Sentences with phrase «done by believers»

What happened to you could have been done by a believer or non believer, belief in a deity does not automatically make one amoral.

sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.

No works done by the believer can redeem him before God; no priest has the power to forgive sins, and no indulgence bought can hold back the due punishment for sin.

Not exact matches

I'm very much a believer in doing things by the book, and the previous owner didn't fully embrace the process.

If Leon's wants to turn young skeptics into believers, it might actually do better by playing up its splashy sales and friendly financing reputation.

Two things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this experiment, and why do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a Christian raised by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis of faith is normal in life, denouncing faith is shameful

In God is Not Great, Hitchens wrote: «Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever.

Personally I don't care how a person spends their time or worships... they can worship goats, spirits, god, buddha, nothingness or football... As long as they don't criticize others or attempt to propagate to non believers, and by that definition, these atheist are as bad a evangelicals.

Regardless of your beliefs and views, is it not tasteless for CNN to run this as their lead story on Easter morning??? Americans are appalled by anything done to insult Islam believers, so why is this felt to be appropriate??? There is nothing wrong with the article, but its timing makes it a poor and inflammatory choice of journalism, and would be taken as «persecution» if was directed toward any other belief system.

«Non-believers» can sometimes be angry when fervent believers believe so very fervently that they insist everybody ELSE believe as fervently as THEY do, and then they want our government to enforce that fervent belief by making our kids pray in schools to your concept of a god.

Religion doesn't make people do horible things, as evidenced by the fact that most believers don't do horrible things.

If we are true believers of God and we have to ensure that what we have been believing has been the Truth as ordained by God and have been doing good we will see at the time of death Heaven the place we are going to, So when we see heaven our worldly posessions like family, wealth etc go into oblivion and we are not concerned the least about them since what we are now going into will dazzle us so much.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

NOt all who call themselves prophets are true believers... some are just for the gains... those are persecuted... cause their evil gets them... those who don't separate themselves from God's side and wisdom can not be harm by evil... evil bows to them and allows them to pass by him unharmed... Cause evil can not harm God... it's the law of Nature... only evil can be harmed by evil...

Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and abused» but it was always every crime made by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.

True believers in God don't believe their faith has become irrelevant by any means.

Even if a believer does harbour doubt, the scorn, shunning and shame that is meted out by their fellow religionists can make life extremely unpleasant and difficult.

If he isn't the church going type then by all means worship at home but don't publicly go to church as a reminder to the American people that your still a believer.

Susie, by you saying that we should all be struck by lightning doesn't make you look better than any of us, believers or non believers.

After I read the article by Evans, it occurred to me that perhaps one of the many reasons that there is so much hate, ridicule and criticism generated by Satan and spewed by the non-believers on this forum is because in a small way they can witness the hope and peace of mind that believers have and for some reason they resent those that have that which they do not have, as did Evan's mother had for his father after he had accepted Jesus as his Lord and King and Savior.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

He was willing to do it and he is viewed by believers as being morally correct to follow through with it if he believed god wanted him to.

17 times just on this page alone, scot has said «i'm sticking my fingers in my ears and yelling LALALALALA» by claiming people who don't believe as he does are «unregenerate» and implies you have to believe to see god... standard believer nonsense, but 17 times on one page alone shows the immaturity level.

What you said earlier suggests that your belief is justified by something that is accessible only to the believer, only once the believer does believe.

Throughout most of church history, the term «mission» meant what believers were «sent out» to do — to propagate Christianity by making converts and establishing churches.

By the way, the article is full of lies and it's prejudiced.It does not please to the believers and nor the atheistics.CNN, please, go beyond borders!

BY STEVE FINNELL Many believers proclaim certain things that they believe to be factual, but do their actions comport with their assertions?

Don't get me wrong, you can't be a full believer in the bible (since it is written by people who lived hundreds of years after Jesus died, and edited throughout the Middle Ages by terrible people), but that should not prohibit you from believing in Jesus or God.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

We've sat in churches we'd walked by for a decade without ever stepping foot inside, churches that in our earlier, fear - filled days we would have condemned as «liberal», and have found within them sincere believers doing their best to follow Jesus.

The Catechism does say (1254) that an infant's godparents — and surely by implication his or her parents too — «must be firm believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized... on the road of Christian life.»

Telling us that if we do not believe we are going to be tortured by believers.

You by your own admission set it aside and go with what YOU THINK your god wants which you can no more demonstrate is the correct path than any other believer who does the same but does not agree with your moral conclusions.

Suggestions to Christian readers: When reading about another faith, do not read books written by Christians, read the ones written by believers themselves.

And this presupposes that legend has to do with a «saintly» life and a blessed death, by which the believer can be edified and inspired to emulation.

God is a Guardian to true believers who do as told by the messengers and scriptures.

Justin admitted that other gentile Christians did not show the same leniency.1 By the fourth century, the church had ruled that it was heretical even for believers of Jewish birth to observe the Law.

Well, fine, but by doing that believers effectively nulify all scientific support for thier beliefs.

As we have seen, he does not demonstrate even to believers, and even less so when faced by unbelief.

I do nt usually argue with fellow believers, but in this case I would point out that there is no scriptural evidence that Adam changed physically as a result of the fall (by adding genitalia)

My husband and I are firm believers of this truth, and we do our best to guard the special moments that we have by keeping them between each other.

It doesn't apply to a belief in God, either - there's still the question of where God came from, unless you cut the Gordian knot by saying God is an effect without a cause, as believers have done for thousands of years.

While, therefore, Hartshorne's concern with the a priori aspects of our understanding may lead to criticisms that he overlooks the experiential aspect, his resulting insights in practice do not impoverish but confirm and enrich the believer's experience of a saving God by setting that experience within a coherent, consistent, and comprehensive understanding of reality.

BTW The implication that non-believers are less morally sound than believers is a bias you would do well to leave by the wayside.

An atheist friend of mine tells me that he is very happy in life and that he doesn't understand why «believers» are bothered by his choice of life.

There would be believers who rejected it because it still doesn't fit with Genesis, but there would be much less handwringing if it still allowed humans to think they were created by divine spark.

It is said by God Allah that only good people will inherit earth and did not say white or Black and did not say Muslim or not Muslim but said believers: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful And indeed We have written in Az - Zabûr [i.e. all the revealed Holy Books — the Taurât (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), the Psalms, the Qur «ân] after (We have already written in) Al - Lauh Al - Mahfûz (the Book, that is in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:105

(this ad is supported by a believer who is not a religious «crazy», who does not go to church every Sunday, but also does not believe in «non-belief» and is also not a scientific physicist or whatever kind of scientist who dreams of mimicking creation of man someday).

well other religion blogs don't get as much viewership, and what better way to try and wake believers up then by reaching as many as we can?