Sentences with phrase «christianity taught that man»

Niebuhr said that pre-Reformation Christianity taught that man under grace (defined primarily as power) could realize original righteousness.

This concept of «soul,» and the physicalism proposed by many of the contributors, is unacceptable to those who hold that Christianity teaches that man is one unified being but composed of two essential parts - a physical body and a properly spiritual soul which, though the substantial form of the body, is a subsistent entity capable of conscious existence when separated from its body between an individual's death and the General Resurrection.

To be so near to God as Christianity teaches that man can come to Him, and dare come to Him, and shall come to Him in Christ, has never entered into any man's head.

Not exact matches

Christianity is an evil disease which teaches people to hate their fellow man.

Back when I was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania some thirty - five years ago, I remember a young Jewish man who became a convert to Christianity who, having read the Sermon on the Mount, asked me whether or not I had an insurance policy and a retirement fund.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it.

One of the distinctive marks of Christianity at its best is that it teaches men to hold a very lofty opinion of themselves.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

Wow one woman's look for Christianity and self in the teachings of man rather than the relationship with Jesus.

Dan, i think you miss the crux of Christianity... my take n the teachings of Christianity is that the «rules» are God's standards and because of the sinful condition of the human heart no man has a hopeof reaching the standard... therein lies the dilemma.

All religions (Islam, Christianity, Atheism, Humanism, etc.) are created by man, who can and will corrupt the original teachings.»

What has come to be known as Christianity has little to do with the teachings of the man it has deified.

Yet this widely - accepted idea is one of the greatest misunderstandings of Christianity ll - read Protestant or Catholic, or not) what he conceived to be the New Testament teaching concerning the fate of man after death, with few exceptions we should get the answer.

Still American Christianity has seldom emphasized the aspect of the Christian tradition that stressed the unity rather than the distinction of divinity and man so that the oriental teachings stand out as sharply divergent.

If there is no Jesus, there is no «Christianity» — a term that is very muddled, by the way, because there are over 2,500 versions of Christianity, each designed by man to fit the teachings of Christ into the version they prefer.

Christianity promises to inspire men and women to lead a new life and to teach them how to do it, and this promise has already been fulfilled in the lives of the saints.

Is it the teaching of Christianity that man has dignity?

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

For it is Christianity to be sure which has taught this about the God - Man, about the likeness between God and man, but Christianity is a great hater of wanton and impertinent forwardneMan, about the likeness between God and man, but Christianity is a great hater of wanton and impertinent forwardneman, but Christianity is a great hater of wanton and impertinent forwardness.

Grenier taught him respect for Christianity because «there is no truth for man that is not incarnated.»

But seriously, it's surely giving into a caricature of Christianity to suggest that the author of Genesis 1 - 2 and St Paul taught that women are inferior to men and certainly far, far away from the Catholic interpretation of those texts.

The whole history of the Church confirms the sentiment taught expressly in many passages of Scripture, and by implication, on every page of the New Testament, that the great agency appointed and employed of God in the work of instructing and saving men, is the living rninistry of Christianity.1

Christianity teaches that sex is not supposed to be enjoyed by people who are not married to each other, in this case, the girl is expected to maintain her virginity, and the man too is supposed to abstain completely until they get married officially.