Sentences with phrase «christian view of things»

But, I will say that when the government erects Christmas trees or puts up Christmas messages, they should not just describe the Christian view of things.

Then, too, we have to face the question whether there can be any point of contact between the Christian view of things, and the way educated men look at the world and its history today.

In the Christian view of things, that is not charity but its opposite.

In the Christian view of things, it was right here — well, maybe not right here, but within a small stone's toss this way or that — that humanity's redemption was accomplished, and there is no place comparable in the whole wide world.

Not exact matches

You'll already have a view on whether it's ok for Christians to watch what Father Ted called «this sort of thing», although there's arguably a difference between watching one age - restricted film or episode and bingeing on one after another.

Some of you «Christians» have a dualistic world view, which is why prayers seem to you as a purely «spiritual» thing as opposed to a holistic action.

The «prevailing Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion of the rapture, the equality of women, the emancipation of slaves, and a host of other things that most Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.

Minority Christians and white evangelical Christians «have a very personal view of God, a God that is very active in their daily lives and very concerned about the things that matter to them,» Jones said.

We Christians often unwittingly adopt a Platonic view that assumes the spiritual world only consists of the unseen — heaven, hell, angels, souls — while solid things like tech toys, asphalt and food are unspiritual and disconnected from our Christian lives.

It is this view of things that accounts for the contemporary politicizing of Christian endeavor, with the churches exhausting themselves in trying to tell the world what to do, including issuing directives for social and political action.

Among most Christians and Jews, it is fair to say, the Jewish - Christian dialogue is viewed as something of a curiosity carried on by people who are «interested in that kind of thing.»

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

On the part of the minister there is an empathetic or phenomenological concern for the attitudes of all the other people (and their conditions such as broken arms) to all serious things, including Christian faith but not confined to it, regardless of the existing content of those views and conditions.

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

You are trying to force your views on others - the very thing you accuse Christians of doing!

I should also follow them with an account of the traditional view of death, judgment, heaven, and hell, the so - called last things, as they have been interpreted in the historic Christian theologies, although once again I believe that the process of demythologizing is necessary at this point also.

In «The Concept of God as a Derivative Notion» Christian seeks to clarify the logical status of the concept of God.57 Christian concludes, among other things, that Whitehead's view of God is «categoreally contingent, systematically necessary and existentially contingent.»

i agre with Dave and then some - christians (and other folks who are serious in their beliefs too) are comical, believing and praying to someone who can't be seen, can't be proven... (this is from the point of view of an empiricist, who is able to measure things) Christians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towchristians (and other folks who are serious in their beliefs too) are comical, believing and praying to someone who can't be seen, can't be proven... (this is from the point of view of an empiricist, who is able to measure things) Christians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towChristians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towards them.

As a Jew and a subscriber to First Things since the first issue, I have looked for contributions to the debate from other than Christian and secular points of view.

I think it's one of those things were God does not treat us, nor does He view us as enemies (Christians), but we often view God as an enemy.

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.

The answer to this must be in any Christian view that agape both in God and in man intends the Kingdom of God, that is, the bringing of all things to creative dynamic harmony under the sovereign rule of God.

That some Christian's are still attempting to use it as a valid argument either speaks to their still not being aware of things outside of their limited view, or to their willingness to misrepresent the situation in their favor.

I am confused about the Christian view here, is slavery a sign of love or is love the thing that prevents slavery?

I can't remember where I heard it, but the other day I chanced upon an audio clip of a few pastors discussing that Christians often view God's omniscience of their souls as a warm fuzzy sort of thing.

lmao... Hawaii, there's not a blessed thing in any of your writings or thoughts I need to address really, your a self indulgent clueless individual who for whatever reason is mad at anyone who has a Christian view of life.

But when prayer falls to the level of attempts at coercing deity, it has stopped being prayer; and for the Christian, with his view of the right ordering of things in the light of God's self - revelation in Christ, any thought of coercing God is an utter impossibility and can have no place in his prayer.

Having said that, I will show in the next few posts that the process and standards of Canonization undermines nearly everything else we evangelical Christians believe about the Bible, and so we must either change our view on some of these other things (such an inspiration and inerrancy), or we must decide that the process of Canonization was wrong.

(For a wider discussion of Justin's view, see «The Christianity of Philosophy» in the May 2001 First Things, where Peter Simpson concludes that «the Christian faith for [Justin] was the true and complete philosophy.»)

it is a shame that many plp think so little of our faith... they do no understand what is like to be a true christian... and no not one of those plp who say im a christian and go to church from sunday to sunday, not one of the fanatics who advocate hate, not a bigot who proclaim god's name without understanding... this life is a journey to find something greater than spiritual awareness... it is a journey to see the world the way god does, it is a journey beyond any book, any view... that is why i belive in my faith... im a christian and i love my god but im not the one who follows faith blindly and question every thing

For though there is more to be learned about origins, which may do much to fill in the great gaps in our knowledge, and which may necessitate further radical revision in understanding, one thing is certain, and that is that the popular and simple view of origins which obtained among Christians until a hundred years ago has gone for ever.

Though he later seemed to adopt a very complicated view of religion despite the comments, the other notable thing in the interview was that in some cases it was judgmental Christians — not Christ — that turned him off from the Church.

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

As Stackhouse sees it, such a view undercuts the very nature of the «Christian thing» and subverts the entire project of theological schooling.

The heart of the issues is this: Theological education, in Stackhouse's view, incorporates the relevant pluralism in a way that inescapably implies a systematic relativism about all questions of truth and justice regarding God; it implies that the «Christian thing» has no intrinsic unity or identity.

Stackhouse's entire argument seems to require the view that adequacy both to the ideal unity of the «Christian thing» and to the reality of pluralism requires that one be a «realist» of some sort.8 It also seems to require rejection of the «nominalist» view that pluralism is finally irreducible.

The Christian position does not hold by such views; and so assertions about God the Creator of Heaven and earth, the Almighty One, were placed in the Creed to safeguard the Fatherhood of God by making clear that He who is our Father is also the Ruler of all things.

As a gay Christian leader, I view it as part of my responsibility to talk about those hard things our community doesn't want to face.

Also, there is no such thing as a «Judeo - Christian» view of God since Judaism's and Christianity's concepts of God are fundamentally opposed to one another.

Thomas claims that in 2015 George had «made a big thing» of his faith, with his supporters saying «we don't want a Christian representing our views».

When forced to view the things Christians find normal through the eyes of a non-believer, it can be sobering.

The world has its own views about how things should operate, and a lot of times those don't match up exactly with how Christians operate.

Be Open — An online dating website, whether it is for Christians or not, is full of thousands, if not millions, of different types of people with different views on things.

Though he didn't label himself a spiritual counselor, he was Christian, like me, so he could see things from my point of view.

The shifts for Christian students were not so significant, but White said that reflected the more positive views they expressed about Islam at the beginning of the project, probably because they felt it was the right thing to say.