Sentences with phrase «on acts of faith»

On the argument between religion and science, McGrath considers that there is no contradiction since science itself works on acts of faith, not simply on logical deduction.

If a sinner, then, relies on his actings of faith or works of obedience to any of the commands of the law for a title to eternal life, he seeks to be justified by works of the law as much as if his works were perfect.

So at minimum it is reasonable to pursue the fecund thought that Rawls» freestanding liberalism actually stands on an act of faith.

Finally, however, doing theological teaching in this manner rests on an act of faith:

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In Zubik, religious groups say that the act of filing a notice, while still allowing the coverage, imposes an unfair burden on them that violates their faith.

If we go by your premise that «Some of us do the right thing because it is the right thing» and those of Faith because we are threatened, then why have we not acted more on the prescribed punishments that are threatened and demanded by God?

There is no other prerequisite than faith for the fruitful reception of the sacrament, because the sacrament is itself the public act in which Christ bestows his grace on the ungodly.

It is not a gift or an act of love to rip someone from the faith they lived while here on Earth.

In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between a religion of superficiality and self - absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person.

But Mormons believe, as Paul of old, that one's faith is truly manifested by how they act, a concept seemingly lost on much of Christianity today.

Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth of God, trusting fully in Him, and acting responsively to His love which endures for us despite our undeserving nature.

If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

There may be some benefit in what he's doing if it helps him to find out more about how his life works without the intentional act of relying on his faith.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»

This means on the one hand that in spite of the tension between his faith and his public acts, peace is made with God.

Expressing concern that India was «splinter [ing] along the lines of religious faith,» he observed that «religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other people of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate the nation.»

Or is the human race an infallible one so that any idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith of its truth no matter the reality of things and then acted on without concern of the real truth which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a justreason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

There are seemingly many Christians who, Jesus» words and deeds to the contrary, are determined to outspiritualize Jesus, to disembody the Christian faith from its earthy Hebrew roots, to act as if we can experience the grace of God on our own without recourse to such primal and primitive facts as bread, wine and water.

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a just reason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

Leading thousands of people in prayer for the victims at the Vatican on Sunday, he said that they died in «another act of ferocious violence» after refusing to renounce their faith.

On such acts of faith our economic livelihood depends.

As People magazine reported, despite all her troubles and irresponsible acts, Patty Duke's childhood faith still had a real pull on her: «For a good Catholic girl, abortion was out of the question.»

This statement, applied to the individual, does not autonomously fix the moment when this event takes place; but every man applies it to himself, not by reflecting on a certain empirical fact, but in the very act of faith and hope itself.

if the Muslims want to show good faith how bout stepping out against the acts of terror on the Jewish and American people.

My message and advice to you though, don't bank on the acts of humans to evaluate a faith or anything for that matter!

Here's the key difference: If you dig down into religious beliefs the core requires an act of faith, but if you dig down into scientific beliefs the core is provable based on objectively observable facts.

Eternal security (the belief that a person can not lose his or her salvation) is rejected, since Mormon salvation is based in large part on acts of obedience after an initial faith experience.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

Being in solidarity with our fellow Dalits of different faiths and ideologies is a demand which the God of the Bible, through his own act of incarnation, places on Dalit Christians.

When explaining what motivated his design for the new Coventry Cathedral after World War II, the architect Basil Spence called his effort an «act of Faith».25 What are needed now are «acts of Faith» on behalf of the environment.

Simpletons acting on faith as opposed to the erudite who rely on logic is as much as saying simpletons don't want to know why anything is the way it is, they just accept what they have been told without a shred of evidence.

For Bultmann, Jesus died on the cross; but he is «risen in the kerygma» or the preaching of him as the unique «act of God» the one in whom the past is overcome, the future is opened up, and a new life in faith by grace is made available to those who will respond to the proclamation.

The knowledge of faith, rather than relying on the outmoded theories of knowledge where the mind merely represents external objects, is participatory; the act of contemplating the things of God partakes in God's own Trinitarian activity.

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.

Its analysis of faith begins not with an abstract speculation on the conditions of possibility for the act of faith, but rather with Abraham, «our father in faith».

We can not here embark on the doctrine of God, but I would wish to affirm both God's transcendence in one aspect of his being and his temporality in another aspect, and to say that God does act within our temporal history, and that the response of faith itself a part of history, affecting what follows — is a response to the ontological reality to which it points in saying God has acted.1 I affirm that God so acted within the wider event «Jesus Christ,» and in particular in his resurrection.

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

Have their been some heinous acts committed on the part of Christians and other faith based communities?

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

Samuel said obedience is better than sacrifice so just obey the word, Remember James said faith without works is dead being alone, so act on faith and obey Jesus the name of the Word of God.

Well, most of the things I regret having done in life I did as a religious person acting on faith that what I was doing wasn't really hurting people, but helping them.

Get down on your knees in an act of humility and faith, and ask the only true and living God to reveal and make Himself known to you personally, and He will!

And if we review the book as a whole, we must judge that this excessive emphasis on the future has the effect of relegating to a secondary place just those elements in the original Gospel which are most distinctive of Christianity — the faith that in the finished work of Christ God has already acted for the salvation of man, and the blessed sense of living in the divine presence here and now.

Faith took on the dimension of a blind leap, only an act of the will pro Deo.

A Year of Faith is a time set aside by the Church to focus on the meaning of our baptism» in other words, who we are, what we believe, and how we're called to act as a Christian community.

The faith that tells us to await the coming of the Messiah, though he tarry, safeguards rationality, for in its absence the temptation to act on our apocalyptic impulses will be too strong to resist.