Sentences with phrase «christian by believing in»

When you become a Christian by believing in Jesus for eternal life, one of the first things that happens to you is the Holy Spirit comes in and lives with in you, and in that moment, He washes you, He cleanses you, He purifies you of all sin, and provides us with the power to have victory over future sin.

Not exact matches

Obviously, today's followers of Paul et al's «magic - man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic - man atonement, and infalliable, old, European, white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption of said sacrifices.

David Garcia, a former gang member who now Ministers at the House of Worship Christian Center, believes that troubled kids will be the ones most hurt by the ban: «In schools there's a lot of violence going on.

I'm interested in how Christine and other Christian gays and lesbians are able to feel accepted by people who believe their relationships are sinful.

The flying Spaghetti monster is more benevolent then the Christian god, you have everything to gain by believing in him!

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ solely by our faith in Christ and what He alone did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free gift of God and it doesn't just come after all we can do as Mormons believe.

Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.

The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.»

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

You might not understand that non-Mormons do not believe in your religion and are OFFENDED by your beliefs and your practices of trying to Mormanize the dead, particularly those who were killed for not being Christian such as Anne Frank.

Forget that Christians believe that children will inherit the kingdom of God, and yet when a child is in a hospital declared brain dead, those same Christians want the dead body to stay there being kept «alive» by machines..

If you carry your proposal forward, that you can believe the Bible to be flawed and yet somehow still consider yourself to be a Christian, you will find that eventually your faith in God unravels, and is replaced by faith in man or self, and your relationship with God will be broken.

It is actually the scientific view (first postulated by Darwin, and then modified, even evolved if you will) that most Christians world - wide believe in.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

The Christians that would have us believe that stories by non-Christians are a form of escape from the real world have not been paying attention to what is being said in those stories.

By choosing to believe in one thing and not another and still call yourself an X type of christian (whether it be catholic or protestant) aren't you just defining god in your own head and not the way the bible is clearly telling you?

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Except for the vulgar allegiance of what McGinn calls «Fundamentalist Christians,» «the legend» of Antichrist no longer captures the imagination: «Most believing Christians seem puzzled, even slightly embarrassed by Antichrist, especially given the legend's use in fostering hatred and oppression of groups.»

At the end of the day, though, it is hard to believe that the fundamental force behind the execration by the world amounts to a phrase here and there in Humanae Vitae» or in Augustine, or in Thomas Aquinas, or in anywhere else in the long history of Christian teaching on the subject.

«R.M. Goodswell Christians would have you believe that they were singled out by the Romans... other cultures and peoples faired poorly when encountering the empire... heh... even being roman didn't buy you a pass sometimes in ancient rome... if they felt they needed fresh bodies for the arena, you became fodder.

Obviously, today's followers / singers of Paul et al's «magic - man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about virgin births and bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic - man atonement, and infallible, old, European, white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption of said sacrifices.

If you are a Christian who believes in the Bible, you must acknowledge this from Ephesians 2:8: «For by grace are you saved though faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.»

A christian flying over Macca is sacriliage and just as Jesus warned in the Bilble some radical Islamic movements believe that by killing christians they are doing God a favor and they will ensure their entrly into heaven.

They carried around the tablets of the 10 commandments, you know... the covenent (hence the name ark of the covenant), and it had as much meaning to them as transsubstantiation does to good christians who, by doctrine, have to believe they are legit eating and drinking christ, which is whackier in your opinion?

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... aChristian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... achristian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

Christians also believe there will be a one - world government in the end time... only we believe it will be ruled by the Antichrist.

Those concocted by by rabid helfire and briimstone tent revivaliist zealots or ones created by Christians who believe in compassion and forgiveness for the less fortunate who believe in Christ's tenants of humility and love?

Nearly all Christians believe that one gets eternal life by belief in God, Jesus and Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

The reason why Christians don't believe in evolution is because they believe god created every animal for a purpose, as can be demonstrated by the delicate balance and hierarchy of life.

believing in this is the only way to Heaven (by Christian faith).

«Given the benchmarks established by international law and universal legitimacy, and in light of the support offered by the Christian Church in the Holy Land, we believe Palestinians should also have a state that they can at long last call home.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

Forgetting the direction toward honesty, many Christians seem to believe that what Scripture means by «pure» and by «lovely» is merely the pleasant and the naive, the Hallmark Channel, not the reality of a world in need of redemption.

Now, I realize I am now automatically dismissed as a narrow - minded zealot by the «free thinkers» on this site, but, if one is Christian and believes in the veracity of Christian tenets, then it is * illogical * to consider that other paths are equally valid.

A lot has been changed by philosophers, scholars, and creeds, but I still accept all good people who believe in the Biblical Jesus as Christians.

So believing in the trinity is a requirement to be a christian and the trinity debate was finally settled when and by whom?

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

Analysts agree that a candidate who does not believe in God would be quickly rejected by voters nationwide — even if he or she was raised Christian.

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When I read the story of Faith Christian Church in Tucson, Arizona, that is being investigated because some believe it is a cult, I wasn't alarmed by any one of the accusations.

However although I don't identify myself by following a brand, I know you would reject me as your Christian brother because I don't believe in the Trinity.

I do believe that there is spiritual warfare, in which Christians can be affected by the activity of demons, but never possessed.

Even if every slot left were filled by a Christian — which I believe would be a serious error — at least 5,000 fewer Christian refugees would be allowed in this year.

«I believe,» he writes, «we are living in an era with monumental possibilities for permanently reshaping the historic relationship between Jews and Christians, and paving the way for an outreach by both to peoples of other faiths.

Emboldened by this move, Neuhaus likewise feels free to declare that «the great majority of Christians in the world belong to bodies that, in continuity with two millennia of history, believe women can not be ordained to what is traditionally called the presbyterate,» as if the mere pronouncement of such a statement thereby settles the matter for any contemporary or future discussion.

I'm not defending their current policies which need more transparancy and alterations to allow anyone to believe in any religion they want, but this article masks real religious injustice of the discrimination against Tibetians and their religious practices by making it a «Christian» persecution thing.

Look at a video series called «Free to Choose» by Milton Friedman on «Utube» and you will see why so many christians believe in self sufficiency and how that really is the key to a functional society.