Sentences with phrase «in pure religion»

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To just dismiss that out of hand because you think religion is complete nonesense is spitting in the face of of logic in favor of pure bias.

«Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world» Religion is not the invention of man; if you are withuot Christ in your heart, you are fatherless and a widow.

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

You are a shining example of the pure, unadulterated self - righteousness that religion instills in people.

Easterby understands there is often skepticism when it comes to religion, but he stresses the project involves no money and is pure in its intentions.

I am reminded of what Jesus said about the purest form of religion being taking care of the most vulnerable of society with widows and orphans and to keep from being polluted by evil, in this case the love of money over meeting the needs of the poor.

In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between a religion of superficiality and self - absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person.

@ Chad — I have for James 1:27: Pure religion and undefiled before god and the father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

But if we take Ezekiel's teaching as a whole we shall not suspect him of the kind of pure individualism in religion which has become familiar in the modern world.

Our definition of religion and religious belief departs from the traditional one in which Marxism, naturalism, scientism and positivism are classified as ideologies, not as religion, the implication being that they are formulated and attained by pure reason alone.

James wrote that «pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.»

Thus the motivation which is the (attempted) attitude of pure atheistic humanism was the only one philosophers could approve in religion.

In their opinion the Church needed to return to a «pure» religion based on scripture alone, sola scriptura.

«James 1:27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.»

In actuality, their plan was pure brilliance as in one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have controIn actuality, their plan was pure brilliance as in one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have controin one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have controin charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have control.

Perhaps Christianity works better, and in its purest form, as a minority religion.

When freed from this obligation, religion accumulates a yeasty power in the dough of culture, and the light it offers consciences is purer.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.»

All you got to do is research them yourself, also Christianity in it's purest form is not religion, it is truth because all you have to do is study the Holy scriptures and apply them to your life & human history & you'll see this is the real deal & not some book written y a bunch of random guys whio wanted to tell a good story.

The description in James puts it best, and is far from what some online message board posters try to tell me what and why I believe: «Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.»

The goal of the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem, but man gets in the way, and becomes the problem.

the truth of biblical religion is pure and not the problem»... I envy yr faith... human artifacts, especially religious narratives are rarely as pure as you might suggest... at best, I think the scriptures shld be a means and not an end, so in that sense need not be pure... they are merely signposts along the way... ultimately, we are the judges of what is pure or impure, higher or lower, right or wrong

If liberation theologians, in solidarity with the victims of modernity, have no illusions about modernity's quest for «pure reason,» we are just as disillusioned about the quest for «pure religion» in classical sacralisms.

When these competing sacralisms spawned the wars of religion, the modern quest for «pure reason» led the rationalists to reject revealed religion and enthrone in its place first a natural religiosity and then a secularist supremacy of reason.

Many verses in the bible both imply and state outright that we should practice religion as followers of Christ, including James 1:27 which outlines what pure religion is.

It was the extremer cases that I had in mind a little while ago when I said that personal religion, even without theology or ritual, would prove to embody some elements that morality pure and simple does not contain.

The Reformers, in their turn, sought to purify the act of religion by an appeal to faith alone, sola fides, in the assurance that faith was somehow better, more spiritual and pure, when uncoupled from the limits and demands of rational investigation.

«There is no doubt in my mind that pure Christianity and pure Buddhism, and the Mental Sciences and all Religions, fundamentally teach what has been a discovery to me; but none of them have presented it in the light of a simple and easy process of elimination.

Now in these lectures I propose to ignore the institutional branch entirely, to say nothing of the ecclesiastical organization, to consider as little as possible the systematic theology and the ideas about the gods themselves, and to confine myself as far as I can to personal religion pure and simple.

As for myself, I think it will prove to contain some elements which morality pure and simple does not contain, and these elements I shall soon seek to point out; so I will myself continue to apply the word «religion'to it; and in the last lecture of all, I will bring in the theologies and the ecclesiasticisms, and say something of its relation to them.

That we ought to love these neighbors with rejoicing and with reverence, with gratitude and with loyalty is the demand we dimly recognize in our purer moments in science and religion, in art and politics.

In religion and science there is a constant conflict between the devotees of pure endeavor after truth and the seekers after immediate, tangible results.

In this sense we may say of worship what the late George Tyrrell said of all religion: that there is only one worship, which begins in primitive and crude ways, grandly develops to purer conceptions, with ups and downs but yet moving forward as man himself becomes morally and spiritually more discerning, until it reaches its always - implied center in a focal and intensive expression which is, so we Christians would affirm, uniquely given in the person and the work of Jesus ChrisIn this sense we may say of worship what the late George Tyrrell said of all religion: that there is only one worship, which begins in primitive and crude ways, grandly develops to purer conceptions, with ups and downs but yet moving forward as man himself becomes morally and spiritually more discerning, until it reaches its always - implied center in a focal and intensive expression which is, so we Christians would affirm, uniquely given in the person and the work of Jesus Chrisin primitive and crude ways, grandly develops to purer conceptions, with ups and downs but yet moving forward as man himself becomes morally and spiritually more discerning, until it reaches its always - implied center in a focal and intensive expression which is, so we Christians would affirm, uniquely given in the person and the work of Jesus Chrisin a focal and intensive expression which is, so we Christians would affirm, uniquely given in the person and the work of Jesus Chrisin the person and the work of Jesus Christ.

But the most obvious way in which religions acknowledge the reality of divine mystery is by their assuming the posture of pure silence.

We are at the era of Charlatanism, Quackery & Delusion... Pure Religions are a good thing but Religious one's might be misguided to astray beyond the truth by swindlers into becoming as dark as it reflects; - Say, «O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way.»

the Jews triangulated in on a God, the Christians targeted a specific One and not much else, and the Muslims attempt to encircle them all with violence rather than a religion of pure LOVE like Christians teach though has been subverted against old and new testament laws forbidding such that Islam endorses namely justified killing,.

Its true, true pure religion should have no place and say in government.

The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual's past experience directly serves as a model.

«These and many more evil customs which had sprung up in the night of darkness and general apostasy from the truth and true religion were now, by the inshining of this pure my of divine light in my conscience, gradually discovered to me to be what I ought to cease from, shun, and stand a witness against.»

But we find repeatedly in their writings the view that a pure religion is accessible to all by nature and that Christianity, like every other historical religion, partly exhibits the religion of nature, partly obscures and corrupts it.

The clearest and probably the purest expression of the ethical dynamism I have located in the realm of the public theology broke through at one crucial moment in our history into the civil religion itself in the person of our greatest, perhaps our only, civil theologian, Abraham Lincoln.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world (James 1:27)

Islam is the only pure montheistic religion in the world.

«Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.»

But we need to fill the void and tell of the real Christ, free from all the baggage of dead religion and historical corruption, in his pure, loving and powerful position as God.

The fearful gatekeepers who have insisted throughout the ages that pure religion can be maintained only in a ghetto or compound have not been entirely wrong.

He who has penetrated the mystery of religion will cease wanting simply to convert the believers among the other high religions; moreover, his desire is twofold, to give and to receive, to represent the purest form of Christianity to others and in turn to learn about the most intimate character of the belief of others.

Having grown up in church, I know that «pure and undefiled religion» is to care for orphans and widows.

The «Pure Buddhism» mentioned in our textbooks of the history of religions does not exist at all.

«Pure religion is this,» says the Letter of James: «to visit widows in their affliction.