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.
Not exact matches
I had in my heart and tongue the Name
of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression
of any
kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no
faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart
always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs out
of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
Faith, too, demands a
kind of Negative Capability, and that does not
always sit well with many
of the folk who distribute Christian art and many
of the folk who consume it.
The alleged subordination
of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are
always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other
kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom
of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting
of the reality
of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay
of action and reflection) as the only criterion
of faith, so that the notion
of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.
I.E. the big bang theory which would require belief in the fact that some
kinds of Matter
ALWAYS existed and that at some point it all exploded and created a universe, a belief i might add, that in my view takes more
faith to believe in than most modern religions.
We do not miss the loyalty
of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction
of the mature quality
of David's
faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness
of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol
of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall
of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who
always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief
of a father's utter brokenness in the loss
of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time
of the old and
always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways
of Joab and his brothers, the sons
of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a
kind of pausal summary before the last scene
of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement
of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration
of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).
But without a doubt, I'd learned that
faith was
always a process and not some
kind of neatly packaged product.
By
faith however, I do seem to experience a
kind of «certainty» or confidence but it is contingent on a whole matrix
of relationships in progress and so while I can be passionate about the meaning I am making about those relationships, those relationships are
always outstripping my meanings (claims) and revealing more about what meaning is possible.
It does not matter what or whom Humans have
always taken advantage
of a situation and twisted it to their own selfish ends... that is not Gods fault... It is Human
Kinds fault... you know the ones that you have so much
faith in...
I've
always viewed the song as
kind of Psalmic - in the Psalms the biggest cries
of despair and questioning come from those who believe and are acting in
faith, but can't see God right now.
They are not ultimately autonomous... but they have a relative autonomy, an autonomy
always threatened by demonic forces precisely because God wills to preserve here a sphere for the free decision
of faith which is the only
kind of victory he wills to have....
The Catholic
Faith has
always approved
of Birth Control, just not the chemical
kind that kills the life just created.
The fact that he has been told that he's not tall or good enough his entire life and he's
always risen above circumstance to prove that wrong gives me a lot
of faith that he'd be the
kind of guy that could come into Buffalo with the right attitude and be wildly successful.
It's a sweet tale that displays plenty
of faith in humanity without ever veering into sappiness and
always keeping you on the edge
of your seat — just the
kind of thing you hope to find at a festival like Sundance.