Sentences with phrase «true doctrine churches»

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According to the true Christian doctrine, there should be no hierarchy in the Christian Church.

The true Church does not get its doctrine from those at the bottom.

A lot of churches believe in order to be considered a true Christian, you have to also accept the doctrine of the Trinity.

The writer to this article is not a very informed or intelligent individual and anyone who judges the LDS church by the polygamist doctrine is missing out on a true and virtuous, motivating, and service oriented religion, and is ultimately rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Most disagree with the practices, interpretation and doctrine of the other sects and many consider anyone who isn't in their particular church as «not true Christians».

I know of no current church body, which keeps the true doctrine.

This was true even for those who had no interest in church doctrines or worship.

Maybe some Russian or some Greek churches keep the true doctrine.

Argues coherently and logically that the doctrine of Infallibility must be an essential element of the true Church of Christ.

My definition of «church» has definitely changed over the years, and I find myself leaning more and more toward the idea that the true bride of Christ is a group of living breathing people — not a building, not an organization, not a set of doctrines, etc. — just people who continue on the path toward faith in God.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

And the Church must be allowed to be true to herself — to preach Christian doctrine and Christian morality, in and out of season.

The church, it is true, has always had to find ways of protecting its doctrine.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

For him this doctrine is not only the fundamental discriminator whereby one discerns the «true Christian» but also the universal teaching of the Christian church — at least prior to the rise of biblical criticism.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

Now having said that, this ex-communication is an opportunity for Kelly to break free of the chains of pride, deception, and false doctrine that bound her in the Mormon church, and to be open to hearing the true nature of Christ and her inability to please God by any works of her own.

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

This reality makes us aware that every narrow definition of Christian doctrinal certainty will finally have to be abandoned; every claim by any branch of the Christian church to be the true church or the only church will ultimately have to be sacrificed; every doctrine of infallibility — whether of the papacy, or of the Scriptures, or of any sacred tradition, or of any individual experience — will inevitably have to be forgotten.

We must expect today, when we all know that a new era has begun in the history of human civilisation, that if the religion of Christ is true, and is founded upon the only claim which makes Christianity the hope of mankind - upon the Divinity personal and unambiguous of Jesus Christ - that we will find within the bosom of the Church's doctrine all that we need to fire the world anew, and to restore all things in Christ.

The Church teaches the truth of the Virgin Birth and the truth of Mary's Immaculate Conception; both doctrines are true, but the Virgin Birth is closer to the Paschal Mystery than is the Immaculate Conception.

That this omission had consequences in the life of the Church is apparent from the diversity of doctrines — not all of which can possibly be true — that have been drawn from Paul's words.

The reason can be found in the document's preface where it insists that religious freedom «leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ» (s. 1).

If teachers of status, whether priests or layfolk, do not accept themselves and do not teach to others the doctrine of life and human goodness that Jesus taught on earth and still teaches in His Church, they will not form within others the true identity of the real, the living Jesus.

In fact we would argue that true development of doctrine, including the social teaching of the Church, is only possible on the basis of the orthodox doctrinal and spiritual principles.

Likewise against the Manichees in the matter of the goodness of sexual desire and function, and against the Pelagians in the matter of its perfection and the need of inner grace to attain that perfection, Augustine gave again to the Church a synthesis of divine and human reasoning which the Church in his day, and for a thousand years and more afterwards, recognised as true in fact to the consequences of her doctrine.

He presented to the Church of his day, after much dialogue and discussion, a doctrine of Original Sin which the Church recognised as true in all essentials to what she did in fact believe.

The REAL Church is the heart of man, receiving our LORD's HOLY SPIRIT, true acceptance of GOD's saving GRACE would mean turning away from false teachings, man's doctrines and traditions.

As Anderson shows, all the best and true Catholic reformers — whatever their political views or prudential decisions — were always strong proponents of established Church doctrine, and fierce disciplinarians when it came to upholding Church teaching, particularly in the area of sexual morality (a main target of today's «reformers»).

But if this is true, then it can not now separate its doctrines of God, Christ, Church, and Faith from the historical development of human consciousness and the fact of cosmic evolution.

First, the doctrine of the Protestant Church, which is the true one.

My current ministry is taking care of widows and orphans, ministering to those with drug & alcohol problems — in other words doing what the true God would want; not going after the civil rights of millions of Americans — we need to keep church separated from hate — and stop trying to deny civil rights based on perceived religious doctrine.

The LDS Church derives these doctrines from its expanded canon of «scripture» that includes alleged modern revelations given to Joseph Smith, who claimed to be the Prophet through whom God restored true Christianity to the earth.»

But it is necessary, because the Catholic Church believes that her doctrine on the Eucharist is true.

To be fair... this sort of dialogue leads to two possible outcomes: 1) all doctrine is false, 2) theRoman Catholic is the one true Church.

true believer = loyalist to the christian doctrine and to the christian church who's only interest is in the preservation of the religious hierarchy.

So we teach that the true harmony of the church consists in doctrines and in the true and harmonious preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and in rites that have been expressly delivered by the Lord,

Find a true church that does not follow man's doctrine but follows the New Testament.

The latter two groups felt it was necessary to expound true doctrine and to be of influence on society through the State support of the Church.

They were now made responsible for the preservation of true doctrine, given a more important part in the nomination of ministers, and empowered to admonish people who disregarded the church laws.

Based on a true story, Netflix's new film Come Sunday follows renowned pastor Carlton Pearson, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who puts his family and reputation at risk when he questions the church doctrine and his own belief in a vengeful God.