Sentences with phrase «true faith which»
The nature by birth of any Westerner is not better than the nature of any Muslim Arab or Turk, it is only the true faith which could make a distinction.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
«From the very beginning the evangelist teaches and documents most convincingly the sublime article of our holy Christian faith according to which we believe and confess the one true, almighty, and eternal God.
Absent true believers, Christian mores would lack the essential tool of faith without which «Christian society» is nothing more than yet another pure will to power.
The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.
In order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are true.
You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.
The mainline Reformers of the sixteenth century posited what is called the «formal principle,» which holds that the Scriptures are (in the words of the 2000 Amsterdam Declaration) «the inspired revelation of God... totally true and trustworthy, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.»
Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.
(which it isn't, read the bible and you should see the myriad of flaws) Faith isn't true, ever... once you know something as fact, you no longer need faith, so how can faith be Faith isn't true, ever... once you know something as fact, you no longer need faith, so how can faith be faith, so how can faith be faith be true?
They can «study» their religion, but it still comes down to faith in the teachings, and personal experience, neither of which can ever be meaningfully tested true or false in any kind of objective way.
[1] Conscious of the immense horizon which their faith opened before them, Christians invoked Jesus as the true sun «whose rays bestow life».
To have faith, you have to be willfully delusional, IE you need to believe that something for which there is no evidence is actually true.
To expand on this a bit, we could say that faith substantiates, or sees as reality, that which we previously only hoped to be true; it is the evidence, conviction, or confidence in things we can not see.
The talks of the conference have sought to explain what it means to say we have faith in God by looking at the evidence for His existence and his eternal plan to found the Church as man's true environment in which he comes into contact with his creator.
The results in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that the faith to which people were called was often more the objective belief that the scriptures were completely true than the deeply personal assurance of God's forgiveness of their sins and the resulting freedom.
We do not just go to the world; rather, we bring with us beliefs which determine the kind of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in which the scientist uses only the cold light of reason while the theologian uses the light of faith is not strictly true.
Leaders sought the «blessing» of the church (catholic) which in those days was a political enti ty and not always representative of True faith.
We have been speaking of the need for finding a way of stating the kerygma which will be relevant to our own time, while it will also be true to the abiding affirmation of faith which gives the Church its essential being.
We are separated by thousands of miles, and there are significant differences in our faiths, but Ahava and I have learned from one another, prayed for one another, and laughed with one another — which is all one can ask of a true friendship.
Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.
All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.
Although biographically Kierkegaard's choice of a negative dialectic was hardened by his second conversion or «metamorphosis,» a conversion which led to his resolve to attack the established church, and hence to abandon philosophy, it is also true that he could limit faith to a negative dialectical movement because he could identify faith and «subjectivity.»
While it is manifestly true that there is a great faith which has long been the secret of life in Western man, does not the ordinary church, whether in New York, Middletown, or Gopher Prairie, provide such a caricature of this faith that it is really a joke?
Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.
But there are dangers in concentrating on the emotional, the ecstatic, and on extraordinary spiritual gifts and manifestations, especially if they are held to be greater signs of grace than the true highest gifts of the Spirit which are simple faith, hope and above all charity.
Instead, his act of love is his doing that which was required to make known to us the true meaning of faith and of victory, of love and of life.
We can be confident in the knowledge that all true searching into the depths of the deposit of our Faith and in the world around us, which are never in opposition, can only bring us closer to God.
If for you your faith is only about «worshiping» the words in a book (which are written by man)... think about it... you might be wasting your time and not realize how distant you actually have become (from the true msg) worrying about trivialities or needing to reconcile scripture with science / common sense... simply because your book (and your self - imposed obligation to believe in the words) doesn't leave you another option.
This function of the will, though it is the responsibility of a person, is not meritorious in any way, for faith is not a work (Rom 4:5), but is simply being persuaded or convinced about what is true, which, in the case of eternal life, is being persuaded that eternal life is the free gift of God to all who believe in Jesus for it.
He believed that mankind had become of age and no longer needed religion, which was only a deceptive garment of true faith; he suggested the need for a «religionless Christianity.»
But such a view of life, which at once accepts man's present limitations and believes in his ultimate potentialities, is only possible to the one who has true religious faith.
And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly, when religion and the Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which, after all, are more important than anything else?
So these end the Christian church in the U.S. Sadly the Crystal Cathedral which was the exemplary work of Reverend Schuler (years of true faith) was destroyed by his own children (motivated by greed).
We should remember what Lesslie Newbigin defines as conversion: «A turning round in order to participate by faith in a new reality which is the true future of the whole creation.
And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.
What I find amazing is that they are able to rationalize their belief in myths and fables, as if those things are really true, by citing scientific findings, which are the exact opposite from faith - based beliefs.
There are a thousand ways in which we try in today's language to affirm this faith, but perhaps none is more forceful or rings truer than the words of Maltbie D. Babcock's familiar hymn:
The problem with blaming all this on faith or religion is that it hides the true culprits: fear, hatred, and selfishness — which culprits are leveraged by evil leaders of groups like ISIS.
The denomination to which he belongs, the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), is not in communion with most other Orthodox, who it claims have strayed from the true faith via the evils of «ecumenism.»
Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.
In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.
Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.
«Intent» in this sense is sometimes called «animal faith» (though sometimes he uses this expression to refer to those beliefs, arising from a mixture of intuition and intent, which an agent practically engaged with the world around him can not honestly deny that he holds for true).
This is the true dimension of faith, in which man does not simply accept a particular set of propositions, but accepts his own vocation.»
It is certainly true that myth speaks of the existence of man — or rather, of man - in - faith; it speaks of the limits and the foundations of his world, of the powers which control it, which confront him with succor or demand.
In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ of some of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's life.
The way in which members of each faith can help members of the other find a truer balance takes us back to the starting point of this chapter.
Sure, David goes on to say that he was uneasy with such a claim and wasn't even sure that it was true, but still... how do you write a book which is supposed to be about taking back your faith from the American Dream and start the book by stating that you are the youngest megachurch pastor in American history?
The first action of the Synod was to draw up a «true apostolic and orthodox» confession of faith which repudiated both Monophysitism and Chalcedonian orthodoxy of the West.
«Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith» (10:19 - 22).