Sentences with phrase «body of beliefs»

Adherents commonly refer to their body of beliefs as the truth and consider.

This antagonism is displayed not only toward modernist groups like Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and secular Jews, but also toward those who share the same body of beliefs and practices, but look to another father figure as their leader.

Some people define religion as a body of beliefs and practices which direct man's attention to one or more divine beings in an unseen supernatural world.

I have a very developed body of beliefs and I am very principled.

I'll tell you what: how about you stop acting like those atheists (who do not represent all atheists, by the way), and desist in painting an entire body of belief (or lack thereof) based on the actions of its most militant and aggressive members?

As Ransom explained it: «What we need for the moment is not so much a body of belief as a body of people familiarized with certain ideas.

To declare as the sole and final truth a single - track, authoritarian body of belief is not only to commit before God the sin of self - righteousness but to weaken one's witness before men by an offensive dogmatism.

The crux of the matter is here: The trouble is that «spiritual but not religious» offers no positive exposition or understanding or explanation of a body of belief or set of principles of any kind.

This guy is clueless to say «The trouble is that «spiritual but not religious» offers no positive exposition or understanding or explanation of a body of belief or set of principles of any kind.»

I take issue with the idea that my beliefs don't include a body of belief or a set of principles.

The trouble is that «spiritual but not religious» offers no positive exposition or understanding or explanation of a body of belief or set of principles of any kind.

«The trouble is that «spiritual but not religious» offers no positive exposition or understanding or explanation of a body of belief or set of principles of any kind» Wrong — because it's not a «trouble».

For the gospel as a body of belief there are books available; and while few can take a full course in theology, anyone who can read the English language can find out, if he cares to, what the basic tenets of the Christian faith are.

The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.

That significant body of belief would be the IPCC supported so - called «consensus / settled» climate science.

Not exact matches

The belief holds that protracted or intermittent hunger helps sharpen focus, detox the body, feed the spirit while sensitizing the fasting individual to the needs of others.

That puts us in the awkward position of making ourselves less able by our beliefs than a man whose body is disabled by cerebral palsy.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

Just keep your beliefs and your god out of the government, and off my body.

No, I think he meant the belief that suffering is a «kiss from Jesus», that women can't make decisions about their own bodies, that the RCC's wealth, power and reputation are more important than doing what is right, and that children are there for the pleasure of the clergy.

the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices....

History shows the Catholic Church being a lawless body that has been allowed to inflict their beliefs and twisted ways on people in the name of «religion» and force weaker minds into adhering to their closed minded belief system.

But the true church, the true body of Christ... to which these guys obviously belong, will not waver in their belief that love is all powerful.

- We are not a single body of people nor is there a particular set of beliefs AND practices.

Merriam Webster defines a cult as, 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

1rst, the definition of cult according to the dictionary in this case Webster «Cult: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents» so anyone involved in a church is in a cult period.

However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of Jesus in the first place, would be willing to die for a belief they themselves knew to be false?

The aspect of science that bears on this is not one scientists opinion, its the body of scientific findings that conflict with many religious beliefs (Especially Christianity and Islam).

Evidence - The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

From around the time of the French Revolution (1789) onwards some people expressed their contempt for Christian belief in the resurrection of the body and the existence of the soul by choosing cremation instead of Christian burial.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

Oxytocin appears to be part of the way our bodies support spiritual beliefs.»

Further to this belief is that these three are resurrected beings that have bodies of flesh and bone.

Fear and hatred of the body and ambiguous beliefs and feelings about sexuality produced negative views of women, another instance of men experiencing «evil» but projecting it elsewhere.

However, the path of the person that has eschewed all religious organizations is one that is meandering and largely inefficient, and the unfortunate result of not of the religion or the belief itself, but of the way in which bodies of believers function within society.

Having had a out of body experience and now being able to induce it through meditation, it is not a belief system for me.

Not only was it dangerous to have a significant body of Americans giving virtual support to an imminent nuclear war but, worse than that, these beliefs were to be found among people in high places.

Further, belief is seen to have a concrete social base in the organized body of believers.

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

Since Pharisaic Judaism held a strong belief in the resurrection of this mortal body, and Paul belonged to this tradition (see Acts 23: 6), it might be expected that Paul would affirm that belief.

lists a number of scientific bodies that hold to the belief that global warming is happening and is manmade.

He is finally beginning to understand the real need for a belief in God, for nothing else can take its place — not a faith consisting of mere words and rituals, but religion that includes every aspect of humanity: the mind, the body and the soul.»

Thus, the question arises, will they incarnate more historically than before their own belief in the «mystical body» of Christ, and the collective destiny of the fully redeemed or «liberated» human race?

But Buber believes that Paul means by faith belief in a truth, a kind of objective knowledge, whereas surely for Paul faith in Christ is never separated from love to all the members of the body of Christ and to every man.

Recent archeological work has encouraged the time - honored belief that the bone fragments still preserved beneath the altar of this Constantinian church once resided in the worn - out body of the Apostle to the Gentiles.

I live a good life where I'm always willing to put others before me regardless of who they love; what they do with their body, what their belief is.

No man [should] be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor [should he] be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor... otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief... All men [should] be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and... the same [should] in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

This degree of literal belief, however, does pose another, real problem because it tends to equate resurrection with resuscitation and perhaps to overidentify the resurrection with what happens to the body.