Sentences with phrase «only by believers»

Instead, too many atheists simply regurgitate the «official» atheist position (ironic, given that this is what they accuse believers of doing vis - a-vis the Bible...), not only without having read the book recently enough to cite it accurately, but also not taking into account the most recent arguments supporting or undermining — not only by believers, but by atheist scientists as well.

15:44) The Risen Jesus was seen only by believers, not by the general public.

Not exact matches

He is a firm believer that outstanding results can only be achieved through people; engaging people and teams, building commitment by creating a new paradigm between company and employee and delivering extraordinary results year - after - year.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

I know even some believers are offended by some of the things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word of God is the most powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing God and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 % of the body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with God and bring the future into the present.

The only t i t l e I go by as a believer is «Christian» That being said, my theology is reformed and is founded upon the doctrine of the sovereignty of God.

To say god can only be known by faith is to say that an omnipotent god is unwilling or unable to gain believers by direct demonstation.

This testimony about Jesus as only a son of David (2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 NIV) who was punished by God with the floggings of men for claiming to be god thus becoming the «bright morning star» (Isa.14: 9 - 20) was revealed through the Bible by Maestro Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph which proves he is the «angel» or messenger sent by Jesus to deliver his testimony or HIS ADMISSION that he is not a son of God and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made by the apostle John.

NOt all who call themselves prophets are true believers... some are just for the gains... those are persecuted... cause their evil gets them... those who don't separate themselves from God's side and wisdom can not be harm by evil... evil bows to them and allows them to pass by him unharmed... Cause evil can not harm God... it's the law of Nature... only evil can be harmed by evil...

But if memoria is the essential retrospective faculty for the believer seeking to make a coherent Christian life, it will only be exercised by those who think such retrospection potentially valuable — that is, for those who are hopeful.

sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.

None, other than the LDS, believe that one (male only, and until recent time, white only) can only get a pass into the celestial realm if given by the LDS church, after the believer proves that he abides by church doctrine in all aspects of his life.

I would only counter that without some form of organization our position will continue to be marginalized by politicians and believers, especially those who continue to thrust religion upon the country without respect to the separation of church and state.

From Merriam Webster: «a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth; broadly: a Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern church.»

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

What are those behaviors that are ONLY demonstrated by «believers» that will miraculously be changed & society will no longer deal with, when they stop believing?

What you said earlier suggests that your belief is justified by something that is accessible only to the believer, only once the believer does believe.

Requiring a permit to evangelize is «not only absurd and offensive, but also creates the basis for mass persecution of believers for violating these provisions,» read another open letter signed by Protestant Churches of Russia leader Sergei Ryakhovsky among other signatories.

Only azzhole mentally ill delusional believers get worked up about it, conveniently ignoring the fact that 75 + % of all abortions in the USA are had by believers.

We must replace the love of God by the love of man as the only true religion... the belief in God by the belief in man... My wish is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers... candidates for the hereafter into students of this world, Christians, who, by their own profession are half - animal, half - angel, into men, into whole men.13

Whereas the religious believer has interpreted these as due to the influence of the Spirit of God, the psychologist is aware of the many emotional tensions at work in the human mind, only some of which are realized by the subject himself.

Believers singlehandedly can reduce the number of abortions in the USA by 700,000 each year, if they only followed their own cult's rules, no changes in any law required.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

It is said by God Allah that only good people will inherit earth and did not say white or Black and did not say Muslim or not Muslim but said believers: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful And indeed We have written in Az - Zabûr [i.e. all the revealed Holy Books — the Taurât (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), the Psalms, the Qur «ân] after (We have already written in) Al - Lauh Al - Mahfûz (the Book, that is in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:105

In other words, the struggle at the Jerusalem meeting not only resisted the enslavement of Paul and his company, but, by extension, the enslavement of the Galatian believers as well.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking about only those believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were baptized by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.

The God of love is never served by a rejecting community dedicated to the proposition that they, and they alone, are the only true believers, the only pure worshipers, the only proper Christians.

If by some strange set of circumstances, the roles became reversed and 95 % of the people were atheists and only 5 % were believers, we might see that the intelligence stratification within the population of atheists do not differ much from society at large but the intelligence stratification within the population of believers does differ from the society at large.

@ video I'm not sure what you mean by saying that only believers will have life after death....

It's only the selfish ones who are making trouble by trying to prevent believers from their traditions.

Whether such a theology will ultimately find more acceptance among scholars and believers than the «substance theologies» of the past can only be tested by the passage of time.

What the Reformation ends up with is not a God whose very Nature is Unconditional Love; but a Father God whose Love can never be immediately experienced by the believer; but only through a scape - goated Son cruelly sacrificed in our stead — Calvin's Cosmic Bully!

Any punishment still owing by a believer at death was to be paid in Purgatory, where the departed suffer the same pains as the lost in hell, with the vital difference that the punishment was only temporary.

It can only be healed by the presence of meaning in all events and relationships of life».44» Also «the liberation of the believer from the prison of sin, law and death, is brought by God, not by politics.

-- contained the seeds of its destruction in the very phrasing: Only by presupposing a community of language believers, Wittgenstein argued, could this question about radical oneness make sense.»

Only 9 percent identified themselves as believers in a naturalistic evolutionary process not guided by God.

There are millions of ideas and philosophies about life with all it's many facets which are good but there is only One Truth and as then as is now The Truth is being killed by every non believer in the whole world.

There's only a handful of atheists who are continually ridiculed by the majority of believers.

In America today, we have very nearly reached the completion of a long process I can only describe as the systematic usurpation of ultimate political power by the American judiciary» a usurpation that compels evangelical Christians and, indeed, all believers to ask sobering questions about the....

if your a believer there is an amazing place in ethiopia that can only be reached by rope pullie — its one of the oldest churches in the world and its beautiful.

I close by saying that this applies not only to believers but nonbelievers as well.

The IPCC is not, in fact, an objective, neutral body that evaluates pure research; it is a dominantly political body controlled by a tight group of true believers — an advocacy organization that only pretends to scientific objectivity.

Believers, he argued, can prove the rationality or relevance of their religious tradition (or any tradition) only by skillfully using its internal grammar: «The reasonableness of a religion is largely a function of its assimilative powers, of its ability to provide an intelligible interpretation in its own terms of the varied situations and realities adherents encounter.»

The only reason 2,000 years later the believers believe this is because what was written down in some old book that was written for humans by humans.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

The unbelievers spend a lot of time mocking Christians and their faith even though the only way they can know what Christ and Christianity is all about is by becoming a believer.

If the believers only appreciated Darwin they would be at least consoled by the fact that gay behavior is genetically self - selecting out of the gene pool.

Faith, on the other hand, deals with transcendent realities that are known only by revelation, freely accepted by religious believers thanks to the grace of God.

For believers, the Bible's unity demonstrates not only that scores of human authors were heirs of a common tradition, but that each of them was guided through life and inspired to write by the same God.