While I was a prisoner, the crucial question for me was
what kind of faith enabled a person to survive in such situations.
The
other kind of faith is faith in things for which there is no evidence, historical or otherwise.
It takes a lot of courage to admit you no longer believe and a
different kind of faith, faith in oneself to finally take the first step toward true freedom.
Far from presenting a mere problem of interpretation, he contends, the differing and even contradictory texts can lead us to a more vigorous,
robust kind of faith.
Jones followers did not have the
same kind of faith as Abraham — They trusted Jim Jones not God.
YOU SAY FAITH ALONE AND NOT FAITH WITH WORKS, WELL IF THAT»S WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND LIVE THEN I WILL ASK YOU THIS... WHAT
KIND OF FAITH DO YOU HAVE; DEAD FAITH (NO WORKS) OR TRUE SAVING FAITH (ACCOMPANIED WITH WORKS)?!?! HERE IS ANOTHER ONE; 2 «Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
«Barack Obama has referred to his faith more times than most presidents ever have, but for many it's the
wrong kind of faith,» says Jim Wallis
In between these two levels, however, the possibilities of religious interpretation are numberless, and it may require the eyes of
many kinds of faith to see all of them.
Within this cosmopolitan Israel the sense of freedom, sparked off by the deliverance from Egypt and consummated in the kingdom of David, gave rise to a
new kind of faith, which as we have seen, was destined to diverge more and more from the mythological religion of ancient man.
I remember having similar feelings of emancipation, of starting over, from scratch when I first began to realize the evangelical faith I had inherited was not the
only kind of faith there was.
«It is remarkable in that it's really not an asset; it's
just kind of a faith - based investment,» said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago.
Is he, then, here constructing an «ideal scene» in which the conditions for belief as based on «sight» are as favorable as they could possibly be, only to suggest that such belief is not, in the end, the most important or
permanent kind of faith?
It is a
Jesus kind of faith filling the Christian churches in Palestine, attempting to pour prophetic patience onto the troubled waters of the Middle East peace process.
If faith, simply as a human phenomenon, can do these things, then why is there any need to be concerned with some additional
special kind of faith known as the Christian faith?
It is generally agreed that the drama of the present religious conflict lies in the apparent irreconcilability of two
opposed kinds of faith — Christian faith, which disdains the primacy of the ultra-human and the Earth, and «natural» faith, which is founded upon it.
Now one could imagine a person who had a
particular kind of faith, which he preferred to keep to himself, or a particular hope which he saw no point in sharing with others, but when it comes to love, we see that by the very nature of this experience, more than one person is involved.
But nonetheless the other
kind of faith always has been, and is still, tragically common, and James may well be condemning, not Paul, but those who either in ignorance misunderstood, or by design misinterpreted, the Pauline doctrines of grace and faith.
Then, in 2016, he made the decision to come out publically, quickly becoming an advocate for gay Christians who crave a more
accepting kind of faith.
But climate scientists have a
strange kind of faith: We will find a way to forestall radical warming, they say, because we must......»
I sure was glad I had enough grounding in a
different kind of faith to keep me somewhat together when I got squashed under the weight of the Me & JC Happy Club.
«Barack Obama has referred to his faith more times than most presidents ever have, but for many it's the
wrong kind of faith,» says Jim Wallis, head of Sojourners, an evangelical activist group based in Washington that focuses on poverty and social justice issues.
Though the absence of faith means eventual spiritual death, the presence of faith does not ensure spiritual life, since there are
many kinds of faith and there are radically different objects of faith.
And somebody saying there is no God is using the
same kind of faith that someone uses to say there is a God.
Rarely do you see
this kind of faith with non-media companies.
That is exactly
the kind of faith you need to be the expert in your field.
So social media — which, in the case of Facebook, invite sharing, tagging and gawking at photographs, among other interactions — may not be the most welcoming space for people with
this kind of faith.