Sentences with phrase «christian knows the language»

But an intelligent and educated Christian knows the language of the Bible and the spiritual things that it teaches.

Not exact matches

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

But whatever the language, it sprang from the conviction that the only genuine hope, the only hope really worth hoping for, the only hope worth believing, the only hope which was not an illusion, was a hope grounded in God, the God whom we Christians know through the life and the mighty victory of Jesus Christ over the power of death.

Christians know that our language can never be adequate to the holy reality.

Christians have a language for that; they know that human beings are capable of the worst - possible atrocities.

Are they to feel like second - class Christians because they don't know the «inspired biblical languages»?

Yes, since they can not, figuratively speaking, repay Christians in the language Christians know.

I don't know many Christians to begin with, as they always start spouting off about how everyone else is going to hell because they haven't accepted Jesus in His name or some such nonsense, even when I point out that the word «God» is said in different names due to different languages.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.

While Madison's use of the Christian tradition employs a restricted, even chaste use of theological language» the name Jesus Christ is never mentioned, only «divine Author of our religion»» there can be no doubt that his worldview is Christian.

Yet in each instance, that which the older language sought to express will be present in the preaching, since the event which is proclaimed is both disclosure of God in act and the source of the renewed life that is known within the Christian tradition as «life in Christ.»

I just wish Christians would use normal language that actually has meaning in light of what we now know about anatomy.

I can not avoid the conclusion that by the time they were written — and the Pauline epistles are the earliest of the New Testament writings — Christians no longer thought in that way of their present experience of the risen Jesus; but reserved such language for the initial Easter period (extended by Paul to include his own formative experience).

The adult Christian, no matter what the degree of his psychological or spiritual maturity and commitment, needs education in terms of increased understanding and strengthened performatives at and beyond the level of language.

Such a view, however, fails to appreciate the nature of humankind as male and female» indeed, in the language of Jews and Christians, the creation of humankind as a sexually differentiated species in which we come to know ourselves only through encountering the sexually other.

I am proud to practice my Christian faith and happy to know that my Lord tells me, my words come in many languages and written differently, but they have some resemblance.

No, it really doesn't negate Christian belief if a Christian uses the word God in another language.

the god of the christians gave his instructions in a language he knew would become extinct.

Do you know that arabic is a language and that your fellow middle eastern Christians call God Allah?

Iraqi Christians are treated less than third (3rd) class citizens, No Rights of Freedom of speech or expression, thought, opinion etc., No Rights to Practice Religion, Hateful of Christians, when in Reality its the Christians that were there LONG before the Arabs, its a matter of facts, Iraqi Christians still speak the ARAMAIC Language, the same exact language as Jesus Christ Spoke (our GOD), the descendant of Abraham, from the Land of the Chaldean «UR».

Indeed, what we have known as Christian language can not dissociate transcendence and God, so the dissolution of transcendence goes hand in hand with the disappearance of the Christian name of God.

To tell the Story through the language and categories of football would in all likelihood be no less profitable than St. Paul's attempt to liken the Christian disciple to a Roman soldier or the early missionaries» attempt to portray Christ as a divine tribal chieftain or the rock generation's creation of Jesus Christ Superstar.

I've known Christians to be called parasites, invoking the kind of language used towards Jews in Nazi Germany.

While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation.

Reaching through the haze of post-Christian understanding, employing against itself the only moral language she knows» the Judeo - Christian language of victims» Arundhati Roy alights by chance on a solution.

Luther's studies were becoming more exciting than ever, because he had time to start Greek, the original language of the Christian source texts and was dabbling in Hebrew the language of the Old Testament, getting to know at least the alphabet, and a few words, from Reuchlin's Rudiments which he already possessed.

Although I do not agree with this position, I know that Christians feel strongly about language.

We pray in different languages From sun to setting sun By our actions you may know us We are Christians We are one

Many, it seems to me, rely too heavily on strong association where it no longer exists: there is a disappointing use of unmodified traditional Christian language («God said he would send his Son, Allelu, Allelu!

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These publishing houses are the foundation from which we have continued to build and brand some of the most internationally known Christian resources, translating into nearly two - hundred languages and distributing into more than one - hundred countries.

Arab dominance is most evident in the spectacular architecture of the Mezquita of Córdoba known as the «Great Mosque», (originally Islamic and later altered by Christians) and Alcázar in Seville, but it also survives in the language with Guadalquivir being Arabic for «Great River».