Sentences with phrase «depending upon belief»

To be sure, one's perspective plays some role in how we manage information depending upon our belief system.

All I can do here is to suggest that there is a place today for a general concept of resurrection that sees permanent meaning and value in our lives without depending upon belief in individual life after death.

When the divine meaning of the event is made to depend upon views of Jesus» divinity and when the presence of Christ in the church is made to depend upon a belief in the Resurrection, we cut the solid ground out from under the whole Christian position; we invest the purely speculative with an importance it does not possess and rely on it to perform a function it can not perform; and we open the door to discord and division.

In a world where cause and effect have been shown to operate at so many more points than was earlier imagined, we are forced to ask to what extent prayers of petition and intercession which plead with God for the speedy fulfillment of certain clear objectives, really depend upon a belief in the «God of the gaps».

Therefore, the decision which to choose in articulating one's belief depends upon the belief itself.

Not exact matches

The more consequential the beliefs — that is, the more a person's well - being depends upon a correct understanding of the world — the more consequential the lie.»

BTW, the text of the article does not pose which kind of Christian is «right,» but rather attempts to show that Christian beliefs are different depending upon what part of the bible you want to believe.

And even materialistic philosophers say that however much mental states may depend upon brain states, what makes something the belief, say, that the cat is on the mat is not the brain's satisfying a certain physical specification, but the belief's arising from our seeing the cat and its resulting in our stepping carefully round the mat.

While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.

The resurrections (or more correctly resuscitations) which, according to ancient tradition had been performed by Elijah and Elisha, depended partly upon this belief.10 The same belief supplies us with the reason why the story of the raising of Lazarus lays such emphasis on the fact that he «had already been four days in the tomb».

I have found the process of reconciling my beliefs with my faith to be an ongoing process of depending upon God's ability to communicate adequately through his word and the Word.

So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.

If Jesus» belief in miracles is understood as a general conviction that certain happenings, which we today are accustomed to attribute to natural causes, depend upon a higher, divine cause, then the belief is meaningless and has no relation to his idea of God.

We all have questions, we all are searching... but it depends on what you decide to set your belief upon.

The package which, the Tories say, will be financed by spending restraint in 2009/10 * communicates (1) a concern for potentially unemployed young graduates and (2) also the party's belief that Britain's economic future depends upon much more investment in tech - based industries.

My happiness in life depends upon my massive ego, and my ego fares better when it isn't bothered with facts that are contrary to my existing beliefs!

After all, the extent to which a principal is willing to dismiss (or give a poor evaluation to) a teacher will likely depend in part upon her beliefs about the probability of finding a superior replacement in a reasonable period of time.

It is suggested that Albers» belief in the importance of colour deception is related to a misconception about aesthetic appreciation (that it depends upon some kind of confusion about visual perception).

Depending upon your cultural heritage, religious beliefs, or political persuasion, it can denote fertility, transformation, protection, wisdom, eternity, healing, anti-government resistance, racism, treachery or original sin.

NASA & RealClimate.org's Most Reverend Gavin Schmidt's faith - based «science»: Admits his claims «depend upon hunches, speculation and beliefs» — Rev. Schmidt:» If you ask me as a person, do I think the Russian heat wave has to do with climate change, the answer is yes.

The general consensus is that beliefs in Neo-Nazi or fascism would not meet this definition but in the situation above, it would still depend upon whether the employee's actual personal «belief» resembled those types of groups.

The FTC notes that the determination of whether a speaker's statement is an endorsement depends upon whether consumers would believe that it represents the endorser's own view or personal belief.

Qat» muk is of vital spiritual importance to Ktunaxa as it is the home of «grizzly bear spirit» upon which so many key Ktunaxa spiritual beliefs and practices depend.

The idea was that in the Virgin Islands the belief was that you had to have your server based in the Virgin Islands because you could not depend upon Internet service, even with redundancy you still — the Internet service was relatively unreliable.

[t] here must be an intent, on the part of the person who is telling the fortune, to delude and defraud, but this, as I understand it, is not to be limited to cases where the accused is a cheat with no belief in his powers, but extends to every case where the accused intends that the person whose fortune is told shall believe that the fortune - teller is really possessed of the power; the intent to deceive or delude or defraud depending neither upon the honesty or dishonesty of the fortune - teller on the one hand, nor upon the fact that the other person is or is not deceived or deluded or defrauded on the other, but upon the existence of an intent on the part of the fortune - teller that the other person shall believe that the fortune - teller possesses the power.

It did not depend upon there being a procedure in place, but only upon the reasonable belief in the mind of the employee.