Sentences with phrase «definition of faith»

By the simple definition of faith, the ability to accept something without proof, and that's OK with believers.

You may have faith, but you are simply pretending to know things you do not know (admitting the preceding definition of faith is not mine but I do like it).

I don't personally subscribe to a very strict definition of faith, like many others do.

@Chuckles «DNA works because it works and it is a conduit for different species to spread their genes through» = > definition of faith in the absence of data right there.

If we put the biblical definition of faith into Hebrews 11:1, and say, «Trust is firm confidence in things hoped for,» the sentence makes perfect sense.

A good definition of faith is: «believing that what God has said, He will do.»

That's the wrong definition of faith when it comes to Christianity.

There's an unnecessary fear we entertain when we as Christ - followers struggle to avoid external ideas that challenge our sometimes narrow definition of faith.

You are equivocating between definitions of faith.

The last time it was an adequate frame through which to focus definitions of faith and morals, was the First Vatican Council of 1870.

I couldn't muster up my old definitions of faith but I could keep relentlessly hope - knocking as my radical act of faith.

In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin says, «We shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.»

A much more plausible definition of faith emerges when we consider philosopher Anthony Kenny's definition of reason.

This sort of definition of faith is surely a caricature of any Christian position, but it is totally opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church:

Let's look at Hebrews 11:1 - 6 for a better definition of faith: «1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The essence of religion, and the definition of faith, is belief without reason.

I'm not debating the definition of faith nor the definition of science.

One of the definitions of faith is a firm belief in something for which there is no proof.

I am making the «belief in no god» a concept that a Atheist (not a Agnostic Atheist) would view as true but can not prove so their view would fall under the definition of faith.

You're creating a straw man argument with that definition of faith.

This is not the definition of faith.

People can accept the supernatural or not, depending on their comfort level of acceptance without proof — which is the definition of faith.

Just as the definition of philosophy is a philosophical question, so the definition of faith is a theological issue.

Definition of faith (pay special attention to # 1) faith [feyth] noun 1.

That is the definition of faith.

While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic human existence culminates in faith — could be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer be so at a time when the death of God has become so fully incarnate in the modern consciousness.

Definition of faith: firm belief in something for which there is no proof.

After all, the definition of faith is to be a blind follower with no real supporting facts.

The definition of FAITH is the lack of critical thinking.

I would have to ask what your definition of faith is.

A definition of faith: «By relating itself to its own self and by willing to be itself, the self is grounded transparently in the Power which constituted it.»

However, by the definition of faith, it's true.