Prayers are
dependent upon faith and sincerity for them to be answered by our Creator, Jehovah God.
Acknowledging, nevertheless, that the scientific method itself is
dependent upon faith in the amenability of evidence to scientific inquiry and supposition.
In taking this position I do of course raise a very old question in the doctrine of the ministry, the question of whether the minister's authority to preach the Word, administer sacraments, and act as pastor inheres in his office and ordination or whether it inheres in his person and is
dependent upon his faith.
The absolute certainty you were able to find in something untrue is directly
dependent upon your faith, and desire for your scriptural fantasy.
Not exact matches
Eternal life is not
dependent upon our ongoing
faith, but is instead
dependent on Jesus keeping His promises.
Helpless to grow our own food — mechanization has destroyed the family farm, and we live mostly uprooted in cities and suburbs we are
dependent upon the religion that threatens our
faith.
Also, if he claims for statements about Jesus» ultimate significance a self - evidence or demonstration in no way
dependent upon participation in the community of
faith, he would not intend his statements to be theological in the sense of my definition.
In answer, Jesus declares that
faith is not to be
dependent upon sight: «Happy are those who never saw me and yet have found
faith» (like the believers of the evangelist's own day).
One style of
faith typical of children but also frequently found among adults is founded
upon a deep sense of belonging to a community in Which
faith is expressed through the «heart» and belief is
dependent upon external authority.
My own
faith in him and loyalty to him as the Lord Jesus Christ is in no way
dependent on these apocalyptic Son - of - man passages; it hinges
upon all that he was and did and said during what we know of his earthly ministry and his continuing presence as the living Christ.
The affirmation of
faith, that God is Almighty, is then always
dependent upon the insight that I can not perceive and reckon with this omnipotence as a universally valid fact whenever I please, but only if it pleases God.
But
faith is not
dependent upon prior understanding.
Your position re the
faith contrdicting itself is wholly
dependent upon peoples» interpretation of the Scriptures.
But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of
faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately
dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.
Anselm's proof is
dependent upon «
faith,» but not
faith in the divine existence; instead, «
faith» means the content of the idea of «God.
Thirdly, there is knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth which is significant only in the context of specifically Christian
faith, i.e. knowledge of him of a kind
dependent upon the acknowledgement of him as Lord and Christ.
«The resurgence in interest [in nuclear power] is
dependent upon the sustained
faith and reliability performance of the current fleet,» NRC Commissioner Kristine Svinicki said last year.
On April 8 and 9, 2010, and all material times, Hamilton and Cassels Brock owed a fiduciary duty and duty of good
faith to the Plaintiff, and were obligated to act with regard to the Plaintiffs interests and keep and protect the Plaintiffs confidences as a result of the relationship that existed as between the Plaintiff, Hamilton and Cassels Brock, including as a result of the legal advice that had been provided by Hamilton and Cassels Brock to the Plaintiff on or about April 7, 2010 at a time when the Plaintiff was vulnerable and
dependent upon Hamilton and Cassels Brock and relying
upon their professional advice.