Sentences with phrase «faith and reason exist»

This one is tough, as faith and reason exist in a rather tricky balance.

Not exact matches

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

Something you fail to address is why any rational person would be motivated to invest the time and energy it takes to develop faith in any god if he sees no reason to believe he exists in the first place.

A fundamental flaw in this claim, on which I'll elaborate more in another comment, is that lacking any reason to believe anything one could reasonably call a god exists, what incentive do I have to invest time and effort developing faith in one?

However the vision of Christ and of his work presented by Agnes and Edward Holloway is always to remain central to the Faith Movementindeed it is its sole identity and reason for existing.

But if there is no evidence he exists, and hence no reason to believe he exists, what's my incentive to invest time and energy to develop faith in something I have no reason to believe exists?»

God exists and the proof is as plain as reason AND faiand the proof is as plain as reason AND faiAND faith.

Arkoun suggested that the Pope, at Regensburg, had been «right» to affirm that today «an intimate relationship between reason and faith does not exist in Islamic elaboration and expressions», but that it was unfortunate that he had not mentioned the very different situation that prevailed «before the death of the philosopher Averroes in 1198».

If we can really assure ourselves by natural reason that God exists then that is not an article of faith, and the same goes for Christ's divinity, if, as apologists claim, we have good rational grounds for thinking that he claimed to be divine, that he was neither mad nor a fraud, and that he rose from the dead.

Whilst Fr Edward Holloway, founder of Faith movement, argues that such is positive evidence for God, Stoeger caught the mood of the conference by simply saying it was not inconsistent with there existing - above and beyond science - a «theological teleology, a reason for it all», and thus it was not inconsistent with the existence of God.»

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

Rollins writes, «A faith that only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ... Only a genuine faith can embrace doubt, for such a faith does not act because of a self - interested reason (such as fear of hell or desire for heaven) but acts simply because it must.»

Some of the great fathers of modern science were Catholic priests — proof that faith and reason can exist in harmony, as they still do today.

Scientism causes an extreme dualism, where the life of faith and the life of reason exist simultaneously but separately.

Jesus as a person does not exist outside the gospels and the only reason he exists there is because of their authors» faith in the Resurrection....

Too often faith and reason have been defined in terms of external relations, so that the tension between them has been broken and not merely resolved, But if a tension exists between faith and reason, then each must modify the other and be modified in turn.

The tension that must necessarily exist between faith and reason is broken.

«The faith of the Church has always insisted that between God and us, between his eternal Creator Spirit and our created reason, there exists a real analogy, in which — as the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 stated — unlikeness remains infinitely greater than likeness, yet not to the point of abolishing analogy and its language.

Whilst Fr Edward Holloway, founder of Faith movement, takes such insights towards God, Stoeger caught the mood of the conference by simply saying it was not inconsistent with there existing - above and beyond science - a theological teleology, a «reason for it all» which is given only by God.

«The regular study section is risk averse for a very simple, perfectly human reason: It's just easier to see how an incremental improvement in existing knowledge and an experiment which is very, very obviously feasible is a better use of the money to the average study section member than something which requires any kind of leap of faith or which is insufficiently justified, in their view.

For these two men - especially Rodriguez, they will discover an ultimate test of faith, trying to find a reasoning behind the message of God, and push back against the possible reality that God might not exist at all.

Sister Anne, who has dedicated her life to Catholic education sees this unique role as a wonderful opportunity for our students, faculty and all of our IMS staff since she says, «The main reason Catholic schools exist is to pass on our faith to the next generation and to help all members, Catholic and non-Catholic, recognize that they are loved unconditionally by God.»

He summed up his attitude in the 1965 statement «Faith, Hope, and Impossibility,» in which he describes his studio situation in terms that sound like they were taken right out of Being and Nothingness: «You begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self - judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible.»

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