Sentences with phrase «understood as belief»

By using this mode of thinking, we might say provisionally that Marxists, Buddhists and Christians belong to various covenants or «societies» (understood as a belief, as the context of one's supreme valuation) and that all these covenants or «societies» are various formulations of what it is to be Man; hence, they all participate in the ultimate and future goal: Man.

In Hauerwas» view, America is the great exemplar of the modern project, understood as the belief that each individual should be the free and autonomous author of his own story.

Not exact matches

«Émile Durkheim understood religion not as belief in the supernatural (as the popular conception would have it), but as a system of beliefs and practices relating to sacred things.

Smart leaders understand that executing a change in direction — even a small one --(picture of basketball players) requires their own thinking, expectations, and beliefs to shift, as well as those of the people on their team.

Surveys are used to collect factual data, such as employment and salary information, or to ask questions in order to understand people's opinions, preferences, beliefs, or desires.

Even knowledge of the «hard» sciences advances over time; a unified theory of the investment world is similarly beyond our grasp — as is a full understanding of any one strategy, no matter the current pile of historical evidence.the research puzzle For more thoughts on the topic, see this posting on «decaying beliefs.»

Just understand that not all of us atheists intend to come off as condescending and mean; - We just don't see why you rely on beliefs that are probably just another set of man - made beliefs.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Something you christards need to understand when you spew the following crap: «A belief in science (or being an atheist) requires the same amount of faith as a belief in god / gods.»

As Owen shows, contemporary liberalism requires that religious beliefs be bracketed out of the public square, which is why liberalism is unable to understand or even converse with these religious movements.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

You might not understand that non-Mormons do not believe in your religion and are OFFENDED by your beliefs and your practices of trying to Mormanize the dead, particularly those who were killed for not being Christian such as Anne Frank.

Well none, because the pursuit of money, more broadly understood as Materialism, and religion, the belief in the Immaterial, is really all there is.

Understanding the religious teachings of others is desireable, as is tolerance of all personal beliefs.

And, as the normal way of thinking about moral obligations was to understand them as the commands of God, the first defense or justification of this belief was an attempt to show that this is what God commanded.

If you really don't care about evidence, if you just wanted us to provide an answer without any interest in what we'd say, or without any care to understand our position... then I guess yeah, there's no way for me to show your beliefs to be flawed, as you've adopted a purely egocentric epistemology.

The truth is that you have no desire to understand evolution beacuse you see it as a threat to your belief system.

For that reason, and because of their history and ubiquity, those practices are not understood as conveying government approval of particular religious beliefs.

As a very old man, one who has worked at developing some kind of understanding of who we are, what we are, why we are here, and where we are going, I can tell you that no one has definitive answers, but without some underlying system of belief about these questions you will not grow old gracefully.

Why you all don't understand that Chrisianity gave humans dignity in the belief of free will and our obligation as Christians to forgive then you avoid reality.

But understand that atheism qualifies as a belief also — a belief of «non-belief» if you will.

The Paradox is in Kierkegaard's understanding the essentially Christian, and appropriating it as such is the highest degree of religious understanding and belief.

As a former Christian, I find the idea of one man standing before a congregation several times a week, explaining his beliefs (understanding of the bible?)

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

I understand that you hold your beliefs as strongly as I hold mine, but circular logic (the bible is true because the bible says it's true) does not make for a rational discussion.

He should be able to understand why belief in him is rejected by some and why some of us do not see him as «all good».

As far as I understand, that is not the Mormon belief.&raquAs far as I understand, that is not the Mormon belief.&raquas I understand, that is not the Mormon belief.»

'' He should be able to understand why belief in Him is rejected by some and why some of us do not see him as all good»

Simply put, the beliefs and understandings that directly affect our salvation are the essentials (Jesus, His divinity, His death and Resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins, our ability to be in relationship with God through His Son and Spirit and how our life should be lived as taught by the Bible etc.).

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

I understand that doing the research feels a bit like you lack faith because you don't want to undermine your preconceived beliefs, but that is the only honest thing to do as hiding your head under your pillow does nothing but show how little faith you actually have.

Trust me, I can understand logically how Atheist view God or Gods as being the same as Santa Claus but in the end the statement of non-belief is just as wide of a gorge as belief.

Worse, as Chesterton well understood, without belief in a Creator, our democracy has no compelling reason for defending human rights:

I know Christ followers who view the «say the sinner's prayer and get saved» version / understanding of the Gospel (and the mindset the usually goes with that set of beliefs) as a strange perversion of the Gospel.

A «primary framework» is one «seen as rendering what would otherwise be a meaningless aspect of the scene into something that is meaningful» (FA 21), and the frame for all such primary frameworks, the understandings shared by a group regarding interpretive schemata, their interrelationships, and «the sum total of forces and agents that these [schemata] acknowledge to be loose in the world,» constitute its «belief system» or «cosmology» (FA 27).

I don't understand how one can switch beliefs as an experiment for a year.

At the crassest level, the level the theological expert at the next table should understand, belief in heaven makes saints as well as suicide bombers.

I felt the need to share this because, as much as I understand your intentions when you say that we ought not seek out spirits or «pick a fight», but my belief is that we MUST be vigilant and spiritual aware at ALL times.

This understanding can be used by outsiders as a way of removing the beliefs of religious communities from serious consideration as to their truth.

If we assume, as I think is reasonable, that the vast majority of these belief systems are the creations of sincere people striving to understand their god or gods, why do they have nothing in common?

After examining the traditional Christian teaching of supersessionism — that is, the belief that Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen ones — we surveyed some of the post-Holocaust Christian literature, from the groundbreaking Vatican II document Nostra Aetate to the many ecclesial statements and theological writings that have striven to revise Christian understandings of Judaism.

Russ Am I right in understanding that you state popularity of belief as your reasoning for classifying the OT sanction against h0m0 $ exuality as anything other than a kosher law?

The former is understood as dislike of homosexuality [1] and the latter as the belief that heterosexuality is the norm.

With a firm and simple belief in God which could be understood by the humblest and least educated, with a fiery confidence in Mohammed as the supreme prophet of God, with reverence for Jesus but declaring that Christians had misrepresented him, that he was not the unique Son of God, and that to Mohammed had been given a later revelation, with the type of fatalism and belief in heaven which reinforced ardor in battle, Islam proved the faith of warriors.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

Unless our total understanding includes belief in something that can reveal itself, we can not apprehend any occurrence as a revelation.

What we mean here is myth in its everyday, nontechnical sense as understood by you and me: a story that is told as if it were literally true, but which is no longer accepted as factual, and which explains or symbolizes a belief or insight.

Believing that they, unlike Catholics, acted as «individuals,» not a «church,» Protestants did not understand separation to prevent them from taking their religious beliefs into the public square.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

Evangelical christianity is the epitomy of shallow, self rigtious and destructive beliefs and provides nothing of value to humanity whatsoever... One's participation in it reinforces abject stupidity and a lack of understanding of what is inately know to humanity as goodness.