Sentences with phrase «from other belief systems»

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

For example, when people say all religions are «more or less the same,» I worry that we're moving to a point where we fail to recognize the unique differences between world religions and the things that distinguish the gospel of Jesus from other belief systems.

And this is what sets a relationship with God apart from all other belief systems in the world.

Of course, most of the Holy Bible is plagiarism from other belief systems — everything from the story of creation to the great flood was taken from other cultures and religions.

Not exact matches

Well that's an ironic claim seeing as half of the Christian belief system was taken from other earlier religions.

Well, I have noticed that each belief system adopts its own name for their place of worship to distinguish themselves from other faiths.

On the other hand, there's power in learning from careful observations of the world, when we can understand God through his creation and the work of his creation without having to adapt our belief system in order to accommodate the diversity of creativity in storytelling and entertainment.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

For these reasons and others, I am a Christian; my beliefs come from my best discernment of what aligns with reality, not because it is merely a faith system that appeals to, or simply «works» for me.

I'm not keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to hold that other person in high esteem.

In an essay on «The Theology of Religion» (I.T.C. Journal, I / 1, 1974), I have argued that a theologian can have his life and thought enriched by this experience precisely because he views the faith of other persons from within his own system of belief and thought.

He provides a fascinating if troubling examination of how belief systems, physical distance from one's «enemy, tribalism, humiliation and other social forces destroy normal psychological inhibitors to cruelty.

You're running into the problem that syncretists always do — both of the «syncretized» belief systems include a purist tradition that objects to polluting their Truth with anything from any other source.

We'll have people from different belief systems selling others down the river because they don't believe «those people» are saved.

After all these years of study, of experience, of seeing others change, and becoming a different person myself, my belief system has gone a long way from «because the bible says so» to lets see everything the bible has to say about it, what was going on then, who it was said to, and what it means in the context of life today.

Lt. Cmdr. Christensen went on to say that «all service members are free to exercise their constitutional right to practice their religion in a manner that is respectful of other individuals» rights to follow their own belief systems; and in ways that are conducive to good order and discipline; and that do not detract from accomplishing the military mission»...

Scott: Pedophilia exists everywhere regardless of belief or disbelief, the difference is that the catholic church protects the pedophiles from criminal prosecution, all other peds if caught will face the court system.

Get it through your head, Mr. Miller, that you can not judge the beliefs of others from your own single minder belief system's point of view.

Quoting from the article: «Sadly, it seems to be increasingly acceptable in certain belief systems to kill as many members of the other religious community as possible,» she said.

You ask why the atheists need to scream it from the rooftops, carefully ignoring all the wonderful proselytizing that many Christians do, up to - and including - ridiculing others» belief systems.

And they would have learned from other readings that this claim is a profession of faith known as scientism, a modern belief system that is self - contradictory.

In all of these cases, we are referring to the whole system of beliefs and practices which differentiate one system from the others.

Let me close by saying that «cult» does NOT equal «bad people», or in any other way imply disqualification from political office, it is simply a way to distinguish those belief systems which are heretical from the perspective of orthodox Christianity.

The word «cult» is an insult slung freely by those belonging to popular social systems organized around the profession of ludicrous beliefs towards those professing other ludicrous beliefs but whose particular social system is not populated enough to afford it the free pass from conversation and reason that the former has been granted.

Islam is more than a religion, it is an overpowering political system that if implemented strips most human rights from the followers and bans all other belief systems, including atheism.

Traits like self - control, optimism, intellectual curiosity, emotional intelligence, and conscientiousness — habits that will cause them to turn off the TV because they have a test the next day or complete a college application without needing reminders from others or having the belief system that working hard will positively impact their life.

And as I said the scales fell off from my eyes; I read every chapter with enormous fascination and I was also fascinated by the fact, this was Martin's second edition, and in his preface to it, he said that when the first edition it come out he was inundated by letters from enthusiastic people who said to him that they loved every chapter of his book except for one, and they would always pick [out] the ones that, their favorite crackpot belief system was being attacked, and then they would say they were so happy to see all the others destroyed.

Well, here is the problem with all those organizations and belief systems, from Lee Haney, to the NSCA, to GM: they are only referring to lifting and NOT what is going on the other 22 hours in the day.

A film about a lot of things, it draws its power from the Gordian complexity of crafting a legacy through the belief — when every other system and bedrock is filthy with rot and cynicism — in the ability to forget.

He creates a belief system, something that catches on with other lost souls,» with great help from his right - hand guy Freddie.

This belief is shared by many others such as Ms Maggie Maunye, former Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs who stated that non-citizens prevent South Africans from enjoying the fruits of their freedoms and Ms Fatima Chohan, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, who stated that given the huge influx of individuals abusing the asylum management system, the state can not allow refugees» access to national resources until the asylum system is reviewed and strengthened to ensure bogus asylum - seekers are detected, including the reviewing of the cases of those who were granted asylum.

As one practitioner argued, «Teacher leaders need to be able to take into account the perspectives of others and operate within a system, rather than solely from their own knowledge and beliefs.»

From her earliest days in Jamaica, as a young girl who was driven to teach others to read, to her rapid rise through all levels of the school system to become Ontario's first Chief Student Achievement Officer, Glaze has been a persistent voice in the belief that there should be no «throw - away kids.»

Superintendents and other district - level leaders in academically successful school districts convey a strong belief in the capacity of school system personnel to achieve high standards of learning for all students, and high standards of teaching and leadership from all instructional and support personnel.

The influence that Cambridge Analytica exerted on the American and European populations by leveraging data obtained from Facebook could embolden China and others to continue development in manipulative AI - driven systems, and the case could inform their research as to what data is the most influential in controlling the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of a population.

Justice Wilcox found that in 1829 the claim area was occupied and used by «Aboriginal people who spoke dialects of a common language and who acknowledged and observed a common body of laws and customs».47 He accepted that what united and distinguished them from neighbouring groups was a «commonality of belief, language, custom and material culture».48 Though sub-groups or families exercised particular rights and responsibilities for particular areas to which they «belonged», those rights and responsibilities arose from a wider normative system that operated within the broader Noongar society.49 The rights of the sub-group were burdened by the entitlement of others to access land for various purposes.50

A coding system was developed in which 7 codes represented cues based on the infant's behavior or health, 6 codes represented maternal beliefs, and 1 code represented advice from others (Table 1).

These stressful belief systems may have originated from our family of origin, and they may be reinforced by significant others or work environments.