Sentences with phrase «questions over his faith»

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The fact that the new testament is in question over and over within these conversations cast any person's faith; whose beliefs are based in part on comments penned by or for Paul, into question.

I came into the event hoping for just enough faith to answer that question for myself, and I left with cup running over, with those familiar convictions of the Christian faith striking me fresh:

As someone who consistently struggles with doubts about my faith, I've asked a lot of «off - limits» questions over the years, sometimes publically, sometimes privately.

Talking over the deep questions of faith and values with a theologically trained counselor (your minister, priest, or rabbi) can help to stimulate this growth in the vertical dimension of your family and personal life.

This is certainly an interesting article which raises a legitimate question for those of faith as well as for those without any specific spiritual belief system: Does God care who wins and if so, why and how much and what influence does He have over the outcome?

Like anyone with a radio ministry over an international network I received hundreds of thousands of letters from all over the world and, whenever they presented important questions about religious faith and practice, I answered them.

Many questions ensue, not only from representatives of other faiths but also among members of one faith who may disagree over the interpretation of their scripture.

After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.

I'd say that those whose faith and / or control over others is threatened by questions become the biggest bullies.

And it is about the way religion and television are today acting, interacting, and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will be.

Questions that made leaders uncomfortable were always glazed over by «lack of faith» or similar laoded language.

The other day a friend asked me if I'd «gotten over» my faith crisis, if I was done asking all those obnoxious questions.

No one ever seems to want to answer that question, but many get all over people of faith for having the gall to spread their views.

I have asked many questions over many years about my faith, and even now, as someone who has been a Christian for 30 years (since college) I still have questions.

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

Actually, they SHOULD be «all over it» and call any religion into question and determine WHY people of a given faith like ISLAM has violence and death always attached to it!!

It was also delayed over related questions about whether Mr Romero was killed out of hatred for his faith or his politics.

I'm not gonna beat you over the head with scriptures from various faiths, though I think a good read of Huston Smith's THE RELIGIONS OF MAN would be a healthy read for a questioning mind.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

One might reply to these questions by stating that for those whose faith is biblical in orientation the fact of the resurrection is supreme over even these difficulties.

By necessity, this religious system suppresses discussion and debate, favoring blind faith over knowledge and obedience over questions.

The difference, I suppose, is that over the past few years I've learned that my faith is strong enough to withstand new ideas and hard questions.

In turn, that has naturally led to question marks over his future at Milan, and while the club will surely be wise to show a little more faith in him to give him another year to adapt and prove his worth, there's no denying that the youngster is under pressure and hasn't delivered with Patrick Cutrone surpassing him in the pecking order.

On his frequent trips to Western Europe in the 1970s he was impressed by the freedom with which people talked, which led him to question his «a priori faith in the advantages of socialist over bourgeois democracy».

As Reverend Toller, a lonely, sickly pastor at an historic church nicknamed «The Gift Shop,» because more people take tours of it than attend it, Hawke is the very picture of grief, remorse and guilt, a man of the cloth questioning his faith, whether he's lived a purpose - filled life, and if the death he sees just over his shoulder will have any value either.

Rather than flailing away over the evolution question itself, director Jon Amiel casts the matter in personal terms as Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) wrangles with the book that would spread the theory and his own loss of faith over the death of a daughter, the backdrop to his struggle.

Even though he has rejected the faith of his father, Aiden finds himself wrestling with questions of purpose and mortality over the course of the movie.

Not only is that extremely unprofessional, it also raises questions about her good faith, and indeed, I was not the only person who saw her responses to my questioning over at the Smart Bitches blog as indicating she either didn't have the answers, or didn't want to give them.

In this first book, anyway, the author asks the following question to all of us: Why, despite the great figures of the past, such as Galileo Galilei, Aristotle and shining examples of Democracy such as Greece and despite the faith in God, Evil always prevails over Good?

I have spent the past three and a half months working as an ebooks assistant for an Oxford based Christian publishing house producing books that aim to illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, and question the Christian faith in non-fiction and fiction offerings, and with over 300 ebook titles already selling on all major retailer / online portals.

The Children of Atom are as fanatical as ever, raising serious doubts over humanity's ability to live independent of blind faith (those of you familiar with Stephen King's The Mist will notice striking similarities), and the leader of the synth colony wastes no time in posing some genuinely thought - provoking questions to the player about synths who may not even know that they are synths, even going so far as to make the player question his / her character's true identity.

Do I now hold a position of moral superiority over you to question your ethics in making a good faith argument because it appears you mischaracterized the essay for a report?