That is
the whole point of faith.
The whole point of our faith is that it's not about us.
The whole point of faith is that it is just that - faith.
the whole point of the faith is that Jesus uniquely does what no one else can or does.
Not exact matches
Isn't the
whole point of all religion to chastise and exclude people who worship and practice
faith differently?
And
of course the
whole point is not to share with others what isn't real or true for you, a
point that is not lost on super pastor Rob as we return to the dilemma
of living an honest
faith when you become the latest pastor in demand.
I can't even read the NIV anymore now, because
of verses like Ephesians 2:8, which make it sound like
faith is the gift
of God (a Calvinist idea), when, as you
point out, the
whole salvation package — really, the work
of the cross for us — is the gift
of God.
By contrast, revealed theology takes as its starting
point the
whole richness
of the existing
faith of the church.
Among the Christians, the Roman Catholics have entire regions
of their theology, liturgy, and practice that are extremely attractive to me, but considering the
whole set
of their theological ideas, I just can't stomach the xy - chromosomed hierarchy and the works over
faith stuff (I'm with Luther on the
point).
In any event, the
point of this chapter, intended to prepare the way for further discussion
of what I have styled «another» (and I am convinced a better) theological approach, is simply to insist that we can only be loyal to our ancestors in the Christian tradition, but above all loyal to the chief stress in the
faith which that tradition has conveyed to us, if and when and as we are ready to put stress on love's centrality — and to use that as our key to the
whole theological enterprise.
We have to put the New Testament
faith into a context that differs from the New Testament context at two
points: the expectation
of a, indefinitely prolonged future and our better knowledge
of the population
of the
whole world.
At this moment, however, let us make quite clear that the
whole point and meaning
of the
faith is that it is about God.
Your comments are kind
of funny... my
whole point is that I am not the only person who knows the truth about how women are treated in the
faith community — ask thousands
of people and you will find out.
How again does your
point engender itself to the attempt at a
faith based argument which is the
whole point of this post?
It has its setting within the life and
faith of the Church and, through the witness
of the
whole Church,
points to the faithfulness
of God, the ground
of all life in
faith.
Well, yes, but that rather misses the
whole point at issue, which is that the ban on contraception has created a crisis
of conscience among Catholics who on every other
point of faith and morality are obedient servants
of the Church but who, as I put it, «find themselves unable to conform their beliefs or practices to Humanae Vitae.»
Considering the vast array
of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the
whole of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue
of faith indicates a very
pointed discernment
of the signs
of the times made by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most lacking in the century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era
of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be
faith.
Let us now turn to the «historically - grounded myth»
of the New Testament, the one that forms the focal
point for the
whole of the Christian Bible, and in which is expressed the heart
of the Christian
faith.
Can you
point to me once verse in the
whole of the gospel that plainly declares one must have as the conscious content
of saving
faith the death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ in addition to believing Christ's promise to impart eternal life to the believer in Him for it?