Sentences with phrase «about doctrines like»

I think that the thing which troubles me most about doctrines like this one is not the doctrine itself.

And yet, I'm left feeling confused and unsatisfied about doctrines like sin, the Fall, salvation, etc..

Not exact matches

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

But one must also understand the ignorance of man like yourself, who has been mislead by false doctrines about God and have been blinded from the truth.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Christianity's doctrine about «the law» teaches that G - d is like Pharoh, demanding more than we can deliver.

But anyway, I myself struggle with the same question you asked about pastors who know and embrace the full implications of Calvinism, and I have to say I DO regard a pastor like that as one who teaches False Doctrine and who is dangerous because of it.

I could see it if they weren't members and never attended the church or if there was something about the marriage that went against church doctrine (some pastors will not marry couples who have not went through premarital counseling or had a previous divorce that the church deems wasn't on legitimate grounds, like adultery).

But if we could unite, if we could love one another, if we could agree that love for others was more important than being right about the rapture, then maybe the church would stop dividing over doctrine, and start showing the world what the love of God really looks like.

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...!?

Like a spiritual corpse, he is unable to make a single move toward God, think a right thought about God, or even respond to God — unless God first brings this spiritually dead corpse to life (Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74).

We have known each other for about two years, and though we agree on many basic doctrines of Christianity, we don't agree on everything, and we definitely do not see eye to eye on some central Christian practices like baptism, the Lord's Supper, and church attendance.

This is why the Irish clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.

Their opinion writers don't have a clue about the Bible or Christian doctrine but they love to act like they they do.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

Now I do know that you know much about church history but I would like to remind you that the Church formulated many of its doctrines, such as the Trinity, Jesus» divinity, etc., by way of combating heresy.

They often point to passages like 1 Timothy 4:1 that warns about how doctrines of demons will be taught in churches in the latter days.

We have agreed to not argue about doctrine or anything like that, but to read about Jesus and try to live like him in our world, with love, compassion, forgiveness, generosity, and kindness.

It's wrong to imagine this body of doctrine to be a complete system like Thomism, but it did provide a stable, coherent basis for thinking about the social question.

We are like children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Don't fall into CNN or Fox Network lies, they don't care about God or your eternal salvation, just posting something so Ungodly like this is so Bad, (listen... Get close to Christ the redeemer of mankind) don't get into foolish arguments like this, Hollywood and all media is just the tipping point of the iceberg of something more evil happening, and to believers: get your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to God.

And using terminology like «morons» says far more about the attitude of the writer than about any of the specious practices and doctrines being addressed.

First, there are faithful - enough poetic reflections on the doctrines about Heaven, which may (or may not) include a book like the Paradisio of Dante (the Hollanders are your Dante translators to get, BTW), or the last part of Wendell Berry's Remembering.

Right now we're working on the pooping and it's exactly like Jillian's situation, except sometimes there is no nap diaper because there is no nap.My husband believes in the Colin Powell doctrine of going in with overwhelming force (bribery) and so we started giving matchbox cars for every poop, and this lasted for about two cars.

It doesn't occur until about a third of the way into Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, but when the recorded voice of L. Ron Hubbard outlines a key part of Scientology doctrine involving a tyrannical galactic overlord named Xenu, the story sounds nothing like the pop - cultural punchline it's become in recent years.

And here I was challenged, because how do you write about doctrine and how the Scriptures impact people's lives without sounding like a cheap tract?

The Llewellyn - style contradictions in doctrines governing statutory interpretation, the ambiguity of the «shadow constitutional norms» protected by canons like Kent v. Dulles, and the ambiguity of textual «ambiguity» necessary to trigger canons like Brown & Williamson make principled cross-statutory generalizations about presidential power here (and perhaps elsewhere) almost impossible.