Sentences with phrase «from old beliefs»

But this phase came to my mind when I started the journey of freeing my mind from old beliefs and...

Not sure who all knows, but it derives from an old belief that «good» spirits lived in trees.

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As more and more children get removed from the old ways of indoctrinating them all with religious belief from an early age, then atheism will become the norm, and religion the refuge of the minorities of the mentally ill and the lame seekers of cargo cults.

Naturalism the belief that the universe self manifested from nonexistence and nothing exists beyond the material world is not a science but an age old philosophy.

Writing on Twitter, the US President said 22 year old Otto Warmbier from Ohio was «tortured beyond belief» during his time in detention.

Either we are allowed to move on from old, outdated beliefs, or we are not.

Doesn't that make you re-think your belief in an old story book copied from even older story books?

However, once there is acceptance that there is no intelligence life force from outer space guiding our lives, it is difficult to understand how someone would revert to the old beliefs.

Stupid things such as, «Jesus wants me to be rich», «the Earth is 6000 years old and every human is descended from Adam and Eve», and «my ignorant beliefs should be imposed on everyone by the government, as long as I don't have to pay for it.»

As I grew older and made friends with everyone from Baptists to Catholics, I began to talk to these people about their own beliefs and their own convictions.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

Consequently, the Roman faith has often been viewed as one of the backward beliefs these dispossessed groups brought over from the Old Country.

But this was contrary to the Old Side orthodox view, which stressed the strict adherence to a confession of faith and argued that the presbytery, and ultimately a synod, determines the fitness of a man for the ministry on the basis of his education and doctrinal beliefs, and an external call from a congregation.

Their way of thinking was in terms of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection of the body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that Jesus had not been put out of the way through death was to say that he had indeed been «raised from the dead», that he was in and with God, and that those who belonged to him were granted a share in the risen life which was properly his own.

There is an awareness of old Roman augury and priesthood, back when legislators «derived much of their power from the influence, of religion, or from that implicit belief which an ignorant and, superstitious people entertain of the gods, and their interposition in every transaction of life.»

If belief that God exists requires loving all living things for God's sake as well as for their own, it is inseparable from charity, which according to the old catechism involves loving «our neighbours as ourselves for God's sake».

So, the next time you proudly proclaim that you know the secrets to life, death, the origins of life on Earth and the origins of the Universe, because your parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from late Bronze Age Palestine as a ten year - old, you might like to consider where your beliefs fit into the bigger picture.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

It was a later teacher who declared that «God is a spirit»; yet the belief is not diverse from that of the Old Testament.

To illustrate, a person sees a spider, adds old memories and fallacious beliefs (that all spiders are dangerous) from the middle zone to this experience, thus becoming inappropriately frightened, without checking to discover that it is a harmless, even beneficent garden spider.

So many of our assumptions and beliefs and relationships are based on something old and rotten, decaying our spirits from the inside out.

They developed major aspects of their belief and expectation from Old Testament texts, interpreting the texts in the light of their experience and their experience in the light of the texts.

It's a belief descended from the old Arab pagan beliefs that were practiced around the time Mohammad was living.

The traditionalists, the nativists, argue that the danger has come from the failure of the people to adhere more strictly to the old beliefs, and the old values, and the old behavior patterns.

When Philip In Acts 8 had finished teaching the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the old testament till the present moment why did Philip baptise him with water if all it took was belief in Jesus?

My belief system comes from reading the Old Testament since youth and subsequent confirmations of it from both secular and Christian educations in different countries.

Good, then tell your religous friends to stop pulling laws into place that are based on beliefs derived from a book that is thousands of years old.

For example, the baby - boom generation, raised in the «60s and «70s, possesses experiences, values and approaches to belief and belonging that are very different from those of older church members.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

The most picturesque passage in the Old Testament in illustration of such prevalent beliefs concerns the Witch of Endor, whom Saul consulted in order to seek counsel from the dead Samuel.

Smothering your arcane 2000 yr old religious beliefs in burning bushes and flying men from sky on little children is an abuse of worst kind.

For the same reason, each looks back to the basic documents of Christian belief, the writings of the Old and New Testaments and the credal formulations of the early Church, from his own point of view and in a perspective conditioned by his personal belief.

From being a hard hater, their God became, in their imagination and belief, a merciful lover of his people, the depth of whose sacrificial compassions it strained their language to fathom: «In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.»

He discovered the ways in which the old beliefs had given him a sense of undeserved and derivative (from God) worth and power to compensate temporarily and ineffectively for his personal feelings of unworthiness and powerlessness.

No doubt the fundamentalist hostility to social - welfare programs also derives from a belief in the myth of «the good old days.»

Their beliefs are more centered on the old testament and are far from Christ's teachings.

One's emotions, such as unwillingness to be wrong, the comfort of old beliefs, the fear of stepping out from the familiar into the unknown, keep Christians and Athiests alike from seeing what might be true in the other side's beliefs, or what might be false in their own.

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, chose a small nomadic group of Jews from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.

His love of food and the industry began at 16 years old and only grew from there as his belief in quality, flavors and creativity influenced his career.

Arsene Wenger spoke in the week about the big gap between Arsenal and the current Premier League leaders might just allow the Gunners to play with some of the old fluency and verve that saw us topping the table at the turn of the year and even though the Gunners were knocked out of the Champions League in midweek, there were enough positives from our performance against Barcelona to give us some belief back.

The 21 - year old told Arsenal Player that he feels that all of the players will benefit from a chance to rest and freshen up, while going into the break on the back of a win will help the belief and morale levels.

Stay from these aging feminist sluts and date younger, hotter women (preferably foreign) who have not been infected as heavily by modern feminist beliefs and are not as bitter and jaded as these old hags who believe this feminist nonsense.

Their contempt for the EU largely derives from their belief that it is old - fashioned, corporatist and failing.

After all, the party won well over 40 % support at the last election, with a lot of it coming from older and white British voters, from Leavers, and from those with small - c Conservative values and a belief in a smaller, less active state.

In the two - thirds of state - funded schools which shouldn't have anything to do with religion, teaching about non-religious beliefs is almost entirely excluded from new qualifications for 14 - to 18 - year - olds.

Cox says the new two - day APD training for officers includes a remedial on implicit bias: how unconscious attitudes and beliefs can affect the everyday judgment and decision - making of police officers, who will now learn how to cast those old measures of character aside and use their discretion to divert low - level offenders from the criminal justice system into coordinated, managed, health - based services.

Older patients have diverse views on the relative importance of stroke and death as end points, which differ from clinicians» beliefs, he argues.

«There's a belief that these drugs should be withheld from older patients due to concerns about toxicity and other medical concerns, but our results show just the opposite,» Brose said.