Sentences with phrase «certain faiths experienced»
When broken down by religious tradition, certain faiths experienced far more defection than others.
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It's important to keep in mind that negative encounters with «the Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experience.
Some people are disturbed by the idea that Christian faith may rest only upon the testimony of certain individuals to have experienced a vision of Jesus after his death.
Although there are certain basic forms which are common to nearly all Christians, such as, «I believe in God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior», no two Christians would describe the experience of the life of faith in exactly the same terms.
Those who do test their faith in the crucible of human experience do become certain that the witness of the Scriptures, rightly interpreted, is true and the God that Jesus proclaims as Loving Father, not the Cosmic Bully proclaimed by the Pharisees, is the True God.
If religious faith is to provide reassurance, we need to be able to say that «God is» or «God exists» and that «Jesus lived, said and did certain things, and died» and that «the disciples experienced new life which they identified as the risen Lord.»
Having experienced, first hand, the devastating effects of rejection and judgment, Jennifer knows full well the challenges of being «out» in certain faith communities.
There sat before me a student who, in his own experience of an eroded Christian ethos and understanding and in his equally certain longing to find a faith with a magnitude equal to his problems, was a living symbol of millions in our generation to whom the gospel must be preached.
But the more I thought about my own experience with doubt, the more I realized how grateful I am for certain «stumbling blocks» that dramatically changed the trajectory of my faith, in a good way.
When he does reach out to each one of us, it's an experience that can essentially be understood by the certain person and God (example if God bestows you the gift of faith, he approaches you in a way that only you will find it credible and also others who have a similar experience.
I am mostly certain there is a God based on my experiences coupled with faith but I am not 100 percent sure.
Truth is neither side can prove anything either way in reapect, and since science must jump off at the supernatural (that outside of known natural laws) they can't automatically discount those that have had religious experiences that give certain individuals logical reasoning based off their faith inter purely of natural experiences.
I have found that certain experiences are best understood in terms of spirituality and faith.