The word
"apostate" refers to a person who has abandoned or turned away from their religious, political, or ideological beliefs.
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Conservative and libertarian activists are on the warpath, and their most important targets may turn out to be Republican leaders seen as
apostates from the cause.
Spong and Borg can more easily be written off
as apostates by people with her mind set.
I think The Lord is bringing His Bride out of the false
apostate church and many many more are hearing the call to come out and be separate.
This is such a heresy that the Spirit has abandoned these churches and they mock God by infant baptism (warning: nevertheless every infant baptism is valid, because God is the invisible Baptist; even the Catholic infant baptism is valid, although the RCC has completely
turned apostate from the real faith).
And, Sharia law requires the death penalty
for apostates from Islam to another religion.
Ferreira, coming to him in the darkness, explains that the sounds are the cries of
apostate Christians suspended upside down in pits, condemned to remain in agony until Rodrigues himself apostatizes.
Darwin was a racist Christian
apostate who forgot his first love and went for his bitterfly collection.
Regretably the Catholic Church has turned
apostate by papacy.
I keep on reading the Psalm, and somewhere there it is written that yet an embryo can turn
apostate in the womb of his mother.
Gnosticism intertwined philosophy, speculation, and pagan mysticism
with apostate Christianity.
Instead of such analysis, Gleick called for a day of judgement
on apostates, deniers and unbelievers:
Some hardlining mainliners may surmise that Outler is suspect as one more «neocon» who has gone over the hill and, like
other apostates, spends his career taking revenge on his own spiritual past and the colleagues he thinks he has left behind.
For this idea he had support in the ancient prophetic conception of a faithful and saving remnant standing out from a disobedient and
apostate people.
For example, Bruce McConkie stated «Modernistic teachings denying the virgin birth are utterly and
completely apostate and false.»
Sharia, based on the Koran and the Hadiths (Muhammad quotes), calls for
killing apostates, adulterers, blasphemers or critics of Islam or Muhammad — for starters.
The Department of Climate Science at Boku Haram releases new video showing formerly
apostate climate scientists now contentedly collecting West African tree - ring data for Dr Mann's next hockey stick
Rogue ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops are nothing new in Christian history, but with the breakaways to the Old Catholic Church following Vatican Council I in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes (bishops on the loose) became a pronounced feature of an underworld of
apostate Catholics and sectarian Anglicans.
First against the Hebrew people who wanted to destroy it, Then the Romans who also were bent on its annihilation, then barbarians,
then apostates from within itself who sought its ruin.
As Martin sees it, this separates him from the intolerance of the hyper - conservative fundamentalists, on the one hand, and the liberal,
apostate culture on the other.
In a country with two parallel legal systems, appeals to secular courts to right such wrongs are often referred back to the Shari`ah authorities, who don't grant permission to convert but instead
punish apostates.
... There are people who... appear by all human perception to be united with Christ, but they are
apostates doomed to hell.
After having said all this this then does not become Christianity but
apostate religion running beside a communist dictatorship run autocracy likens to the days of King Ahab And Queen Jezebel.
Bill the deluded
apostate ~ for you Bill there will be no saving you from the eternal fires of hell and satan's an @l punishment becauseof your lifestyle.
When asked about Atlanta, noted school
reform apostate Diane Ravitch pointed the finger at the federal No Child Left Behind law, saying that, when high - stakes incentives are attached to test scores, we are «virtually inviting» teachers to cheat.
(Even reform
apostate Diane Ravitch noticed as much when she questioned Rick Hess's ESA enthusiasm: «Surely he doesn't believe that Nevada will emerge at the top of NAEP in five years, ten years, or ever because of all this subsidization of nonpublic schools.»)
Like
most apostates, I don't find that my behavior has been any worse since it lost its eschatological sanctions.
The people Hutchison gathered do not belong to the sadomasochistic,
apostate school.