Sentences with phrase «first meaning of faith»

to me even the first meaning of faith (confidence in a person or thing) still entails that there is no evidence that that specific person can get the job done.

So I begin with the first meaning of faith.

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First my questions were within the parameters of Christianity, meaning I wasn't questioning the faith, just the way things were interpreted, but once I started digging and seeking answers I started questioning the religion itself.

How does all of that mean that there is possible way that it could not all come from any god and epecially in way would it come from an Abrahamic God; a God who does want to be made of in the first place but would rather have us develop faith in that God?

Spiritual can definitely mean faith first and knowledge later for a lot of people.

The church understands itself to be the first heirs of this kingdom through faith alone, worked by the power of the Holy Spirit through the means of grace.

For the historical event of the rise of the Easter faith means for us what it meant for the first disciples — namely, the self - attestation of the risen Lord, the act of God in which the redemptive event of the cross is completed.

For many it is important that they try to find some meaning or purpose in their struggles or to evaluate, perhaps for the first time, the implications of their faith in their crisis situation.

First, in every domain of teaching the following essentials of religious faith should be emphasized and demonstrated in the teacher's own outlook: That the world, man, and his culture are neither self - sufficient nor self - explanatory but are derived from given sources of being, meaning, and value.

The significance of Abraham is, first, that God in fact promised to extend his salvation through Abraham to all nations, and second, that the story of Abraham reveals not only the temporary sign of the covenant (circumcision), but also the means (faith) by which a person of any nation can come and share in the promised blessing.

Studying the Bible in his cell, he was struggling to understand what the apostle Paul meant in his letter to the Romans: «For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed — a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: «The righteous will live by faith»» (1:17).

Each man, in each generation, must come to a fresh and first - hand experience of what Easter faith means.

First of all, by «Christian theology» is properly meant either the process or the product of critically reflecting on the Christian witness of faith so as to be able to evaluate any and all claims as to its meaning and truth.

This response was continuous, although the resurrection marked the crisis in its development — the moment when loyalty to the person reached its climax and when faith in the meaning of the event as an act of God became for the first time clear and sure — but at every stage this response was a constituent and creative element in the event itself, and the event had not fully happened until this response of faith had been fully made.

Baptism is the first Sacrament of Initiation (meaning to have the person initiated into the Faith).

The cross became the central symbol of the church's faith only because it had first been the actual center around which the whole remembered meaning of the life of Jesus had been gathered.

as Nietzsche put it: «Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as science «without any presuppositions»... a philosophy, a «faith,» must always be there first of all, so that science can acquire from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist... It is still a metaphysical faith that underlies our faith in science.»

For the first time, I felt I understood the true meaning of faith, as hope in things unseen.

The first of these is the nature of what has been meant by «random,» as this column has highlighted in preceding issues of the Faith magazine.

And the problem must first be faced honestly; only then can we go on to consider the how of prayer, its various aspects, its basic meaning, and its relation to Christian life and faith.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

In the Old Testament, God is known as Creator only because he is first known as Sustainer - Redeemer.27 The creation faith of the Old Testament nowhere gives the impression that its Primary interest is in origins as origins; rather is it a faith that speaks from, and back to, historical human existence and in its articulation is concerned to say what man is and what in that faith his existence means.

A hermeneutic of revelation must give priority to those modalities of discourse that are most originary within the language of a community of faith; consequently, those expressions by means of which the members of that community first interpret their experience for themselves and for others.

Jesus became Christ, not in human and cosmic history, but in the experience and thinking of the first generations of Christians.5 This distinction between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith meant that the traditional picture of Jesus Christ, as portrayed in the Creeds, was being torn apart.

This, however, is only the first reason that the present - day theologian has to rethink the meaning of Jesus Christ for faith.

- When we have said that three of the factors contributing to the expansion of Christianity and with it to the spread of the influence of Jesus were the Roman Empire, the disintegration of old religious beliefs accompanied by a hunger for a morally and intellectually satisfying faith, and association with Hellenism, we have by no means accounted fully for the phenomenal growth of Christianity in its first five centuries.

For clergy, the first stage of the agenda will include relating the call to ministry and the meaning of that call to each as part of personal stories of faith.

I attempted to sketch the difficulties of relating the Resurrection narratives of the New Testament to the kind of world in which we live, and to show that, in spite of these, the Resurrection faith of the church can still have meaning for men who have left behind the world view of the first century.

This book proposes a conceptual revolution, the refurbishing of the patristic understanding of canon as first of all a means of grace rather than a criterion of truth and falsity in faith and morals.

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

«Special revelation» means first of all and most obviously the specific «face» this mystery takes to the community of those who adhere to specifically Christian faith.

Part II (i) Interpreting the Council In the first place, it would appear that what the report takes to be the meaning of the «contemporary situation of faith» is not only the statistics regarding practice and non-practice among Catholics but also the reception and interpretation of Vatican II.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

My ordination means that my hometown church, where I first heard God speak to me, made my profession of faith, was baptized, and made my commitment to vocational Christian service, will not permit me even to speak to a Sunday school class, much less preach.

Buying someone inferior to coquelin wud mean only adding a squad player, buying someone superior to him wud mean showing lack of faith in coquelin, and it wud b hard to convince vidal by saying dat u will b competing wid an improved 24 year old instead of being d first choice directly.

Tubby, you called it mate, we have the most fickle fans on the planet, last night doesn't mean all of a sudden were crap, what it does mean is certain players need to take a long hard look at themselves as Arsene is taking serious heat by showing his loyalty to them namely, ozil and per, just not good enough and as for welbeck he should never been given an arsenal shirt, Giroud had a mare but he has proven this year that he is a great squad player but can not be our first choice striker, gooners keep the faith and hope that Monaco try to play ball in second leg cos if we turn up we could still hammer them.

Seeing as L.A. Noire was first announced back in 2006, I wouldn't put a lot of faith in Rockstar's understanding of what «very soon» means, but hopefully we won't have to wait another three years to put this murder mystery to bed.

First he put the burden of proof on those who question his work, which means, if his position is accepted, that he is in the same position as a religious organization, forcing doubters of the faith to prove a negative.

59 The answer to the first question and the first part of the third question is therefore that European Union law must be interpreted as meaning that it does not preclude the issue of judgment by default against a defendant on whom, given that it is impossible to locate him, the document instituting proceedings has been served by public notice under national law, provided that the court seised of the matter has first satisfied itself that all investigations required by the principles of diligence and good faith have been undertaken to trace the defendant.

The court's reasoning largely focused on two aspects of the case: Eon - Net's litigation tactics (including filing a lawsuit based on an unreasonable interpretation of the meaning of the patent claims, destroying documents that could have been relevant to the litigation, and not participating in the claim construction process in good faith), and Eon - Net's failure to properly investigate Flagstar and compare the accused product to the patent claims prior to filing suit in the first place.

In the case of any disputes under these Terms, the parties shall first attempt in good faith to resolve their dispute informally, or by means of commercial mediation, without the necessity of a formal proceeding.

As the 10th anniversary of taking that first leap of faith draws closer and New Year's Resolutions are right around the corner, I've found myself reflecting on what the past ten years have meant to me and to our family.