Sentences with phrase «christian spite»

I truly must admire our dear Christian poster J.W., whose Christian spite is so pronounced that he has to go ad hominem pre-emptively, before anyone has said anything.

Not exact matches

In spite of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven images» (and the worship of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental picture of the Son of God.

«In spite of having contributed so much to our civilization and providing its foundation, the Christian faith is in danger of being stealthily and subtly brushed aside,» said George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury.

For over 20 centuries Christians have been spreading the good news in spite of persecution.

I like the Christian ideals (though not always how they have been put into practice, but we're all flawed and people will be people in spite of their best efforts and ideals).

If any christians had a decent argument, they'd focus on it, instead of on the imagined «hate» and «spite» they seem to see in everyone who doesn't agree with them — but not in god, who demonstrates it in every book of his «word» if you but only read without the bias of indoctrination / brainwashing.

In spite of the attention given to it by both the news media and television dramas recently, the full extent of suicide in our society is hardly appreciated by most Christians.

The Society of Friends has as much claim to the label Christian as has any other group, in spite of its rejection of traditional sacraments.

CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.

We express this concern not in spite of our Christian beliefs, but because of them.

In spite of all the excruciating ambiguities of history, it is fundamental to the Christian faith that humanity is saved by the life of one righteous person!

In spite of all the current talk about «social Christianity,» etc. an unbiased and unprejudiced reading of the Bible shows that converting men to their Lord is the work Christians are called to do.

In spite of all its sentimentality about the «little people» who are our brothers, a declaration like this is — from the Christian point of view — radically lacking in truth.

While I think we can all agree that Christians should withhold condemnation regarding the abuse allegations until the facts come out in the case and the issue has been thoroughly investigated and subjected to due process, what baffles me is Christian leaders» continued support of Sovereign Grace Ministries in spite of the ministry's repeated efforts to evade external investigation into this matter.

Those people committed those violent acts in spite of what the Christian doctrine teaches, not because of it.

Her book, Unnatural: Spiritual Resiliency in Queer Christian Women, is a compilation of research, interviews, and memoir that explores the experiences of women who have fought to hold on to their faith in spite of obstacles related to gender and sexuality.

In spite of all this, many Christians like to imagine themselves as the scrappy underdogs, bullied and oppressed for their faith yet bravely standing for their beliefs.

Haters are gonna hate, Christians are gonna show love, In spite of personal tragedies, a Christian will turn to God, in whom they will find comfort.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

In spite of all the accumulated Christian witness of the past, it must still be for the believer a path of faith and obedience.

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

At the same time, in spite of 2 Timothy 3:16's proclamation that «All Scripture is God - breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness...», many Christians let alone anyone else sometimes wonder if it might be best to archive large chunks of it in a filing cabinet labelled «no longer relevant»

In spite of this danger, however, this radical response must be recognized as a viable and important Christian alternative.

Many Jews are becoming complete by believing in Jesus the Messiah, thousands every day are becoming Christians all over the world in spite of severe persecution.

While those particular words may tend to be associated often as «christian speak» for «overcoming adversity» and succeeding in spite of one's past.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

In the New Testament, the Pax Romana provided one key condition for the proclamation of the gospel around the Roman Empire during the time of the Apostles, in spite of the fact that the Roman imperial machine was less than Christian in conduct and policy.

The in - spite - of character of the Christian faith is apt, I am afraid, to increase as well as decrease tension among people, to cause a new dissension as well as a great unity, thus falling into a false endlessness.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

There's still a lot of Christians in the world, in spite of Russia and some of the others, and it would be a hell of an appealing thing from that angle.»

From a Christian standpoint such an existence (in spite of all aesthetic) is sin, it is the sin of poetizing instead of being, of standing in relation to the Good and the True through imagination instead of being that, or rather existentially striving to be it.

They did not want to separate from the Anglican Church, for in spite of all its corruption they thought it a true Christian Church.

These books, in spite of their wide diversity of genre and style, have a certain guiding character essential for the shaping and transmission of Christian faith.

By examining Marx's critique of religion optimistically and without prejudice we find that Marxists and Christians can agree, in spite of several disagreements, that both are ultimately concerned for true humanity, especially for the rights of the poor and needy, the hungry and hopeless; both could agree that they strive to be «true to the earth».

«By examining Marx's critique of religion optimistically and without prejudice we found that Marxists and Christians can agree, in spite of several disagreements, that both are ultimately concerned for true humanity, especially for the rights of the poor and the needy, the hungry and hopeless; both could agree that they strive to be «true to the earth».

Growth throughout the last five years has occurred in spite of anti-conversion laws, although an agreement signed in May promised to protect the rights of the Christian community.

A fellow Canadian and former agnostic, Carolyn Weber helped me to see that one can come to faith precisely because of Christians, rather than in spite of other Christians.

I said that Christians do not love all living creatures for Christ's sake; but if they think he died for all human beings, and wanted all human beings to share God's life through him, then we must either want to advance his purpose or want to frustrate it; we must either love our fellow men for his sake or hate them to spite him.

«It is therefore an aberration from divine truth to represent the Church as somethingintangible and invisible, as a mere «pneumatic» entity joining together by an invisible link a number of communities of Christians in spite of their difference of faith» (Mystici corporis).

By examining Marx's critique of religion optimistically and without prejudice we found that Marxists and Christians can agree, in spite of several disagreements, that both are ultimately concerned for true humanity, especially for the rights of the poor and needy, the hungry and hopeless; both could agree that they strive to be «true to the earth».1 We observed that Marx's atheism is primarily an anthropological affirmation; it is another way of putting human being in the centre of human interest and concern.

Because Mormonism denies the biblical truth of who God is, who Jesus is, how forgiveness of sins is attained, and what the gospel is, the Mormon is not Christian — in spite of all his claims that he is Christian.

Christians are just hostile towards it because, for whatever reason, they've been brainwashed into believing their religion is the right one in spite of «knowing» all the rest are hooie, and don't like their fable being lumped into the same catagory.

Despite arguing that Christians shouldn't expect others to follow their religious rules, phrases like loving people «in spite of everything» suggest that you are still judging people, doesn't it?

The discussion of the organized political and social action plan to have intelligent design as a required subject in public schools is appropriate to this thread as christians want ID taught to all children in the USA in spite of the separation of church and state.

In spite of differences on the ethical problem all Christian liberals conceived of ethical social action as rooted in a religious conception of the meaning of that action and with a religious faith which gives hope for its success.

As a distinguished English divine of an earlier generation once put it, Christian «faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequence.»

However, in spite of the prodigious numerical losses, the largest proportionately which Christianity was to know, by A.D. 950 Christian communities were scattered over a broader area than they had been in A.D. 500.

In spite of speaking openly about his Christian faith and conversion experience, his religious beliefs were often distorted for political purposes.

But unity among Christians will not be achieved in spite of Mary, but because of her.