Sentences with phrase «true statements of faith»

The faith which arises in encounter with the self - revealing God feels the need to formulate true statements of faith both within the community of those who share this experience and also for outsiders.

Not exact matches

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.

You probably believe your own statement simply because it fits in with your beliefs, accepting it as true as a matter of faith alone without proof.

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.

Faith means believing a set of statements about God, Jesus, and the Bible to be true, often literally true.

All of this being true, it was inevitable, I repeat, that the Christological question should have become almost at once a question about Him and that the earliest statement of faith, the first «creed,» should have been a statement about Him.

FAITH: * now means believing a set of statements about God, Jesus, and the Bible to be true, often literally true.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

A truer statement would have been «I, skippydog, am an uneducated backwater inbred who has trouble thinking for myself so I prefer to have «faith» that I know something instead of studying it cause I just might find out i'm wrong, and i'm to full of myself to be wrong.»

You can not doubt Belief A except from a position of faith in Belief B. For example, if you doubt Christianity because «There can't be just one true religion,» you must recongnize that this statement is itself an act of faith.

From the packed and intense inwardness of that statement, which locates the dynamics of the faith - full life of the Christian within the enacted morphology of the Incarnation and resurrection he passes, after sundry personal and admonitory asides, to the blithe and humane: «Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely...

Consider as an example of strictly conceptual presuppositional analysis Ogden's claim that «To exist as a self at all is possible solely on the basis of faith, so that the statement, «Unless you believe, you shall not understand,» is true in a sense not only of the Christian or the religious believer but of every human being simply as such» (TPT 69, emphasis added).

I think that this is a true statement about revelation; and it is also partly true that when Christians speak of «faith» they mean primarily «faith in» or «trust in» someone: in God, who is personal, in Jesus Christ.

The spirit of Oxford was expressed in the statement, «The first duty of the Church, and its greatest service to the world, is that it be in very deed the Church — confessing the true faith, committed to the fulfillment of the will of Christ, its only Lord, and united to him in the fellowship of service and love.»

Now I wish to make three statements which seem to me to be plainly true, either from a serious acceptance of the conceptuality which I have been assuming or from the deliverances of the Christian faith itself.

«21 Faith, he says, for the Hindu does not mean dogmatism, implying that for the Christian it does.22 But a Christian would have no difficulty in subscribing to the statement that «it is not historically true that in the knowledge of truth there is of necessity great intolerance.

Ogden's essay concludes with an honest statement that he does not, at the time of writing, see that such a portrayal of «the promise of faith» as he has drawn — and I remind you that since he and I have said much the same thing, this would be true of my own presentation — necessarily entails what he calls «subjective immortality», the persistence beyond death of the conscious self.

Whether it was deliberate or unintentional, I would hope in the future the author of this article would use better judgment or take more time to research the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist (to at least put Sebastian's statement in context) before quoting a statement that is clearly an error to any Catholic that has a sense of reverence («frozen holy wine transformed into the blood of Christ» on popsicle sticks) but could mislead those with simple faith or those who are unfamiliar to the true Catholic teaching.

True Love Always Wins encapsulates the optimism and positive energy that drives Team GB athletes and their supporters, and acts as an inspirational statement of hope and faith for all.

The application usually includes a statement of faith / an oath that the information you provided on the application is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge, including your signature.