Sentences with phrase «experience by this believer»

What the Reformation ends up with is not a God whose very Nature is Unconditional Love; but a Father God whose Love can never be immediately experienced by the believer; but only through a scape - goated Son cruelly sacrificed in our stead — Calvin's Cosmic Bully!

Tragic natural disasters, the consequences of human preditory selfishness and injustice will be experienced by both believers and unbelievers; but whether those experiences make us bitter and cynical or empathetic and compassionate will depend a lot on whether the inevitable suffering that comes to all will depend a lot on whether we believe our flawed existence to be essentially good, though disordered or essentially evil in spite of its few «good» moments.

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Can Christian believers be grasped by the promise of the new age and the perils of the transition in such a way that leads them into a fresh experience of the gospel of Christ and the power of the Spirit?

As an atheist I would love nothing more than for moderates to stand up to these bullies, but my experience has been that they leave that up to us because they're just too nice to criticize, and they can't stand being told that they're not following Jesus by other believers.

His more general understanding of Christian ~ experience has been colored by this personal frustration, with the result that he has reduced the Christian life to the mere memory of a past event (he labels this «Israel») which seeks to make its believers hard, tight, and controlled.

The Fourth Gospel offers, in my view, a most profound and moving meditation on the traditions used by the Synoptists, in the light of the experience of Christian believers who truly encountered the risen Lord in the worship and witness of the Church.

It is all recorded in the Bible, written in countless books by believers who have passed on, and every believer alive today can give witness or testimony to their own spiritual experiences.

Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the experience of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

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.

Instead perhaps believers would be better served by youtuber Evid3nc3 video series detailing his own personal deconversion from christianity to atheism that in many ways mirrors my own experience.

By gazing at the heavenly Jesus as victim, i.e., Jesus in the Eucharist, believers are able to profit from Jesus» experiencing death for each of them, thus enabling them to appreciate Jesus» earthly victimhood, which resulted in his heavenly victimhood in the Eucharist.

Sarah God forgives you for your actions if you confess it to God he does nt change he still loves you.It is hard but as a believer we must forgive those who hurt us not for there sake but for ours harbouring anger bitterness and unforgiveness causes us to get sick that is where i believe your mental illness is coming from.Those negative emotions have the power to destroy us if we let them.Only Jesus can help us to forgive when it hurts so deeply like you are experiencing tell him you cant do it and ask him to help you by his holy spirit so he can set you free and bring healing and restoration to your life brentnz.

This happens through the contemplation and study made by believers, who treasure these things in their hearts» and also through the «intimate understanding of spiritual things they experience» (Dei Verbum 8).

Karl Rahner, in Encounter with Silence, reports a sense of vacuity experienced at times by every believer:

Nevertheless, once the hearts of believers have been won by the love of God and their eyes opened by faith, they can not deny in their own experience the reliability of the grace of God.

It's not hard to see that Bright was guided by the hand of a believer, but the viewing experience is a bit messier this time around.

was guided by the hand of a believer, but the viewing experience is a bit messier this time around.

Even the believer, as Joseph Ratzinger once wrote, now «knows himself to be constantly threatened by unbelief, which he must experience as a continual temptation.»

The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual's past experience directly serves as a model.

A senior church leader in Nigeria has described the «difficult» life being experienced by Christians in the country, as attacks on believers by militant Islamist group Boko Harem continue.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

In Romans 7, he wrote about the ongoing struggle with sin that every person experiences (both believer and unbeliever alike), and concluded that description by rejoicing that God has provided a way through Jesus Christ for people to be freed from the bondage to decay and corruption that was brought about by the body of death.

Particularly pertinent to our present theme is the fact that by this saving deed believers conceived themselves as ushered into a new experience of sonship to God.

It is beyond my understanding to believe that any true believer, one born again by His Spirit might be able, in a moment of supreme weakness, to deny their redeemer and all the experiences they may have had because of faith and the transformation that took place within them.

They were called Anabaptists because they insisted that the baptism of infants was not true baptism, that only believers should be baptized, and that if an individual had been baptized in infancy, after he had the experience of being justified by faith he should be re-baptized.

Thus they stood against any attempted control of religious life and experience by a minority of Christian believers.

I am a firm believer of pet insurance and, after a previous negative experience with another Company (even though recommended by the Vet,), I had insured Rose with Healthy Paws about a year ago.

I say religion because in my 62 years of experience I have only ever seen this kind of ignorant thinking by well educated people, coming from newly born true believers.

«As someone who personally experienced central planning and attempts to organise the whole of society by directives from above, I feel obliged to warn against the arguments and ambitions of the believers in the global warming doctrine.

Indifference towards beliefs, even where a neutral standard may be set, may have the unintended effect of constructive discrimination, an issue experienced frequently by believers in non-traditional forms of creed.

The hearsay is often espoused by those so - called authorities who have learned their misinformation from other, so - called authoritative true believers, sans relevant hands - on experience (book l'arners), and the cycle just keeps on repeating.