Sentences with phrase «faith as certainty»

Not exact matches

So perhaps you should come to terms with the one fact that is truly undeniable, infallible and that links all together as one people: regardless of what any of us believes, the thing that gives us the certainty to argue for our beliefs is simply faith.

That said, Atheism has become a new religion in it's own right, stating with as much certainty as people of «faith», THERE IS NO GOD.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

I don't think that will happen — largely because Grayling's certainty can often look just as faith - filled as the fundamentalism he critiques.

It appeared as if we could no longer know our faith with certainty.

As is often the case when I write about confronting doubt or questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky questions and just enjoy the bliss of absolute certainty that should accompany true faith.

When the philosophical synthesis that was used as the vehicle to expound the teachings of the Church gave way it seemed to throw into question many of the certainties of our faith.

So, too, the life of faith is a life of emptiness and darkness in the desert where one's truth and certainty as food for the journey are not a verifiable and present truth but a promise, just as the manna was a promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.

This humility will get interpreted by some as a lack of faith or as a lack of conviction and certainty.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

Furthermore, the degree of certainty of such historical aetiology can be increased by the fact that the rational inference is drawn under the light of faith and of inspiration, as of course happens in recognition of more precise precepts of the natural moral law.

(For example, a Christian woman once told me earnestly that even if biologists were able to demonstrate common descent to a certainty, she would still reject it for a simplistic interpretation of the Genesis creation account as a matter of faith.)

«This pinnacle of faith in New Testament religion is the final expression of certainty about the power of God to complete our fragmentary life as well as the power of His love to purge it of the false completions in which all history is involved.»

As we celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the election of John Paul II we thank God for sending us this Pope to re-build the Church, for his magnificent teaching given at a time of acute crisis, and for giving her the certainty in the faith she so desperately needs.

Instead of seeing faith as the act of the trusting heart directed toward God, it seeks after a visible form of certainty to be an irrefutable bridge between heaven and earth.

Using as an illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty, through doubt, to faith, Evans adds a unique perspective to the ongoing dialogue about postmodernism and the church that has so captivated the Christian community in recent years.

Terry your absolute certainty leaves no room for growth in your faith as it represents a closed and locked door.

Speaking as someone who does not, in fact, think one can know with absolute certainty that other people exist at all, and therefore «strongly believes» that indeed other «minds» exist, calling the blief that other minds exist nothing more than «blind faith» seems a little out there.

Tallulah, as a Christian I can say with some certainty that most (not all) Christians would not be offended by another faith symbol being placed at a memorial.

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.»

certainties as faith's crutch.

His attempt to define faith as a willingness to commit in the face of uncertainty (p. 68) while using certainty (p. 50) is like a relativist arguing against absolutes by using the absolute statement that «There are no absolutes.

Is this not the sole certainty: that one's so - called conviction is not altered from moment to moment as a result of the different things that happen to one, things that momentarily alter a person and alter everything for a person so that today he has faith, and tomorrow he has lost it, and he gets it again day after tomorrow until something completely out of the ordinary happens, at which time he almost inevitably loses it, assuming that he has ever had it!

We use our reason to discuss things as the historical context, when the disciples worked and Jerusalem fell, etc., but it does not give us the gift of faith (certainty / ceritutde of God's mercy in Christ.)

Only recently have I realized that as much as I'd like to say I do not miss Certainty, as much as I'd like to say I am content with Humility and Faith by my side, I feel the weight of Certainty's absence every single day.

I will quite willingly explain to God that in the absence of 100 % certainty, I guarded my faith as scripture warned time and again - something that is not necessary if God keeps people safe even from themselves and the exercise of their free will that he gave man in the garden of Eden.

We can get at that sense by following a distinction drawn by Thomas Guarino (the Catholic cochairman of Evangelicals and Catholics Together): «The distinction is between centrality to the foundation of the faith as opposed to the certainty with which the Church teaches it.»

There is no other road to faith; if one wishes to escape risk, it is as if one wanted to know with certainty that he can swim before going into the water.

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But to lose faith in it for this specious reason (as if a high incidence of adultery casts doubt on the validity of marriage) is to lose faith not only in literature but in the mind's capacity to make those nonlinear leaps beyond present certainties that give Einstein an occupation and Hawking precedent for his dream of grand unification.

So long as you live on Earth, you will never «know» which is why you have «faith» and not certainty.

It challenges the idol of certainty and proposes we regard faith primarily in relational terms — as trust in a person.

You go so far as to claim that certainty - seeking faith is «idolatrous.»

But this individual has to see to it that certainties achieved through his faith are not mistaken by him for the findings of science, and, vice versa, that he does not give forth the «assured «results of his science as being for that reason saving truths.

To have the consequences as a datum is then precisely as dubious an advantage as to have an immediate certainty; whoever takes the consequences immediately to his credit is deceived, precisely as one who takes the immediate certainty for Faith.

It all began in July 2007, when Stem's founder and president, Steve Matthews, took what he described as a «leap of faith» by leaving the certainty of his role as Knowledge Services Director at Clark Wilson LLP to start his own company, Stem Legal Web Enterprises.