Sentences with phrase «by christian men»

Beth is helped in her travels west by Christian men and women, yet Beth refuses to soften her heart.

Our country was founded by Christian men on Christian values.

Not exact matches

Rival candidate Heinz - Christian Strache, 42, responded with a Facebook photo in which he's flexing, and wearing that skimpy variety of swimsuit favoured by European men.

His ministry was governed by an independent board that included successful Christian businessmen and other professionals — a stark departure from the widespread evangelical practice of packing boards with relatives and yes - men.

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

And the Christian God is a lot like Prometheus — a God who is animated by love of and pity for man and is willing to suffer for us to be healed or delivered from the misery of our mortality.

The comment resonated with me because I had just spent time with a young man who was visibly shaken by an email he'd received from a Christian colleague...

Obviously, today's followers of Paul et al's «magic - man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic - man atonement, and infalliable, old, European, white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption of said sacrifices.

Your hate filled judgments have no place in any world christian or otherwise and perhaps your God grows tired of all of you pretending to speak for him / her / it while passing judgment on generally good people while pretending that a religion created by fallible men has all the answers.

When I express anger, it's with men now, in this time - Santorum is a great example - who wish to shove Jesus» story down my throat by incorporating Christian law into the secular government of my country.

but Paul killed christians, so there is no man who by merit attains what God gives as grace and mercy.

the christians were bad during the crusades, stirred up by Pope Urban II into going and taking land the ROMAN EMPIRE, not christianity, had lost, and these same «holy crusaders», upon taking Jerusalem, massacred men, women, children, muslims, jews, christians, everyone just because they were different.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

The Christian Bible was written by men, not women, and then rewritten time - and - again over the last several hundred years, by men, when the Bible failed to support the teachings of those «men».

Did you ever think that you Christians, and all other religions (created by men), are wrong?

Most, and by most I mean a far overwhelming number, of Christians were sickened by the earthquakes in Haiti and Bam, the tsunami's, and every other natural and man - made disaster.

Thedecision of the council was (by James, who some Christian sources claim was «James the Righteous», a man well documented in Josephus) «It is my judgement therefore that we should not make it difficult for the GENTILES who are turning to G - d (notice it's considered a process, not an event).

If you carry your proposal forward, that you can believe the Bible to be flawed and yet somehow still consider yourself to be a Christian, you will find that eventually your faith in God unravels, and is replaced by faith in man or self, and your relationship with God will be broken.

Some awkwardness and misunderstanding is inevitable in relationships, but sometimes, Christian women get so bogged down by the concept of men being «leaders» that we fail to recognize that God only calls us into this kind of «leading» relationship within the walls of a loving, respect - filled, and mutually submissive marriage.

``... those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy, the most sublime & benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man, endeavored to crush your well earnt, & well deserved fame.»

The research, commissioned by Christian Legacy, found that 65 % of Christian women included a charitable gift in their will, compared with only 35 % of men.

Basic Christian theology --(i) good things we don't quite understand were caused by God; (ii) bad things we don't understand were caused by man.

It is a wondrous book, a marvelous celebration of a man who never wearied of celebrating the wonder and marvel of a world illumined by Christian orthodoxy.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).

He also said that while pagan gods maintained their positions in the universe by punishing people, the Christian God acted profoundly differently by punishing himself on man's behalf - something unheard of before that point.

That's because we recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation that is bound together by a living faith in Jesus rather than by man - made, blood - soaked borders.

Obviously, today's followers / singers of Paul et al's «magic - man» are also a bit on the odd side believing in all the Christian mumbo jumbo about virgin births and bodies resurrecting, and exorcisms, and miracles, and «magic - man atonement, and infallible, old, European, white men, and 24/7 body / blood sacrifices followed by consumption of said sacrifices.

What would be a breath of fresh air is that if this man is a Christian, then he would pray in the name of his Lord, Jesus Christ and not face censorship by the Obama regime for doing so.

Praising Him by saying nasty things about your fellow man is not going to be a credit to your account, and if you think intolerance is the way to comment on a story about a sad guy getting to be happy, you are no Christian.

I'm a Christian and I KNOW Christ exists, but not in this man - conttived and contorted punishing unforgiving version conceived and dictated by those with morals much more questionable than the average decent person on the street or even myself.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

One day in March AD 415, during the season of Lent, her chariot was waylaid on her route home by a Christian mob, possibly Nitrian monks led by a man identified only as Peter, who is thought to be Peter the Reader, Cyril's assistant.

Jesus» definition of a Christian: «By this shall all men know ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.»

I myself am a Christian and when I go to mass every Sunday I am taught that our place in Heaven is earned by helping others in need (to clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, feed the starving etc), Jesus was a man who shunned nobody and welcomed everybody who was willing to follow him.

It is not entirely accurate to say Christians base their whole belief on the writings of bronze age and iron age man that claim to be inspired by a god.

In Christianity, most point to the bible as the «word of God,» yet, the facts are (admitted by Christians who are capable of acknowledging the obvious) it is written by men.

Isn't it also true that man is body, soul and spirit and it is only the ever lasting spirit of a Christian which has been fully occupied by God.

In his apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, issued in 1994, John Paul said Christian hope «is not simply a case of man seeking God, but of God who comes in person to speak to man of himself and to show him the path by which he may be reached.»

By Steve Finnell How do men become Christians?

Christians who want to defend our faith are being duped by the Father of Lies into falling for a story that says Islam is the enemy and therefore anything we do to fight Islam (including posting obvious lies, including inciting hatred for men and women made in God's image) is justified.

Röpke's neoliberalism was founded on a Christian humanism: «My picture of man is fashioned by the spiritual heritage of classical and Christian tradition.

In the Book of John, Jesus defined Christians this way, «By this shall all men know ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.»

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that «Christians of the first centuries said God created the world for the sake of communion with his divine life, a communion brought about by the «convocation» [gathering together] of men in Christ, and this «convocation» is the Church».

Therefore, the justified Christian man, in himself and of his own nature a sinner but not seen as a sinner by God, brings forth those good works which consist in the love of God and neighbor, not slavishly to win any reward but gladly, that service which is perfect freedom.»

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

This time, the approximately 28 men targeted by the Libya affiliate of the self - proclaimed Islamic State (also known as Daesh) were Ethiopian Christians.

He was well acquainted with Christian theology, having been particularly influenced as a young man by the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr.

I have never met Timothy George, but judging from the accolades offered by Neuhaus he must be a wonderful man and an exemplary Christian.