Sentences with phrase «existing belief system»

Are you trying to identify the best available scientific evidence, or are you trying to prove me wrong to maintain your existing belief system?

Stepping out of my existing belief system and trying something new fixed my autoimmune disorder — and some back pain I had actually forgotten about.

A lot of these birth stories have enough NCB tropes that it's easy to see that the woman bought into an existing belief system.

Jeremy has shown me over the past couple of years how to challenge my existing belief system arising from (as Neville describes as) «moral / legal covenant interpretation of the gospel».

Not exact matches

Type 3 experiences do not alter existing beliefs or nurture new belief systems because they are perceived as insignificant and within the normal pattern of things.

Doctrine Over Person is taking many of the experiences you've had and either denying they ever existed or suppressing / avoiding them in order to perpetuate the belief system of the cult.

I find it amazing that in the 21st century that there still exists some very strange / crazy cults that are part of the Christian belief system.

@DamianKnight, another point I want you to think about is: True, we all have different worldviews and different belief systems and should exist together.

They exist to teach a certain set of doctrines / beliefs to people who want to be indoctrinated in that system, which will convince certain types of churches that they are «experts» in doctrine and perhaps Bible and therefore should make a valued employee who will perpetuate the beliefs of the group.

Every religion has its narrative, a belief system built around one or more gods postulated to exist.

We don't say there are six types of Theists, we focus on the Religions, and that is what is missing — a modern Religion / Belief system for Atheists — as Atheism does not mean without rules, just about whether God exists or not.

In addition to the basic assumption that the god or gods on which a religion is based exist, every system of religious beliefs raises a number of questions.

To me, trying to base a belief system on proof doesn't work either way in discussing whether a spiritual realm does or does not exist.

«it was only when religious belief was removed from the realm of «fact» to that of «value», about which individuals were free to differ, that a societal system could evolve in which a multiplicity of denominations could exist side by side and have equal rights.»

Scott: Pedophilia exists everywhere regardless of belief or disbelief, the difference is that the catholic church protects the pedophiles from criminal prosecution, all other peds if caught will face the court system.

For example, in the Orphic belief system, the beginning was known as «Unaging Time», when nothing existed and nothing grew old.

Thus a singular truth as to the authentic nature of God does exist which means some belief systems are more consistent with truth than are others.

It sets up, through authority, not reason, a belief system that forces people to exist in two minds.

It is not one religion that makes things possible, it is a part of all belief systems, including Witchcraft (which does not recognize that Satan exists, by the way, for those who don't know this.).

This article states that there is a 92 % to 8 % ratio of pro / anti-gun sentiment... that shows their belief system is biasing their political views of a weapon that didn't exist during the time of Jesus.

To question your belief system is to backslide, so you're told that the only way to get better is to dive headfirst into those existing beliefs with more manic zeal than before.»

Systems of belief and their supporting arguments are not taken at face value, but instead analysed as rationalisations for oppression and existing power structures, or as manifestations of psychological impulses.

What we have learned from numerous archeological finds from the mid-1940s and 50s is that, not only was Christianity comprised of many different communities with many different gospels and belief systems in its earliest stages, but that Christianity itself springs from Essenism, a separatist - extremist sect that had existed at least 100 years before Jesus, and most closely resembles the Branch Davidians of Waco, TX.

This was not true in the NCB subculture that I escaped from, hardly anyone was religious at all, though I do not doubt that people with these belief systems exist.

This system tends to bolster our already existing beliefs, both religious and cultural, as a way of affirming life.

Now I'm not saying this is all proof — there are many other factors such as environmental pollution, social structure and belief systems — but to discard plants as not only worthless but dangerous is to ignore the vast majority of scientific and anecdotal data that exists.

The assembly considers how many religions and belief systems exist in the world.

Contrary to popular belief, segregation still exists in our education system today.

I don't think we see those same forces playing out or advancing against the tenure system in academia simply because of the belief that in academia there is supposedly a more objective measure of what quality is, as measured by the existing tenure process linked to the meritocracy.

Contrary to popular belief, the system of patriarchy has not existed for all of history across all time and all cultures.

Faldbakken's practice questions the potential of artistic intervention to disrupt and negate the existing system of behaviors and beliefs in order to generate new content and release creative freedom.

This incorporates not only the awareness that exists in relation to uncertainties in the system under review and its behaviour, but also a measure of degree of belief in that understanding.

Such a belief system doesn't exist — unless you count some of the musings of industrialists looking at billowing smokestacks in the 19th century as a belief system.

The other part is to help citizens understand the role of our existing human rights regime when it comes to dealing with freedom of belief, and possibly to understand the system's shortcomings and how it might be improved.

In many belief systems, including Western thought, deities often cause «natural disasters» to punish humanity or to assert power... The argument is that natural disasters do not exist because all disasters require human input.

Mindlessly carrying on chasing commissions with blinders well fitted (which bakes - in a well entrenched belief system that all is well... as long as the big bucks keep coming in and the pot - of - gold at the end of the rainbow still exists) will only lead to a stubborn self - sustaining cultural resistance to what is slowly, relentlessly, happening out there; government types are finally, seriously looking at the wild - west amateur - gunslinger real - estate - agent show.