Sentences with phrase «rejecting said belief»

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So in a sense I said, «I reject God» — not that I rejected Him as a person, but rather jettisoned the false belief that I had a relationship with Him.

Asking Christians to accept your belief that certain sexual conduct is not sin is asking them to reject what God has said on the subject.

We need to remember that Jews who have not followed Christ also reject these beliefs; yet most Christians would say that they worship the same God but have incomplete knowledge of him.

Or are you going to dogmatically reject what I've said merely because it doesn't fit within your preconceived beliefs about the world?

The Jews contemptuously reject Jesus» claims and the half - belief of the crowd in him, saying (wrongly, as it happens, for Jonah was from Galilee) that no prophet has ever come from Galilee.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

David Friedrich Strauss (1808 - 1874), at first a Protestant but in his later years giving up belief in a personal God and immortality, cast doubt on the accuracy of the records of the sayings and deeds of Jesus and rejected the virgin birth of Jesus.

From this starting point, Anselm is said to have shown that if believers understand their faith, they «are the only ones who do understand it» (p. 22), from which it would follow that it is only lack of understanding which leads a person to reject theistic belief.

[99] Otton rejected claims of sectarianism, but said that the Society was concerned that Murphy's beliefs would «influence his political decisions».

Affirm their self - worth before knocking down their erroneous beliefs: When your facts challenge people's self - identities, their immediate impulse will be to reject them — that's human nature, says Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College.

In 2009, in his last interview with the BBC, Yusuf declared his beliefs against education and rejected the Darwin's evolution theory by saying:

Countering a long - held belief, the ASPCA says fears of gift pets being rejected or returned are unfounded.

The ones who keep ascending, he says, are those who'll reject limiting beliefs.