Sentences with phrase «christian evangelical beliefs»

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Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

So many Evangelicals today have adjusted their christian beliefs to fit their political beliefs.

Even within today's American evangelical, born - again umbrella there is much infighting and accusation of improper «Christian» belief.

Beck, who many evangelicals say is not a Christian because of his Mormon beliefs, says on his website that the Friday event «will help heal your soul.»

It is a thinly disguised attempt by the Evangelical Christian movement to present their religious beliefs as such.

I believe that his current political stances are not generally based on his own personal Mormon beliefs, but on a desire to please other powerful religious groups in the Republican part, namely conservative evangelical Christians.

Well, given that divorce rates are highest amongst evangelicals Christians, it kind of means that many relationships do not survive the God belief.

There is disagreement among Christians about this, (and historically, even among evangelicals), so is it really my place, or the government's job, to impose my beliefs on people of all faiths and convictions?

When it came to Christians, «Those with evangelical beliefs are more likely (49 percent) to read a little bit each day than those without evangelical beliefs (16 percent).

In it, a Christian university student is challenged by an atheist professor to defend his evangelical beliefs.

What I take away from this article is in no way Obama - bashing, but rather a discussion of how evangelical Christians have anointed themselves the true bearers of Christian belief.

As a matter of fact I more question the Christian beliefs of the Evangelicals for many of their stands and idiocy.

I thought the article was interesting and thought provoking — a challenge to evangelical Christians to embrace Jesus» words independently from the hypocritical political group - think of the religious right and raise their beliefs out of the political debate.

This should be adequate as a fundamental belief within which Christians can harmonize our evangelical effort.

If you believe, as many evangelicals do, that Mormon beliefs are not strictly Christian, then you have three choices: vote for the conservative, vote for the Christian, or lie to yourself and be a hypocrite.

In New Zealand, conservative Christian students withdrew from the Student Christian Movement to form the Evangelical Union: to join, they had to sign a document indicating belief in the infallibility of the Bible.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)- With Bible verses painted on the walls of his living room and with an unshakable belief that hell is for real, there's no question that Rob Seyler is a devout evangelical Christian.

Their books fly off the Christian bookstore shelves dispensing whatever ad hoc explanation or special pleading might be required to salvage the evangelical belief system from the perils of uncomfortable fact.

Conservative evangelicals may think that old - line Christians are too concerned about philosophical grounding and about shaping Christian beliefs in light of that grounding.

Old - line Christians may think that conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the modern world.

«African American Christians historically have high levels of beliefs that align with evangelical beliefs but tend not to use that term,» Stetzer said.

Only 25 percent of African Americans who hold evangelical beliefs consider themselves evangelical Christians, compared to 62 percent of whites and 79 percent of Hispanics.

Millenials and all Christians who want to be faithful followers of Jesus must do that as well as affirm the beliefs and practices embraced by those who have historically called themselves evangelicals.

In response, many faithful Episcopalians have jumped ship to become Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, or Evangelicals, or formed breakaway churches within the Anglican communion, sometimes under the authority of bishops in Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intact.

In recent years, evangelicals have pushed for greater «conscience protections» for Christians, hoping to keep believers from being forced to go against their beliefs on marriage and sexuality at their workplaces.

«We believe we represent a convergence of evangelical belief that care for [refugees] is a central part of our Christian faith,» said Jenny Yang, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief.

That violated RFRA, wrote Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion, because it penalizes the religious beliefs of the Green family, evangelical Christians who own Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain with 500 stores and more than 13,000 employees, and the Hahn family, Mennonites whose company employs more than 1,000 employees in five factories across the country.

If a presidential candidate believes that God come before country, which is the belief of most evangelical christians, than yes their religion should be an issue to consider esp.

Always wondered how evangelicals ever got past the mormon's not adopting the main christian belief - that our salvation is only through jesus christ.

And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.

The evangelical tradition holds at its best the belief that faithful Christian witness involves caring deeply about one's neighbor» and hence about truth, justice, and love extending beyond the bounds of the meeting house.

Evangelical Christians want their institutions to have and maintain standards of belief and behavior.

Everybody should be accepted: Orthodox Jews, Evangelical Christians, Catholics, Muslims, and those with religious beliefs that oppose abortion and homosexual marriage.

Collins also addressed concerns that he said have «graced many pages of the blogosphere,» as well as the op - ed page of The New York Times, that his evangelical Christian beliefs could influence how he runs NIH.

He alleged that the university did not hire him as director of its observatory because, according to an initially confidential e-mail by a member of the search committee that later became public, Christian beliefs that Gaskell expressed in nonacademic lectures and articles made him «potentially evangelical.»

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.

About Site - Just as creeds such as the Apostles» Creed summarize the belief of all Christians, the Articles of Religion of The Methodist Church and the Confessions of Faith of The Evangelical United Brethren Church form a foundation of doctrine for United Methodists.

The new ads that attack eHarmony for refusing to match same sex couples and for the evangelical Christian beliefs of eHarmony's founder, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, will be featured in weekly newspapers and magazines.

Poplar Bluff, Missouri About Blog Just as creeds such as the Apostles» Creed summarize the belief of all Christians, the Articles of Religion of The Methodist Church and the Confessions of Faith of The Evangelical United Brethren Church form a foundation of doctrine for United Methodists.

Southern gal Miranda is an Evangelical Christian with all the social and political beliefs dictated by her church, but when she gets what she's sure is a message from God, she does a 180 and decides to become a surrogate mother for a married gay couple from Boston.

This report examines the global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and related moral values of three major groups of American Christians — Catholics, non-evangelical Protestants, and evangelicals.

Simply put, millions of Americans are evangelical Christians, and their belief in the science of global warming is well below the national average.

As individuals, evangelical Christians can maintain and practice their beliefs about sexuality and marriage while attending any other law school in Canada, without facing any barrier to practicing law in Nova Scotia.

I my view the analysis would be different (not saying the outcome would be necessarily be different) if TWU limited its admissions to Evangelical Christians (in which case they would forgo the market benefits of offering services to the public) or if they had a statement of beliefs non-Christians were not required to sign.

For example, a core tenant of Evangelical Christianity is a belief in Jesus Christ as a person redeemer — the failure to believe in this is fundamentally contrary to Evangelical Christianity — yet students are not required to sign on to this course of conduct or to follow any of the outward behaviours that mark Christian worship to be a student at TWU.

Poplar Bluff, Missouri About Blog Just as creeds such as the Apostles» Creed summarize the belief of all Christians, the Articles of Religion of The Methodist Church and the Confessions of Faith of The Evangelical United Brethren Church form a foundation of doctrine for United Methodists.

(Also, being a non-Catholic, I was free to not participate in the Catholicism based religion classes & was able to study / learn lessons that supported my family's more Evangelical leaning - Christian beliefs.)