Sentences with phrase «than the faith humans»

Dalahäst How is faith in God any different than the faith humans have had in other gods, witch doctors, shamans, or lucky charms?

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Maybe have a little humility and admit you can't understand, rather than pretend you can demolish — in your mind — a human legacy that has endured through thousands of years and continues to this day to inspire and transform people from all walks of life and faiths.

With faith in your heart, you do not need to pursue proof or empirical evidence through human means which you will never find because God Is Spirit, thus, so much greater than mortal men which He created who have limited knowledge.

They actually have more faith than believers to believe the earth and humans came from nothing.

The futilities and frustrations of human experience in any age are so many and so baffling that it is commonly easier to hold a high faith about God, whom we have not seen, than about man, whom we have.

They have been led by experience to conclude that the only power in human life able to counterbalance the dark and divisive faiths of our time is a still stronger faith, a faith concerned with Reality rather than human wishes.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

My final say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?

Corrections please,,, My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

But nothing less than the recovery of real Christianity, with its ineradicable emphasis upon human compassion, and its inexorable insistence upon the transience of this world and the reality of eternity, will ever put back into the disillusioned the faith, hope, courage and gaiety which are the marks of a human being cooperating with his Creator.

According to Christian faith, this inner life of the spirit is more vital to human nature than the body because it is here that our desires, hopes, aspirations, joys and sorrows, motives, and ideals are located.

It takes more faith to believe in all these accidental / abnormal processes from billions of years ago that eventually lead to intelligent and complex human beings than beiliving a Creator God.

You said, «It takes more faith to believe in all these accidental / abnormal processes from billions of years ago that eventually lead to intelligent and complex human beings than beiliving a Creator God.»

To James: «In truth, as far as I've been able to tell, religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed than any other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world».

We never have seen anything pop into existence ever, everything we see or build starts with some type of creation from some creator whether it be from humans or whatever, not one single example of anything would prove otherwise, so going about everyday life feeling confident that everything just magically popped into existence without a magician really takes a lot more faith than what I have.

In truth, as far as I've been able to tell, religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed than any other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world.

To understand the Bible as a human product rather than as a divine product makes all the difference in how Christians understand worship, their relationship to God, their concept of mission and evangelism, and their attitude to people of other faiths.

To me it appears to be a sub-human one, for it is based on the notion that human enquiry about the implications of what is proposed in faith, as well as the honest effort to see what is really being asserted, is to be replaced by little more than pious credulity.

My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

Of course the New Testament has much more to say than this idea of human existence in faith.

Admittedly, in the area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour of the new, for this is the aspect of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this area of life more than any other for his stability and security.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith in one's self.

@ Observer / Can't see the forest for the trees ~ ~ ~ ~ Seriously, you've got more faith in «humans» than you do God?

The human mind that abstracts from the realism and intuition of St. John, to theologise its own version of the Jesus of History as distinct from the Jesus of Faith, must always end up with a supreme Prophet who is less than the transcendent divine, who is not pre-existent to the Universe and Creation, and who at the very highest is «divine» only as a supreme emanation of a «holy and noble consciousness» at the root of being itself, and identified with Creation itself.

Furthermore, the doctrinal structure of faith is much more than the «grammar of the Church's narrative»: it is the reality of communion with the Trinity through the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God made Man and the centre of all human history.

Faith addresses persons with an eye to their humanity and has no other aim than that they should be really human.

When your post calls out for atheists to also review the way they see the world, to not think themselves superior because they are comfortable with their current Laws and Theories, and to always concede that the unknown is the unknown, that human nature, rather than faith, is what generates evil and bigotry, then maybe you'd have something.

The biblical answer to the problem of evil in human history is a radical answer, precisely because human evil is recognized as a much more stubborn fact than is realized in some modern versions of the Christian faith.

Supernatural faith is stronger, therefore, than any human trust, even trust that one has in a parent or a spouse.

This leap of faith is much smaller than the leap of faith required to believe that some unobserved god laid known immutable moral rules for humans it designed.

To put one's spiritual faith in God rather than in another human being (or group of human beings) is not lazy; it's appropriate.

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Human groups more frequently express their faith through corporate forms other than the congregation.

As well as creating a spirit of love, the church can create an attitude of trust and faith toward other human beings, thus stressing the potentialities of man rather than the immediate realities.

This belief in the continuing victory of God within the shattering of human designs is based on more than an untested faith.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

My answer is simply this, that it is because at present our magnificent Christian charity lacks what it needs to make it decisively effective, the sensitizing ingredient of Human faith and hope without which, in reason and in fact, no religion can henceforth appear to Man other than colorless, cold and inassimilable.

No human experience is more fundament to the Christian faith and tradition than the transforming wonder of being loved when we least deserve it.

Such a non-utilitarian faith does not undertake to show that in the Christian gospel we can find the solution to all the problems of human existence any more than that we can find in the Scriptures answers to all the questions we raise about the world of nature.

And I have found, even from my friends of other faiths (of which I have a few), that people appreciate others who genuinely believe their traditions are more than an amalgamation of pieces of other faiths discarded down the highway of human history.

New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general.»

Berlin fears the ancient faith in and search for a perfect and harmonious society, «an ideal for which more human beings have, in our time, sacrificed themselves and others than, perhaps, any other cause in human history.»

Do not our congregations expect from their own ministers that they wrestle honestly and immediately with the Christian faith and the issues of human life, and preach from that inner encounter rather than give a digest of what other ministers have said?

«In effect, recognition of Christians in the laws of Iran has now become basically recognition of an ethnicity rather than faith,» said Hussein Jadidi, a human rights lawyer who recently fled Iran after he became a target in a Christmas sweep that caught 70 other Christians.

«there are three things in which man finds the sweetness of the faith; that God and his prophet may be for him more loved than anyone else; that in loving the human being one does not love him unless in God» [3].

The bottom line here is that the Republicans» fascination with an unfettered free market and their lack of faith in the government's ability to provide any benefits to our common life (except to assist business in making money) is no more consistent with Catholic teaching than the Democrats» emphasis on individual freedom in social questions and their faith in human perfectibility through government action.