Sentences with phrase «personal understanding of my faith»

In the course of my own studies of the scriptures I came to a personal understanding of my faith much more in line with the Arminian school of Christian thought.

Not exact matches

Religion and faith are a personal choice and journey as is the lack of either; I raised my son and daughter much in the same ways I was raised and I am proud of their understanding and acceptance of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, that they do not look down on or speak ill of others who believe differently than they.

i can understand economic persuasions can matter, but isn't faith / religion something deeply personal and divorced from the due responsibilities of Govt.

Calvin understood Christianity as a faith that engages the realities of both personal and public life.

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

The Apostle Paul understands that there is no inherent conflict between the personal and communal aspects of faith.

What Neville does not seem to recognize sufficiently is that theistic faith demands an understanding of God who is the object of its faith and worship (for the believer can not relate himself to what is unknown to him) and, furthermore, that it generally demands a coherent concept of God who is not only the ontologically, valuatively, and rationally other but also an individual reality who instantiates these qualities in a personal mode of being.

Certainly there have always been those Christians who have understood their faith solely in spiritual or personal terms, who have thought of Christianity as the guardian of eternal truths and timeless values in a world of change and decay.

We talk so much about personal faith, personal salvation, and all those things are critical, but I think it's so important that we understand that we're part of an eternal relay and we're responsible for handing over the baton of faith to our generation.

The word «evangelical» distinguishes that group in Christendom whose dedication to the gospel is expressed in a personal faith in Christ as Lord and whose understanding of the gospel is defined solely by Scripture, the written Word of God.

It can lead us to an understanding of our personal faith as well as the religious experience of mankind.

The author seems to have a distinct lack of understanding of the differences between organized religion and personal faith.

Gracewing, 1994, 218pp, # 9.99 In this Year of Faith it seems that we are all being called, at a level suited to our own situation, to engage with, be challenged by, and essentially grow in understanding of our own personal faith and also the faith that has been passed down to us by the AposFaith it seems that we are all being called, at a level suited to our own situation, to engage with, be challenged by, and essentially grow in understanding of our own personal faith and also the faith that has been passed down to us by the Aposfaith and also the faith that has been passed down to us by the Aposfaith that has been passed down to us by the Apostles.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

For this reason he understood the term hypostasis / substance not in the objective sense (of a reality present within us), but in the subjective sense, as an expression of an interior attitude -LSB-...] In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unseen.

If this message is to be most fruitfully grasped, whether for cultural enrichment or the deepening of personal faith, we need to understand the Bible's structure and content.

Bringing Out Treasures, Both Old and New So faith is not simply a subjective aspiration, our personal story understood in the light of the Story of Jesus.

In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of vicarious sacrifice, and religious experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»

Key concepts such as the personal nature of revelation and faith, truth as encounter, and the christocentric understanding of the church and ethics have entered our theological consciousness.

The doctrine which surrounds our walk of faith however is sometimes more complicated and needs some explanation and personal study to be truly understood.

My understanding of «missional» derives from what I would call a «classical understanding» of mission: that women and men, through personal faith and conversion by the work of the Holy Spirit, would become disciples of Jesus Christ and responsible members of Christ's church.

On a more personal note, the beatification of John Paul II has renewed my faith in and understanding of the communion of saints.

Such a presumed relationship and intimate understanding of what must be more than tens of thousands of persons on this particular mailing list not only contradicts the sincerity implied in the Christian faith but verges on personal fraud and manipulation.

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.

But that is a responsibility as much as a right, «a splendid universal communion» that entails an obligation of care: «We do not understand our superiority as a reason for personal glory or irresponsible dominion, but rather as a different capacity which, in its turn, entails a serious responsibility stemming from our faith.»

I have a feeling that most of these people have an understanding of scientific process, but let personal politics, faith and bias encroach on this understanding.

This requires an understanding of what an individual's values are, and choosing or altering the environment or one's own expectations to suit professional and personal needs, without losing faith or hope in having both a fulfilling life and career.

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