Sentences with phrase «christian view of the person»

On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ» in human history.

In his recent book Finding God In Prozac or Finding Prozac in God: Preserving a Christian View of the Person Amidst a Biopsychological Revolution, Charles Biovin contends that Christians should not hesitate to use the new brands of antidepressants such as Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors — commonly referred to as SSRIs — as spiritual lifesavers.

Not exact matches

Would it be wrong of me to believe that since there are crazy, insane Christian Extremists who have ego - maniacal views of the world and have a long, LONG history (thousands of years) of killing and torturing innocent people and blowing people up and standing in the street with card board signs stating «The End is Nigh», that ALL Christians are the same?

«The perception of the churches having perhaps a negative view towards gay people or transgender people - there are plenty of Christians who are gay, lesbian or transgender within our churches.

That is why I believe that the Christian world view that Jesus died to absolve us of our sins is the only way to rationalize imperfect people interacting with a perfect God (or going into a perfect Heaven).

If I were wreaking havoc on various parts of the world in the name of Jesus, and I or my fellow Christians were not willing to denounce clearly and sincerely that terror, I would expect people to view me in that way.

Some people out there who are still searching, can benefit from hearing an opposing point of view to the standard Christian echo chamber.

Atheists (not all just as not all christians preach) that try to spread their beliefs to others do so with similar ideas of helping people free themselves from they view as mentally oppressive.

Christians whose anthropology is defined by Original Sin rather than Original Blessing will always have a pessimistic view of people and life in general.

The humane and Christian view, however, sees the human person as including a spirit which needs a body as a complement and mediator to fulfil his destiny as a traveller to God, the Ultimate Good, through the goodness of the material cosmos.

Biola then issued a «statement on human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»

Seeing the lives and examples of the Christian saints; along with understanding the dignity of the human person and the intentions underlying its practices, Christian asceticism provides a clearer and more holistic view of the human person.

Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself presents them with certain facts which conflict with their world view.

In face of the new challenge to the Churches their view of the ministry and the Christian faith was most successful in finding and holding the people of the west.

She says that it is important that Christian college students welcome the challenge of discussing their faith to others, particularly to people who hold opposing views.

I think it's important that Christian college students welcome the challenge of discussing their faith to others, particularly to people who hold opposing views.

While we may not drown people because of their views on baptism, it is not uncommon for one group of Christians to condemn another group of Christians to everlasting hell because the other group has a different view on baptism.

In the Christian view this is the way to the fulfilment of all the persons involved, husband, wife and children.

If these parts of the story are not viewed as Christian Myth, however, but are claimed as true, then they distract from the message and in fact impede access to it for many people.

In spite of all its sentimentality about the «little people» who are our brothers, a declaration like this is — from the Christian point of view — radically lacking in truth.

The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and sexuality are being challenged more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.

«If the Church does not regard Israel from a Christian point of view,» he remarked, «if it does not recognize the theological significance of this people, having a national destiny that can be cultivated only in Zion, the Church has no right to pass judgment on Israel.»

On this second view, insofar as persons have apprehended God through the medium of Christian myths, symbols, and rites, their subjectivity will be shaped by a distinctive dynamic and structure which then dictates the proper movement and structure of theological study.

Jewish people and Christians share the same view of God.

Is it any wonder that people view Christians as sheltered and out - of - touch when a sentence like this is considered vulgar?

Pádraig has a similar view: «For people of faith, the source of all goodness is God, whether or not it comes with a Buddhist or Christian stamp on it.»

I explain my view of salvation here https://lotharlorraine.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/salvation-by-love-erlosung-durch-die-liebe-unten/ Augustine was the first Christian to teach that God predetermined most people to eternally suffer in hell.

Among most Christians and Jews, it is fair to say, the Jewish - Christian dialogue is viewed as something of a curiosity carried on by people who are «interested in that kind of thing.»

«It began its operations,» he wrote, «by questioning the truth of certain conceptions held by Christian people — particularly the literal inerrancy of the Bible, the obscurantist dogmas concerning the origin of the Christian revelation and a cosmological view of the origins of the universe and of man.»

Some Christians who are quite sure that they are not Catholics may view that claim as an instance of outrageous ecclesiastical cheekiness, of recruiting by definition people who do not want to be Catholics.

Additionally, he displays a more Christian view of the world and humanity than any Conservative / Republican in government these days, as he fights for the poor and not corporations, who some politicians believe are people.

Thus, the complaint that some people use Christian Science in order to attain secular ends of health, wealth or success is a wholly valid one from the point of view of Christian Science itself.

In his discussion of prayer for an evil person, Rabbi Soloveichik misunderstands what I would consider to be the Christian view.

Insofar as our own culture participates in — indeed, is founded upon — structures of systemic evil, a happy outcome of our difficulties, as opposed to other people's difficulties, ought not be expected in the Christian view.

And what he seems concerned to emphasize in this recent article is that (assuming the truth of the Christian understanding of existence) the Christian revelation embodies a view of life that objectively represents the meaning of human existence, so that if a person is indeed to grasp in a reflective way what the meaning of life in fact is he or she must understand it precisely in the way represented by the Christian witness.

He does not want to be Christian and he has closed his mind to trying to understand and lead people on the right, and not just the rabid wingers, all people to the right of Obama are bad in his point of view.

On the part of the minister there is an empathetic or phenomenological concern for the attitudes of all the other people (and their conditions such as broken arms) to all serious things, including Christian faith but not confined to it, regardless of the existing content of those views and conditions.

So these atheists they're looking at are people likely just recovering from a bad upbringing while the Christians, like many other a christians, are people for whom this isn't just an issue of ontology, but their whole ethics, lifestyle and wChristians, like many other a christians, are people for whom this isn't just an issue of ontology, but their whole ethics, lifestyle and wchristians, are people for whom this isn't just an issue of ontology, but their whole ethics, lifestyle and world view.

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

What, in the light of Christian faith, is the greatest need of the people to whom he is sent, that one need which amidst all their needs is always to be kept in view by the minister?

All of the Christians I know are very nice, friendly, caring people who are truly concerned for others, even if they don't share their views.

In this new context, the pursuit of self - interest, viewed by Christians as sin, turned out to increase the total wealth and hence the availability of goods and services to people in general.

From a Christian point of view the author deserves praise for his repeated emphasis that economics is about living, breathing, people, not the disembodied rational ego of classical economics, and therefore that it must have a spiritual dimension.

Good Christians are interviewed by the police in their homes for daring to express Christian teaching on homosexuality, a charity worker is sacked for even discussing such views with a fellow worker, home - schoolers are placed under suspicion, a nurse is sacked for praying with a patient, and campaigners seek to force organisations in the name of equality to employ people who want to cross-dress part - time.

What do the stereotypes of Christians presented on TV say about British society's view of people of faith?

That's why people tack labels onto Historical fig - ures, like calling Washington a «Born Again Christian» as Limbaugh does, in order to misrepresent those peoples views as supporting what the people of today think.

If these ministers hope to reaffirm the biblical view and to avoid implicating the Church in a false definition of marriage, then they should make the focus of their pledge something more relevant to the vast majority of the people seeking marriage: the prohibitions against sex before marriage and the prohibition against two Christians divorcing.

Yet in stressing man's permeating sinfulness it often seems to give a too pessimistic view of human nature, with too little recognition of the God - given capacity of some persons to live victorious and highly virtuous Christian lives.

In areas with another religion in dominance, that other religion (and its holy writings) is used to keep people in line and «in their place» and sometimes includes the persecution of those with minority views including Christians.

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.