Sentences with phrase «jesus taught this way»

Jesus teaches the way to get to heaven... by doing these actions The buddha taught that you can acheive enlightenment by doing the same actions.

We looked at some reasons why Jesus taught this way.

Not exact matches

It invites us to discover the ancient, non-violent ways of the Sermon on the Mount as Jesus taught it.

The Catholic Church teaches that everyone who has a heartfelt religious belief and practices whatever belief it is, accepts Jesus Christ in their own way.

By the way, Atheists don't need to be told what is right and wrong, we know what is and do follow the «Teachings of Jesus» we just don't believe that there is a God, that is just silly.

Reality is a modern day Phygellus and Hermogenes that insists false teachings of the ways of man supersedes Jesus» truth.

Jesus taught that the way to God was thru your heart.

I have long felt that the essence of Jesus» teachings is the best way to serve God is to be a good parent, a good child, a good grandparent.

Jesus taught His disciples that the way they treated the oppressed was not only a direct reflection of how they treated him, but also an indication of whether they were true followers (Matthew 25:31 - 46).

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

Funny how your Jesus taught compassion, acceptance, love and tolerance... and you christians teach and practice the exact opposite for anyone that doesn't believe or act the way you view as acceptable.

I have been taught and whole heartedly believe that the only way to heaven is through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

If the true teachings of Jesus — which to me appear mostly logical and reasonable, are allowed to shine through all the hyperbole, I think a lot of people would be attracted to his way of life.

Even as a young Catholic student I was always taught that, while giving up something for Lent is a way to mimic Jesus» 40 days of fasting before his death, a more modern — and more true to the spirit of Jesus — approach is to find a way to DO something that has a positive impact on someone else and yourself.

Just as Jesus taught that the way Sabbath was being practiced was not the way God intended, so also, I believe that the way church is most often practiced, is not the way God intended.

Your statement that «all the comments on this subject (concerning atheists) do not come from happy people... who despise, are upset, have nothing, are not thankful and... have nothing to live for» goes against the very way that both Jesus and the apostles taught when speaking with individuals who do not share their view.

«However, some are finding their entry to ordination blocked by liberal clergy who do not believe orthodox Anglican teachings, like Jesus being the only way to be saved.

So although my wife I sometimes worry that we are raising our girls different than the way we were raised, we think that in many ways, our way is teaching them to follow Jesus in meaningful and tangible ways which we did not really learn until more recently.

Jesus was teaching about himself in ways that offended the Jews.

And the political and perverted way in which his writings were immediately used to supercede Jesus» teachings became the backbone of the early church, thus rendering it perverted and corrupt from the very beginning.

Psychologists have taught us much about ourselves in ways that seem quite different from anything we learn from Jesus.

As logical as it seems to stay away from teachings that cause such debilitating fear (so much so that the thirteen - year - old me created escape plans for the inevitable AntiChrist Army that would march down our street to shoot me after the rest of my family had successfully been raptured), it would be even less logical to believe that God would create a group of strange people created to be forever distanced from Jesus because we can't know Him in the right way.

If the Bible is a myth, it would be the truest and most helpful myth ever written, and I would still read it, study it, teach it, and try to follow it... especially the parts about Jesus, for He (even if he didn't really exist) represents the truest way to be human.

Jesus is the Wisdom of God in Person who became man to teach us the full truth and show us the only way to be fully alive with God for ever.

I assume that Jesus would be surprised and in many ways shocked by the full range of consequences of his life and teaching.

Matthew's Jesus has been teaching the disciples that the kingdom of heaven works not as the world works, but as a new way to live based in forgiveness.

The tradition that Jesus taught in one way to the crowd and in another way to the disciples is a literary device of the evangelists.

Of course in principle, a leader must be a servant of all according to Jesus» teachings and the writer of Hebrews instructs to have confidence in leaders and respect their authority in a way that their work is a joy not a burden.

A more significant example of the way in which the early Christian community applied the teachings of Jesus to their own situation is in the interpretation given to some of the parables.

A comparison of the two forms of this story provides an instructive example of the way Jesus» teaching was sometimes expanded and given new applications to meet the needs of the growing church and the interests of the evangelists.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

Didn't Jesus come precisely to teach the Jews that there was a better way than trying to abide by so many rules and regulations?

Jesus» teaching fits together in a similar way: «eternal punishment» consists of torment followed by destruction — like a combined sentence of hard labour followed by execution.

He is not representative of the way most Christians feel, nor is he living according to the principles and teachings of Jesus.

If you want to be delivered from the devastating and destructive consequences of sin (see Sin), then you need to follow the ways, teachings, examples, and instructions of Jesus, and especially what He showed us through His death, burial, and resurrection.

Cardinal Sarah teaches us silence — being silent with Jesus, true inner stillness, and in just this way he helps us to grasp the word of the Lord anew.

And, by the way, Andrew and OLMS, if you have something against David as your former pastor, Jesus taught how to dea with it.

Jesus spent all of his ministry teaching you to treat your neighbor in the same way that you would want to be treated; invited you to take notice of the plank in your eye, not to cast the first stione, to turn the other cheek.

Those who say that these are the same sermon argue that Jesus went up the mountain to pray, and then he came about half way down the mountain to a level place on the mountain where he chose his disciples, performed the healing we see here, and then began to teach.

But insofar as we can call racism a blind spot (by which I don't in any way mean to absolve people of responsibility), Jesus taught a very different process for correction: start with your own sin.

The Greco Roman household codes were an unjust system: these teachings show us how to work within them as people committed to the ways of Jesus.

To be sure, we have an expanded canon of Scripture, but nothing within the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price contradicts what is taught in the Bible regarding the virgin birth (which, by the way, we definitely believe in), teachings, miracles, atoning sacrifice, or bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Here a great deal of the private teaching of Jesus to his disciples must have had its Sitz im Leben — especially the Lord's Prayer must belong here — and here the disciples must have come to know the special way that Jesus had of «breaking bread» which gave rise to the legend of the Emmaus road (Luke 24.35).

As we study the gospels and learn of Jesus» challenge for us to seek the kingdom first and teach others in the Way of Christ, we see the dominating posture is faithfulness.

Tacitus (a.d. 55 - 120), the greatest early Roman historian, wrote that Christus (Greek for Christ) had lived during the reign of Tiberius and «suffered under Pontius Pilate, that Jesus» teachings had already spread to Rome; and that Christians were considered criminals and tortured in a variety of ways, including crucifixion.»

So Paul repeats in his way the pattern in Jesus» teaching as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels.

And so I conclude this month of posts with a prayer written by four of the contributors to this series (Anna Broadway, Dominique Gilliard, Corey Widmer, and Natasha Sistrunk Robinson), a prayer modeled after the way Jesus taught us to pray, a prayer for me, for you and perhaps your church community:

The absurdity of these examples unveils the shallowness of this way of appropriating Jesus» teaching.

This is an organization set up to teach and help the lost find the way to Jesus.