The notion of twelve tribes is not surprising in view of Jewish
Christian ideas expressed in the description of twelve tribes in Revelation 7:4 - 8 and the mention of them in Matt.
Not exact matches
If the dogmas of the
Christian Church from the second to the sixth century centuries
express finally and sufficiently the truths concerning the topics about which they deal, then the Greek philosophy of that period had developed a system of
ideas of equal finality.
You have
expressed so many
ideas that the common
Christian dares not lay down as word or as text.
Certainly the case can be made that a well - placed swear word might be appropriate for a
Christian when no other word will get across an
idea or
express a certain level of emotion / emphasis.
Both
Christians and Athiests are
expressing ideas and philosophies based on a complete ignorance of theology.
The expressions and
ideas In the Odes clearly show that they belong to a period prior to any systematic development of
Christian doctrine and practice and they were the first attempt by a
Christian community to
express its new found faith.
If Jews want the Jewish message to be heard and understood, if they want to participate in the marketplace of
ideas, if they take seriously the sacred Jewish mission «to be a light to the nations,» then they must
express the Jewish message in a vocabulary comprehensible to
Christians.
Such a college, while allowing teachers to
express dissenting views and freely to exchange
ideas, would insist that they be committed to the biblical faith and distinctively
Christian values and lifestyle.
The
idea of
expressing ones hopes for the future by the birthday of a child was familiar also to Luke's
Christian and Jewish readers from their own Scriptures.
As
expressed in the preface to his Foundations of
Christian Faith, his theological intention was «to reach a renewed understanding of this message and to arrive at an «
idea» of Christianity... and... try as far as possible to situate Christianity within the intellectual horizon of people today.
David, can you give me an
idea of how a non believer, lets say and engaging atheist, who considers religious faith to be irrational, is to
express his
idea about religious faith without offending
Christians?
For instance, before the rise of Valentinian Gnosticism, Christological doctrine was not always carefully formulated; afterwards,
Christian authors
expressed their
ideas more carefully.
Regardless of how Planck
expressed his belief that senior scientific stars are often loath to accept
ideas that threaten their views, the paper's «results lend credence» to the notion, write Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge;
Christian Fons - Rosen of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in Spain; and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego, in their National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper.
Only 15 per cent of respondents to the survey said they supported religious selection, with 68 per cent of
Christian respondents opposed to the
idea and 82 per cent of Muslim respondents
expressing a preference for no religious selection in schools.