Sentences with phrase «ideas as beliefs»

The reality one must go beyond ideas as beliefs to that where know the power / essence of ones own being.

All must go beyond ideas as beliefs unto that where knowing the reality of the heaven the paradise that's within every soul.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg carefully negotiated a clause that would allow him to take a leave from Facebook to serve in public office or government, so presumably he has some sort of political beliefs — if not outright political ambition — as well as some core ideas about what's good for society and what's not.

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

Mental and emotional state: hopes, beliefs, fears, and ideas — especially as they relate to the issue or problem your business is going to address

This study examines the shared ideas and beliefs that make Canada what it is today, as well as the divisions that push back against long - held concepts of what Canada is, or is supposed to be.

I'll write about the bogus «China gold demand» theory again in the future as it's one of the most persistent false beliefs within the bullish camp, but in this post I'm going to quickly deal with another China - related false belief that periodically shifts to the centre of the bullish stage: the idea that China's government is preparing to back the Yuan with gold.

One thing that many Christians get hung up on is the idea of evolution as a belief that we all developed from single celled organisms and that our genetic map split from apes and etc..

Perhaps you can disprove certain beliefs, such as the «young earth» idea, but at the core level science and religion are not in conflict.

Nye wasn't there to debate whether or not people should be allowed to believe in Creationism... he was simply there to challenge, as has always had to be done, the idea that beliefs should be taught right alongside science as though the two were not mutually exclusive.

There is as much evidence for the Native American creationist beliefs involving Spider Grandmother & Turtle Island as there are for the Christian ideas of 6 days, 6000 yrs ago.

Could just as well replace «religion» with any set of beliefs / ideas you disagree with.

These ideas are echoed in the «prosperity gospel» — characterized by the belief that God wants to bless His people, that He wants to give us tangible rewards such as riches and success and that we claim these rewards by exercising our faith in obedience.

That's an indoctrinated belief placed upon a natural human reaction, just as much as the Hindu idea that good deeds only make sense in the context of people trying to improve themselves through reincarnation, isn't it?

As a former Christian, I find the idea of one man standing before a congregation several times a week, explaining his beliefs (understanding of the bible?)

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

Atheists (not all just as not all christians preach) that try to spread their beliefs to others do so with similar ideas of helping people free themselves from they view as mentally oppressive.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alonAs an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alonas it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

The idea of being kind to your fellow man as you would wish him to be to you is found all over the world, and does not require the additional belief in all the hootenanny of organized religion.

With the widespread loss of belief in God as law - giver, the idea of being morally bound or obliged — as if this or that verdict on your action hangs in the balance — loses its basic meaning, however much it might retain its compelling psychological effect.

I repeat: I hope I am wrong; but I am, all the same, beginning to wonder if the warm support with which even quite unexpected people in our hierarchy (like Bishop Hollis) greeted the establishment of the Ordinariate this time round (you will remember the hostility with which they squashed a similar but less radical basic idea in the Nineties) was really as wholehearted as it seemed at the time: or were they simply saying what they knew the Pope wanted them to say, but without any real belief in the idea itself?

As Ransom explained it: «What we need for the moment is not so much a body of belief as a body of people familiarized with certain ideaAs Ransom explained it: «What we need for the moment is not so much a body of belief as a body of people familiarized with certain ideaas a body of people familiarized with certain ideas.

On the other hand, toleration of beliefs does not require that we accept every idea as equally valid, as if a belief is true, right or good simply because someone expresses it.

Perhaps Dante's strategic advantage lay in his ability to be completely himself, unworried should he oppose generally held beliefs, while also presenting his own ideas as though they were normative.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

I see the ideas of «faith based beliefs» being muddied more and more as I look into Christian thought and what types of «beliefs» are important.

I hope my posts convey my respect for you as a person and I particularly value your willingness to expose your beliefs, ideas and, dare I say «mere opinions» to criticism

His idea is essentially «theistic evolution» — belief that God has established evolution as the mechanism by which He has introduced complexity and diversity into the biological sphere of life on earth.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

Evidence that's genuinely convincing will propagate just like the idea that the earth orbits the sun — at first, almost nobody believed it, but as more and better evidence was found, more and more people changed their minds until now practically everyone agrees that the earth orbits the sun, even though this is diametrically opposed to people's beliefs a few centuries ago.

Since these three ideas are now identified as within the spectrum of legitimate Christian belief, a Mormon can hope that, the next time the question is raised in these pages, these three beliefs held by the Latter - day Saints will be moved from the down side to the plus side of the answer.

But any classical theists who admit that their belief is only the most plausible conclusion based on the evidence available must regard this difficulty as another bit of evidence against their idea.

This is where we gain our knowledge of God as Creator and Ruler of the world; our concept of him as loving Judge and Redeemer of men; our belief that Jesus Christ is his Son and our Lord and Savior; and the idea that the Holy Spirit is our ever - present Guide and divine Companion.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

Instead he was basically a normal American giving his ideas on religious belief, although he mixed politics into his speech such as with Obama, many people do this who are not currently holding office, preachers especially.

This was the first of several occasions in which the pope introduced the idea of natural law as a necessary principle in the beliefs that «forged the soul of the nation.»

Your tactics (forced elimination of an idea or belief that you don't like) are the same and your aim (power to make everyone else bend to your will) is the same as the extreme religionists.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

The extent to which Santayana and Whitehead are often quite close is disguised by Santayana's wish to formulate new thought in as traditional a form as possible, and Whitehead's belief that his ideas require a new terminology.

The fact being as long as one abides by ideas / beliefs then there will always be dispute conflict ideas beliefs can change with development of one's brain / as one's ideas beliefs may strengthen in the brains development.

Before telling me, like most christians do, that I don't know what I speak of, do note that as a Recovering christian I have a very good idea as to what I speak of and any rational minded person see's the belief for the true horror it is.

The Christian theologian therefore properly takes this belief as one of the «facts» to which a theological position should be adequate, even if it is not a fact in as strong a sense as hard - core commonsense ideas and very well - grounded scientific and historical ideas.

This has long been described as the belief in American exceptionalism, and its heritage from the idea of an elect people is historically evident.

In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ of some of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's life.

That Kierkegaard's thought is an important contribution to the debates over social and political philosophy is my firm belief, as against those who would dismiss such an idea with a wave of the hand and a chuckle.

The «de-mythologizing» of this belief is necessary; but it equally important for us to respect, as we must also come to recognize, the probability of some genuine insight which got itself stated in a set of ideas which nowadays seem to carry little weight for vast numbers of our human comrades.

I think at least one of the reasons you see this more in relgious discussions is because christianity has integrated into it the idea that the «world» is «evil» and so persecution is seen as a validation of their beliefs.

We assumed that our situation was normative for Christian thinking, and we viewed the ideas and beliefs of the black church as naive and theologically unimportant.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.