Sentences with phrase «christian speak with authority»

That is why I and many Christian speak with authority..

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One does not expect Bernard Lewis to be an authority on Christian theology, while at the same time one is reminded of the dangers in speaking with confidence on subjects with which one has scant familiarity.

While such a convocation could not claim to speak with total authority as the Church, it could give voice to a consensus of opinion among Christians in America.

For example, David Hayward's 30 year career in the Christian institutional church would have qualified David to speak with authority on any subject, so long as his observation was concerning the church institution's relationship to that subject.

Novelist Reynolds Price calls himself an «outlaw Christian» and candidly acknowledges that he speaks with «no personal or institutional authority.»

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

Unless you've talked to a majority of Christians and gotten a true response, you can't speak with authority.