Sentences with phrase «when most evangelicals»

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Hutchens makes no sense when he claims even the most conservative evangelicals are Meliorists, for all conservative evangelicals reject at least two of the three parts of the Meliorist method.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

That's exactly what most evangelical leaders (very few of whom supported either Trump or Clinton when the election began) advise.

I think that most modern American Evangelical readers, attempting to read Lutheran confessional documents by himself or herself, will usually get lost more quickly, and give up sooner, than when reading the analogous Calvinist confessional texts.

Most evangelical Christians, when confronted with this hypothetical scenario, respond by saying, «Oh, that would never happen with my son.

Researchers found no consensus among evangelical pastors about which characteristic matters most when choosing a candidate.

In fact, most evangelical churches rejected Pentecostalism until the mid-1980s, when the Third Wave began to have its impact.

We're most tempted to divorce — or as one apparently former evangelical put it, to «resign from evangelicalism» — when we believe that our particular political concerns are so woven into the fabric of the gospel they can not be separated from it.

When the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals in 2001 provocatively named Tim LaHaye «the most influential American Evangelical of the last 25 years» (for the breadth of his bestselling bibliography), few took notice.

One clarification first: I'll focus in these answers on what could be called «evangelical Calvinism» and the distinctive most people have in mind when discussing or refuting it, namely, God's absolute sovereignty.

When asked what should be Trump's first priority as president, white evangelical voters most often picked health care (31 %), immigration (13 %), the economy (11 %), and unemployment (10 %).

It may seem unkind for me to say such a thing about Christians but if we're being honest here... I'm only saying what most Americans are thinking when Evangelicals make those kinds of statements.

As it is, most conservative / fundamental / reformed / evangelical «Christians» are open to this doctrine of God's mercy when it comes to the infant child and / or the mentally affected.

Most so called evangelicals have no idea what the bible is really all about... they think they do and they preach from it... the bible does not really say when the world was created and why.

Newsweek in 1976 reflected a common feeling when it called the evangelical movement «the most significant and overlooked religious phenomenon of the 1970s.»

I highly doubt Otherhand is an evangelical Christian (a term overused & stretched way beyond it's meaning to evangelize — proclaming the good news to the lost) when he / she says «has nothing to do with real Christianity and uses religion in it's most nefarious disguise — to shower contempt on others.»

No wonder that in their faith - filled evangelical intuition, at the moment when the scourged and crowned with thorns Jesus of Nazareth appears to be the most powerless, the people spontaneously acclaim him as «El Señor del Poder... el señor de la Gloria.»

Even Paul and Augustine are in reality Hussites... I am so shocked that I do not know what to think when I see such terrible judgements of God over mankind, namely that the most evident evangelical truth was burned in public... Woe to this earth.

Obnoxious evangelicals who do not mind their own business and who do not respect even the most basic tenets of Christianity are not in a position to whine when someone challenges their reactionary political agenda.