Word: belief
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What can it profit either a Christian to profess faith without the benefit of belief in the Resurrection, or a Jew to believe in the Resurrection without the benefit of Christian faith? Perhaps one should, as Lapide has, enter theological study of the New Testament without the shackles of Christian faith. On the other hand, it could also be argued that there can be no meaningful theological study of the New Testament without the benefit of Christian faith...
...conservation and stand-by gas rationing proposals, the legislators are now rebelling against his plan to phase out price controls on domestically produced crude oil beginning in June. Carter decided on decontrol in the hope that higher prices would both discourage consumption and stimulate production-and also in the belief that Congress wanted to end controls...
...Paik had previously been dismissed from professorships and Korean universities--Paik for signing a petition that called for the restoration of democracy in South Korea. In Korea a civil servant may not participate in any political activity. However, the signing of a petition--in effect, a statement of political belief--seems to fall somewhat short of political activity...
...word that would be awkward for other people but applies to him, he's gentleman," continues Dominguez. "For example, in the Faculty discussion about investments he spoke of his belief in the fidelity of love. Now very few people are going to get up on the floor of the Faculty and say that...
...situation is difficult for Western Christians to understand," he says. Since the days of John Bunyan and Roger Williams, Baptists have traditionally believed in total separation of church and state. But attempts to practice that belief have had hard treatment in the Soviet Union. Baptists who follow Soviet rules can hold worship services, but the government forbids them to preach the word of God in public or to bring up their children with religious instruction...