Sentences with phrase «statement of the man of faith»

Imperfect as the statement of the man of faith may be, the reality about which his statement is made remains entirely independent of that imperfection.

Not exact matches

At Bryan College — a school named for a man who is best known for opposing evolution — some members of the faculty objected to a statement of faith that outlined a literal view of creation.

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

This statement, applied to the individual, does not autonomously fix the moment when this event takes place; but every man applies it to himself, not by reflecting on a certain empirical fact, but in the very act of faith and hope itself.

Colin... Very nice «statement of faith» (back on page 98) unless you personally did all the «objective research» yourself, which, in part, you would have had to trust in one or two «man - made» instruments for your so called «objective» testing.

It seems the state of man across all systems that we have these sorts of people that need their orthodoxies to be pure, and yet, if we all were to be honest with ourselves we'd have to truly know our assumptions, the assumptions that we each make as we come to our faith and belief and living statements.

Did the apostle Peter consult a man - made catechism, a creed book, or a denominational statement of faith before he preached on the Day of Pentecost?

The Faith and Order statement then went on to point out how every social order is limited by the «continuing sinfulness of man» which are meant to protect human beings in society.

There is a very significant difference between this affirmation of personal trust and the statement of the Athanasian Creed that «the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man».

The closing words of Bertrand Russell's classic statement of atheistic faith, A Man's Worship in Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays (New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1954).

As in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.»

What man has written in the past as his Scriptures and as his dogmatic statements were expressions that more or less captured the experience of faith that was his at a particular moment in time.

In principle, the drive is toward the construction of an intellectual statement (or history) of the diverse religions of mankind that ideally does justice to all of them as well as standing independently, a statement that will be cogent to a reasonable man who is a member of any faith or of none.

Churches hold doctrinal statements of so called «beliefs» as key components of having faith in God... these include things like the bible is innerrant, God is a Trinity, Jesus is 1/2 man and 1/2 God, the virgin birth, etc..

The faith that comes to word in Jesus is the root of the authority he had; thence, the faith come to word in Jesus becomes Jesus» faith, and leads to the thought of Jesus» prayer life; from there we move to faith come to word in the future for men of the future, and their prayer practice; and, finally, we arrive at the climactic faith statement.

«As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease,» Thompson said in a statement.

«As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease,» Thompson said in a statement for the press.

As a man of intense faith, I intend to fight and win the battle against this disease,» Thompson said in a statement released Tuesday.

Lost in and separated from all this is Mel Gibson's powerful statement of faith, the potential cruelty of man, and the human drive to survive physical and psychological torture in the name of a greater good.