Sentences with phrase «man against faith»
Please, don't try to redefine basic concepts in faith and epistemology in a a vain attempt to build a straw man against faith.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Can we support a man who goes against our faith?
The summer I came to faith, my friend gave me a copy of The Cost of Discipleship [SCM Press], Bonhoeffer's most famous book, and he told me the story of this man who, because of his faith, spoke up for the Jews in Nazi Germany and got involved in the plot against Hitler.
Romans 1: 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17 For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; 19 because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
It's ridiculous that you're here preaching against faith, trying to «help» this man (hm, sounding like some street corner evangelist?)
And in Romans Paul was contrasting faith In God against belief in man when men disagree with God, even if it be all men.
If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.
Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.
It is true also that an environment of disregard for the authority of doctrinal Christianity facilitates the ready and immediate acceptance of any criticism or objection against Christian faith or morals, — especially morals, — and that for the majority of men, particularly for the majority of the young, these latter are the immediate and primary causes of individual apostasy.
«In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
Fundamentally we may say this: there is no law against the man who truly has faith, hope and love and who genuinely loves his neighbour and can surrender himself.
If we are full of holy impatience, living in faith, hope and love of God and men, if we always hope against hope, then the Church, too, will become what she ought to be.
In the prophetic faith, if not always in specific articulation, all men and all nations are in rebellion against God, denying in multiple ways the appropriate terms of human existence under the active rule of the righteous Yahweh.
The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.
Those disblievers are rebels against the faith and re-be-l against all com - man - d - ments t - error - izing all and co-n-cealing under the name of faith taking advantage of those in sub-b-mission to God and in peace with them selves and other faiths and beliefs....
Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.
Bonhoeffer's significance certainly includes the man himself who was a hero of faith in the struggle against Nazi tyranny.
The essence of Christian faith is even consistent with unqualified commitment to revolutionary struggle in the name of man against the forces of alienation.
In his letter to Timothy, Paul urged his young protégé to «flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness...» Was Paul warning against a) homosexuality, b) pornography, or c) wealth?
By his courageous heart, his valiant leadership against Philistia, and his faith that he is Yahweh's man, he achieves a position of strength and prominence among most of the tribes of Israel quite exceeding that of any previous «judge» but clearly short of full kingship.
It was against them that this article was inserted into the creed, with the intention of affirming the faith of the Church that Jesus Christ really and truly experienced death for the sake of the men whom he came to save.
Giving Allah's Evidence against man's rejection of Faith might differ from time to another, or a place or town to other.
Religion, it seems, is the oldest and has been the most lasting institution to serve the ritual restoration of a sense of trust in the form of faith while offering a tangible formula for a sense of evil against which it promises to defend man.»
how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!
We may fault Goethe now for having shared Keats's objection to Newton's theories about light, but his own faith, as Faust makes clear, was the prescientific faith of a literary man who never doubted that his sense of reality would stand up against skeptical empiricists.
Let theology rejoice that faith is once again a «scandal,» and not simply a moral scandal, an offense to man's pride and righteousness, but, far more deeply, an ontological scandal; for eschatological faith is directed against the deepest reality of what we know as history and the cosmos.
And meanwhile some wreckers were around, creating havoc with people's faith — liberation theologians owing more to Marx than to the Gospel of Christ, crusaders for contraception who railed against Humanae Vitae and denounced the gentle Paul VI with a savagery that caused that good, wise and courageous man real sufering.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
But, in general, he was speaking up for the option and practical possibilities of a «true» Catholic Christianity, and against the sinful Christian vices of the (Christian) rulers and citizens of the day by showing the «natural» virtues of «good pagans» (who, incidentally, he depicted as practising euthanasia, an option for «reasonable» men unenlightened by Christian faith) in his imaginary faraway republic.
In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».
And far from being a broken or dejected man at the end of his life — as some critics maintain, the better to make their case against him seem plausible — Paul VI was carried and sustained by something much stronger than anything in this world, his faith.
There will be more and more suits filed against Bishop Long, I'm sure, from other young men who had their trust betrayed and their faith destroyed.
The man who scored the first of the necessary two goal against Liverpool in that game, Alan Smith, has usually been a staunch supporter of the current boss but after seeing us capitulate once again yesterday and get knocked out of the FA cup by Watford, Smudger seems to be rapidly losing faith in the Frenchman.
Having faith doesn't mean one must be delusional, we have only brought in replacements no reinforcements, since last season we've been crying for a DM and CF yet Wenger will have us believe he's good enough to start and win us games against the likes of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Man City and Chelsea hell no we are in trouble in the bigger scheme of things!
After the disappointment of seeing another Arsenal title challenge wither and die, the Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that our star striker Alexis Sanchez had lost faith with Arsene Wenger and the club in general and was ready to ship out to pastures new was like pouring salt onto an open wound for Arsenal fans, but judging from the way the Chilean put himself about against Man City today, perhaps that salt should be taken as a pinch rather than added to those wounds.
I have nothing but faith in my men and playing today against one of the richest teams in the world was fantastic.
«As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease,» Thompson said in a statement.
«As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease,» Thompson said in a statement for the press.
As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease,» Thompson said in a statement released Tuesday.
«As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease.
Against Eizik's wishes, he insists on holding the ceremony in his humble apartment, seizing on the chance to prove himself as both a dutiful father and a man of faith.
He's a stubborn, prideful man, undisciplined in the eyes of his faith, knowingly pushing against their expectations while also attempting to fulfill them simultaneously.
For these two men - especially Rodriguez, they will discover an ultimate test of faith, trying to find a reasoning behind the message of God, and push back against the possible reality that God might not exist at all.
This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.