Sentences with phrase «kind of faith as»

Didn't Joneses followers have the same kind of faith as Abraham?

Jones followers did not have the same kind of faith as Abraham — They trusted Jim Jones not God.

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..

The kind of reasonable, sound THINKING theology and religious / faith ideas those of us as are here talking about, simply doesn't lend itself to a pop culture.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

I have previously posted the example of Jesus as well as the «two thieves» being crucified beside Him as kind of an example of discussing God and faith at the last moment of life.

Faith and Politics are one no matter how secular the country looks, there are still some plans that are built and made on the grounds of Survival or Prosperity of Faiths, Races both as over other Faiths, Races whether Nationally or Internationally, Such kind of those are found in every Land, Race, Faith & Nation.

But you should at least be honest and know that one who believes in the forensic science of origins of life has to have as much faith in the person asserting the theory as one has to have believing God was the witness to the event and told man kind how the world came about in simplistic terms.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

These assumptions come to light in all kinds of ways, but especially through religion — the various faiths that treat women as though they are not equal to men.

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

You see, the Papa needs lots of non-critical thinking servants to procreate lots of baby, Roman Catholic - bots to indoctrinate into the faith, so as adults, they too can flock in kind, to see the greatest fraud ever foisted upon the World.

Why do you think, in the last 15 years, it's kind of become acceptable for a generation that was raised to «just believe» to start openly embracing doubt as part of their faith journey?

The only «peace» that kind of thinking aka «faith» brings anyone, is the feeling of well - being brought upon by the relief that they are now validated as being better than others.

«There's this kind of complex dance that we do as people of faith in this world and sometimes it means accepting something that's not perfect,» Metaxas said, «I think the reason this rankles, not just for me but for so many people, it reminds them of Pharisaical thinking, it's legalistic.

Education for this kind of pastoral leadership — as our Protestant forebears in the early decades of this century understood so well — must connect individual faith and social context.

In so far as I firmly believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires action of a specific, unique, singular kind, I must admit that the counsels on violence issuing from the faith are addressed to faith, therefore can have no meaning for those who do not believe that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

Now I can think of all kinds of questions I ask myself and my friends about God and faith and life, questions I'm not as sure I have the answers to as I used to be.

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?

«A personal experience is fine, but without corrobrating evidence of some kind, I don't have enough faith in our ability as objective observers to take it on your word alone.

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?

Hartshorne remarks that while «many theological and philosophical doctrines» of the traditional kind have asserted that «being divine means precisely, and above all, being wholly immune to suffering in any and every sense», yet in his judgement the insight of faith in Jesus as the Christ would rather point logically to the truth that «there must be suffering in God».

So when I encountered these situations as adults, my faith had to grow quickly to accommodate these ideas and these people, and that kind of growth can be painful.

Faith of some kind is as essential to the human spirit as blood is to the biochemistry of the body.

As early as 1951 Jacques Maritain referred to this notion of an international consensus as a kind of «secular faith.&raquAs early as 1951 Jacques Maritain referred to this notion of an international consensus as a kind of «secular faith.&raquas 1951 Jacques Maritain referred to this notion of an international consensus as a kind of «secular faith.&raquas a kind of «secular faith.»

Unfortunately, the 1959 UCC Statement of Faith has attained quasi-creedal status for some UCC people, and functions in a number of churches as a kind of modern confession test.

His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.

One such distortion is a kind of premature closure on this image as if it represented the whole goal of Christian faith and life instead of what it actually is, the basic mode of ministry to evoke faith and life.

Now this man in Norway claims to be some kind of Christian and you have chosen to now call for all Christians to accept this man as a brother of the faith and then repudiate Christian extremism.

I enjoy reading all kinds of ancient texts... as you find out when doing this, reading about other religions and their texts of faith... you find that there are alot of common denominators..

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Harriet Martineau was a convinced Anglican who, coming to the United States in 1834 for a two - year period, compared the religious situation in America with what she perceived to be the «established» position of the church back home in England: «It appears to me that the one thing in which the clergy of every kind are fatally deficient is faith: that faith which would lead them, first, to appropriate all truth, fearlessly and unconditionally; and then to give it as freely as they have received it....

We need the kind of hero's of faith as Jesus was.

His judgment seems to be that, even though some kind of faith or intuition is a formal requisite for critical reflection on the nature of God, the specific content or character that faith has as a concrete, historically conditioned phenomenon does not materially affect the reasoning process which is both possible and appropriate in such reflection.

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'm sure the last thing Jesus cares about is what hat a woman wears, when the women with the issue of blood went to Jesus to be healed God didn't care about what kind of head covering she had, or if she was a top dressed model for church, Jesus recognized her as a woman with utmost faith that Jesus could heal her.

Such a concession could be exploited by promoters of rival sources of knowledge, such as philosophy and religion, who would be quick to point out that faith in naturalism is no more «scientific» (i.e., empirically based) than any other kind of faith.

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

But faith will never be modified; it will remain as it was prior to the creation of first human, during all these generation, it is now and it will be till the end... whether a human accepts it or deny it... these accepting and denying comes under «free will» that is given only to the human kind among the entire creation...

«Faith communities around the country must host these kinds of conversations,» an energetic Mexican woman declared as we dismissed everyone to break down tables and take photos.

It is with that kind of faith and hope that we can enter the new millennium as we come to the end of the Christian era.

This attitude represents a kind of gnosticism, as Oakeshott explicitly observed, and he traced the rise of Rationalism to a concurrent falling away from faith.

After considering twenty - one miracle stories of all kinds as a representative cross-section of the rabbinic tradition, L. J. McGinley points out that «faith is never demanded from the patient».

Faith communities make one kind of contribution when they do good as organizations; they make a different, and even more important, contribution when they nurture virtuous, committed people who live out their values in many different kinds of organizations.

It appears to me that Professor Dawkins is presented as some kind of «bogeyman» to frighten those with faith.

But whereas I had presented this as a kind of apologetic for Christian faith, Shepard saw it as displaying the enormous culpability of Christianity for the profound sickness of our time.

The New Testament plainly indicates two kinds of experience as bases of faith in Jesus» continued life — one, the empty tomb and its associated events; the other, appearances of the heavenly Christ to various people, especially to Paul at his conversion.

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.

Surely we can never think of Christian teaching about faith and morals, or about anything else, as a kind of closed enterprise, at the end of which the job is done and we have finally got our people «fixed» where we should like them to be.