Sentences with phrase «by believers such»

The paradigm has been accepted as fact by the believers such that those who question the mantra can be labeled by the believers as skeptics or deniers.

Not exact matches

I am not defined by such labels as atheist or believer, they are just possible words to describe some very miniscule part of what I happen to think about a very basic level of the topic.

You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit Who is ever faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.

Believers who read these stories aren't going to be swayed by such things any more than you will by the quoting of Scripture (since you've already said that you believe it to be a book of made up stories).

But if memoria is the essential retrospective faculty for the believer seeking to make a coherent Christian life, it will only be exercised by those who think such retrospection potentially valuable — that is, for those who are hopeful.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Can Christian believers be grasped by the promise of the new age and the perils of the transition in such a way that leads them into a fresh experience of the gospel of Christ and the power of the Spirit?

Whether or not God tinkered with creation in the manner envisioned by creationism or some versions of intelligent design, such tinkering is neither necessary to the doctrine of creation nor is it the source of the beauty seen by the believer.

This is why something as obvious to a person not blinded by such things is completely incomprehensible to a believer..

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

However, and quite surprisingly I should add, you might be interested to know the effect your words have upon a believer in God of forty years, and by the way I wish to thank you for your words in this province, that when I read such terse thoughts they have the distinct effect of deepening, in an extraordinary way, my faith and cause me to love and worship God even more than ever.

Of believers / the godly / the just to whom he is writing, he uses the pronoun «you» (v. 1,3,13) But of the ungodly / the wicked / those who are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your theory that the false teachers of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the context!

If such propositions are put forward by the magisterium itself, they require respect and assent from the individual believer.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

When you find yourself in such a situation, Jesus says there is a way for believers to deal with injustice in our lives, and that is not to get caught up in the trading of hostilities and lawsuits that the rest of the world operates by.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

There is probably no greater cause for the ease in which believers are being misled by the teachings of others (however well - intended and sincere such teachings may be), than the fact that they have for all practical purposes never been taught how to rightly divide the word of truth themselves.

Such a creator is not the personalized one held by believers in this forum and can not be arrived at using said arguments due to contradiction with scripture.

Whether such a theology will ultimately find more acceptance among scholars and believers than the «substance theologies» of the past can only be tested by the passage of time.

i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god of any kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!

Finisher: As a believer, I would say that, separate and apart from your specific position here, you are not exactly doing whatever faith you believe in very much good by expressing your position in such a combative, demeaning fashion.

Believers know by faith the details that nonbelievers take such pains to deny.

The true believer is «a man determined to drag the supernatural back to life by the sheer power of wishing, or failing that, to vent his desolation on those around him — on reality itself for being such a cheat» (The New Nonsense [Simon & Schuster, 1974] p. 75).

For that matter, there's no assurance to the believer receiving such instructions that those commands are not constructs of his own mind (or even that they weren't planted there by some other «god» that's just deceiving him).

The moderate cleric killed in Kashmir bombing must have been planed to happen by non muslims since it wad in a worship house on a Friday prayer since no true Muslim would do such an act no matter how much hate there was, who ever did that was non God fearing or believer in God and the Judgment day!!!

Robert, it is partly because believer idiots such as yourself also get to vote and impact the laws that the rest of us have to live by, and you are influenced by your absurd religio - dogma.

@swohio: You said, «Honestly, if atheists really think they're going to pursuade believers to stop believing by putting up such silly messages on billboards»

Which has became a practice for believers to slaughter lamb and other animals on Eid days such as Eid AlFiter after the fasting month and on Eid AlAdha which comes after the pilgrimage at Mecca at the House of GOD which was built by Abraham and Ismael...!

Honestly, if atheists really think they're going to pursuade believers to stop believing by putting up such silly messages on billboards, they are sadly mistaken and obviously know nothing about what it means to have faith in God.

The achievements in the area of social justice, initiated by the socio - political activism of people such as Nelson Mandella, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, attest to the fact that God is present and when political activism, in the area of social justice is being carried out by Believers.

Such an observation is typically countered by the claim that rather than excluding and separating from their brothers and sisters, these believers are simply addressing the overt and insufficiently acknowledged sinfulness of the church.

This would force the Jewish believer - in - Jesus to be ignored by his / her family, lose all credibility for bringing their family or community to Jesus, and create such deep conflict within the Jewish believer - in - Jesus that he / she may simply renounce Christ rather than lose their spouse and children.

I think the larger point was that we'll know a Christian believer by his or her fruits, and hyalineblue doesn't appear to have seen any such fruits.

The idea is to «approach God as a commodity» and to understand that religious believers are «consumers» rationally calculating their «investment» in a «product» such as salvation supplied by «entrepreneurs» who establish religious «firms.»

A groundbreaking survey of such believers in 10 countries, including the United States, where they account for 23 percent of Americans, was released this month by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

If by this one means that we can know very little about Jesus of Nazareth by means of the scientific methods of the historian, so that a modern biography of him is hardly possible, such a viewpoint need not trouble the believer, although it could be a topic of legitimate discussion among historians.

I think by having such quick, categorical answers to issues that David writes about, you miss out on opportunities to see things from a different perspective or to empathize with other believers.

In 1837, the first editor of Washington's Collected Works wrote: «If a man who spoke, wrote, and acted as a Christian through a long life, who gave numerous proofs of his believing himself to be such, and who was never known to say, write, or do a thing contrary to his professions, if such a man is not to be ranked among the believers of Christianity, it would be impossible to establish the point by any train of reasoning.»

Matthew 7:16 says, «By their fruit you will recognize them...» and depending on the believer you will judge him as such... I judge his as the same man the fearful and ignorant jews and romans murdered on a cross, nothing has changed since he's be away.

My dad had a strong religious formation in his youth, and he held firmly Lutheran views on things such as the priesthood of all believers and salvation by grace through faith.

The «man in the clouds» version is used because that seems to be the most common one described by believers and many «scriptures», such as the Bible and Quran (sp?).

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

«Such an approach seems foreign to the unconditional commitment that is demanded of authentic believers,» he writes, «a commitment that is described by the apostle Paul as one that involves becoming a living sacrifice.

Inspired by examples of American civil rights activists, such as the freedom riders of 1961, HRPM members travel at a moment's notice to fight injustice and defend villagers thrown off their land, persecuted believers of any religion, and the human rights of all.

Definitions on dogma ruled out specific Protestant positions, such as justification by faith alone and the priesthood of all believers.

For Alyosha and all other believers, by contrast, the mysterion enlivens such vision and thought.

While it is true that Rahner's presentation of man as a «supernatural existential» does aim to maintain some kind of nature of man such that it can not be absolutely identical with his supernatural vocation, the texts quoted above appear to indicate that the supernatural life that is given to the believer is something already possessed by the non-believer in equal measure.

Daydream Believers has emerged as an expression of this same understanding and hope ~ it is using our words to create the reality for our children by lifting up their strengths and encouraging the development of traits such as compassion, joy and wonder.

When he was gearing up to run for his second term, I asked him why, if he was such a believer in politics being about merit, and about the rightness of his policies, he wouldn't abide by the campaign - finance rules and level the playing field.