Sentences with phrase «real meaning of faith»

For those wonderfully naïve little girls, Santa Claus was a symbol not of the commercial debasement of Christmas but of the real meaning of their faith in punishment and reward.

Isn't this the real meaning of faith?

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Being a Christian means having faith and having faith does not equal believing god is real it means following his commands regardless of your opinion or feelings.

Which means that men and women of faith have a real opportunity to fill the void.

Any real faith (meaning the kind that actually does move mountains) died out of the «Christian Church» when the Bible was canonized, with little exception, and most of the exceptions were exterminated.

The real task is to figure out what is happening at the nexus between the order of meaning presupposed by Christian faith and the order of events predicted by modern social theory.

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

And none is more real than that which comes to light in Cary's explanation of what Luther actually means by «faith alone,» namely, a simple, firm belief that our sins are absolved when we hear the divine words to that effect pronounced in the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.

, «What is the real meaning of this or that truth of faith?»

By this he meant that for a great many people the whole function of their faith is to provide them either with a keen awareness of what God does for them and in them or with a way of escape from the real facts of life.

And in fact in the course of this book we have seen how we can develop a theology (which is an explanation of our religion, a conceptualization of that which gives real meaning to our lives) that is consistent with both our faith and our common sense.

He remembers that there have been plenty of theologians down to the present day who by subtle doctrines and distinctions have not wanted to admit the meaning of that text from the Letter to Timothy, or who tried to evacuate its clear sense and force by saying that such non-Christians could not believe because they have not got the historical revelation of God's word and so could not be saved, because without real faith salvation is impossible.

Once we believe in the Holy Spirit (assuming they are real, we could only have had such experience of this Jesus by means of such a Spirit), this allows for faith that God works in humanity and can preserve messages to us, which could include the Bible as an infallible Word from God, thus admitting the Bible as «evidence».

This aspect of the new meaning in the life of faith helps us to see more deeply into the question of whether faith can ever be lost once it has become real in life.

We must stress that this life of faith is a real possibility for us, is in fact the only possibility that yields meaning and wholeness and depth of character and right relation to God.

It is also important to recognize that the real meaning and ground of the resurrection faith in the primitive church was not particular items in the tradition nor particular views as to how Christ's victory over death was accomplished.

These stories should be «models of hope,» that is, examples of real people and their real responses in faith to the challenges to meaning and worth in their lives.

So if the resurrection is the real crux of our faith, what does it mean to live in light of the resurrection?

not sure i said this before or not, i have been on cnn.com for over a year — anyway — i have been going to random churches, temples, really place that worships any form of the of abraham and others — i have yet to get anywhere but where i started from — which is what i am, what i am meant to be, and what i was... only this has been gained — gained is a gift of a word for i knew all of this before i started and so i view my time as wasted only for this the reason of getting somewhere — i did meet many great people with great views but all required the very real existence of god which was something lacking and why they had a constant failure yet what they called «keeping the faith» att itude type results... something was missing or missunderstood — your take?

But, as we get older it becomes our responsibility to strengthen, grow and develop our faith realising that it is an essential part of our lives, and gives us real meaning.

If the orthodox Christ was reached through faith and doctrine, it was readily assumed that «the real Jesus of Nazareth» could be found by means of the newly - discovered historiography promising to narrate the past «as it actually was».

9 This means of course that the living Christ is not open to historical enquiry and «Christian language about Christ must always take the form of a confession».10 The only real Christ is the Christ who is preached, and the Christ who is preached is precisely the Christ of faith.

After baptism you are no longer a slave of your sinful body, but your body becomes a slave of the Spirit (of course, this only takes place, if we daily invite the Spirit to rule our sinful body, which is the real faith, which means to present the body as a living sacrifice).

Out of all the 38,000 sects of your faith — I'm sure you can say that your p - a-r-t-i-c-u-l-a-r brand of failure has the real meaning.

This does not mean, of course, that nothing nonhistorical is real; the whole purpose of the event, according to Christian faith, was to provide an historical medium for the revelation of God, who is the ultimate reality above and beyond history as well as within it.

But in the process our grasp of the unity of man has been lost: living with the real Christ in one's faith means being a whole person as opposed to an intellect that subscribes to a mere idea of Christ.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

When we say that faith alone, the faith which is aware of the divine encounter, can speak of God, and that therefore when the believer speaks of an act of God he is ipso facto speaking of himself as well, it by no means follows that God has no real existence apart from the believer or the act of believing.

We in the West always make the mistake that we put in too little effort to figure out what real faith means — we are too materialistic, and that is the reason why always false priests, bishops and pastors (also on the Protestant side) mislead us, and can tell us idiotic strories of cheap grace or workrighteousness.

Having faith doesn't mean one must be delusional, we have only brought in replacements no reinforcements, since last season we've been crying for a DM and CF yet Wenger will have us believe he's good enough to start and win us games against the likes of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Man City and Chelsea hell no we are in trouble in the bigger scheme of things!

After all the negativity aimed at Ozil in England and Germany in the last couple of years, that show of faith from Joachim Low must have been a real boost to our record signing and will surely have meant a lot to him.

But New Labour's faith in the market meant it contributed to the deregulation that led to the 2008 banking crisis, one which even the former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, admits was the real reason for the huge deficit inherited by the Conservative - led coalition.

Mr. Harris's litigation practice focuses heavily on contract interpretation and enforcement and he litigates the meaning and application of contracts all across a spectrum of subject areas, including liability insurance contracts (including bad faith denial of coverage claims), non-competition and non-solicitation covenants, real estate purchase contracts, and commercial leases.