Sentences with phrase «as heretics when»

We should begin by making sure we don't metaphorically burn each other at the stake or label each other as heretics when we honestly disagree.

We were viewed as heretics when we tried to tell others in our ministry about it.

The notable exception was Judith Curry who was roundly turned on as heretic when she stood up and said it was time to get climate science back on the rails in 2006.

Not exact matches

This discrepancy was revealed most dramatically when Martin Luther was considered a heretic by the institutional church of his day... but only because he clung to what he saw the institutional church as rejecting: that is, the apostles» teaching.

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

Maybe Kimball assumes that everyone has read N.T. Wright, rediscovered the significance of the kingdom message of Jesus, and re-framed the mission of the church as being one that should benefit the world, but when I tell people around here that I think God has a plan to redeem and restore the entire creation right here on earth, I get called a heretic.

At a time when Christians were condemning, expelling, and killing one another over doctrinal differences, a guy named Georg Calixtus had the crazy idea that perhaps one could hold to one's convictions (his were Lutheran) without condemning as heretics those with whom one disagrees.

We as christians need to show a better way, but how can we when the Church is divided (heretics) no wonder other beliefs laugh and scorn us.

When can we finally call him out as the hateful heretic he is?

The recent, though scantily reported, rise within Jewry of a «Messianic» movement which, while affirming the continued theological validity of the Jewish people, also accepts Jesus as Israel's Messiah, could not have occurred in past centuries when the traditional churches held sway and routinely burned premillenial types at the stake as heretics.

Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?