But nonetheless
the other kind of faith always has been, and is still, tragically common, and James may well be condemning, not Paul, but those who either in ignorance misunderstood, or by design misinterpreted, the Pauline doctrines of grace and faith.
Nietodarwin wants freedom of religion only for atheists not for
any other kind of faith.
«Faith in naturalism,» he claims, «is no more «scientific» (i.e., empirically based) than
any other kind of faith.»
Such a concession could be exploited by promoters of rival sources of knowledge, such as philosophy and religion, who would be quick to point out that faith in naturalism is no more «scientific» (i.e., empirically based) than
any other kind of faith.
Not exact matches
Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these
kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in
other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad
faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.
This is why any willingness to accept risk will far more tied to our longstanding measures
of market action and
other testable factors than to some novel «Bernanke
faith factor» that we have no way
of testing historically in any
kind of rigorous manner.
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..
These types
of ra nts lead down the path
of religious per secution and have been the same
kinds of words during horrible religiously motivated at roci ties — ki ll ing
of people because their flavor
of Christian
faith didn't meet the standard
of some
other self - right eous mob.
Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each
other; A principled approach to religious values and
faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness
of quality academic work; A well - educated student
of religion must have a deep and broad understanding
of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that
of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity
of all
kinds.
If I were to treat
others with hatred, fear and anger, specifically because I do not agree on how they choose to live their lives in
faith, what
kind of life would I be living?
Faith and Politics are one no matter how secular the country looks, there are still some plans that are built and made on the grounds
of Survival or Prosperity
of Faiths, Races both as over
other Faiths, Races whether Nationally or Internationally, Such
kind of those are found in every Land, Race,
Faith & Nation.
Others were groping down false paths toward the reform
of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that
of the recent past) that the
faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a
kind of ethnic heritage.
The only «peace» that
kind of thinking aka «
faith» brings anyone, is the feeling
of well - being brought upon by the relief that they are now validated as being better than
others.
The sacrament stimulates a value response to an object
other than itself — in this sense being a
kind of instrumental value — by virtue
of a three - way congruence
of some sort involving person, sacrament, an ultimate
faith - object.
His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his
faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the
other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the
kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge
of God, although partial, is really knowledge
of God as God is.
But it is undeniable that the same
kind of spiritual rhetoric and understanding
of faith allowed Christians in America to oppress
others for hundreds
of years on the one hand, while feeling spiritually righteous or justified on the
other.
I enjoy reading all
kinds of ancient texts... as you find out when doing this, reading about
other religions and their texts
of faith... you find that there are alot
of common denominators..
He went on to say he felt Tim Farron had been singled out, explaining: «It is fair to say that we don't see public figures who hold to
other faiths, generally, being subjected to the same
kind of scrutiny that Farron has been subjected to.
JW has been praised for putting into practice the emphasis on community and on the
kind of post-Christendom, mission - oriented
faith that McLaren, Newbigin and
others have written about.
He compares and contrasts the two realms, explains the
kinds of behaviors and actions that accompany those within both realms, and also explains how one gets from one realm to the
other (by
faith alone in Christ alone).
Among
other topics, Volf discusses
faith in the public square, and asks what
kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to human lives and help people seek the common good.
The alleged subordination
of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting
other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom
of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting
of the reality
of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay
of action and reflection) as the only criterion
of faith, so that the notion
of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.
This
kind of faith plays no part in my life, and the
other definitions are more a synonym
of trust, or a certain expectation.
According to the
faith in which I was raised (but have since rejected) Mr. Allen's involvement in establishing bars and clubs that serve alcohol and
others is unambiguously sinful
of worst
kind - encouraging
others to sin.
This is one
kind of situation in which discernment may be evoked, but the language
of worship needs the same
kind of logical analysis that Ramsey has provided for
other forms
of the language
of faith.
«11 A taste for opposing John the mystic to Paul the apostle
of justification by
faith leads to neglect
of this
other kind of «juridical» thought, this
other problem
of justification which derives its coherence from this horizon
of the great trial on which all theology
of testimony is projected.
Without it, we need some smart folks to explain it to us because it get's real complicated trying to hold
faith, the gospel, eternal life, salvation, repentance, and all the
other teachings together with any
kind of congruity.
This is sufficient for our
faith — that we have a trustworthy guide — and this fits with our common sense in a way that
other kinds of claims about Jesus do not.
The
other kind of justification though, is not through
faith, but is through works and is in the sight
of men.
Indeed, everybody holds certain principles
of «elemental
faith»: for example, that the world has some
kind of order to it, and that we have some
kind of moral responsibility Elemental
faith and
other forms
of secular
faith provide «points
of contact» for Christians trying to explain saving
faith.
The New Testament plainly indicates two
kinds of experience as bases
of faith in Jesus» continued life — one, the empty tomb and its associated events; the
other, appearances
of the heavenly Christ to various people, especially to Paul at his conversion.
According to the Christian witness,
faith is the
kind of basic human attitude or disposition that can be formally characterized as an existential self - understanding, or understanding
of our own existence, in relation to
others and to the encompassing whole
of ultimate reality.
To the extent that we succeed in this, the student then becomes the
kind of pastor who can help
others find a religious
faith which is viable for them.
One
of the key characters in the book is disgraced «
faith healer» Holy Wayne (played by British actor Paterson Joseph); a once - average man, bereaved on October 14th, who realises he can take
other people's pain upon himself, like a
kind of emotional sponge.
On the
other hand, the essential
faith which is enshrined in this story is the forerunner
of the
faith which in the Gospels so persistently cast Jesus Christ in the role
of healer
of all
kinds of bitterness, the
faith which appropriates to the suffering
of the Cross the line first spoken
of the Servant
of the Lord: «with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.
Too many Christ - followers are promoting a «happy, happy, joy, joy»
kind of faith, where anger and
other complex emotions are conspicuously absent.
Many
others eventually turn to a more demanding — and more rewarding —
kind of faith.
Religious or «
faith» knowledge, on the
other hand, should be subject to quite different tests: the understanding
of ultimate reality it mediates, the
kind of religious experience it inspires, the quality
of personal and communal life it makes possible, and so on.
thefinisher1 Are prosecutors, police and juries stubborn spoiled brats for accepting what DNA, fingerprint, video, and all
kinds of other evidence indicate about who committed a crime rather than having the
faith to just take the accused word that they didn't do it?
But the real changes in popular attitudes toward Catholicism happened more slowly, as Catholic Church leaders and scholars engaged in a new
kind of dialogue with each
other and representatives
of other faith groups, most dramatically at the Second Vatican Council during the early years
of the 1960s.
his position
of utter power is also why he will keep
faith with players who are either not good enough or are just injury prone, i mean can anybody see the
kind of things that happens at AFC seasons after seasons after seasons happening in any
other top clubs, where the managers knows their jobs and longevity depends on results?
This virtue name could be a perfect alternative to Charity, Hope and
Faith, and
other virture names
of its
kind.
These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source
of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated
faith that inclusion or elimination
of particular
kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while
other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment
of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense
of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence
of malnutrition.
We also ensure users can define the
kind of person they want to meet; you might be a single parent hoping to meet
other singles with kids, or a Christian looking to meet someone who shares your
faith.
Silence is a very thought - provoking film that digs deep into the issues
of faith and conviction like no
other film
of its
kind.
It's a time when one could wander a studio lot, open the door to any given soundstage, and discover some sort
of wonder: a cowboy as adept with a six - string as he is with six - shooter, a giant pool where mermaids perform a water ballet to the music
of a live orchestra, a tavern where sailors about to ship out sing in lament
of the absence
of dames at sea and dance with each
other (since — wink — they're going to have to get used to that situation — wink again), or a lavish bacchanal hosted by a Roman centurion who's on the verge
of accepting a new
kind of faith.
The most important difference between a CD and
other kinds of investments is that your deposit, including any interest that accrues on it, is guaranteed by the full
faith and credit
of the United States government.
Richard, I give you this quote from your comment on the Christmas thread at December 29, 2012 at 10:50 am, talking about rgbatduke: «And, as do most atheists, he fails to recognise that his religion is as
faith - based as any
other: agnosticism rejects
faith but belief that no deity exists (i.e.atheism) is a religious
faith of identical
kind to belief in the existence
of one or more deities (i.e. theism).»
Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication
of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this
kind of effort «competes» with the work
of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens
of thousands
of additional scientists and many
others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion
of the science, knowledgeably and in good
faith and with open identification
of the nature
of the social and political issues — is just not credible.
Morano and
other climate science deniers will frequently attempt to disparage climate science by comparing it to a
kind of religion, implying that they are blinded by
faith.