For my part, I am a prodigal son,
who abandoned the faith for many years.
Hirsi Ali, a former devout Muslim
who abandoned her faith and became an atheist, has been a vocal critic of Islam.
Not exact matches
Every honest Jew
who knows the history of his people can not but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times «by the sword» to get them to
abandon their
faith.
The country's
faith is dead... ALL YE
WHO ENTER HERE...
ABANDON ALL HOPE.
Those
who find little or no value in the institution however, rather than
abandon the
faith and Jesus, may make the choice to choose to follow Jesus outside the institution.
Those
who are most sensitive and perceptive have
abandoned them, sometimes because they wished to do so, more often because traditional
faith has simply lost the power to shape vision and experience and to guide action.
Only by
abandoning its original
faith in the dawning Kingdom of God that is in actual process of realizing itself could orthodox Christianity arrive at its belief in the transcendent and solitary God
who is the Wholly Other.
They seem to think that people like me,
who no longer make «church» attendance as part of their weekly routine, have fallen away from God,
abandoned the
faith, or have given up on following Jesus.
Those taken into Babylonian captivity, as well as those left behind, now had even greater temptations placed before them to
abandon faith in their God, and to turn after other gods
who were clearly more powerful and victorious.
Though many Millennials have
abandoned religion entirely, Barna Group president David Kinnaman believes the ones
who keep their
faith are more committed.
Agony now is the way of achieving that reconciliation, that breaking down of the barrier of enmity — which the madness of men prevented love from accomplishing, and the frustration of which is the most refined torment in the sufferings of the Messiah — a universal agony in the likeness of that of the Savior, both the agony of the racked,
abandoned Jews and of the racked,
abandoned Christians
who live by
faith.
His is the early - nineteenth - century's liberalism of Friedrich Schleiermacher, an «enormously courageous move» that, «focusing on religious experience rather than religious ideation as the object of theological reflection,... combined
faith in one's own experience with
faith in the God
who will not
abandon those
who trust in Him.»
However, the Quran is very clear about how to do handle the infidels (especially those
who may have
abandoned the Muslim
faith).
Those
who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to
abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian
faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.
The men
who deserted Ali and
abandoned their
faith became famous in history as unbelievers and were known as Kharijites — the people
who have forsaken their
faith.
By our
faith in the God
who identifies with Jesus, the God
who is inseparable from the man forsaken and
abandoned on the cross, we announce not only a revolution in our fundamental image of mystery, but also a drastic revision of our self - understanding.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation now has a support group for the many many pastors, preachers, and ministers
who finally see the light and
abandon their
faith.
I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic
faith of the large and growing number of Westerners
who have
abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.
As far as the Catholic
Faith goes there have always been those in the Church
who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles
abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!
On learning that, although Jesus Christ is the Word
who was from the beginning, the power of Christ that was working for salvation before the time of Jesus, in virtue of his coming, is still working in people of sincere
faith, devotional Hindus will want to know why they must
abandon their own sacraments.
He distinguishes between early and late apostasy; between «shallow» apostasy that rejects a particular religion but retains a form of spirituality, and «deep» apostasy that concludes there is no deity at all; and between the «mild» apostasy of those
who were only nominally religious in the first place and the «transforming» apostasy of those
who had been seriously committed to the
faith they later
abandoned.
Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them)
who refused to
abandon the «
faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.
Perhaps the religious Christian can believe that Christianity need not know the Christ
who is immediately present; but a Christianity divorced from the living presence and action of Christ is a Christianity that has
abandoned the specifically Christian movement of
faith.
More likely is that these articles are reporting similar observation on the growing tribe of those
who have left the institutional church, but
who have not
abandoned their
faith.
Father Joe is a distinguished addition to the growing bookshelf of memoirs by prodigal sons and daughters, writers
who chronicle their long journey home to the childhood
faith they
abandoned in search of liberation and fulfillment.
This false dichotomy can wreak havoc on young Christians raised to believe they have to choose between God and evolution, and
who after encountering evidence in support of the theory,
abandon faith altogether.
But of course, as much as she is hoping that I will become a believer and then be content to spend every Sunday sitting in church with her, I am hoping she will
abandon her
faith, (as I did after 25 years) and then she will be content to spend her Sundays with me, the man
who loves her, and we could actually go off and do things together... or, we could compromise and I would be content with having one Sunday a month with her.
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who has still not
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Hopefully they will help Boo regain courage,
faith and love that not all people are as bad as the last ones
who abandoned him.