Sentences with phrase «by faith while»

His greatest contribution may be that he forces other reform guys to defend justification by faith while they usually preach more of a turn or burn message

Many things are taken by faith while others can be proven.

This situation is exactly like that surrounding female circu mcision, with only some religious people claiming that it's sanctioned by their faith while the rest all denounce it.

Not exact matches

There is strong faith by the board that our CFO can guide us forward while the CEO search is conducted,» Prairie says.

By 2008, while I plunged into a world of media startups and heard phrases like «sharing is the key» come out of my mouth, Ben never lost faith in the dream we had shared.

While you can still apply for these mortgages at SunTrust, you'll have to go through the longer process of requesting a Good Faith Estimate by contacting or meeting a loan officer.

By raising rates, the Fed is signaling its faith that the recovery can continue, even if domestic growth may have already crested while the Fed waited.

And while the show set out to reveal the human side of such families - not one sexed - up by Hollywood (think HBO's «Big Love») or sullied by allegations of under - aged brides (think the trial of Warren Jeffs)- it kept details about faith out of episodes.

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people can not but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times «by the sword» to get them to abandon their faith.

This cartoon is inspired by three Chinese Christians who's faith sustained them while imprisoned: Brother Yun, Nien Cheng, and Watchman Nee.

People of different faiths are working together on common concerns, building bridges of peace and understanding, and reducing violence while solving problems shared by all humanity.

«This conviction about marriage, while confirmed by faith, can be known from reason.

For the chairman of the Standing Commission on Evangelism, while claiming to honor those authoritative references, the normative articles of faith are constructed by perceived cultural directions and personal needs.

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

They teach that while we are initially saved by faith alone, we are not really justified until we die, and only if you have lived a good life up to that time.

The high court has generally taken a case - by - case approach on determining just when the state intrudes unconstitutionally into religion, while generally allowing faith to be acknowledged in a limited basis in public forums.

This view defines Christian faith in terms of continuity in a mode of existence, while recognizing the constantly new intellectual task of articulating doctrines required and supported by it.

While thinkers like Sir Sayyid and Iqbal were dealing with the problem posed by the impact of the West, a religious conflict was in progress because of the activities of the Christian missionaries and militant Hindu movements like the Arya Samaj, both of them trying to win Muslims to their own faith.

What we are dealing with is the attempted explanation of an infinite universe by a finite mind, and while we do need, and I am convinced can have, a confident assurance about our faith in God, humility must be mingled with our confidence in any formulation of that faith.

While Lewis's remarks do not indicate any careful reading of Luther, it is true that Camus rejects a notion of «salvation by faith alone» on the grounds that it eliminates human freedom and, to that extent, would not accept the God of Luther, Calvin, or the later Augustine.

Miller's own faith was shaken while studying science at university and being challenged by the atheist agenda in the books he was reading.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

While the therapists and the mumblers were losing faith in words, King and his colleagues were employing to powerful effect the art described by Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian and other ancients.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

... Not only can there be no conflict between faith and reason, they also support each other since right reason demonstrates the foundations of the faith and, illumined by its light, pursues the science of divine things, while faith frees and protects reason from errors and provides it with manifold insights.

By opposing these things the Church is a «sign of contradiction'to the beliefs of the secular world, and other faiths, while acknowledging whatever is good, true and beautiful in other faith systems.

While it is true that the event of the Crucifixion, or the movement of the universal process of atonement, reveals the self - estrangement of God, a polarity manifesting itself in the yawning chasm between the Father and the Son, a consistent and radical form of faith must never fall into a nondialectical dualism by wholly isolating the alien God and the incarnate Word.

While the Church must always continue to develop its exposition of the Faith through theology and apologetics, it should by no means neglect the power of beauty to affect human thinking, feeling and judgement.

Theologians interpret that to be a «test of faith» by God for Cain and Abel where Cain gave his offering in pride and self - righteousness while Abel gave his with faith and humbleness as a sinner; therefore, God accepted Abel's offering as opposed to Cain's.

Furthermore, many of the members of the community of faith who engage in such thinking consciously or unconsciously turn away from the convictions nurtured in them by the community while they pursue this thinking.

I was brought here by the Florida Dove's Church man of God upon his threat to burn the Quran and what I found was that all here were cursing and few being moderate or defending and found that the majority who were cursing to be either atheists or similar while those defending were those of Heavenly faiths.

This isn't information where we can simply say «I believe this way, and here is my evidence for it, and Bill believes that way, and here is his evidence...» These are claims that Bill makes to undermine the faith while citing data that is fabricated overtly or else is rejected by the scholarly community.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

The major difference between scientific theory and faith is scientific theories are usually backed up by verifialble data, observation and facts while faith has apparently nothing to back it.

And as we are strangers and pilgrims on earth, help us by true faith and a godly life to prepare for the world to come; doing the work Thou hast given us to do while it is day; before the night Cometh when no man can work.

Faith in «god» is considered by christians, jews and muslims as a virtue while faith in fairies, elves, leprechauns, and a myriad other fantasmagorical beings is a sign of insaFaith in «god» is considered by christians, jews and muslims as a virtue while faith in fairies, elves, leprechauns, and a myriad other fantasmagorical beings is a sign of insafaith in fairies, elves, leprechauns, and a myriad other fantasmagorical beings is a sign of insanity.

While there are many texts which tell readers how to receive eternal life by faith alone, the vast majority of the Bible is intended to encourage and inspire those who have received eternal life to live in light of the free gift they have already received.

In this way, theology can talk about God while its form of discourse shows that God is known only as he gives himself to be known by faith.

Like so many things in life you can get comfortable after a while and stop living by faith.

His challenge to communities of religious faith is to acknowledge and take the measure of that intelligence, while at the same time fashioning a constructive critique that can raise the standards by which we assess what qualifies as the best and brightest.

In my case, once I realized what I have actually lost, the cartoon would have been a more accurate depiction if it showed the newly faithless having a celebratory glass of champagne, welcomed by fellow unbelievers while standing on the grave of the lost faith.

One deals with faith and sin while the other deals with matter and energy created by God and the measurement / explanation of the that which is created

What's left for us is only humble and hopeful cooperation, aided all the while by faith in God's plan.

While he is surely right in affirming that the God of Israel and of the Christian faith is identified by temporal events such as the Exodus and the Resurrection, as well as by Jesus addressing Him as Father (which in turn identifies Jesus as Son), this does not clarify the meaning of the predicate «God» as it is applied to the God of Israel.

All the while, readers could emulate Shedd in imagining the mountain referred to in Matthew 17:20 as a mountain of flesh, able to be moved (i.e., lost) by the person of true faith.

Given that the show's producers seem so keenly aware of the historical context around it (the first storyline is catalysed by the sinking of the Titanic, while women's suffrage and the social issues around the Great War are explored in depth), it seems strange that writer Julian Fellowes should ignore the historical accuracy of the place of faith.

While I agree that we need separation of church and state... It is a stretch to say that our politicians are establishing a theocracy... on the other hand, you are turning a bling eye to the billions of dollars that have gone into hospitals, universities, feed the hunger programs... All funded by people of faith.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!