Sentences with phrase «by fellow believers»

Do you believe when Jesus said «turn the other cheek» he was referring to being constantly slapped down by your fellow believers — you know, the ones who are to be maturing and new creations in Christ?

Most Convicting (nominated by Alise Wright): David Nilsen with «Coping with Disappointment When Calvinists Refuse to Be Jerks» «I think one of the problems with most of us who consider ourselves progressive Christians is that we live in constant expectation of being judged by our fellow believers who are more conservative.

Things take a darker turn when the body of a neo-Nazi girl is found in the dressing room - or green room in entertainment - industry parlance - with a knife in the head, the result of an attack by a fellow believer.

Not exact matches

By all accounts you and your fellow believers are preoccupied with death and what you believe happens afterward.

Even if a believer does harbour doubt, the scorn, shunning and shame that is meted out by their fellow religionists can make life extremely unpleasant and difficult.

I do nt usually argue with fellow believers, but in this case I would point out that there is no scriptural evidence that Adam changed physically as a result of the fall (by adding genitalia)

And that belief is molded and shaped by other Christian (ministers, apologists authors, fellow believers) that they encounter.

The idea that non believers have nothing to care about, nothing to live for and no reason to treat their fellow humans decently is a lie perpetrated by those who wish to keep people in bondage to the myth of a loving, yet just deity.

Also modern is the combination of an intense individualism» Jesus is accepted as «personal lord and savior»» supported by a strong community of fellow believers.

I am a pious apostate, an atheist shocked by the faithlessness of the believers, a fellow traveler of moderate Catholicism who has been out of the church for 20 years.

But they are increasingly drowned out by cries of «theocracy, theocracy, theocracy» and by a zeal, among ostensibly religious intellectuals, to read their fellow believers out of public life and sell their birthright for the blessing of the New York Times.

Frankly, I often disagree with fellow believers on how they try to legislate their interpretation of scripture, but the governance of a civil society is never going to be uninfluenced by people of faith as long as it is a democracy.

Since it is God's gift food should not be used as a weapon either by Christians to destroy the weaker consciences of their fellow believers or by the state to compel Christians to engage in certain cultural activities deemed to be necessary for citizenship.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

By this recreation the believer is constituted as a free person with responsibility in relation to Christ and fellow human beings.

This antipathy was accentuated by the inclination of at least some of the Christian Roman Emperors to take their fellow believers in Persia under their protection.

: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions, he does his fellow evangelicals a vital service by identifying and discussing six areas where critics like Ehrman have sown deep seeds of doubt in the minds of believers and seekers as to the reliability of the Bible.

They place fault on fellow believers for being too - easily aggrieved, and accuse us of being motivated more by the need to sustain our culture - war industrial complexes than by principle.

Fortunately, he and other conservative Christians are being challenged by climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian on a crusade to demonstrate to her fellow believers why being a Christian is not in conflict with accepting climate change.

By the same logic, I assume your support for AGW also implies you support the murderous actions of your fellow AGW believer, Osama Bin Laden.