Sentences with phrase «testimony of»

Without the continuous testimony of the Spirit to what we are called to; and without the input of all the others who name that Name, especially the excluded, our claim to catholicity is premature at best, if not just pompous.

4: «For as God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit.

Zuccotti also ignores the important personal testimony of Fr.

You said:» the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events,»

The well - documented firsthand testimony of Carroll - Abbing, which Zuccotti never cites or discusses, is especially compelling.

We have the testimony of the Jewish sources; the fact that such stories occur in all strata of the tradition, including the two earliest, Mark and Q (criterion of multiple attestation); and the authentic Kingdom - sayings related to exorcisms, especially Matt.

Paul's effective knowledge of Jesus came to him only after Jesus» crucifixion, by way of the testimony of others.

The real issue was not, therefore, «Evangelical» versus «Ecumenical», but instead, how the testimony of those who call themselves evangelical was to be taken as part and parcel of ecumenical life.

Another example of evidence accepted was Paul's personal experience in Acts, and again this caused him to believe in spite of testimony of witnesses, because he never believed the witnesses until after this personal experience.

BTW... The black color is because their self - proclaimed terrorist prophet's flag was black as well, as he too used the Muslim testimony of faith on his own flag when he FOUGHT and KILLED for this whacked ideology called ISLAM.

@ Bruce «A couple of things about belief and evidence for belief from the scriptures: (1) the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events»

The second argument turned on the fact that the New Testament itself; and more especially Luke, appeals to the testimony of «eyewitnesses and ministers of the word» (Luke 1.2).

My book was called When God Pled Guilty, and I was basically arguing that just as Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself on the cross, so also, somehow, the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament is God taking the sins of Israel upon Himself through the testimony of inspired Scripture.

But this testimony of our own experience to the uniquely creative character of this ancient event is confirmed by our observation of the life of the church and by our study of its history.

Moreover, the firsthand testimony of Princess Enza Pignatelli Aragona, who visited the Vatican and personally informed Pius of the roundup on the morning of October 16» and who has described Pius» reaction as one of shock and anger» flatly contradicts the currently accepted view.

For the gospel, when we attend to its rich and various working out in the testimony of the church has a morphology which is vaster than any man's life and a momentum which unfolds beyond any man's experience.

Your «testimony of eye witnesses» was not «scrutinized by skeptics of their day», though your cult members write it that way in an attempt at credibility.

I was «saved» when I was 14 and immediately starting sharing my testimony of «being set free from homosexuality».

This is doing violence and bearing false testimony of what the text actually says, and moreover betrays arrogance, for what we would be saying is, in fact, «we know better.

Here is the testimony of the 3 witnesses to the Book of Mormon as set forth in the introduction to the Book of Mormon: «Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come: That we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken.

What I have to offer is simply the testimony of my own life, a testimony which I have the less right to suppress since I am one of the few beings who can offer it.

The explicit and implicit testimony of the Qur» an is that the author is God Himself.

We must hearken to the testimony of the New Testament itself.

Nevertheless, the voice of the Lord commanded us that we should bear record of it; wherefore, to be obedient unto the commandments of God, we bear testimony of these things.

940), when special ambassador, and according to the testimony of the fourth ambassador died, no one has been appointed as a religious authorities, if anyone should claim to be an ambassador he is claiming an untruth.

In addition to the rational arguments against polytheistic worship, the Qur» an points to the unanimous testimony of the prophetic traditions.

I believe that a sober and instructed criticism of the Gospels justifies the belief that in their central and dominant tradition they represent the testimony of those who stood nearest to the facts, and whose life and outlook had been moulded by them.

«Many hearts are broken and tears are still being shed, but through it all we are reminded we serve a God who still cares,» Gillison told the congregation, the first of several messages coupling the tragedy with a testimony of God's faithfulness.

But testimony of various authorities must be evaluated.

We rule out the third possibility of veridical experience on the testimony of Luke in Acts, who reports a light from heaven and a voice, which we take to be hallucinatory accompaniments.

It is also shown by the peculiar phenomena which accompanied every revelation of the Qur» an, according to the testimony of the true tradition.

They have done harm to the Christian community, and counterfeited the testimony of the Christian church as a whole.

«3 How, in fact, are we to conjoin the interiority of primary affirmation and the exteriority of acts and of existences that are said to give testimony of the absolute?

The philosophical problem of testimony is the problem of the testimony of the absolute or, better, of absolute testimony of the absolute.

The doctor, Stella and I each have a testimony of God that we gained though this incredible experience, but that's not the Testimony you have just read.

Thus the hermeneutics of testimony arises in the confluence of two exegesis — the exegesis of historic testimony of the absolute and the exegesis of the self in the criteriology of the divine.

Appeal was made to the testimony of Scripture, which was to be understood «literally».

To measure the degree of certitude of testimony of the absolute by the norm of one of the functions of consciousness is to surrender the problematic of self - consciousness to the most deplorable metabasis eis allo genos.22 Original affirmation can not be subsumed by the standard of knowledge of objects.

i assume one would say something about the testimony of other religious thinkers from history, theology, my pastor or priest, the like.

Even in the case of the so - called «testimony of the senses,» this counts as «testimony» only if it is used to support a judgment which goes beyond the mere recording of facts.

Testimony as story is thus found in an intermediary position between a statement made by a person and a belief assumed by another on the faith of the testimony of the first.

But what is the «testimony of John» (John 1:19)?

By means of this displacement of meaning, we are presented with a nearly complete internalization of testimony: «If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son.

The first, entirely internal, can only be signified by means of understanding applied to testimony of the absolute; the second, entirely external, can only apply its discernment to the principle of sublimity which constitutes self - consciousness.

Not only does the testimony of Christ and, after him, the testimony of the disciples, receive a new light by being placed under the sign of the great trial, so also does all the Johannine «pneumatology» of testimony, about which very little has been said to this point, except to recognize in it the extreme internalization of testimony.

May the King of All the Gods and Goddesses, Christ Jesus grant me the wisdom to write with clear unde4rstanding and a righteous vision to emulate my Word into a Truthful Testimony of My Life Encounters and how I see my family members in Light of Understanding.

Man's longing for forgiveness, the third testimony of general revelation, requires a further revelation to clarify his common human experience.

At the same time we also understand that testimony, at the human level, is dual: it is internal testimony, the seal of conviction, but it is also the testimony of works; that is, it is modeled on the passion of Christ, the testimony of suffering.

In the account that has been handed down to us — an account based on the testimony of Juan Diego — Our Lady told him: «I am truly your compassionate Mother; your Mother and the Mother to all who dwell in this land and to all other nations and peoples.»

If we consider one of the subjects vital to K.C. Abraham's concerns — theology and theological education - the recent testimony of Juergen Moltmann becomes highly significant.