Sentences with phrase «on the faiths rather»

That is why science and religion / spirituality conflict, and there is no avoiding that conflict as long as religionists and spiritualists rely on faith rather than reason and evidence.

When you ask it another way, focusing on the faiths rather than the deity, the numbers shift a bit more.

Yes, rightly so — do we not judge harshly those who act on faith rather than evidence?

Not exact matches

«Elliott has always behaved ethically in its disputes with corporate managements and boards, and it is regrettable and disappointing that certain parties adverse to us would choose to promote false allegations about us rather than engage on the merits of our arguments in good faith.»

If you want to buy ads on Facebook, rely on facts rather than faith.

Furthermore, two new 365 stores are on the docket in San Francisco and Brooklyn, showing that Whole Foods (or rather, Amazon) hasn't lost faith in the concept — just in the particular location.

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..

â $ œDonâ $ ™ t let others spoil your faith and joy with their philosophy, wrong and shallow answers based on manâ $ ™ s thoughts and ideas rather than what Christ has taughtâ $ (Col. 2:8)

Is it so wrong of me to have faith that only one person believes in the drivel that he's posting rather than think that another person a) actually thinks that chad is making good points and good enough points to post and b) go to the 62nd page of an almost defunct article for a conversation that has nothing to do with themselves other than to cheer on a stupid post?

In the end all you are doing is just relying on your own belief because even though there is no proof that that there actually is no deity who does not want to be made known but would rather have us develop our faith in said deity, since there is thus far no irrefutable proof that there is such a deity, that you then come to a conclusion that there is no such deity, all you are doing is just relying on belief just like I'm relying on belief and that what it really boils down to is just that it is all a matter of belief.

I believe that we are all born with an intuitive faith in the goodness of life; but it is a fragile faith that can be easily lost when we experience cruelty rather than love, often tragically early in life, from those whom we intuitive trust and who are often unconsciously passing on their pain to others.

So, while your at it how about you providing that irrefutable proof that there is no such God out there who does not want to be made known but would rather have us rely on having faith and that through relying on faith to see whether we would be willing to follow God on our own accord even when there is no irrefutable proof as opposed to having that irrefutable proof and thus having to follow becuase of having really no choice because of obligation.

Rather since I already take on faith that you can't, under normal circu «mstances, have both B and not B, that premise conflicts with my understanding of science and the Christian religion, which I see as incompatible (in most forms).

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

In a Faith Based belief system, the belief is not based on logic or reason, but rather on the stories of the divine that you've been told.

In «Faith on the Hill,» a study on religion in the 113th Congress released Friday by the Pew Forum, the story seems to be static rather than change.

Maybe our children would be able to hear honest faith rather than vacant words in our prayer that God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

How can we possibly explain something like that to people who base what they believe on logic and reason, rather than on faith and the word of God?

Though we do not see how our actions might affect the future, though we may not receive our inheritance right now, though we might go through persecution and trials and nakedness and danger and sword, if we just put our faith in God, as we keep our eyes on Jesus, «Keep the Son in our eyes,» as we, like Peter, keep our eyes on Jesus rather than on the rolling waves around us, we will walk by faith.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on IslaOn February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islaon House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islaon Islam.

(Acts 1:24 - 26; I Timothy 5:5) Prayer was the affirmation of confident trust, the centering of attention on faith, not fear, on assets rather than liabilities, on the help of God rather than the troubles of life.

People who call themselves atheists often say rather strange things about people with faith ¯ things like, «Well, if you need the comfort, go on and believe.»

Even the mysteries of faith are mysteries not because they are believed with no reason whatsoever, but rather because we depend on God to reveal the evidence of these mysteries to us.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

This third option takes a lot of hard work and much more FAITH than the other 2 options, but in my opinion, is well worth it to strive for, rather than a. completely giving up your reason and subjecting it to the limits of the Bible, or b. completely giving up on a faith that you hold and that is an integral part ofFAITH than the other 2 options, but in my opinion, is well worth it to strive for, rather than a. completely giving up your reason and subjecting it to the limits of the Bible, or b. completely giving up on a faith that you hold and that is an integral part offaith that you hold and that is an integral part of you.

They are therefore looked upon, not as a separate sect, but rather as a group of conservative, orthodox Muslims whose belief is centered around the Qur» an and the Hadith, who seek to express their faith in word and deed, and whose object is the reestablishment of the Muslim state on the basis of Muslim jurisprudence.

I am a mainline Christian Protestant, born again — this is not a denominational reference, and I believe Christianity does not hinge on inerrancy of the Bible, rather, it hinges upon the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, He is our «focus,» that is Faith / Belief in Him.

Scholars in religious studies have long been critical of the Austrian anthropologist Father Wilhelm Schmidt — who on impressive evidence framed the theory of original monotheism — because his work was guided by his Catholic faith, to which his theory was rather too conveniently congenial.

I would much rather have a person who believes in things that have evidence writing and / or voting on my fiscal policies then someone who believes in something due to faith and has no evidence.

He relied on a leap of faith rather than fact.

We should resist, rather than insist upon, weird theories that old men conspire on behalf of pedophiles at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, or Penn State, or wherever.

That the future of generations doesn't have to depend on the fact that you have faith that the facts which you gather next ARE going to SUPPORT your theory, OR rather that your non creationist theory can be reversed, if need be, in the quest for truth.

When it was about to die in the late 50s, they decided to start doing things differently — lay leadership, challenging theology, real adult education centered on life issues — rather than eliciting statements of faith, etc..

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

I say unto you reader of faith, are you willing to take a leap into a light so bright, you would not know what was on the other side, or would you rather recluse yourself back into your dark shadows of life?

His is the early - nineteenth - century's liberalism of Friedrich Schleiermacher, an «enormously courageous move» that, «focusing on religious experience rather than religious ideation as the object of theological reflection,... combined faith in one's own experience with faith in the God who will not abandon those who trust in Him.»

The Israelite who did not joyfully rest from his work on that day was one who put his hope in his own work rather than in God's election.22 According to de Quervain,»... when our minds are illumined by faith, we see the Sabbath in Israel as grounded not in a sociological event, but in a theological one, the deliverance of God's people from bondage into the rest which he gave them as a token of the final rest.

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.

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

Faith is defined as «complete trust or belief in something, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.»

It seems rather smarmy to abandon a core practice of your faith just because it's shedding light on what most consider to be a bizarre and cult - like practice.

There are way too many people of faith just sitting around waiting for god's intervention rather that taking necessary action on their own.

But with the Reformation's emphasis on faith, rather than works, physical expressions fell out of favour.

In saying, «If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain,» perhaps Paul meant not that our salvation depends on the resurrection itself, but rather that our salvation depends on Jesus being the Son of God, and this is what depends on the resurrection.

The book argues that American Christians face declining political influence, while their churches are in disarray: therefore they must focus on creating strong, faith - filled grass roots communities that love people on the ground, rather than interfere with politics.

When Pope Francis read the «almost completed» draft of Lumen Fidei one does not imagine that he thought to himself: «Yes I want to endorse Ratzinger's position on X, Y and Z.» Rather, he thought: «The Successor of Peter, yesterday, today and tomorrow, is always called to strengthen his brothers and sisters in the priceless treasure of that faith which God has given as a light for humanity's path» (LF 7)(italics added).

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».

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.