Sentences with phrase «by traditional beliefs»

They may be helped by the traditional belief in guardian angels.

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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.

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!

Certainly the universe has more to offer by way of guaranteeing their traditional beliefs than what Schweitzer proffers, they contend.

No portrait is more radical and disturbing to traditional Christian belief than that put forth by the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who regularly meet to sort out the historically valid from the invalid in the New Testament narratives.

Faithful communities around the world are increasingly being threatened by secular ideologies intolerant of their traditional beliefs.

Our definition of religion and religious belief departs from the traditional one in which Marxism, naturalism, scientism and positivism are classified as ideologies, not as religion, the implication being that they are formulated and attained by pure reason alone.

The traditional Christian belief was that the Bible was literally the word of God, dictated to the evangelists and other authors by the Holy Spirit.

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.

I shall begin by saying that I no longer find the so - called traditional «proofs» for God's existence meaningful for clarifying my belief in God.

This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (shared by most other traditional faiths and by many with no faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

It is important to recognize that traditional beliefs about the Trinity and about the status of Jesus Christ, which are often called Christology, were shaped by opposition to views which the majority of Christians felt were untrue to scripture and to their experience of faith.

The student is invited to fill in the blank or, more commonly, to accept the answer provided by the writer of the textbook who simply knows, as everybody supposedly knows, that «traditional» belief and morality are no longer relevant.

The extent to which Santayana and Whitehead are often quite close is disguised by Santayana's wish to formulate new thought in as traditional a form as possible, and Whitehead's belief that his ideas require a new terminology.

Although initial provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 affirmed constitutional protection for the practice of Native traditional beliefs, those basic rights continue to be threatened by legal challenges to the American Indian Freedom of Religion Act of 1978.

By comparing the six campuses that required statements of faith from all entering students with the three campuses that did not, the study was able to test whether a more «insular» setting actually served better to protect the plausibility of traditional beliefs.

Margaret Mead notes that «within traditional American culture... there runs a persistent belief that all leisure [play] must be earned by work and good works... [and] second, while it is enjoyed it must be seen in a context of future work and good works.

They may not have all been Christians by modern standards, but certainly the majority's beliefs were consistent with traditional Christian values or, rather, what those Christian values are supposed to be.

New developments have a proven history of overturning traditional beliefs held by majorities, right?

Many traditional Protestant churches in the late 1960s and early 1970s criticized charismatic beliefs as divisive and questioned whether the spiritual gifts described in the New Testament were identical to those practiced by contemporary Christians.

Under the guise of scientific objectivity and antiseptic disinterestedness, the legitimating authority of traditional belief has been seized and bent to the service of new legitimations by a new authority.

The authoritarianism, moralism, and legalism of much traditional religion diminishes spiritual awareness by encouraging people to project their own spiritual powers onto deity (thus impoverishing their inner lives), introject self - punishing beliefs that diminish self - other esteem and distort relationships, and retroflex vital assertive and sexual energies, thus blunting their aliveness.

And it is precisely these two beliefs that are compromised by Ford's genetic approach; but they are compromised without ever bringing into question the justification of the traditional interpretations.

In traditional religious belief it is by some form of mysticism that humanity can achieve such a goal.

The traditional approach, though not all its characteristic beliefs, must be given up in favor of the systematic approach, the only one fully warranted by the external evidence here considered.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

A traditional Christian, upholding the orthodox belief in God's absolute freedom with respect to creation can capture both these insights by a properly articulated doctrine of the Trinity.

I suggest that by refusing to demonise the incumbent, Syllenhaal isn't just challenging our beliefs around politics but also the traditional structure of a Hollywood screenplay, which usually coerces viewers into an emotional response by ramping up the evil of the villain.

If you are confused by this, it is because you have an overly traditional belief that words have meaning and that political speech should be comprehensible to voters.

This traditional belief is challenged by this new report in Science.

Elders blamed recent failures of rainfall on a lack of adherence to traditional beliefs by younger generations.

A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects depends on visual circuitry in the human brain.

Many of those traditional beliefs have ended up being legitimated by research, and turmeric is still considered a brain - boosting herb.

Our belief is that the best way to get people to eat less meat is by giving them what they love — in this case, a juicy delicious sausage — without so many of the health, sustainability, and animal welfare downside of a traditional animal - based sausage.

Singles can join traditional online dating sites such as Match and OkCupid and select their religious beliefs and for those they seek to meet by checking off box in the profiles, or sign up for the long - time favorite JDate, where you can select just what branch of Judaism you practice, if any at all.

Though religion comes muted in True Grit, the film clearly aligns Mattie's thirst for justice with her belief in God, something underscored by Mattie's quoting of scripture but also by Carter Burwell's music, which borrows heavily from the traditional American hymn «Leaning On The Everlasting Arms.»

We are parents, teachers, students and community members who are strong in our belief that all children, especially those historically underserved by the traditional system, have the right to attend excellent schools.

Early on the journey, driven by a passionate belief that all children deserve a quality education, Steve dedicated over eight years to teaching and learning where he made a difference in the lives of children, firsthand, while serving as a traditional classroom teacher, therapist and special education teacher from 1977 through 1985.

Our belief and our hope is that anything that we do that we find successful and that our families think is needed can and should be adopted by traditional public schools — just as our model has been inspired by some of the best traditional public schools that we've seen.

Self - publishing is being brought into the mainstream against the belief that this segment generally caters to those whose works have been rejected by the traditional publishers.

The traditional industry belief — if you don't live in a big city and have a lot of money, you deserve second - class access to books — is being challenged by a company trying to say «If you have ten bucks, there's not a book in the world you can't read.»

In short, the only clients that agents (who, contrary to popular belief, do not, by - in - large work for authors, but are little more than slush filters that publishers generously allow authors the luxury of paying for) can look forward to having, and being eager for publishers to exploit in the traditional way... are losers.

My rationale was primarily financial, but it was also influenced by my belief that independent authors should not try to mimic the publishing industry's traditional business model:

Contrary to popular belief, the Yulin festival is not a traditional event but one invented in 2010 by dog meat traders to boost flagging sales.

As in Jatiluwih, the Banaue irrigation system is supported by traditional organization, agricultural engineering, ritual and belief system.

Our tours are unique, there isn't another tour in Bali where you can have the best of both worlds; meet traditional Balinese, learn about their customs, beliefs etc yet have it all explained to you in as much detail as you want by Westerners who have been living this way for years.

is my response to the collapse of the grand narratives and absolute belief systems represented by the traditional historical bust.

He personifies the creative philosophy represented by Joseph Beuys» legacy: a profound belief in the sanctity of spontaneity, the poetry of chaos, and the rejection of traditional academia.

They are very traditional in their belief that it's made by mainly white men who are capable of executing the mind, hand, and genius of abstraction.