Sentences with phrase «unbelief as»

I mistakenly thought that he thought that I was stupid for continuing to believe, so I worried for a time that he might reject me as a result of his unbelief, but I never saw unbelief itself as a rejection of me.

Attacks by Christian theologians such as Barth upon this whole enterprise are justified in so far as there was for a long time a tendency to regard the discussion with unbelief as a kind of prolegomenon to dogmatics itself.

Note that it can just as easily seek its consolation in unbelief as in superstition.

The average unbeliever does not look upon unbelief as a sin»

If he does not go so far as that, the unbeliever frequently looks upon his unbelief as, at the very worst, a misfortune.

Many an unbeliever looks upon his unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority.

I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's heart, he no longer looks upon unbelief as a mark of intellectual superiority; he does not look upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Not to mention every verse in the Bible that asserts that God is in control of the universe, that he is the one who is responsible for unbelief as well as belief, that he created both good AND EVIL, would be wrong, meaning the Bible would be fallible, meaning that the validity of everything else inside it would be called into question as well.

Not exact matches

Thank - you Cecilia, but if you don't believe, then you are where you are because of your unbelief, and what fellowship does a believer have with an unbeliever: We are not of the same Spirit: Therefore it can not be, even as is written:

1 Nephi 12:11 says that as the Jews wandered away in unbelief, «they became a dark, and loathsome, and a filthy people.»

Penelhum 1971 contends that the putative divine plan is itself immoral, condemning as it does honest non-believers to loss of eternal happiness, when such unbelief is in no way culpable; and that to adopt the relevant belief is to be complicit to this immoral plan.

The preservation of those rights, as well as the unredeemable nature of the unbeliever's soul, make it necessary that unbelief should he unpardonable.

Just as that misses the point of Berkeley's metaphysics, so his refusal to take seriously Hume's deathbed ease in unbelief says more about his lack of a philosophical temperament than about the authenticity of Hume's belief.

Idolatry is unbelief and scriptures says that is the same as worshipping demons.

Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

If you end up at unbelief it is you who will cast off salvation / JESUS as Esau did (He cast off his inheritance) The «work» of a Christian begins with Faith to recieve Christ, maintaining faith (done by allowing the santification process, walking on all the warnings of the scriptures of things to avoid and things to add to faith).

Because we have made an idol of God (we sin), we do not trust Him, and we die as a consequence of our lack of trust (addressed at the end of Hebrews 3; sin is unbelief).

let not those grieve thee who race each other into Unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say: «We believe» with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews, — men who will listen to any lie, — will listen even to others who have never so much as come to thee.

As I mentioned to a previous poster, you would do well to remain in your unbelief.

I'm not exactly lying, but I'm definitely leaving out a lot — like the fact that there are still days when I'm not convinced that God exists, still nights when I lie awake begging him to «help me in my unbelief,» still mornings when I wake up mad as hell for not hearing back from him.

In their reaction against scientific scepticism, and scientific generalisation which were as sweeping and as prejudiced as any theological temerity, they failed to distinguish the root causes of the new unbelief from the arrogance of the unbelievers, and met with equal contempt and malediction what could only be properly answered by the careful separation of fact frompresumption and prejudice on either side.

As we have seen, he does not demonstrate even to believers, and even less so when faced by unbelief.

The two sins she most feared as a child go together, as it turns out: the dropping of an unformed child and blasphemy; abandonment by a father and angry unbelief.

He even flirts with the idea that «modern unbelief is providential,» since the gains brought by the Enlightenment might not have been possible without it, and, besides, one can always find one's way back to transcendent faith, as he has.

The Word of God is often what they say it is, and unbelief is defined as disagreeing with their interpretations!

All unbelief is sin, as Jesus Himself stated, so to not believe what is written in the bible is a sin.

Throw all tradition and ancient writings out, and as you say embrace unbelief in them, rationalize them as purely conceptual or figurative rather than literal, we find what primitive man found, the need to give thanks.

Dismissing tradition as representing only the worldliness of the church reflects unbelief in the Spirit's work since Pentecost as the church's teacher; embracing the dogma of faultless tradition reflects a lapse into ecclesiastical perfectionism.

The hedonist in him relished such details in themselves, but the mature Stevens came to see them as part of a calling to some greater duty — to restore the «religious» imagination to an age of unbelief.

Sin can ultimately be defined as «unbelief, a deliberate rejection of a Biblical truth.»

I believe that although Mary asks a question here, she is not asking out of unbelief and doubt as Zacharias was, but out of faith and trust.

We often cover our unbelief in sweet theological nothings: And beyond our nagging doubts, we are troubled by the implications that we as modern believers might be forced to draw were we to face up rationally to our claim to have been justified by Christ's blood.

Though scrupulously concerned not to attribute Jesus» «failure» in any way to his own shortcomings, the Principle does not hesitate to blame the Jewish people's unbelief, John the Baptist's cowardice, and Judas» betrayal as the causes of the crucifixion, which was an ignominious setback for God's plan.

Such solidarity in opposition to the forces of unbelief is aptly called cobelligerency, and such cobelligerency is the more solid as it is more firmly grounded in the Bible, the creeds, and our confession and worship of Jesus Christ as Lord.

Though critics usually look upon the UUA as a union of unbelief and uncertainty, the church body's Web site upholds a belief that «personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.»

As religion is a social enterprise, neither belief nor unbelief is a moral failing.

In Eliot, and in figures such as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle and Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wilson discovers something akin to what Schubert Ogden called the «strange witness of unbelief.»

The salient features of Niebuhr's doctrine of sin, then, are the universality of sin, sin's existence as an objective fact in human experience, sin's tendency to perpetuate and aggravate itself, a meaningful sense in which there is bondage of the will, and the inability of man to extricate himself from the situation of unbelief.

Dostoevsky is important because he can and does teach us how in fact we do believe, for he has understood, as only a great artist can, the struggle between belief and unbelief.

Whether classical theologians dealt with the nature of sin as pride, sloth, unbelief, disobedience, or any other variation, the exercise of such vices depended upon this original condition.

As far as I am concerned, I look upon myself as a child of the age, a child of unbelief and doubt; it is probable, nay I know for certain, that I shall remain so to my dying daAs far as I am concerned, I look upon myself as a child of the age, a child of unbelief and doubt; it is probable, nay I know for certain, that I shall remain so to my dying daas I am concerned, I look upon myself as a child of the age, a child of unbelief and doubt; it is probable, nay I know for certain, that I shall remain so to my dying daas a child of the age, a child of unbelief and doubt; it is probable, nay I know for certain, that I shall remain so to my dying day.

The twin strands of belief and unbelief were always together in him, and it seems as if he never really rid himself of either.

Why let unbelief, or an unforgiving spirit, or what people say of sin, stand in your way as a stumbling block... turn a deaf ear to unbelievers» (p. 66).

Studying what they said would make my unbelief a grown - up achievement, not the sophomoric, rebellious relativism that I observed in a few schoolmates and already recognized as easy and affected.

Never did I feel out of place in my unbelief, and so, as the semesters passed, the roguish aspect of my atheism diminished.

Here is Carl Van Doren in «Why I Am an Unbeliever» announcing his unbelief: «I do not believe in any god that has ever been devised, in any doctrine that has ever been revealed, in any scheme of immortality that has ever been expounded»» those passive verbs setting up faith as a fraud from the start.

Faith and its opposite Unbelief presuppose a universal spiritual dimension of human selfhood in which the self sees itself as poised between the world and God i.e. at once as an integral part of the world of matter and the community of life governed by the mechanical and organic laws of development respectively on the one hand, and having a limited power to transcend these laws through its spiritual relation to the transcendent realm of God's purpose on the other.

And yet, increasingly the problem of unbelief is within as well as without the church and to this the minister offers not just reprimand but an honest expression of that very unbelief: «Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.»

Just as secular art in one sense gives glory to God by virtue of its very existence as it contributes to the manifold wonder and glory of creation — even if the artist does not acknowledge the creator — so also Christian art which intentionally points to God contributes to the beauty of creation and can be perceived as beautiful even to unbelief.

So as you said «Accept the fact that there are areas of unbelief in your life.»