Sentences with phrase «whole point of the faith»

the whole point of the faith is that Jesus uniquely does what no one else can or does.

The whole point of faith is that it is just that - faith.

The whole point of our faith is that it's not about us.

That is the whole point of faith.

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?