Sentences with phrase «which came from faith»

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Before this happens, there will be a «great falling away» from the faith because false science (evolution) along with false doctrines (esp dualism) will fall, thus leaving the truth — Christ and His coming Kingdom which is «not of this world».

SALVATION comes through FAITH ALONE in JESUS CHRIST while judgment and condemnation come from the Law which no longer applies since the DISPENSATION of GRACE!

Philippians 3:8,9 «More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,»

What is comparatively new is the faith and fervor with which it is pursued and the manner in which all else tends to be regarded as subordinate to the happiness that comes from the satisfaction of wants.

@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God, when in reality it is not a fact at all.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

The context is salvation, requiring a saving faith, which does not, and can not come from within ourselves.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

And, as Pope Benedict again has said, this fundamental question, which isa question we have to answer with our intelligence sustained by the light of faith, is that if we discern reason in the world, in nature - if nature is understandable - the question arises; where does this come from?

The designs, which come from artists of a variety of faith perspectives, are posted on the Web site every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

Based on your rational, heinous and murderous acts thoughout History should have implicate the faith from which the actors come from (i.e. Crusaders and Christianity, Hitler during the world war, etc).

I saw a deaf man begin to speak in tongues which was astounding and a young girl hear from a dead ear and an elderly catholic lady stand up straight as God ungnarled her arthritic back... those were times of awe... I was 16, 17, 18 — young, naive and I saw miracles, healings, incredible things but most of all hundreds of people come to faith.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

All that was factually given to man in this life was dissociated from the work of the Creator - God, except as signs and portents of a total transformation to come in which faith would at last be vindicated.

Islam is like every other middle eastern faith, of which all Christians and Jewish faiths come from..

The way Chance uses reminds us of the value of sharing our stories, telling others the ways in which we have hidden from God, and how we came to embrace «faith of pumpkin seed - size mustard seed.»

Humans Discover Before Presuming From the standpoint of the proposal of a new synthesis which is core to the aims and ideals of the Faith movement, we wish to draw attention to one problem in the philosophy of science which we believe needs to be clarified if the key Papal appeal concerning the «broadening of reason» is to come to fruition.

If God is not sovereign, in other words if you are not dependent on Him for everything and if faith, through which people are saved comes from themselves, what is the point then of praying to Him?

The more surprising performance came from the faith - based film I Can Only Imagine, which expanded to about 600 more theaters and made another $ 13.8 million, down only 19 percent from its opening weekend.

These questions are not without significance, touching on the person of Christ and the nature of faith, and the answers will only come from an engaged discussion of the authority of Scripture, the historical witness of the church, and the clarity with which the councils, creeds, and confessions give expression to the teaching of the Bible.

From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the timeless kingship, or kingly rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and lived in by accepting God's sovereign rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and love for its coming.

The original doctrine of faith (whether or not every official ecclesiastical pronouncement is fully adequate to it or not), is that man comes from the earth, that the whole man is concerned in this origin of his, which is at least «also» one of his sources.

It was a message which could be accepted by faith, if believed to have come from God.

In the period of stagnation and reverse that came in the eighteenth century, revivals were beginning to appear which were to swell into the stream from which issued the major part of the extension of the faith in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

But the products which come from the altars of this modern idolatry — the dividends, the privileges, the status, the struggle — are of such a sort that it is difficult to partake of them without becoming involved in the whole system of misplaced faith and perverted morality.

But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a story, a story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were in hiding after the Resurrection... this was a real opportunity to say something about that story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst of them, somehow, in a way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence of Jesus through locked doors and barriers of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all of these things that prevent ourselves from being God's people.

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

The pastor who feels it is his bounden duty to act as a spiritual mentor to an alcoholic who comes to him could perhaps succeed if he could recall out of his own experience some time of deep crisis or personal suffering in which he found comfort from his faith, and could tell that story simply and directly.

Into that equation must be put that sense of the faith which comes from an anointing by the Holy Spirit and manifests itself «from the bishops to the last of the faithful... as a universal consent in faith and morals».

The Second Vatican Council's Dei Verbum could say: «There is a growth in insight into the realities and words that are being passed on... [coming] from the intimate sense of spiritual realities which they experience... The Holy Spirit himself constantly perfects faith by his gifts, so that they may be more and more profoundly understood.»

That the blessings would come from God is implied, but no matter what faith, if any, the sneezer has, just saying it brings God, Allah, Jehovah the Tao, G - d, that which can not be named, more into the awareness of both of us; which can never be a bad thing.

If you look into the history of the Jewish faith, from which the Christian faith came, you will find that the god known now as YHWH or Jehovah is an amalgamation of several earlier gods, some of whom were rather bloodthirsty.

Theodore Hesburgh said, «Here is an apostolate that no secular university today can undertake» for they are largely cut off from the tradition of adequate knowledge which comes only through faith in the mind and faith in God, the highest wisdom of Christian philosophy and Catholic theology.»

My blind faith allows me to reject your arguments based on logic which come from the devil.

Ephesians 4:13 continues from verses 11 - 12, which inform us that the Foremen equip the Crew to serve in the church until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.

And today, the threat to the further development of common humanist culture comes from religious fundamentalism and communalism which deny the reality of religious pluralism and the possibility of a composite human culture reinforced by many faiths and ideologies.

Where criticism comes from the viewer's own denomination, the basis of common concern is maximized and the viewer is encouraged to view religious programs critically in order to discern that which is dissonant with other aspects of their faith.

Out of these methods of propagating the faith and with immigration came a Protestantism which, though rooted in Europe, was in many respects different from that on the other side of the Atlantic.

Nevertheless, from the facing of the fourfold source of human suffering, I do come to a reassuring conclusion: on the basis of no - God I can see no possible explanation of the problem of good, but on the basis of faith in God I can see the wide - open possibility of Mind and Purpose here and of an ultimate outcome which will vindicate the Creator.

Since there is a big gap between critical thinkers who want facts, compared to non critical thinking that embrace to the death the faith they somehow came to, born to, which is different from the other 1000's of faiths; expect an editorial section like this to stir it up.

So I am deeply concerned about the impact the Supreme Court's ruling might have on faith - based or other educational institutions — including schools from grades K - 12, colleges, universities, theological seminaries and graduate schools — that hold to natural or conjugal marriage, which has only come into question within the past decade.

Once we come to some such religious vision, however, those who share in a profound faith such as the great religions make possible (and in our own part of the world, that means the Christian faith) can have a deep confidence that from the ruination of existence, which is the result of those evils just mentioned, the cosmic Love can extract genuine and abiding good.

Why, it's almost as if he thinks that the job of managing a football club is one that should be judged in the medium - and long - term rather than the short -; that the most important thing is where Manchester City find themselves at the end of this season and those to come; and that the best way to get performances from his players is to back them and his own methods, in which he has absolute and justified faith.

O'Donnell said honesty and objectivity ran through the core of civil servants «like a stick of rock», and the forecasts which came from Whitehall would have been made in good faith.

De Blasio was en route from the Vatican on Wednesday when the announcement came down, but his first deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, said Uber had agreed to a good - faith, handshake agreement (which is to say it was not written down).

Even if these references hint at the sort of story that Midnight Special tells, what you won't see coming is the genuinely extraordinary coup de cinéma that Nichols pulls at the climax, about which I'll say only that, after years of brain - numbing visual bombast from Hollywood, here is a sequence that restores your faith in the capacity of special effects to achieve real grace, strangeness and beauty.

Each found evidence that staff had come under pressure from parents and governors with strongly held religious beliefs, and in some cases had forced changes to the curriculum which made them resemble faith schools, when in fact they were state - funded secular ones.