Sentences with phrase «rested on faith»

But believers share with postmoderns the recognition that truth rests on a faith that has itself been the sole subject of the long attack of modern times.

The Book of Job, in contrast, rests on faith in one God who transcends the nature which He created.

Belief in God rests on faith.

On the other, he holds that they rest on faith.

Martin Buber formulated the Jewish objection to the messiahship of Jesus in his discussion with the New Testament scholar Karl - Ludwig Schmidt on January 15, 1933, in the Jewish school in Stuttgart, and formulated it in such classic terms that it has been continually repeated by other Jews ever since: «The church rests on its faith that the Christ has come, and that this is the redemption which God has bestowed on mankind.

In either field, our position must rest on faith in God, but in conjunction also with the most reasonable conclusions we can draw from such knowledge as we have.

If you can not use it «to come to any conclusion regarding God or scripture,» then you can't use logic at all, which means, I think, that your argument rests on faith and faith alone.

The first key point to understand is the difference between the Prime Minister's roles as head of the Cabinet, who wields executive power via the confidence of the House of Commons, and as Tory leader, whose authority rests on the faith colleagues have in you as a general election winner.

Not exact matches

Eventually, the final refuge of speculation is to abandon historically reliable measures wholesale, resting faith instead on the advent of some new era in which the old rules simply don't apply.

What I don't understand is why they feel that they need to force their religion on everyone by trying to force a theocracy on us all — cant you just practice your «faith» and leave the rest of us alone?

Even so, their faith rests on a human sacrifice and even the Resurrection can not change that.

I know this will sound condescending, but words fail me: people really rest their faith on five points?

Certainly, some things we believe in can been seen, but the great faith described in the rest of Hebrews 11 is the faith that is confident in God's promises based on what is known about God's character and God's Word.

This assertion rests on some form of Murray's familiar distinction between articles of faith and articles of peace.

If, on the other hand, nothing actually happened at Easter and if, therefore, the Christian faith which rests upon the Resurrection is a delusion, then we might as well be dead.

These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the other — perhaps because of the deep - rooted faith in religion which has been growing in the hearts of the Egyptians for hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation of religious and secular studies.

His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.

If Christian faith is to be vital, our knowledge of God must rest on firmer ground than either of these procedures.

Imagine, however, that the Internal Revenue Service had been after Bob Jones to abandon faith in Jesus Christ as Son of God and Savior, the bedrock on which Christianity rests.

(google pascals wager) A true christian job / duty on this earth is NOT to FORCE his / her religion / beliefs on anyone else... as Paul said «You must be able to give an explanation for the JOY you have and the HOPE You have, and the FAITH you have to others» the rest is up to God the Holy Ghost and the person you are talking to, to believe, or not..

Though many people who believe are intelligent (IQ), they rest their laurels on faith, which has no scientific support (logic or reason).

According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they [the laity] possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.

For people whose faith claims rest as resolutely on incarnation as Christian claims do, the impact our own peculiarly incarnated lives have on the way we do theology — and therefore on the sort of theology we do — ought to fascinate us.

In 1 Corinthians 2:4 - 5, Paul writes: «My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with the demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but God's power.»

I'm banking the rest of my «everlasting» life on the faith that I have in Jesus Christ.

The Israelite who did not joyfully rest from his work on that day was one who put his hope in his own work rather than in God's election.22 According to de Quervain,»... when our minds are illumined by faith, we see the Sabbath in Israel as grounded not in a sociological event, but in a theological one, the deliverance of God's people from bondage into the rest which he gave them as a token of the final rest.

Any argument that ultimately rests on appeals to feeling, emotion, or faith is not a natural - law argument.

Gregory Arthur Weiler is just one of the first of your terrorist extremist wing and with folks such as Tramma's post down below, and the soon coming attacks on the Faithful from Atheist, I predict that in my life time Atheist will join the rest of the Faith groups with its list of current atrocities.

Hence, faith differs from the intention of philosophy and the natural sciences in its use of reason only in that the datum on which it rests in its entirety is not acknowledged as such by all men.

Normally closed on Sundays due to its founder's Christian faith and to give its employees a day of rest, the restaurant chain responded to a call from Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed and made an exception for those left at the airport.

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

The order of the law and the prophets is a theological one that rests on a foundation of faith.

4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.»

Faith, in the end, rests not on the authority of a pristine set of signs but on a community that offers in its symbols a distinctive identity, an overarching story, a collective self - image.

Consequently they issue solemn warnings that they have issued solemn warnings that if the Easter faith of the church is surrendered or found to rest on a false foundation, then Christianity is no longer viable.

is that on which the whole Christian faith finally rests, for «God is love.

On this certainty we can rest our faith.

You're fearful because your arguments are built on foundational leaps of faith that science must fail itself in order for the rest of it to be true, rather than the simple and logical answer that there must be a creator.

Not most importantly that since the bible is the most heavily researched book in the history of the world by wide orders of magnitude, scholars have thoroughly examined textual criticism issues such as this, and the Christian can rest assured that: — the bible we have is over 99 % original text — none of the verses under issue affect the Christian message of salvation through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross at all, not even the smallest amount.

Recall the opening words of the First Epistle of John: «We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life» this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us...» First John states the primal truth that Christian faith rests on witness to what has happened in history, hence the honored place of the martyrs (witnesses) in Christian memory.

For this we must look at the total setting of the New Testament kerygma, or witness to the faith, for while references to the Kingdom were constantly on the lips of Jesus, they become noticeably fewer in the rest of the New Testament.

The conviction of earlier theologians that relatively few are saved rests, I suspect, partly on the assumption that faith in Christ, baptism, and adherence to the Church are necessary conditions for salvation.

However, if saving faith rests on what we observe about God's work in us to such an extent that we can be indifferent to historical claims about Jesus, do we not risk looking to ourselves rather than to Christ for our assurance?

Luther's primary doubts about faith didn't necessarily rest on the question of God's existence, but His character.

In America we actually work, in many states, on the preposterous theory that it is illegal to teach our children the faith on which our democracy rests.

For Catholics and, I suspect, most other Christians, faith does not rest on historical research but on the word of God authoritatively proclaimed by Scripture and tradition.

Troeltsch, followed by Coakley, makes the security of faith rest, albeit only in part, on what the biblical scholars can reconstruct behind the Gospel picture of Jesus Christ, whereas I take the picture itself, as transmitted in the church, to be the actual medium that evokes faith; and I believe Troeltsch did, too, in his clearer moments.

The way of love as a possibility for man rests wholly on faith in the divine forgiveness, and knowledge of the love of God comes only through that faith.

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

On Premier's News Hour the chair of the coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, said discrimination in faith schools will lead to children becoming ghettoised and segregated from the rest of society.