Sentences with phrase «christian powers against»
The prevailing theology and spirituality contributed to blunting their conscience against the immense evils of Christian powers against other peoples.
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I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master... no christian can argue against this, as far as «turning over all logic, your mind, and your powers of thinking, your power to love»..
And a few of us remember from the No Left Turns days that, while ultimately not agreeing, he admitted the power of a Christian and virtue - ethics «media - fasting» case made against all TV by the commenter «wm.» «Wm» is a very erudite and Catholic (and yet also rock - attuned) professor whose identity I'll reveal if I get permission, and here's a taste of what he said in that thread:
The Catholic Church is and has been the Biblical teaching authority for ALL Christians for 2000 + years and will continue to be because Jesus said all the powers of hell (including propserity organizations operating under the pretext of Christianity) would NOT prevail against it.
Only Christians can contend against the powers that are at the root of the problem.
8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»
Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz
My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.
Dalit Christians within the church were discriminated against and were denied powers within the ecclesiastical structure.
This was done because, in return for supporting and protecting mission work, imperial powers depended on Christians in the colonies to support them against national «hostilities».
As long as Christians remain in power in the US, their war against reason will continue and we will all continue to suffer for it.
Release International said since Hindu nationalists gained power in India three years ago, violence against Christians has escalated.
He calls Governor Henry's bill, against which he is remonstrating, «a contradiction of the Christian religion itself, for every page of it disavows a dependence on the powers of this world.»
In the eschatological Christian community, the sense that the structures of communal and individual existence which had governed the past were now already at an end may well have relaxed the guard of consciousness against the powers of the unconscious.
«Social enmity and witch - hunt promoted by the BJP government in power against Christian or any other group has the potential to destabilize a nation more than they realize.»
After Team USA goalie Tim Howard's divine performance in Tuesday's World Cup match against Belgium, some folks - ok, a lot of folks - were comparing the devout Christian's saving power to Jesus.
Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.
If Christian leaders are using their power and influence to control and threaten others, and doing this in the name of Jesus, then it is not a sin against the Holy Spirit to call them out on this!
Nowhere does the writer call upon the Christians to take up arms against Rome or other victimizing powers.»
I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.
In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!
Yet, the Christian «fantasy» presents us with a vision of evil as being eternally cast in chains, and a vision of God's daily protective power against evil.
The actual sermon will be the effort we make — the tactics we employ to set over against the negations, whether they be conscious and articulate or unconscious and weary — the powers, claims, promises, and gifts of the Christian gospel.
11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»
Having the greater guilt by far, Christians have surely the greater need for reconciliation, but when the Jewish authorities had political power they understandably used it in their own interest, including against the nascent Christians.
Against every attempt to pick God out from the husk of the world, as one picks the kernel from a nut, against every effort to eject God from the cockpit of his world, the Christian church makes this confession of his living presence and his sovereignAgainst every attempt to pick God out from the husk of the world, as one picks the kernel from a nut, against every effort to eject God from the cockpit of his world, the Christian church makes this confession of his living presence and his sovereignagainst every effort to eject God from the cockpit of his world, the Christian church makes this confession of his living presence and his sovereign power.
For all its power, however, Voltaire's poem is a very feeble thing compared to the case for «rebellion» against «the will of God» in human suffering placed in the mouth of Ivan Karamazov by that fervently Christian novelist Dostoevsky; for, while the evils Ivan recounts to his brother Alexey are acts not of impersonal nature but of men, Dostoevsky's treatment of innocent suffering possesses a profundity of which Voltaire was never even remotely capable.
Thus, in such passages as Galatians 4:3, Colossians 2:8,15, and Ephesians 6:12, Christians are exhorted to enter into the freedom Christ has won for them, and to fight against the domination of the hypercosmic powers.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
Satan's power is not unlimited; he must stay within specified bounds, but until doomsday they encompass the whole world» (Heiko Oberman, «Luther Against the Devil» Christian Century 107/3, Jan. 24, 1990, pp. 76, 79).
This must be the same look Roman spectators had as they cheered a power play by the lions against the Christians.
Take Nigeria Christians for instance, they preach against violence and some group called BOK - HARAM killed them dailies and they have power to retaliate but because of the word of God they do Carried made them not to do so, can you say they are fools?
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Disenchanted (The Coventree Chronicles)(Volume 1) In this Christian fantasy, one young wizard with a hunger for wisdom and some dangerous secrets finds himself pitted against another ready to reach for power with the darkest forces possible.
From ancient Christian sites in Spain, Italy and Israel to the far reaches of Iran and Tunisia, Morgan and Jake must track down the stones through the myths of the early church in a race against time before a new Pentecost is summoned, this time powered by the fire of evil.
The plot involves a power - hungry Indonesian general who wants to turn Indonesia into an Islamic superpower — the new Evil Empire (Islam) against the Christian USA.
In effect, they have traced climate history back to a very different world, long before the European discovery of America; a world in which Christian crusaders fought the Saracen forces for control of Jerusalem; in which the armies of Byzantium held the eastern Roman Empire against assault from the Turks; in which the temples of Angkor Wat were first built; in which work on the great cathedrals of Europe began; in which Venice began to emerge as a great maritime power; in which the first European universities began to take shape.
Registration — refusing to accredit professional programs, in the public interest: Courts in three provinces have moved forward to address the power of law societies to refuse to accredit a Christian law school, based on a public interest concern about the school requiring students to sign a covenant abstaining from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman — a covenant that would effectively discriminate against students of certain sexual orientations.