Sentences with phrase «christians lived by these rules»

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Live by these rules and accept Jesus Christ as your savior and you are living a Christian life.

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... aChristian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... achristian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

Even if you are an atheist (and you certainly have every right to be and I respect that right), a Christian, Muslim, Budhist, Jew, etc. etc. etc. that's a darn good rule to live by and we all should give it a little more effort.

Christian rules (I won't call them laws, it implies validity) apply to those who accept them and choose to live by them.

For the vast majority of atheists I've talked to, all that they know is that they don't like the rules that Christians are told to live by.

The rest of the time, the average Christian can do pretty well in their life simply by following a few generally accepted spiritual heath rules:

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Should we make a sharp distinction between public and private life as in the judgment (attributed to Martin Luther) that it is better to be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian?

They tend to be part of the rules that every society has lived by for a lot longer than there have been christians.

They have to say it's not the same God otherwise people will start asking why God wants different people to follow different rules, the truth of the matter is Christians don't want to live by rules, they want to live by grace, they don't want anyone to tell them not to eat or drink too much or to do anything anyone else says.

I think christians should be free to choose what they believe and those not, should be free from being forced to live by their rules.

It may be defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose culture and way of life had become so permeated and shaped by Christian beliefs and values as to form a cohesive whole.

On the other hand, most atheists I know try to live life by rules that could easily be called «christian».

I think that if we all lived by that rule, then there wouldn't be any of this «hatred» Christians are being blamed for.

In the main, with independence, especially in Greece, ecclesiastical and political autonomy was followed by some recovery from the ebb in the quality of Christian living during Turkish rule.

While Christians choose to live by a certain set of rules, that does not mean they should not be engaging in the larger world, even in parts of it where they have little chance of «saving» others.

To be told how to live our lives by evangelical Christians» This is exactly what most evangelicals want everything by their rules for every one 24 hours a day 7days a week 370 days a year.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

After all they had lived in an era governed by Christian value systems and had simply «followed the rules.»

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.