Sentences with phrase «requiring men of faith»

Unless one bleaches the debate of its living doctrinal substance — and the Rav explicitly states that requiring men of faith to bracket their deepest experiences constitutes unacceptable censorship — it inevitably raises questions about atonement, justification, faith and works, and so on.

Not exact matches

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

Faith requires stepping out into that which can not be known by man without the help of God.

The non-religious man of the present does not require first to be led to religion, transformed into a religious man, in order then to take a second step along this way to come to the Christian faith.

Given the sufficiency of Scripture, «whatsoever is not read therein,» declares Article VI of the Thirty - nine Articles, «nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.»

A crisis in authority suggests the possibility that our churches have lost the will and lack the men and women with those powers of soul required to articulate, promulgate, and defend a rule of faith and a way of life that is indeed common to Christians.

The question is not whether the ministry will reflect the institutional forms of leadership in the world but whether it will reflect these with the difference that Christian faith and church life require, whether, in short, the minister will remain «man of God» despite the fact that he is now a director instead of a ruler.

Faithful discipleship requires of us, Evangelicals and Catholics, that we «do good to all men, especially those who are of the household of faith» (Galatians 6:10).

Faith in Jesus is required because of the fact that «there is not a just man on earth who does good.»

Thus Christian faith in God as the Creator has usually been understood to require assent to a whole series of beliefs that are now widely regarded as false — e.g., that the creation of the world took place as recently as 4004 B.C. and that man and the various animals were all created as fixed species, in no way related to one another by any pattern of evolutionary development.

Only the slightest changes would have been required to bring the remembered teaching of Jesus about the Son of Man into line with the faith that he was himself the Son of Man.

The moral law of Israel, as obedience to the will of the God who required of men justice, mercy, and faith, Jesus never set aside, though by his acts and his words he put deeper and wider content into these terms than any before him had done.

Nevertheless, both are devoted to the personal vocation of man, though under different titles... [Yet] at all times and in all places, the Church should have the true freedom to teach the faith, to proclaim its teaching about society, to carry out its task among men without hindrance, and to pass moral judgment even in matters relating to politics whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it» (Gaudium et Spes, 76).

The second issue for the evangelical way concerns what the new life of faith requires of man.

None the less, if it should turn out that one can be a Christian without holding firmly to personal persistence beyond death, this is significant; and since, as I have just been saying, I think that such is indeed the case, I believe that nobody ought to require acceptance of some variety of personal persistence as a pre-requisite for a welcome into the Christian community which is grounded on that faith in God in Jesus Christ which the community exists to make available to men and women in every age.

To take up at once such an article, may be the act of a vigorous faith, but it may also be the act of a man who will believe anything because he believes nothing, and is ready to profess whatever his ecclesiastical, that is his political, party requires of him.

Righteousness entails a glorifying of God (and redemptively, man) that requires faith that inhabits a far larger sphere.

Thus we have the simultaneous growth in our minds of two essentially modern concepts, those of collectivity and of an organic future: a double development precisely engendering the deep - rooted change of heart that was required to bring about the direct transformation of a childlike and instinctive faith in Man into its rational, adult state of constructive, militant faith in Mankind!

Eternity, however, is essential continuity and requires this of man, or requires that he shall be conscious of himself as spirit and shall have faith.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.

Wanting to join the priesthood, but not having much religious faith, I abandoned the idea, destining myself to live on the secular fringes of what was considered at the time the normal world (where the men no longer were required to wear fedoras, but where sterile office cubicles in some cold stone building became the bleak destiny of so many of my contemporaries).

Even when a true ice age reappears, the faith of the religion of man made global warming will require convolutions stating the warming is still continuing, it's just being masked.

It will require women and men of faith and commitment to lead this effort forward, learning the lessons of the past.

TWU is a faith - based private college requiring its students to sign a «Community Covenant Agreement» banning «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.»