Sentences with phrase «men of faith because»

my relationship with god is personal and i have constant disaggreements with other men of faith because of my past, and myreligious views.

Abram was a man of faith because when he failed, when he fell flat on his face, he got up, brushed himself off, and started over again.

Abram was a man of faith because he knew and believed the promises of God.

Not exact matches

I'll attack Romney's faith because Jesus himself said that not only is it harder for a rich man to get into heaven than to get a camel through the eye of a needle but that what you do to the least of us you do to Jesus.

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.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

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.

as someone who was raised religious and was rather religious in my teens i can see where people of faith are coming from and how you can get caught up in it but as soon as i started to apply logic to it i struggled to find any truth to it to me its to man made and the whole concept to conceited i mean apparently animals don't go to heaven because they don't have a soul....

Non-Gnostic because a truly modern dialectical form of faith would meet the actual historical destiny of contemporary man while yet transforming his unique Existenz into the purity of eschatological faith.

«Remember we live in a very scientific age and so the man of faith is getting smaller and smaller because he can't bring any proof to the horizon; where is this so - called God.

He contends that his view is «non-Gnostic because a truly modern dialectical form of faith would meet the actual historical destiny of contemporary man while yet transforming his unique Existenz into the purity of eschatological faith.

For the insight of Christian faith, centered in Jesus, is that because in this man God was active for human redemption, God was revealed for what God is.

«I am lonely because... I am a man of faith for whom to be means to believe, and who substituted «credo» for «cogito» in the time - honored Cartesian maxim.»

'» Yes, I believe because of communion, but still I am lonely, for what can a man of faith like myself say to a society for which «practical reasons of the mind have long ago supplanted the sensitive reasons of the heart» (Soloveitchik), and which «renounced the search for a great light» (Francis)?

Because I am a man of faith, I have hope; because I hope, there is no place for fear; because I am unafraid, I can love, for love has already cast out myBecause I am a man of faith, I have hope; because I hope, there is no place for fear; because I am unafraid, I can love, for love has already cast out mybecause I hope, there is no place for fear; because I am unafraid, I can love, for love has already cast out mybecause I am unafraid, I can love, for love has already cast out my fears.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.

«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.

But, when I see a man of Jewish faith walking around with a yamaka on his head I don't judge him because he's Jewish.

And because it means faith in this Lord, that radicalism leads the Christian to comprehend all situations fully (including the situation of the corporation head or the statesman — «I am become all things to all men»), and also to love his adversaries as he loves his friends.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

More often then none people need to be ministered to by being part of the community and grow in their faith — not pushed into serving man, because man has a need.

And, of course, you are so utterly clueless that you can't see the difference between asking someone to take off their baseball cap which they're wearing simply because they like wearing a baseball cap... and asking a woman to take off her faith - based scarf or an Amish man to shave his faith - based beard or a Sikh (which is * not * a Muslim faith) to take off his turban or a Catholic priest to take off his cross... well, if you can't figure out the difference yet, there's no hope for you.

Begley does not get to the heart of the man because he does not grasp the soul of his faith.

Once he or she exists however, there is now the potential for a second birth, as Jesus described to Nicodemus, (John 3) but because of Adam's sin all of man is born spiritually dead, incapable of faith, why because dead people don't do anything, much less have faith.

On the contrary, faith is man's recognition and acknowledgment that because of man's sins Christ has offered up his flesh once - and - for - all.

According to the Reformed doctrine, total depravity makes man morally incapable of making a virtuous choice [of faith]... If total depravity does anything, it renders a man totally unable because he is indisposed to respond to the overtures of grace.

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

Because Abraham represented the man who saw this, but who nevertheless obeyed, he was a man who embodied both faith and hope, and later generations gave him the unique title of «friend of God».

Let's not forget that Christianity, Judaeism and Islam all are Abramic faiths, claiming the same founding principle embodied in Abraham: the willingness of a man to kill another man because God told him to.

They are not to be coerced or penalized for failure to be religious, because it is given to no man to judge the faith of another and because compulsion is incompatible with reverence.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

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.

Because only «Faith» separates the limited intellect of man from God....

Because each man is limited in his experience, his expression of his faith will also be limited and piecemeal.

To say you are glad you «left the faith» because of a mere man seems to indicate the absense of clear thinking.

But of course it is just because there is no rational answer to the meaning of life, that man is forced to live by faith.

Just to bad you never thought ------ man, I am glad I am of the faith because of....

Generally the physician, just because he is a physician, i.e. the competent man, has no unconditional faith in a person's own assertion about the state of his health.

Because man is a creature of history, his experience of faith will inevitably be expressed in words and terms which reflect the character of his time and cultural condition.

Gayle did not recognize the men, but she suspected immediately that her husband, Wayan, who was born into a Balinese family as the son of a Hindu high priest, might be murdered because of his Christian faith.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

The Church for him is something like the uniformed units in God's array, the point at which the inner character of man's divinized life is manifested in tangible historical and sociological form or, rather, in which it is most clearly manifested because, to the enlightened gaze of faith, grace does not entirely lack visible embodiment even outside the Church.

But because of God's love for man created in His image, by His grace the punishment we deserve has been borne by Christ Jesus, and by faith we can stand before the judgment throne protected by Christ's righteousness.

Talk is cheap, Billy Grahm has had the impact on this world because he is a man of faith and a man of action, something people like you will never hope to achieve.

And because being in Christ is bound up with one and only one particular history — that of Jewish faith and of the man from Nazareth — it is simply not clear what it would mean to say that this perspective could in principle be gained by a7ny person anywhere with any sort of commitments.

It is a travesty of the Easter faith to think of it as arising because at last a man had given to his friends unmistakable evidence that he had conquered death, and that this man happened to be called Jesus, and that because of this they began to take a fresh interest in what he had said and done.

While I do not want to prejudge you with your recent «revelations» as to what you believe describes the «two men in a bed» or «two women at the mill grinding,» I think before anyone interprets this as Jesus not judging one because of their sexual orientation, but obviously of their faith in what Jesus did for them on the Cross, we also need to look at what the Apostle Paul wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.