Sentences with phrase «coming to faith because»

We've all heard stories of people coming to faith because they asked God to reveal himself, or asked him to help them to understand the Bible.

I've yet to see anyone minister effectively from a defensive posture, nor have I witnessed anyone who came to faith because they lost a theological argument.

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That's because rather than losing faith in his call, Hussman did some digging around as to why it hadn't yet come true, and has recalibrated the conditions of his forecast.

came just hours after the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy's letter to the speaker rescinding his resignation and suggesting he was pressured to step down because of his Catholic faith.

Then that means your Jews who came from abroad came to kill your brother jews because they became into other faiths??

I also have people come to me with all sorts of questions because of my faith.

I come to the «belief blog» because I am a believer and stories of faith strengthen my soul.

Seriously, President Obama says he came to his faith later in life because he saw in Jesus a living example of principles he could try to live by.

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.

We know the parents had faith in Him, because they knew of His reputation and came to Him by their faith and asked Him to do what onle He could do, which included healing and raising the dead.

The summer I came to faith, my friend gave me a copy of The Cost of Discipleship [SCM Press], Bonhoeffer's most famous book, and he told me the story of this man who, because of his faith, spoke up for the Jews in Nazi Germany and got involved in the plot against Hitler.

In the end all you are doing is just relying on your own belief because even though there is no proof that that there actually is no deity who does not want to be made known but would rather have us develop our faith in said deity, since there is thus far no irrefutable proof that there is such a deity, that you then come to a conclusion that there is no such deity, all you are doing is just relying on belief just like I'm relying on belief and that what it really boils down to is just that it is all a matter of belief.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

Read Numbers 13 & 14 when Israel came to Kadesh - barnea, they did not possess the land because of their unbelief in what God promised them, they had to do nothing to possess it just enter in through faith in what God promised.

Romans 5:13 (in context) says that when we have faith in God to deliver us from sin, there is no law (to condemn us) because righteousness comes not by the law, but by faith.

I have come to repent of this view, and not just because I came to my senses about how wrong it is to be rude toward somebody else's faith.

as someone who was raised religious and was rather religious in my teens i can see where people of faith are coming from and how you can get caught up in it but as soon as i started to apply logic to it i struggled to find any truth to it to me its to man made and the whole concept to conceited i mean apparently animals don't go to heaven because they don't have a soul....

Children taught all major religions are part of God's progressive revelation to mankind, but that each person should accept a religion not because it was the faith of their parents but because he or she independently searched, researched, reflected, studied, thought, meditated, etc, and came to their own spiritual belief.

On Wednesday, Iraj Kamalabadi and other Baha'is came to Washington to tell the commission just how bad things are for his sister, Fariba Kamalabadi, and six others who have been imprisoned because of their faith since 2008.

For these reasons and others, I am a Christian; my beliefs come from my best discernment of what aligns with reality, not because it is merely a faith system that appeals to, or simply «works» for me.

I explained, to astonishment, that faith never comes up with my kids because I don't brainwash them into believing fairy tales.

Indeed, chatting to various priest vocation directors, a common theme is that few people are coming forward for priesthood largely because few have the faith foundation to build a vocation upon.

«In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to life that is the power of the holy spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz

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.

You wise Scientist — Can you please scientifically explain to me where did the stuff came from that caused the «BIG BANG» — if you can not do that your so called science are based on a belief and not on facts as you so eagerly would like to promote — so — then your view is also based on faith and not science, because science should be able to observed and tested, but faith must be taken and believed.

«My Roman Catholic mom, who had some initial misgivings that I was leaving the faith of my youth, really came to rejoice in my conversion because she saw the stark contrast that came about in my life after repentance.»

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

I am not asking you to ignore what's happening today around the world because of fanatics who call themselves Muslims but I am asking you to be wiser than just submitting to believing that those acts are a result of them following their FAITH (not sure how you came to know they follow their faFAITH (not sure how you came to know they follow their faithfaith).

Mark even knows of refugees who have lied about their conversion to Christianity but have now come to genuine faith because of their experience of the Holy Spirit.

For others, it's a nagging thought — as you work out your faith on your own, you keep coming back to this Jesus, and you can't make sense of him all the way, but you also can't accept everything he says because it seems somehow too hard to live that way, or too complex, or too simple, or merely out of your grid of experience.

Premier's research comes following a month that saw church halls and Mosques in North Kensington responding as one to the horrific disaster at Grenfell Tower, and Tim Farron, ironically a leading liberal, stepping down from his post saying he couldn't do his job because of the hostility to his faith.

The matter boils down to faith, and not human logic or wisdom, and apparently, that is what God intended: «And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him» (Hebrews 11:6).

This theoretical attitude, which comes so naturally to modern scientific humankind, is likely to be far more destructive to Christianity than any attack that the atheists might launch, because it can cut the very heart out of the Christian life — and in such a way that the individual does not at all think of himself or herself as having given up the faith.

I'll bet the thief on the cross probably thought he wouldn't have much of a highlight reel, but how about all the people who come to faith at the very end of their life because of his story and testimony?!

For this reason, Wesleyans maintain the historic Protestant emphasis of sola fide and sola gratia, because faith itself is an internal movement initiated by the Spirit that comes to rest in the divine promises.

For many people, people like C.S. Lewis, they come to faith in Jesus because everything else, every other door, has slammed closed and they come kicking and screaming into the kingdom.

It is true that he begins when he meets them on the road by asking about their discussion, that he takes them where they are; but this is because they are where they should not be - they need to come to faith, these foolish men so slow to believe what was in the scriptures.

That is also what happened to me I am 12 and the devil put it into my mind but I know it's not true and don't think it is and I was so scared because it happened like 2 days ago and I realized the problem is that you have to ask lord to free you this is the devil trying to make you miserable you need to have faith today I asked god to forgive me because I don't know why it came into my head and I didn't think god loved me but I told my dad what happened and he said that it is I felt you say notice say it to someone that it's the truth that is what it means and I felt god in me today and he took away all my bad thoughts and now I know I am forgiven all you need to do is captivate those thoughts and say god free me because if you have committed the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit it's not that god doesn't want to forgive you it is that the person that has done it made up there mind and they don't want forgiveness.

A fellow Canadian and former agnostic, Carolyn Weber helped me to see that one can come to faith precisely because of Christians, rather than in spite of other Christians.

Of course, this sort or argument is rarely used by Calvinists because it contradicts their teaching that once a person has been regenerated by God, their will has been irresistibly changes so that they come willingly to faith in Jesus Christ.

And he must have remembered how he himself had come to faith — not simply because he had been convinced by argument but, in large measure, because the Christian faith struck him as a «myth» that had actually become «fact.»

Unfortunately, the New Testament has two verses (Jude 1:18 and 2 Pet 3:3) where they describe «scoffers and mockers» as rejecting the gospel simply because of their «ungodly lusts» and many Christians interpret this to mean that any criticism of their faith comes from some desire to be immoral and can thus be deemed groundless without any examination whatsoever.

At the same time, I did hear a pastor prophesy about a decade ago for churches to start building because we were heading for this time where all our culture has put their collective faith into will fail to fulfil them and they will come banging upon the doors of churches that are alive and vibrant.

This is because change has to come from the bottom and from the inside, i.e. faith.

What harm has come to you because people have faith in God and follow thier religious beliefs?

There is only one God... human imagine or uses their thoughts to come up with multiple Gods... which i think is lake of understanding about the definition of God... i also think the reason we see this is mostly because the teaching of these faiths are showing God as an old dude with white long beard and extended hands... its all human imaginations...