Sentences with phrase «lack of faith on»

Criticism of the Church by its members is not always a sign of lack of faith on the part of discontented Christians.

Oh holy Brother Maynard — your point about «knowing» a pre-concentration camp reality only speaks to the lack of faith on the believers part.

Caught off guard focused on myself I said it was perhaps a lack of faith on my part.

At one point we thought it was because of lack of faith on our part.

Not exact matches

It's like praying for someone to be healed and then, when they're not healed, blaming it on their lack of faith.

Religion and faith are a personal choice and journey as is the lack of either; I raised my son and daughter much in the same ways I was raised and I am proud of their understanding and acceptance of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, that they do not look down on or speak ill of others who believe differently than they.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

Members of the major religions base their activities (or lack thereof) on their particular faith.

How does the lack of evidence with Noah's Ark, the birth of Christ, the creation story and so forth actually prove that there is no God who wants us to rely on faith instead of assured knowledge.

It is true, that the theologies or lack there of puts us in a place of trusting the leadership to rightly impart the truth, even as each of us on our faith walk seek the self same for ourselves... that is trusting Holy Spirit, who was given the job to draw or bring us to the truth and lead us to Jesus and the Father.

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

The only reason he wants to think of himself as an atheist is so he can blame all his woes on his lack of faith.

However, a good scientific proposal would never be denied on the grounds of the faith (or lack of faith) of the applicant.

He will blame his woes during his «pilgrimage» on his lack of faith, but clearly his woes are of his own making.

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.

David Robertson responds to the controversy surrounding the BBC's lack of reporting on the faith of Christian athletes at the Olympics More

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

But we must also be thoroughly aware that when we, as Christians, hold a discourse on violence, it is our lack of faith that speaks.

What I will note is that despite the lack of ritualized outward observations, on the whole Quakers don't seem to have a problem remembering that we have an embodied, enacted faith, nor a problem recognizing that all life is sacred — hence the question above about our notable counter-cultural activities.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

He also could have easily placed the fake bones on dinosaurs under the ground to test those lacking in faith... as well as removed any evidence of the global flood after the fact because leaving definitive proof of biblical events is unnecessary when all you should really need is faith...

I don't necessarily defend a lack of knowledge about other religions (I scored 15 out of 15 on Pew's sample quiz on their site), but neither do I see it as relevant to compare the (implied) question «Do you identify with A religion (or faith in God)» with «what is your general knowledge about ALL religions», and presume this is going to generate a meaningful result.

If, on the other hand, being Christian continues to mean little more than being predictable middle - class liberals with a tinge of something called spirituality, then the few exceptional things that congregations occasionally manage to perform ethically will lack any foundation in repentance and faith.

My lack of belief in god is, again, based on a lack of proof, not any kind of faith.

Again, the very frank admissions of weakness or stupidity or lack of faith or downright blindness and disloyalty on the part of the disciples are sometimes explained as due to Peter's lifelong penitent self - accusation: he could not recall incidents from the life of his Master without breaking into tears once more, as once he did outside the high priest's house in Jerusalem.

The statistical reality, so far as I can tell, is that Judaism in the contemporary world is far more threatened by a simple lack of interest by Jews in Judaism, and hence an inability to pass on (as a religious faith) beliefs that are not broadly held.

I lwould ike to see you show you aren't so biased and provide either equal time to showing a positive story about the Catholic Church or show the statistics or stories on other faiths which are suffering equally or more in lack of attendance and in people leaving the church.

In an effort to produce more creative writing on the de-conversion website (and stir the able minds of our readers to seriously consider their faith (or lack thereof (wow, I'm not sure a triple parenthetical is good grammar)-RRB--RRB-, I hereby present to you: the gospel story in its entirety.

For lack of the necessary historical evidence it is no longer possible to write historical accounts of either the Mosaic migration upon which the faith of Israel was founded, or the rise of the Easter faith on which Christianity is founded.

Careful, God may judge you on this lack of faith.

And guess what, atheism isn't based on faith because by definition, atheism is LACK OF FAITH in a dfaith because by definition, atheism is LACK OF FAITH in a dFAITH in a deity.

you'd think if god was truly the god spoken of then faith would be unneeded and belief a thing of the past — yet — people will believe whatever they wish no matter the proof or lack there of and its truly sad to consider that this delusion type mass brainwashing is going on right now and has been for over 2000 years... please don't let the time in which this sm.ut has been around make you think its worth its wieght in salt — i bid Lot's wife its not — in ALL early man stories from around the globe people have created GRAND stories about the start and end of times — its that simple.

As for religion... why is it okay for Christians to corner atheists and question their lack of faith... but if I corner a christian and ask questions like «So... two of every animal on a boat, and that's how the world was saved... wow.

not sure i said this before or not, i have been on cnn.com for over a year — anyway — i have been going to random churches, temples, really place that worships any form of the of abraham and others — i have yet to get anywhere but where i started from — which is what i am, what i am meant to be, and what i was... only this has been gained — gained is a gift of a word for i knew all of this before i started and so i view my time as wasted only for this the reason of getting somewhere — i did meet many great people with great views but all required the very real existence of god which was something lacking and why they had a constant failure yet what they called «keeping the faith» att itude type results... something was missing or missunderstood — your take?

The bottom line here is that the Republicans» fascination with an unfettered free market and their lack of faith in the government's ability to provide any benefits to our common life (except to assist business in making money) is no more consistent with Catholic teaching than the Democrats» emphasis on individual freedom in social questions and their faith in human perfectibility through government action.

We did end up having a discussion about different faiths - expressing nor endorsing opinions on any in particular but merely educating the students on the differences (and then they pointed out the lack of difference between many).

The right to practice a faith, or lack of faith, extends only so far as it does not infringe on the right of another to practice their faith.

On the other hand those of us that have no need to believe should not be berated or called names or have religion shoved down our throats because of our lack of faith in a personal deity.

Then the blame falls on the congregation and their «lack of faith» or some such scapegoat for the pastor's failed gaze into the crystal ball.

The inner whisperings revealed in the letters cast judgment on today's community of faith, its lack of fervent commitment and sacrificial zeal.

While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.

A lack of faith in the Christian god is not based on excuses but REASON and EVIDENCE or the lack thereof.

Their lack of attention to Commission on Faith and Order proves a liability when the authors come to their more systematic discussion of such questions as Scripture and Tradition, and (crucially) the doctrine of the Church.

PROVISIONALITY OF SCIENCE Dear Father Editor In the July / August edition of Faith magazine dealing largely with science and the lack of it in the Church's approach I was struck by Fr Holloway's paragraph on page six captioned «An Unscientific Church» referring to the intolerance of young and virile minds of such a ChurcOF SCIENCE Dear Father Editor In the July / August edition of Faith magazine dealing largely with science and the lack of it in the Church's approach I was struck by Fr Holloway's paragraph on page six captioned «An Unscientific Church» referring to the intolerance of young and virile minds of such a Churcof Faith magazine dealing largely with science and the lack of it in the Church's approach I was struck by Fr Holloway's paragraph on page six captioned «An Unscientific Church» referring to the intolerance of young and virile minds of such a Churcof it in the Church's approach I was struck by Fr Holloway's paragraph on page six captioned «An Unscientific Church» referring to the intolerance of young and virile minds of such a Churcof young and virile minds of such a Churcof such a Church.

Considering the vast array of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the whole of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue of faith indicates a very pointed discernment of the signs of the times made by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most lacking in the century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be faith.

Passing judgment on people's eternal destination when you alone aren't to judge on people's fate is a wish just because you don't agree with their lack of faith in what you believe ~ that is intolerant and hateful.

People are poor for a lot of reasons, and choice is certainly a factor, but categorically blaming poverty on lack of faith or lack of initiative is not only uninformed, it's unbiblical.

This behavior is reinforced by the broadcasters» general lack of emphasis on the centrality of the local church to Christian faith and their apparent unwillingness to channel persons who contact them toward involvement in a local church or to encourage local church members to establish contact with the respondent.

But now after months of reading on them I see the hate as pain in many hearts because of lack of faith in God.