Sentences with phrase «by the beliefs about»

That is, in Jesus the Christian claims to see the divine love bodied forth, and his belief about God is controlled by his belief about Jesus.

Similarly, Fogleman et al. (2011) suggested that whether or not a teacher implements curriculum reform with fidelity is determined, in part, by their beliefs about teaching and learning.

Not exact matches

A second challenging (and nonsensical) barrier to stemming this firearm - health crisis, he says, is the widely propagated myth that physicians can't, or shouldn't, talk to their patients about the safety risks of guns — a belief reinforced by a misunderstanding of a provision in the Affordable Care Act.

In other words, it's about figuring out what to believe, and doing so by determining what beliefs are backed by good reasons.

A new book by financial advisor Daryl Diamond debunks closely held beliefs about retirement income planning strategies.

Limiting beliefs can also affect your business: «You can read all of the best books by the best strategists, but typically the reason you're not implementing these best practices is because you have some limiting belief about your business,» says Bill.

Instead, empathize with their approach to life, which you can do even if you don't agree with their beliefs, and then reciprocate by revealing more about yourself.

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

Gill began, as you might expect, by engaging all the stakeholders — the support team, the franchisees, and the store members — to get their common viewpoints and beliefs about the company's purpose.

There are 10 belief systems cultivated by highly effective people that run counter to the way most entrepreneurs are conditioned to think about their life and business.

While it might not sound sexy, high - performance company culture is more about living and working by a set of unifying company - wide goals, values and beliefs.

By choosing positive mental models about themselves, top executives draw on the brain's extraordinary capacity to deliver on our beliefs and create positive outcome.

If one has the wisdom to question their beliefs by actually testing them against data, thinking carefully about valuations, and studying the course of market cycles across history, none of these points should be surprising.

Cunningham believes that the disparate businesses are held together by their shared beliefs about the ethical purposes and responsibilities of business.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

It's powered by the belief that gains will keep on going; that there's something special about a certain investment that will not end.

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

We find that common biomedical misconceptions among consumers are associated with overly optimistic beliefs about quality, and lower quality sold by retailers.

This retrospective summarizes key models that make psychology - based assumptions about: individual preferences; individual beliefs; and, the process by which individuals make decisions.

Part of the answer lies in our firm belief that a wider array of industries which were previously quite distant from pure technology are responding to an opportunity for — and a threat to — their core businesses brought about by hyper - connected consumers who are able to engage with companies and each other.

Spurred on by the literal belief about the buying journey being nearly 70 % complete before sales assistance is requested.

SCL's main offering, first developed by its affiliated London think tank in 1989, involves gathering vast quantities of data about an audience's values, attitudes and beliefs, identifying groups of «persuadables,» and then targeting them with tailored messages.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

Obviously posted by somebody who has absolutely no idea about the beliefs and practices of religious faiths not rooted in Ambrahamic tenets.

My belief system about romantic love was influenced by my cultural upbringing, my family history, and my early relationships.

If you know anything about the history of the bible you know it was created by many writers, compiled and edited by Roman emperors, added to, translated, interpreted and actually pretty much ignored — except for a few sentences that sound old fashioned that people use to justify their beliefs and actions.

In many cases, the children about whom the decisions are being made are too young to subscribe to the religious beliefs held by their parents, yet we continue to respect the parents beliefs.

Gospels (the «good news»... by definition self - admitted biased materials) are statements of beliefs for believers about what they already believe.

In cant be so they can expand their knowlege of these groups because anyone can learn about anothers beliefs by looking them up and some research.

She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened on the bible and other apologetics.

I have always been puzzled by the was people who talk about «biblical» living or belief never refer to the Old Covenant and the New Covenant..

Their action, he said, was clearly conscientious, clearly sincere, clearly motivated by religious belief (about the truth of which the government must not judge), and not willful.

Also, if the Christians who are so gung ho about limiting the freedom of expression by non-believers were truly confident in the righteousness of their belief, they wouldn't care what someone else said.

I find it interesting that the apparent atheists who feel the need to make themselves feel better by criticizing the bible and Christianity with snide little comments would even waste their time reading a blog — about belief.

It has been stated that it is offensive that someone would intrude upon the dying person's last moments on this earth by imposing belief about God.

Jesus is just a belief shared by a fraction of the world's population, and there are thousands of conflicting opinions about him even amongst his strongest believers.

as with every other argument about christianity, if it really was only a belief it would be of no consequence, but unfortunately so many use their religious beliefs as an excuse to attempt to demand the rest of the population adhere to their beliefs by codifying them into civil law.

Now, this moral belief began to be partnered, about four centuries ago, by a second belief of a different sort — namely, an immense optimism about the success of this enterprise of compelling the natural world to satisfy human wants.

And another comment by a «freethinker» about an article in CNN's Belief Blog that attempts to be critical of the article without first reading it.

Not to mention, for those of you who have a belief and has ur faith in Traditional Christianity (along with any other religion); YOU WILL SUFFER the 7 last plagues of God, due to the mark of the beast that is about to be enforced by a resurrected ROMAN EMPIRE that is arising now in Europe unless you can repent and turn to the ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD!

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?

Of course, perhaps by returning again to the abortion issue I've fulfilled the stereotype of a one - issue conservative, but I hope that holding firm beliefs about important issues and loving real people aren't mutually exclusive.

Why aren't atheists ever swayed into belief by WLC's meanderings about his hypothetical «uncaused caused» (named god) which is made of nothing but poofed everything into existence from its nothingness?

Everytime religious people post something about God or something out of their belief, there comes the Atheists storming it with their typical (hateful, profane, disrespectful but in - fairness articulate, itellect, scientific and logical) replies and name callings such as; «2000 years religious numbnuts», «oxymorons who keep asking of sky daddy's help», «idiots who was fooled by a magical being in the sky» and so on and so forth.

Conservative evangelicals are driven by their fundamentalist convictions about the absolute truth of their beliefs.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

@response you said: «You might actually try real, honest dialogue about faith and belief instead of just railing off extremes and trying to cover it by saying all atheists are rational, reasonable people.

I'm always somewhat dispirited by the tendency to answer criticisms about the coherence of religious belief with a sort of watertight defense of its rationality.

If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»

Before we can talk to others about our faith, before we can dialogue about what is theologically «right or wrong» with someone else, we must first understand how our beliefs about God have been informed by these four areas.