Sentences with phrase «essential belief in»

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No one wants to see employees covering up their essential beliefs or wasting time hiding harmless bits of weirdness, but as Jarrett points out, quoting Shakespeare, it is worth keeping in mind that «all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.»

It will mean letting go of long held beliefs in rigid B2B product marketing and embracing a brave new world where human connection is not seen as fanciful but essential to helping businesses succeed.

So please could a good Christian who has creationism as part of their belief explain why it is absolutely positively essential for them in order to be a Christian.

The essential belief among those who practice plural marriages is that they are necessary to achieve the greatest exaltation in what Mormons refer to as the celestial kingdom, the highest of heavenly kingdoms.

The essentials of Christian belief are clearly listed in the Nicene Creed, which was formulated in the year AD 325.

Among Christians, believing in God tops the list, with (somehow only) 86 percent saying belief in God is «essential» to their Christian identity.

Simply put, the beliefs and understandings that directly affect our salvation are the essentials (Jesus, His divinity, His death and Resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins, our ability to be in relationship with God through His Son and Spirit and how our life should be lived as taught by the Bible etc.).

Hiriyanna says that, «its essential features were belief in a single personal god, Vasudeva, and in salvation as resulting from an unswerving devotion to him.

-- The popularity of the Sunday Assembly, an «atheist church» in Islington, — or Alain de Botton's «10 commandments for atheists», reflect the growing belief in secular Britain that religion is not just a beneficial thing but perhaps an essential one.

This unity in belief and witness is essential if Jesus» role of humanly forming and feeding us with Himself is to be continued.The Apostle Peter was the first to be given this role, as is shown in Holy Scripture.

For example, he still believed in the Virgin Birth, but when his New Testament professor pointed out that the genealogies in both Matthew and Luke seemed to assume that Jesus» descent was through Joseph and that the doctrine of Mary's virginity played no role in Paul's letters, he found it harder to suppose that this belief was essential to Christianity.

It is the task of the present generation to provide training in the essentials of Islam, to know Islam deeply, for out of that knowledge of the straight path of Islam will come the unity of belief and practice which has been revealed to mankind in the Qur» an and the Sunnah.

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

Now this background of «eternity» is absolutely essential to any reasonable belief in God.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian beliefIn short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian beliefin Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

He merely asserted that such freedom was essential to religious experience and belief in moral accountability.

While some thinkers regard belief in the supernatural as incidental to the practice of religion, Stark finds it essential.

I think it's much better to see religion as a complex of beliefs and practices in which mysticism plays an essential role.

The essential theology of true religion is belief in one God who is one.

It is now overturning beliefs and institutions which, in some cases, have lasted for millennia, and which are judged by some to be absolutely essential or fundamental to the meaning of people's lives and the welfare of society.

So we must also come to understand, withrenewed wonder and gratitude, how the Magisterium of the Word made Flesh lives and speaks in the Church with divinely guaranteed infallibility in the essentials of belief and moral principle until the end of the world.

Essential to many types, if not all, is the belief that there is a supernormal state of consciousness in which a breakthrough of the normal limits of consciousness raises one to a dimension where a new state of being comes about.

But Sen's only hope for this essential self «transcendence is his belief in human reason» plus the «evolutionary selection of behavioral modes.»

According to Hartshorne, «The only thing that the proposed form puts pressure on people to do, and that I think constitutes the essential element in rational procedure in metaphysics, is to face the dilemmas, trilemmas, or quatrilemmas that their beliefs or disbeliefs confront them with» (Foreword to Viney, Charles x).

Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements (Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pp. 13 - 14).

In contrast with such a view of the divine unity, the more primitive beliefs in many spirits or gods were based upon multiple experiences which had no essential connection with one anotheIn contrast with such a view of the divine unity, the more primitive beliefs in many spirits or gods were based upon multiple experiences which had no essential connection with one anothein many spirits or gods were based upon multiple experiences which had no essential connection with one another.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

What emerges in a given situation as «operant religion» will differ considerably from the «formal religion» of the historic creeds, and more concern with the former is essential to understanding how belief systems function in people's daily lives.»

The very expression «postulate» should not mislead us; it expresses, on the properly epistemological level and in the language of modality, the «hypothetical» character of the existential belief involved in the demand for completion, for totality, which constitutes practical reason in its essential purity.

The belief that the classical form of Christianity will come through every crisis in the long run is, of course, an essential component of the Christian faith.

First, it is important, even essential, that criticism is done in such a way that the person being criticized would actually recognize his or her beliefs in that criticism.

Of course, it has gradually come to be agreed in the church that such beliefs are not essential to Christian faith in creation; and theologians today commonly maintain that the first two chapters of Genesis are properly interpreted as mythological.

Implicit belief in the power of a good woman as a moral influence in the lives of children and men continues wherever Christian nurture in a good home is believed essential to the process of becoming Christian.

But they are evidence of the extent to which an intact family, performing «God - given» roles at home and in the world, is essential to belief in the American Dream.

The recognizing of that implication, the affirming of that belief, is, as I have said, the first and only really essential step in the development of a truly ecumenical theology.

Of course they are, but they're essential to society, actually exist and, most importantly, are changeable... People who adhere to the notions of god and religion tend to be completely inflexible and also tend to force those beliefs on others... Want to believe in talking snakes??

The crux of the issue, according to Plantinga, is that evidentialists — including Swinburne — assume that «belief in God» is an evidence - essential belief.

Even before important Christian beliefs such as the canon of Scripture (list of books in the Bible) and the Trinity had been carefully articulated, the mainstream of Christian believers and leaders had a sense of the essential truths that had been handed down from the apostles and the prophets, and passed along to each generation of Christians through Scripture, sermons, and baptismal creeds.

As we know, the belief that the human individual can not perfect himself or fully exist except through the organic unification of all men in God is essential and fundamental to Christian doctrine.

The chief ways in which this change appears are the rejection of the belief in the essential goodness of man and the twin belief in automatic progress.

In its essential assumptions, theirs is the belief system of what John Paul II has aptly called the culture of death.

Both are important in every person's life — even humanism / atheism is a set of beliefs and morals, both have been used for great good and great evil, thorough understanding and acceptance of both is essential to thriving in today's multicultural world.

Privacy is essential to gain spiritual peace for meditations either ways... Author has expressed the belief in existence of a Super power that control all forces that are known or unknown to us..

About 85 percent of Christians and Muslims say belief in God is essential to what their faith means to them, reports Pew.

There may be others that we should all agree on if we are going to become unified, but those are just a few examples of the essential beliefs of the faith which Paul mentions here in verse 13.

«The employees were discharged because they no longer met an essential job prerequisite: that they genuinely affirm their belief in a statement of orthodox Christian faith as understood by the World Vision board.»

Hartshorne lists some qualifications on theism that are to him essential: a principle of dual transcendence» and a belief in certain «a priori» arguments (actually six of them) that are claimed to be «free from obvious fallacy» and that are suitably arranged disjunctively.

I could go on and on, but I hope that this answer helps briefly explain and define the Trinity and show why belief in the Trinity is essential to Christian belief and practice.