How To Use Unbelief In A Sentence
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Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound "(Ro 5: 20). with faith -- accompanied with faith, the opposite of" unbelief "(1Ti love -- in contrast to" a blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious. "which is in Christ -- as its element and home [Alford]: here as its source whence it flows to us.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The resulting confusion has led many great Christian leaders down a slippery slide into unbelief.
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Cole fears that his supernatural abilities themselves are a sin, and Malcolm's sin is the classic sin of unbelief.
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Among the seventeen great sins, unbelief is the greatest, more heinous than murder, theft, adultery and so on.
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In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience.
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In adopting this stance one concedes that the rightness or propriety of belief and unbelief depends upon the outcome of a certain inquiry.
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Do not quench it by foolish unbelief and sinful defiance of our loving Saviour.
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Instead of an eager, grateful welcome, the people greeted Jesus with indifference and unbelief.
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-- That this expresses a positive divine act, by which those who wilfully close their eyes and harden their hearts against the truth are judicially shut up in their unbelief and impenitence, is admitted by all candid critics [as Olshausen], though many of them think it necessary to contend that this is in no way inconsistent with the liberty of the human will, which of course it is not.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms.
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Reply Obj. 1: Just as religion consists in a kind of protestation of faith, without, sometimes, faith being in one's heart, so too the vices opposed to religion include a certain protestation of unbelief without, sometimes, unbelief being in the mind.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The expression, "Little-faithed ones," which our Lord applies once and again to His disciples (Mt 8: 26; 14: 31; 16: 8), can hardly be regarded as rebuking any actual manifestations of unbelief at that early period, and before such an audience.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Divine things for the most part escape recognition because of unbelief.
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It subdues and mortifies evil desires and blasphemous thoughts as they rise within; and answers unbelief and error as they assault from without.
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She had a certain consciousness – or fear – that it would not be understood, and she would be laughed at – not openly, for Dr. Sandford was never impolite; but yet she shrunk from the cold glance of unbelief, or of derision, however well and kindly masked.
Melbourne House
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It all seemed too vast and complicated and also I feel mildly ashamed for my unbelief.
52449_CLARA
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May none of us allow fear, unbelief, or doubt to keep us from the desert!
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Two things are worth noting, apart from the obvious one that this man believes without any irony that the cure for unbelief is exorcism.
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He is the divine healer who wants us to receive the greatest healing of all: freedom from unbelief and mistrust in his goodness and his perfect plan.
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“Ne suis quidem magistris alias probatissimis atque lectissimis fidem inclinavit humana de incredulitate duritia, sicubi in argumenta Christianae defensionis impingunt. tunc vani poetae .... tunc philosophi duri, cum veritates fores pulsant. hactenus sapiens et prudens habebitur qui prope Christianum pronuntiaverit, cum, si quid prudentiae aut sapientiae affectaverit seu caerimonias despuens seu saeculum revincens pro Christiano denotetur” [“The hardness of the human heart in its unbelief prevents them even from crediting their own teachers
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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The issue is whether the judgments of belief should appear as condemnations of other beliefs or of unbelief.
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Prayer without expectancy is unbelief in disguise.
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In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience.
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Clearly, a measured discussion of the relationship between churches, belief and unbelief, and public life is in order.
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The former can point to the great difference between doubt and unbelief and the latter to the great similarity.
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We should go out to preach and evangelise, realising that only the Lord can remove the veil of unbelief.
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In the conflict over assisted suicide, the adversaries are not religion and unbelief but the community versus the individual.
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Why not go to Christ this very day, and cast your soul on him, with all its sins and all its unbelief, with all its doubts and all its fears?
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith—unbelief is.
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You might say he's the world's greatest believer in unbelief.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Taurat and the Injeel and that which is revealed to you from your Lord; and surely that which has been revealed to you from your Lord shall make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief; grieve not therefore for the unbelieving people.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Only once before the last prophecy I made was my word doubted, and then unbelief was born in the minds of many of the men.
Old Mission Stories of California
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Oh, that by these and the like ways we might manifest our self-condemnation and abhorrency for all that distrust and staggering at the word of God, which arising from unbelief, hath had such deplorable issues upon all our counsels and undertakings!
The Sermons of John Owen
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Tim. 1:13 Who formerly was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insulting person; but I was shown mercy because, being ignorant, I acted in unbelief.
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He promised a saviour who would carry the sin, selfishness, unbelief, disease, grief, sorrow and fear of death on Himself and Destroy that fear, for Good.
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He told me that during the talk I had literally hammered nails into the coffin of his unbelief in God - and into the coffin of his belief in evolution.
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Naturally there are consequences to both belief and unbelief.
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Hindrances to revival were sloth, unbelief, lack of discipline and a spirit of controversy.
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In adopting this stance one concedes that the rightness or propriety of belief and unbelief depends upon the outcome of a certain inquiry.
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith—unbelief is.
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Now, as every drop of sea-water retains the brackishness and saltness of the whole; so every staggering doubt that is an issue of this unbelief hath in it the unsavouriness and distastefulness unto God that is in the whole.
The Sermons of John Owen
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
XVI. Essays. New England Reformers. A Lecture Read before the Society in Amory Hall on Sunday, March 3, 1844
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Not only did Thomas go from unbelief to belief; he went from isolation to community.
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Marechal, beholding this, passed suddenly from unbelief to perfect faith in aerostatics and in the capacity of the human mind, fell on his knees, and, with his eyes bathed in tears, moaned out pitifully the words,
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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But though we are natural conservers and causationists, and reject a sour, dumpish unbelief, the skeptical class, which
Representative Men
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Gerock (p. 20) thinks that Zacharias 'prayer was not for a son of his own, but for an adopted son as, for instance, the future husband of Mary who might become his heir, and hence accounts for his surprise and unbelief at the announcement of John.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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In such a scene, you might expect God to chastise the people for their unbelief - or even to exact punishment on them.
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Nay, both His hands are spread out, He expends as He pleases; and what has been revealed to you from your Lord will certainly make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief; and We have put enmity and hatred among them till the day of resurrection; whenever they kindle a fire for war Allah puts it out, and they strive to make mischief in the land; and Allah does not love the mischief-makers.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Their original unbelief is a strong argument for the reliableness of their final faith.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
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She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Christians have stood firm against a flood of unbelief but have failed to notice its more subtle effects.
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TOG, read my post further down about will vs. free will, choice and metaphysics. this verse is basically commanding believers not to fall away in unbelief. but how does it support Arminianism, or free will theology (if you refuse to be called Arminian)? the ability not to fall away comes from God anyway (
Pulpit Pimps
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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Therefore wonder at these two when ye read the scriptures, God’s condescendency to us, and our atheism and unbelief of him: they are both mysteries, and exceeding broad.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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It waged holy war on the devil's kingdom of unbelief, and sought to bring the ‘vast continent of vice, crime and misery’ that was London's East End to salvation.
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The following instance is known to _The Christian_ as true, and to a remarkable degree indicates how thoroughly God knows our minutest needs, and how effectively He makes those who ever reproach his name ashamed of their unbelief.
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
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(_b_) Note also that the unbelief recorded in ver. 13 is _recorded only there.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
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James has in a sense opened up to view an important part of the struggle between belief and unbelief in modern culture.
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And who knows how many Christians he is putting on a slippery slide of unbelief concerning the clear written Word of God?
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It is also deftly poised on the border between belief and unbelief.
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Confess that the sin of unbelief is broken from your bloodline.
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We have repented for the unbelief and our sins are blotted out.
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You might say he's the world's greatest believer in unbelief.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Every age is one of belief and unbelief but our own century has been characterised by restlessness and uncertainty.
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He did rebuke them but it was usually for unbelief and pride.
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms.
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Unbelief is the rejection, neglect, non-admission, or disapprobation of it, on the terms whereon, and for the ends for which, it is so proposed.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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Why not go to Christ this very day, and cast your soul on him, with all its sins and all its unbelief, with all its doubts and all its fears?
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He promised a saviour who would carry the sin, selfishness, unbelief, disease, grief, sorrow and fear of death on Himself and Destroy that fear, for Good.
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The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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And so all Israel shall be saved -- To understand this great statement, as some still do, merely of such a gradual inbringing of individual Jews, that there shall at length remain none in unbelief, is to do manifest violence both to it and to the whole context.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, Sarkozy said: "I am calling for a positive laicism, that is to say, a secularism that watches over freedom of thought, of belief and unbelief, does not consider religion as a danger, but as an asset.
Archive 2007-12-01
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That I was born in a Christian land, of pious parents, who gave me religious instructions; brought up under faithful, lively ministers, and in religious society; exposed to few temptations but what arose from the corruptions of my own heart, are aggravations, which, perhaps, many are mourning over, as heightening the sin of unbelief in their unregenerated state.
The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
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She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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On the contrary, those that have deserted him shall be ashamed before him; they shall be ashamed of themselves, ashamed of their unbelief, their cowardice, ingratitude, temerity, and folly, in forsaking so glorious a Redeemer.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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There was nothing in them to justify unbelief to a mind unprejudiced, undistempered, calm.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
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Why be overawed by the task, or cowed by the abounding unbelief and false religion of our day?
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith—unbelief is.
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The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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His presence or absence is in belief or unbelief, and each of the two, once acquired, will necessarily be affirmed by all observations.