What I am saying is that your common
sense gives you faith in your conviction about leprechauns, unicorns and God.
Not exact matches
We don't proselityze and we are not open to conversion to any other
faith... so just get it through your head... leave us alone... and I'll
give you a little hint... Jews, in general, because of all their accomplishments and contributions to the progress of humanity have a well earned
sense of superiority... we're only 14 million strong in the world and yet our contributions, our genius, and our work ethic has made indelible marks on the world... So, if anything, you guys should be trying to become Jews... maybe some of our genius will rub off on you... just go your way and LEAVE US ALONE!!!!
It makes
sense to me to
give myself to Him and reality makes more
sense to me through eyes of
faith in Him.
«
given that
faith is subjective to (life) situations...» This makes no
sense to me, sorry.
Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has
given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have
faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their
senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional
sense a person could lose there eternal life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by
faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ
gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent
I know that Christians are told to have
faith that some day all of this will actually make logical
sense, but you can't help but notice that it's the Bible itself that
gives us this reassurance about itself.
Therefore, Lord, that no poison may harm me this day, no death destroy me, no wine befuddle me, that in every creature I may discover and
sense you, I beg you:
give me
faith.
Ultimately, therefore, our
sense of beauty stems from the incarnational
faith that God has
given us in Christ; now God has a face... and it must be absolutely good, beautiful and true.
We can discover a reversal of the kenotic movement of the Word in the very insistence of the religious Christian that
faith has for once and for all been
given, that it is fully and finally present in the Scriptures, the liturgies, the creeds, and the dogmas of the past, and can in no
sense undergo a development or transformation that moves beyond its original expression to new and more universal forms.
Bono claims it's his experience of
faith that
gives him peace beneath the noise and activity of his life — a
sense of God that draws him to try and catch each sunrise and retrieve a
sense of being reborn each day.
Unthinking
faith has no anchors, so they embraced hierarchical leadership and worshipped the charismatic leader to
give them a
sense of stability and «anchor» in a changing world.
Having
given up the
sense that anything is his possession to claim, having surrendered all for the sake of an immediate relation to God, the knight of
faith nevertheless trusts that God will
give it back — not in some future life, but in the here and now, in the finite realm.
The church school should
give persons of all ages those experiences which will awaken their
sense of need to search for an adequate and satisfying
faith.
Christian
faith seemed to make
sense of my community and
give me the guidance I needed for life.
In the final analysis, then, the root of inspiration is the very same promising mystery that comes to
faith's awareness through revelation Those texts are held to be inspired which convey the
sense of God's fidelity to the promises first
given to Abraham.
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.
I shall suggest that the resurrection -
faith may have begun as the God -
given awareness, both individual and corporate, that in some intensely significant
sense Jesus was still alive and present with his disciples.
Given their economic situation and the
sense of estrangement from the old society that belonging to a new
faith brings, it was natural that some political movements emerged to protect the Christians» rights and promote their welfare.
Above all, they must not suppose that it is integral to
faith in God, with its consequences, to believe that all of us (in the special
sense I have
given that phrase) does not die.
In this
sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in
faith, hope and love, a God who wants to
give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.
Religion, you expect to hear me conclude, is nothing but an affair of
faith, based either on vague sentiment, or on that vivid
sense of the reality of things unseen of which in my second lecture and in the lecture on Mysticism I
gave so many examples.
«Their
faith gave them a strong
sense of the cultural and religious ties between Europeans that transcend national boundaries.»
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety,
given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic
sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other
faiths.
Having spoken thus and moved the audience so that at least they had
sensed the dialectical conflict of
faith and its gigantic passion, I would not
give rise to the error on the part of the audience that «he then has
faith in such a high degree that it is enough for us to hold on to his skirts.»
lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more
sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also
gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my
gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there
faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.
For this reason he understood the term hypostasis / substance not in the objective
sense (of a reality present within us), but in the subjective
sense, as an expression of an interior attitude -LSB-...] In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...]
Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It
gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unseen.
In terms of such process thinking (about which I have written in Process Thought and Christian
Faith, Macmillan, 1968), God is not thought to be simply the absolute, self - existent, unconditioned reality; there is a
sense in which these terms are applicable as adverbs qualifying God's essential nature — but that essential nature is God's concrete love, his unfailing relationship with the world, his self -
giving and willingness to receive from that world, his openness to «affects» from the world and from what goes on in it.
Inthis
sense the Christian kairos is rooted in the historical Jesus, who is extra nos,
given prior to
faith and determining our present, as the history upon which our existence is constituted.
The
faith that
gives one the ability to walk out of their door in the morning, the
faith that allows one to trust one's
senses, the
faith in provable scientific principles, and the
faith that allows us to continue to trust that intelligence exists and can bring about good in civilization — all are considered reasonable.
Granted that
faith does indeed imply justice in the generally moral
sense of right action that
gives each his or her due, what this does and does not imply depends upon some understanding of what is due to those whose interests are affected by our action and of what we are able to do to realize these interests.
Qazar, it is precisely the book that proves that the Christian God is the true God... in order to expand your thinking on this, name the one thing that all peoples of all cultures of all times, will agree on as the ultimate evidence of the true God [keeping in mind that there must always be a
faith level because God is all powerful, has all knowledge, all wisdom, is everywhere (not in a pantheistic
sense)-RSB- that the true God can
give.
Funny how star gazing
gives one awe and a
sense of eternity and in my case it removes the hope of heaven... i.e. there is no heaven, just space with gazeous substance... a place where it is childish and absurd to think we are going when we die... Our solar system / galaxy seem empty of organic life altogether... actually inorganic seems to be the norm... so my
faith struggle of the week is how can I possibly believe in after life... when reality shows me decomposition of all that we are, scientific observation does not allow room for a «spirit body» to rise and go in some nebulae... So why do I still need to believe despite this raw evidence... I drive me crazy sometimes...
It
gives a
sense of the urgency of the Christian message and provides a jolt to the
faith of anyone who reads it.
The writers are just banking that the people reading their explanations will be so overwhelmed by all the big words they use that they'll
give up any attempt of actually making
sense out of it, and just take it on
faith that it works.
However this
faith is to be interpreted, neither the
faith nor its interpretation is simply «
given» in the
sense that it is
given as a constant.
As among the conglomerate people of the United States there is a common identification and a common
sense of participation in the formative events of national history, so also the people of all of Israel's varied tribal backgrounds made the common confession of
faith: «We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand... and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and
give us the land which he swore to
give to our fathers» (Deut.
Faith in revelation can thus free us from self - preoccupation by
giving us the
sense that we are already cared for.
Within this cosmopolitan Israel the
sense of freedom, sparked off by the deliverance from Egypt and consummated in the kingdom of David,
gave rise to a new kind of
faith, which as we have seen, was destined to diverge more and more from the mythological religion of ancient man.
In relating ourselves to the promise
given to Abraham (who stands to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike as «our father in
faith»), and by observing the partial fulfillment of this promise in surprising ways time without number, we
sense that we have been
given a new context, beyond the purely natural, within which to dwell.
My relationship with Him was life -
giving in every
sense of the word, and that's why I considered it so important to live out my
faith.
«I think the fact that I've been able to turn my life around and really make my mom proud and become a better person through focusing on my
faith, it always
gives me great
sense of pride to come home.»
What he says makes
sense, because ultimately Wenger is placing
faith in his current batch of players which
gives them confidence and possibly a reason to want to perform at their best.
«It
gave me an incredible
sense of possibility and
faith in the people I go to school with,» Summerville says.»
The show is an ode to my mother, a show
given in her great and mighty name, the woman whose love and compassion
gave rise to my permanent
sense of ambition, belief, and
faith in the prospects of crea
«The show is an ode to my mother, a show
given in her great and mighty name, the woman whose love and compassion
gave rise to my permanent
sense of ambition, belief, and
faith in the prospects of creating, for myself, a fulfilling future.»
At a time when society seems to have
given up believing in facts, relying on a
sense of «blind
faith» instead, the body and mind binary has gained considerable importance in contemporary art.
Activism can be draining, tiring, and hard, but when it comes from a spiritual base it
gives you something deeper to fall back on when you need a
sense of hope, a
sense of renewal, or
sense of
faith.
While many maintain that it is the religious imprint of our current or past affiliations of
faith that
give us a moral compass, there is a growing understanding that we all have an innate
sense of fairness and communal responsibility.