Sentences with phrase «truth than a belief»

I simply pointed out that the Big Bang is no more a truth than a belief in God.

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you — If so, is this really all that different than fishon's belief that the literal word of God is the only path to «Truth»?

In truth Intelligent Design is really nothing more than a Relgious Belief given the cloak of Science, but from a Scientific perspective it is only a Hypothosis at best.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

The sad truth is... atheists have no more of a chance to prove their belief with science than those that have faith in God.

Why else would there be more than 300,000 churches in the US... each one certain that it possesses the truth, right belief / doctrine, and the «one and only way?»

I guess the aggrieved individual or pack may suspect that the questioner has raised some valid issues and without any basis other than someone expressed a doubt or belief that threatened to take them outside of their psychological comfort zone, the complaint would not be taken seriously by the offending honest lover / seeker after reality / truth.

Even if we accept that there is absolute truth, why should anyone accept that Christianity or the Bible embody that absolute truth any better than any other religion or an individual's personal belief?

This is combined with the belief that the one through whom we come to learn more is the Spirit of Truth who continues the work of Jesus and is, indeed, none other than the living Christ.

But a more basic necessity than the evolutionary view of truth is the adoption of an evolutionary view of the universe, because without it belief can not be shown to be intrinsic to the world and hence necessary; it can only be superadded.

The «truth» of a construal of the God - world relationship is a mixture of belief (Ricoeur calls it a «wager»), pragmatic criteria, and what Philip Wheelwright terms a «shy ontological claim,» or, as in Mary Hesse's striking remark, «God is more like gravitation than embarrassment» (Arbib and Hesse, 5).

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.

The predominant tendency was to emphasise action over belief, praxis over orthodoxy, «values» rather than moral truths, and «story» in place of doctrine.

It would then be an attempt to convey in a vivid pictorial form the truth, or the belief, that self - sacrificing love is so supremely valuable that in comparison with it even death is of small significance; that although the enemies of Jesus won their victory over him, yet in retrospect his life has become a more potent influence than theirs, for his memory has survived as an inspiration and example for all men.

And Schweitzer had grasped, from his very earliest days, the truth that all culture, all human interchange and social life, what we comprehensively call civilization, springs from nothing more substantial than our visions and dreams, our religious beliefs and convictions.

I'm afraid this will increase more and more because the Bible predicts this behavior at the end times that people will not listen to sounds doctrine anymore and people will use their emotions rather than absolute truth to verify their beliefs.

Whiteheadian categories may provide a uniquely suitable vehicle for expressing this belief rather than a foundation for a demythologizing rejection of its truth; at least there is that possibility (LG chs.

If the majority of society put half of the effort into developing their intellect and forming their own beliefs that many put into living a life controlled by what any random man who claims they are spreading God's message, perhaps people would actually come to their own conclusions rather than simply accepting the ones presented to them as the one and only truth.

You have no more or less the corner market on truth than those who incorporate faith into their system of belief.

Thus a singular truth as to the authentic nature of God does exist which means some belief systems are more consistent with truth than are others.

One may indeed be entirely without them; probably more than one of you here present is without them in any marked degree; but if you do have them, and have them at all strongly, the probability is that you can not help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief.

At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical issues of action and justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.

Christianity became a matter of right belief, rather than a vital search for divine truth.

REASON AND SIENCE More than 2000 years old argument and belief of hindu Pharisee's, criminal self centered, hindu Jew's, criminal secular's, deniers of truth absolute, base of hinduism, corruption of truth absolute called religion's, such as Judaism, hindu Mithra ism, savior ism, labeled as Christianity, Suni ism, Shea ism.

Placher's answer to my question about the relative truth or falsity of religious claims touches upon my comment that current forms of epistemological relativism provide a justification for affirming the truth of beliefs without worrying about whether they are true for more than those who affirm them.

Regardless of the «truth» of their beliefs, Mormonism is no more a cult than the Catholic church or any Protestant denomination.

If one believes in moral truth than one can judge some beliefs false and some actions evil.

In a small study, people exposed to the smell of butyric acid, the putrid - smelling essence of vomit, subsequently expressed dramatically more conservative attitudes about premarital sex, pornography and religion — including increased belief in Biblical truth — than those who sniffed an odorless concoction.

Usually the truth is that their beliefs are founded on a combination of personal experience, anecdotal evidence, and maybe a few studies which are invariably less - than - perfect.

Using easy to follow scientific methods and data Dr. Tsipursky demonstrates how to make all our interactions more meaningful when we rely on verifiable, fact - based truth rather than emotionally charged rhetoric, ensuring that our beliefs are aligned with reality.

Sales figures such as these from Wiley show that consumers» choices may be more polarized to one format over the other than we had originally realized, but it does lend some truth to the belief that there are consumers out there for both formats.

A pervasive curiosity, an objective tolerance that finds all shades of opinion interesting and respectable as long as they do not interfere with liberty of inquiry and belief, a systematic pursuit of truth in spite of traditions and doubts — these, much more than a taste for sentimental botany and rhapsodical astronomy, were the product of the five years or so that Voltaire spent in active pursuit of science at Cirey with Madame du Châtelet; like his heroes, he has learned from science, and achieved in his own way a synthesis, quite different from that of the seventeenth century.

«Medium» is about more than the paranormal; it's about reconciling our past with our present, and the ways in which the truth can slip and slide as we construct narratives based on belief rather than fact.

The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before.

I'm guessing your using the modern definition of the term «truth», meaning «something that conforms to my beliefs», which is more akin to the term «faith» than the classical meaning of any definition of «truth».

Since «empirical scientists» can not do much of interest without mathematics, they might perhaps start wondering if mathematical truths (which are not empirically observable) are more real than their own «Its just an hypothesis» beliefs.]

The belief will be held as a dead dogma rather than as a living truth.

Which is to say «truth» might be nothing more than a meme — an arbitrary judgement which merely reflects dominant beliefs, not necessary truth.

I'd like to think that only 97 % of my belief in AGW is based on native trust of the scientific method and peer - review, but the inconvenient truth of the matter is that I probably understand less than a tenth of a percent of all the relevant science there is to know.