Sentences with phrase «understood by believers»

That being said, for all your words, you have not demonstrated that a god as understood by believers exists.

One thing is quite clear from what Bonhoeffer says: the criterion for the understandability of our preaching should not be how well it is understood by the believer, but by the non-believer.

«One thing is quite clear from what Bonhoeffer says: the criterion for the understanding of our preaching should not be how well it is understood by the believer, but by the non-believer».

Not exact matches

While the priesthood of all believers was used by the reformers to buttress an evangelical understanding of the church over against the clericalism and sacerdotalism of medieval Catholicism, the ecclesial context of this Reformation principle has often been eclipsed within major sectors of the Protestant tradition.

You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit Who is ever faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.

His more general understanding of Christian ~ experience has been colored by this personal frustration, with the result that he has reduced the Christian life to the mere memory of a past event (he labels this «Israel») which seeks to make its believers hard, tight, and controlled.

I'm not surprised by the lack of originality, but I hope you at least understand why this claim by believers is simply part and parcel of their heightened sense of «holier than thou».

While, therefore, Hartshorne's concern with the a priori aspects of our understanding may lead to criticisms that he overlooks the experiential aspect, his resulting insights in practice do not impoverish but confirm and enrich the believer's experience of a saving God by setting that experience within a coherent, consistent, and comprehensive understanding of reality.

An atheist friend of mine tells me that he is very happy in life and that he doesn't understand why «believers» are bothered by his choice of life.

Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking about only those believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were baptized by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.

I have seen this thrown out before by believers but what they don't seem to understand about «feelings» like love and even pain, is that it's subjective.

For me, when I realized that there was a spirituality that was developed by the early church — by the same community that wrote the New Testament and would naturally understand it best — and that this spirituality had been practiced unchanged by believers in every culture and time, I had to be there.

In the third round, we explored our understanding of the word of God and found ourselves in agreement that Holy Scripture, faithfully interpreted in the community of believers, is the divinely given rule by which we are to understand our life and mission in obedience to Christ.

My understanding is that since «the 3962 Father 3427 of me 3588 the 1092 Vinedresser 2076 is» then the «pruning and tending to believers» will be done by the Vinedresser Father....

This happens through the contemplation and study made by believers, who treasure these things in their hearts» and also through the «intimate understanding of spiritual things they experience» (Dei Verbum 8).

I may be a believer and a follower, but that by no means qualifies me to be your judge and CERTAINLY does not give me some great understanding of God, how he thinks or what he will do.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

Whenever I talk about our unity with all others, someone has to correct me by pointing out that their particular idea of Jesus demands a special and exclusive understanding that attracts a certain kind of believer and disciple.

When religious leaders like the Ayatollah Khomeini or Meir Kahane propose to run a country strictly by what they understand to be God's revealed word, and hence to do so undemocratically, most American believers become deeply troubled.

You seemed to be a big believer in his work, while I understand you hedged your bets by saying «may» be right.

The idea is to «approach God as a commodity» and to understand that religious believers are «consumers» rationally calculating their «investment» in a «product» such as salvation supplied by «entrepreneurs» who establish religious «firms.»

In 1979, a consultation «inaugurated» by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, which was held at Louisville, Kentucky, at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, brought together representatives of the paedo - baptist and believer - baptist traditions «to reflect on some kind of consensus in the understanding and practice of baptism.»

many non believers have been deceived by the catholics etc as they also have the wrong information about Our God and this is why so many remain unbelievers because don't have the correct information given to them if thye did they may understand and accept that the truth is about Compassion.

In the work of this uncompromising thinker, who is also in his own way a believer, we may find important clues to unraveling the conundrums of contemporary consciousness, and particularly to understanding how people today may be «called again» by texts which, to their surprise, summon them to reckon with realities whose existence they had forgotten.

What is more, it is an old conviction of mine that the philosopher's opposite in this type of debate is not the theologian, but the believer who is informed by the exegete; I mean, the believer who seeks to understand himself through a better understanding of the texts of his faith.

Several recent studies by research organizations, among them Biblical Archaeology Review and Pew International, have revealed that atheists and agnostics have a more substantial knowledge and understanding of the Bible than True Believers.

Early Palestinian Christian tradition understood baptism as an eschatological reality binding believers to the eschatological person of the Messiah, conveying them into the end - time reality of the Kingdom, bestowing on them the eschatological gift of the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sin, and incorporating them into the company of those redeemed by the Christ.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

It is beyond my understanding to believe that any true believer, one born again by His Spirit might be able, in a moment of supreme weakness, to deny their redeemer and all the experiences they may have had because of faith and the transformation that took place within them.

My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me.

On his own terms, Anselm is said to have shown that as long as «the fool» continues to conceive God he can not consistently withhold assent to the necessity of the divine existence, unless he is using the term «God» in a sense different from what the self - understanding believer means by the term.

There is a question, however, about what limitation Hartshorne believes is imposed by the initial dependence of the argument on the idea of God derived from the faith and the self - understanding of the believer.

This view was driven by his understanding of God's mercy and grace being radically poured into the community of believers.

The believer who accords these texts a privileged religious status is, therefore, no longer in a position to understand what they are really saying for, as Bloom puts it, «when script becomes Scripture, reading is numbed by taboo and inhibition.»

It seems to me that Hartshorne has three options: (1) he may claim that his conception is what Christian believers do mean by «God,» or (2) what they would mean if they properly understood their faith, or (3) what «God» must mean if the argument is to succeed.

This, I believe, is an accurate representation of what Anselm intended by his meditation on the grounds of faith seeking understanding, and Hartshorne's account clearly expresses the situation of the believer in relation to the two opponents.

Whenever I debate a believer, in a calm rational debate it usually devolves into the person defending religion getting angry because he or she can not simply answer any question other than by saying stuff along the lines of, «well our brains are too small to understand» or «god works in mysterious ways» or my personal favorite «God will judge you for you unbelieving ways».

Daydream Believers has emerged as an expression of this same understanding and hope ~ it is using our words to create the reality for our children by lifting up their strengths and encouraging the development of traits such as compassion, joy and wonder.

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Lesson 4: Children should learn what is meant by prayer and to understand the significance of prayer to a believer.

But I'm a firm believer that there is no future in trying to deny that the absorption of LWIR radiant energy by GHGs is a fairly well understood process, by means of which the atmosphere is warmed.

Over the past 25 years or so, we've seen the emergence of a new (or newly restored, some would say) legal and cultural understanding of religion, driven in part by the insight that for many believers, religious faith isn't a private «hobby» that can be relegated to the home and church; rather, religious belief and identity are integral parts of a person, necessarily and appropriately informing public roles and the public sphere.

The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and «sabotaging» its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions»