Sentences with phrase «about heresy in»

He did not worry about heresy in order to protect his own power or prestige.

I am not sugesting that everyone who worries about heresies in the church is a control freak, but there is (IMHO) an element of control at play in the unofficial «thought police» which many churches have.

Not exact matches

It is observed that every heresy is a truth that has lost its balance, and at present, as well as in the past, flirtation with heresy and heresy itself have attended much thinking about the relationship between God and his creation.

in sermons, but when you stop to think about them, they are not only meaningless, but also border on heresy.

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Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

Santorum spent 16 years in Congress but has nothing to talk about but his religious heresy.

The movie, in many ways, is about living in a tension: a loving God and an eternal hell, caring for your pastor but hating «heresy,» building community and casting out «false teachers.»

So the church decided that in order to control the development and spread of heresy, the church would have to make formal decisions about a few things.

[22] For Ignatius, who harboured no illusions about the fact that at the end of his journey his end would come at the teeth of beasts in the amphitheatre of Rome, [23] the letters, with their plea to the recipients that their hope to retain their unity lay in their regarding «a bishop as the Lord himself,» [24] the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

Heresy is not located in one's beliefs about baptism, the continuation of certain spiritual gifts, women in ministry, or political issues.

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Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church about what was truth and what was «heresy.»

Yesterday we looked at several passages in Scripture that talk about «heresy» and we saw that heresy does not exist — at least, not the way we think of it today.

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There are many distinctions noted between the various Sufi orders — as to whether they observed seemliness or extravagance in their exercises, whether they were urban or rural, whether they tried to propagate the faith among non-Muslims or wandered about with no particular mission, whether they set up new dynasties dedicated to holy war or the extirpation of heresy, and the like.

While the Church makes no judgment about the inner state of the heretic, and while good is brought out of the evil of dissensionand heresy through the formulation and definition of dogmas, the idea that heretics such as Valentinius, Arius and Nestorius were right to reject the decisions of councils and popes against them, and that their dissent was in fact nearer to the truth is unacceptable from a Catholic perspective.

However different the two ways may have become when Augustine was a bishop fighting heresies, at the period of his conversion his philosophic understanding of scriptural teaching about the divine order is far more in evidence than any appeal to faith.

In them I talked about violence, for example, the abolition of barbaric customs such as torturing people to death for religious heresy, to reinforce the point that human nature comprises many components, some of which incline us toward violence, some of which pull us away from it.

Come Sunday tells the true - life story of Carlton Pearson, a pentecostal preacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose late»90s revelations (he says directly from God) about the nature of heaven and hell end up deemed heresy by his own church.

The idea of a merger would have been considered heresy back in 2008 (Eric Garcetti hated the idea), but many folks in L.A. seem to be resigned to the notion of the County Museum taking over one of the premiere bastions of contemporary art in the United States — in the same way that you might feel resigned about having to resignedly take in some hot mess of a family member who, despite having every social, cultural and financial advantage, can't seem to pull their shit together.

Talking openly and on the record about eliminating billable hours in a law firm has traditionally been regarded either as heresy or a sign of mental instability.

We have seen the Court of Appeal's rejection of the appeal in the case of British Airways and the employee wanting to wear a cross necklace in defiance of the company's dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-RRB-.