Sentences with phrase «faith as»

Atheism is as much a faith as any other philosophical belief.

We need the kind of hero's of faith as Jesus was.

I also think of faith as something like love.

That frustrates those who see faith as an obstinate obstacle to moral «progress.»

She sees liberation as a real possibility in history, and she understands faith as «trust in the ongoing process of liberation».28 This trust entails no assurance of a successful outcome in the course of history.

Yes, I understand followers of other various religions have just as much faith as a Christian.

We must confess that in our current era, many who adopt the name have departed in significant ways from the faith as expressed by the early Lutheran reformers.

In this context, the appeal to the Kerygma becomes an appeal to the act of faith as being a knowledge of the universal love of God, concerning which a process metaphysics may provide analogical knowledge obout.

Most christian «leaders» cite followers losing faith as the churches largest battle.

In the space at our disposal, however, we may yet say enough to point toward their indispensable expression of our responding Christian faith as it is confronted by the action of God in Jesus Christ «for us men and for our salvation.»

In its immensities of time and space, as well as in its love of endless diversity, it sacramentalizes the generosity, extravagance, and unpredictability of the creator known by biblical faith as the God of promise.

Go back in history and you'll find some very dark practices in the Christian faith as well.

We risk missing some of the richness of our faith as well as offending fellow Christians by pretending that interpretation is not an issue in the evangelical church.

For some who came into religion from a life of selfishness and greed, and who managed to use these beliefs to control these impulses, I would say there has been a benefit, but not all believers will automatically become serial killers once they stop having faith as the pastors love to preach.

we must see how Brunner understands faith as articulating itself reflectively.

Each of us is welcome to your faith as long as it enriches your spirit, brings joy and peace to your life, and does so without harming anyone.

Brunner understands faith as the human response to God's revelation of himself in Jesus Christ.

Yes, they'd have to be prepared for the consequences of their actions (i.e. missing school, work, etc.), but not before a line is drawn in the sand as to what it means to witness, thereby placing one's intentions in the faith as opposed to widespread approval.

Christians turned it into a symbol of their faith as a snub to the Roman Empire.

We participate in them by faith as well as by sight.

Theists see faith as a very valuable currency, so in order to argue that atheism is alright (or better), you aim to prove that atheists have plenty of faith.

Faith as a choice rather than a belief or a proof.

That «something else» is that the event of Jesus Christ is to be taken in faith as peculiarly and distinctively a disclosure of God, the dependable, worshipful, unsurpassable reality who is creatively at work in everything that takes place, even in that which is evil.

Thus it is tempting, especially in the light of revelation by which we view the cosmos with the eyes of faith as well as science, to hold that the material dimension of our cosmos was shaped by the promise of life, consciousness, and faith from the time of its earliest formation.

We know ourselves in faith as known and loved by God.

Had C.S. Lewis encountered only Christians like yourself, I'm afraid he would have had a much harder time leaving atheism and embracing the Christian faith as he so admirably did.

But from the perspective given in faith as articulated in dogmatics, the Christian thinker must undertake to unmask the errors of hostile beliefs.

Faith applied to the mysteries that we can't grasp is not the same as faith as a belief in something we know to be illogical.

I learned when i studied the Bible, and met a man that taught religious studies at Penn.State Remember, God loves you, even with faith as little as the size of a mustard seed!!

Christians can use faith as an excuse for a lack of answers, that's the nature of a religion.

The naive concept of faith as blind assent arose from an equally naive and philosophically disreputable theory of knowledge, according to which one knows a thing best by detaching oneself from its use and setting aside personal biases in order to form an idea that corresponds to the thing.

The structure of faith as apprehended within the whole company of the prophets was hardly without its contradictions, but the projection in faith of a final consummation embracing all prophetism's high affirmations is variously and eloquently proclaimed, and such raptured extensions of prophetic faith represent the ultimate words of prophetism.

Merriam - Webster's dictionary defines faith as «firm belief in something for which there is no proof.»

You and I indeed were reared in lovely Christian families and so had a good beginning, but we were not able, as we grew up, to accept the family's religious faith as a hand - me - down.

There's a church in Oregon that has several cases of adults denying medical care to their children using faith as an excuse.

Laymen also make comments which show that they feel the need of more direct address in preaching and less talking about the faith as if it were only a set of optional ideas.

When the candidates use his / her faith as a qualification, the voters should have the right to ask questions regarding his / her qualification.

As for people that claim to have faith as your self.

In Tachikawa's essay faith as trust seems clearly subordinate to meditational practice.

He seemed to view faith as a romantic adventure and the universe as a wild fairy tale — I had a similar perspective on the world, as a twenty - one - year old in D.C. Chesterton died long before YouTube, but if he were alive today, I think he would advocate new, creative methods to revolutionize the practice of journalism.

Non sequitur — Obama isn't making a great public chow of his faith as a centerpiece of his campaign and political message.

The reason Calvinists have this idea is because they view faith as a meritorious act of the will.

There truly is a strong affinity here to Santayana's idea of intent or animal faith as the way in which we turn dumbly to a reality beyond, whose character can only be more exactly specified for us by the essences which we intuit.

When asked where he stood theologically, White replied: «Islamic leaders are very orthodox, and they want to know that you are as serious about your faith as well.

Simpletons acting on faith as opposed to the erudite who rely on logic is as much as saying simpletons don't want to know why anything is the way it is, they just accept what they have been told without a shred of evidence.

In the absence of evidence, you must have tremendous faith as an evolutionist in your «belief system».

More accurately stated, Catholics view faith as having to be combined with works.

No one expects the «Secular Inquisition» — but don't worry they will be coming to a school, media studio, workplace near you — if anyone is stupid enough to try to teach the Christian faith as Christ taught it.

As one of these women said: «There are a lot of Christians who are using their faith as a political weapon, which it's never meant to be.»

I tend to agree — we need less peer presuure in the faith as it is.