Sentences with phrase «even as a christian»

Islam is reportedly even more aggressively evangelistic than Christianity and recruits Christians even as Christians try to recruit Muslims.

Even as a Christian, I think its non of our freaking business about the legality of gay marriage.

He will say: «Generations to come will surely be surprised that we failed as a society, and sometimes even as Christians, to actively propose and defend marriage as it came from the hands of the Creator.

Even as a Christian I get put off when people stop me on the street or in a store and hand me bible tracks and inquire about my spiritual condition.

It's amazing how even as Christians, people who are called to walk in holiness and stand for truth and righteousness, we will turn a blind - eye to the actions of someone because they play for our favorite team.

Even as a Christian family, we found the search for a new church home in our new community daunting.

For instance, Christians disagree about the equal rights of men and women — which the Universal Declaration affirms — even as some Christians differ on this point with some Muslims (who also differ about this among themselves)

If we are going to get anywhere in life, even as a Christian, we need a plan for how to get where God wants us to go.

But even as Christians must acknowledge the full reality of human sin, continued Dawson, Christianity itself should never be identified with the rejection of history or the wholesale condemnation of culture:

to run a gathering of regular attenders where the visitor truly feels at ease — even as a Christian visiting other churches I often feel on edge.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

Christ, not Christianity or Western culture, has been the slogan of many leaders of the Neo-Hindu movements in the 19th century, even as Christian Missions insisted on the three as one package.

exlonghorn, Even as a Christian, I can see where you are coming from on this one.

I can tell you even as a Christian the grief and pain were unbearable at times.

Not exact matches

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

All because, somehow, I did not understand that you do not really believe Phelps is a christian, even though you used him as an example of a «meaner» Cchristian, even though you used him as an example of a «meaner» ChristianChristian.

As such voices as T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor have reminded us, the modern world must look to Christians, who stand virtually alone in seeing the need for (or even believing in) firmly embedded nailAs such voices as T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor have reminded us, the modern world must look to Christians, who stand virtually alone in seeing the need for (or even believing in) firmly embedded nailas T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor have reminded us, the modern world must look to Christians, who stand virtually alone in seeing the need for (or even believing in) firmly embedded nails.

the main people getting publicity for dying are muslims currently, however, in the 10 - 40 window, Africa, and Asia (not only there but those are the most obvious), thousands of Christians are being burned to death, chopped up as if they were meat, rolled over by steam rollers after their persecuters have hung their families and children, and much worse forms of torture that as an American i can't even begin to relate to, EVERY DAY in the name of Jesus.

The only Muslims even talking to gang members are ones trying to get them out of gang violence, the same as any Christian ministry in North America.

I beleive that Liberal Socialists who feel threatened by Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists fear their political power so much, that even President Obama is a blind naive proponent of tollerance to Islamic Shariah Law as he funded the Great Iman of NYC.

It is such hypocrisy that Christians even adopt Mormonism as a form of Christianity.

If, as many Christians, Jews and even Muslims believe, they are carved on stone by the very finger of God, and no other writings of such character were commited to stone by Him, then it follows that these Commandments are to be permanent and binding, not temporary.

I am not christian, I absolutely detest the very notion that a «supreme creator» exists, but even I know that you really shouldn't use this thread as a platform for attempting to sell your own religion.

LDS / Mormon is very different than a subset of Christianity (most Christians don't consider it Christianity at all), and therefore since it is not as well known as mainline Christianity (Catholic and Protestant), criticizing particular details (hair - splitting) is still useful on educating others on LDS beliefs — even if done so in a negative way.

But even the most orthodox of Jews will admit that GeHenna (named after the dump outside Jerusalem that existed in the Valley of Hinnom and whilch was considered the most unclean of places, where the «fires never went out» and the «worm never died»... a reference seen in Isaiah...) was an idea adapted from Babylonian theology (taken from Zoasterism), not an idea originally developed in the Tanach (thus you will find references to «the world to come» and «tikkun Olam» only in the Talmud, not in the Tanach... which for Jews is not a problem since our view of «scripture» is not the same as a Christians).

If you were truly reasonable, you would read the best examples of Christian philosophy - whether Aquinas (from the classical period) or modern writers such as Ravi Zacharias, R.C. Sproul, or even a popularizer like C.S. Lewis.

Even though I grew up in a strong Christian family and studied theology in college, I realize it is as likely a story as many others.

Our government was founded by a combination of Christians and Deists, but having studied the actions of our government even against it's own people we haven't been a Christian nation since the beginning, much as some people want it to be.

I would have the urge to open it as fast as possible, but knowing my christian friends» inability to acknowledge or at this point even understand what truth is, I would first arrange a live PayPerView event with thousands of recording devices and as many people as possible to witness the opening.

Some would say that they are not even Christians as they have some far out beliefs.

I think Christians, in general, don't know jack squat about the gay lifestyle / community nor do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier by Trey.

christianity is only most decieved by this as jewish and islam even many oriental religions are understanding true nature of god holy spirit BUT NOT CHRISTIANS!!!

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

A personal relationship with non physical enti - ties such as the Christian God can not even be conceived.

«In the Christian tradition, loss, collapse and failure have always been seen as not only unavoidable, but even necessary on the path to wisdom, freedom and personal maturity,» Blaszczak said.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

Too many progressive Christian books I see, even if I find them agreeable, are imo just too shallow and narrow, as if trying to appeal to the same kind of shallow interests groups as those of of the mass pop Christian evangelical culture.

Ancient Christian so - called persecution at the hands of Romans is also used today as an excuse to persecute others who don't adhere to their beliefs, even by violent means.

To seriously entertain the possibility that the Christian tradition may hold some of the answers for which they are looking would be to go backward, even though for most of these writers it would be going back to where they had never been except as children with a Sunday School impression of Christian doctrine.

A considerable majority of Americans describe themselves as Christian, and it's not even possible to be elected to national office here without making a big show of one's Sunday morning church routine.

I know pagans and Buddhists and polyamorists and pirates, even Goths and Vandals, as well as Christians.

The triviality, even fatuousness, of many current ways of talking about «our stories» has led many thoughtful Christians to abandon the traditions of personal narrative or testimony as tokens of misbegotten «individualism.»

This is what is funny about christianity, Christians change the meaning of the bible so that it makes every satam act as biblical, one day everything will be biblical even walking naked in the streets.

Even then there was conflict because there were different Christian sects as well as Deists and Unitarians.

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

Real faith may even require you to die for your belief (as did early Christians).

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

I was just curious about the mindset of those who deemed non existence more desirable than eternal life, even when viewing the Christian option as hypothetical.

Even as a devout Christian I'd never heard the story of Perpetua.

Hey I'm not even a Christian but I guess I can be a temporary member of the Progressive Christians as defined by Michael's «rule 103» and play the goon.