just a bullsh!t rationalization for believing in something without any supporting evidence.

This is why we atheists will frequently define «faith» as believing in something without evidence, or in spite of evidence.

Believing in something without proof or verification is just plain insane.

No, faith is believing in something without evidence.

Why I do not believe in something without any actual reason to believe in that something.

It takes a closed mind to ignore the various reasons not to believe in something without evidence.

You are closing your mind to the reasons not to believe in something without reasonable evidence.

Whenever you believe in something without evidence, believe that this thing is ordained by the most intelligent being in the universe, and that no amount of reasoning or discussion can change your mind about it, then you make a culture war completely inevitable.

Is it truly possible to believe in something without being able to define what that something is....

To believe in something without evidence you have to be taught and convinced.

All an atheist is is someone who doesn't believe in a deity... and I do not see anything wrong with that Why would one have to believe in something without proper justification anyway?

A wise person will not believe in something without proof.

Where faith means to believe in something without any evidence.

Not exact matches

I believe deeply in the power of giving, without expectation of getting something in return.

It is insane to believe in something... anything... without evidential proof.

@ jack3 no you have the right to believe what ever you want, but we might mock you for believing in something that has talking snakes, a story about the world flooding and being able to fit all the animals on the planet on one boat, that believes in magic, that believes a person lived in the belly of a whale, and that people coexisted with dinosaurs all without any actual proof.

Even if you don't want to believe in God, you still believe something like energy was eternal, without creation.

and being aware of your environment, being respectful of those of all beliefs and none beliefs, and of our world, and its about personal responsibility, with that said why is is such a bad thing to believe in something greater than yourself, how can somebody live there life without believing in something, what kind of life is that, life is meant to be discovered, its one big mystery, and all the science in the world can still not prove how we exactly came to be?

If you really believed in your own God completely and without doubt, you wouldn't have had to attempt to use bad logic to put an answer together, you would have merely answered with a reply something along the lines of «Because God does what the f *** he wants.»

When properly qualified, even the Christian can believe this, because without something from the world that redounds back upon God, the world in its totality would have no meaning at all.

I think a big thing about being spiritual is believing in something higher than yourself without being tied to some arbitrarily specific moral code created by people (not God (s)-RRB- in the context of their times that often has horrifyingly backwards and incredibly immoral rules.

It is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new world; it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace; and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.

And your «unless you're open to the slightest possibility that you are indeed a space alien born a millisecond ago from another universe, then you are claiming something to be an absolute truth» I think the point was the likelihood — why do you not believe the space alien without proof yet believe in gods and angels without proof?

«Everyday life ceases to appear as something manipulated by vast, mysterious forces beyond human control or understanding and becomes a world that is manipulable, predictable, and intelligible... When you can get by happily enough without God, even if you do believe in him, why bother with him at all?»

John R. Brokhoff's As One with Authority (1989) is a pointed rejoinder to Craddock's As One Without Authority (197 I) Brokhoff an old - fashioned Lutheran who was Craddock's predecessor at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, exalts the sacrament of the Word (he believes sermons should be longer) and turns back liturgical renewal (Eucharist once a month is plenty) The Word is not something overheard but something overwhelming.

So in this sense, it is unlikely that anyone will believe in Jesus for eternal life without believing that Jesus is God, but once again, there is a difference between something being likely and something being required.

Faith is nothing but a cop out to believe something without evidence, and has nothing to do with whether freewill can exist in conjunction with something that is omniscient.

Should be: ``... (somehow without accepting that believing in God, and the right God, and then accepting this God is somehow not a work, even when it is something a person has to do in...» Apologies.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

so much so that they seek out something without any merit nor even a shredd of evidence and then claim it to be more then truth but the word of god who for all intents and purposes is equal to every other make believe creature in the entire history of man - kind!

Also, I think most religious ritual seems pecular to the atheist and I think there is a tendency for something to stick out in your mind if you can't imagine why some one would believe something improbable without evidence.

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.

Anyone without the moral compass that comes with believing in something greater than themselves particularly in a position of world power is scary

Some people just have to believe in something and without that «something» then they feel that their life is meaningless and not worthwhile.

This may sound absurd to someone who grew up assuming their was ample evidence for the supernatural claims covered in the Gospels, but without ample evidence, involving another deity — especially one that was likely used to scare people into believing (and for the sake of explaining why something didn't seem right in historical sequence), is pretty fishy.

Context: Last night I was shooting the breeze with my roommates when one of them brought up religion and how it was a «good thing to grow up with religion because it gives children something to believe in», when I countered that there are many different things children can believe in growing up without having to resort to something like religion, I basically had to sit there for 10 minutes about how atheism ruins lives because it makes everyone apathetic and despondent.

Many religious houses had become something like clubs which people inhabited without any longer believing in their declared purposes.

This article is merely saying that many Christians are brought up to believe that s ex is dirty and wrong and something you must do without regard for your emotions in a marriage and that he says NO!

There are ways to find connection and meaning in life without believing in something that's existence is about as proven as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy.

One can have faith in our belief (s), but faith itself goes to the human core, allowing one to «believe» something that you know to be true without needing «proof» of it.

To go from not believing in the existence of any God, Hindu or other, to faith in the love and guidance and loving arms of a Father in Heaven is, indeed, a huge «leap» for some, that takes not only that BELIEF but the FAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask for it.

After all, in the Christian use, faith is necessarily faith in something, a believer believes in something, and in so far as that «something» is «Jesus», historical knowledge can help to provide the content, without thereby becoming the main source of that content.