Sentences with phrase «popular idea of faith»
Too often Christians have clung to the doctrinal formulations of former generations long after they could be honestly held, and this has led to that all too popular idea of faith, so aptly defined by the schoolboy, as «believing what you know ain't true».
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Perhaps the idea, reinterpreted as a matter of faith and life rather than ancestry (cf. Rom 4:13, 16; Gal 3:7, 29), was already popular in the circle from which Luke's unique material was derived.
One reason popular devotions have withered in England and Wales since the Council is a mistaken idea that the aim of catechesis is to promote an «adult faith».
Christianity is not simply a collection of ideas, or a moral system, as I tried to explain recently to a friend who, riding a certain contemporary wave among the bien - pensant, had raised the question of whether the faith might not be more popular if all that embarrassing supernatural stuff were stripped away.
Because some of the ideas are unorthodox and run counter to popular belief, it may take some faith on your part to accept them until you see that they work under real - life market conditions.