Sentences with phrase «by teaching doctrines»

A reason given was that «heretics,» by teaching doctrines which imperiled the eternal welfare of souls, were even more dangerous than murderers who took physical life.

Some clergy are afraid that by teaching the doctrine they will lose their people.

Not exact matches

Doctrine for the pluralists is the expression of Christian teaching as worked out by some appropriate theology and expressed in terms adequate to the culture of the day.

The discipline of place teaches that it is more than enough to care skillfully and lovingly for oneâ $ ™ s own little circle, and this is the model for the good life, not the limitless jurisdiction of the ego, granted by a doctrine of choice, that is ever seeking its own fulfillment, pleasure, and satiation.

You have given an outstanding list of records covering thousands of years of examination by brilliant minds on the doctrines and — at times — myths taught and believed.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Whatever may be the correct doctrine regarding the teaching authority of the bishops conference, in practical fact that authority is at stake in every statement made by the conference.

Mormon doctrine teaches that the Second Coming of Jesus was imminent, [48] and that God would soon exact punishment against the United States for persecuting Mormons and martyring Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith, Patten and Pratt, all of whom were considered by Mormons to be prophets.

It is, like all of Calvinism's doctrines, not explicitly taught anywhere in scripture, but extrapolated by taking a few verses or partial verses out of context and granting them a meaning never intended by the authors.

Election (as taught by Calvinist) is a doctrine of elitism & favoritism.

I agree that the church keeps people away by teaching wrong doctrine such as hell being a place of everlasting torment - who wants to serve a God like that.

Still others stray from the faith (1 Tim 1:5 - 6), shipwreck their faith (1 Tim 1:18 - 20), fall away from the faith (1 Tim 4:1 - 3), deny the faith (1 Tim 5:8), cast off initial faith to follow Satan (1 Tim 5:12 - 15), stray from the faith by loving money (1 Tim 6:9 - 10), teach false doctrine (1 Tim 6:20 - 21), and deny Christ and live faithless lives (2 Tim 2:11 - 13).

Mormonism has no authoritative doctrine about how this conception occurred, but placing the origin of at least some aspect of Jesus» body in God the Father seems to deny the traditional teaching that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.

With proper teaching by actual Catholic teachers, or teachers instructed on Catholic doctrine, none of this presents a problem.

To be sure, we have an expanded canon of Scripture, but nothing within the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price contradicts what is taught in the Bible regarding the virgin birth (which, by the way, we definitely believe in), teachings, miracles, atoning sacrifice, or bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

It hardly needs to be said that the new view of man, to which today's studies and sciences are leading us, constitutes a severe challenge to the doctrine of man assumed and taught by Christian orthodoxy.

Only journalists very badly instructed in theology could therefore suppose that Vatican II might cancel the doctrine defined by Vatican I regarding the papal primacy of jurisdiction and teaching authority, or out of ecumenical spirit and desire to please, might revoke the dogma of the Immaculate Conception or the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

In my judgment a reworking of Christianity along progressivist lines, i.e., along lines which teach God's insistence upon democratic dogmas and which discern doctrine - altering «Revelation» in democratic social trends, remains an ongoing potentiality, whether initiated by «Protestants» or «Catholics»; this follows, I hold, from Tocquevillian premises.

«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.

The «Bible» is a set of books agreed upon by the Catholic Church as the doctrine that they would teach, and all Christianity is born of the Nicene Council.

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

Whether you suffer in this world or the next, Human actions create reaction by this GOD and that is the Doctrine people have been taught for centuries.

This is why the Irish clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.

But when I have seen this, my next task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind as God's own teaching or doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame of reality created by the death, resurrection, and present dominion of Jesus Christ.

One's acceptance or rejection of the doctrine will be largely influenced by one's own philosophical and theological presu - ppositions, as well as the weight one gives to Church teaching.»

The social doctrine teaches that the problem of poverty is best addressed by empowerment: enabling poor people to enter the circle of productivity and exchange in society.

Brunner can, of course, save his doctrine of God by appealing to the teaching of Jesus or to the Old Testament prophets.

While the authors report having «found little evidence that the strong tendencies toward religious freedom and religious pluralism led to any lack of religious vitality» in the campuses they visited, their account suggests otherwise: faculty and administrators are afraid to offend students by supporting religious «rules and regulations» or by teaching Christian doctrine.

A more sophisticated screening of Scripture is carried out by others who claim that we must look in Scripture for the «locus classicus» of a Biblical doctrine and concentrate on its teaching, interpreting all else in light of its truth.

I would like to show this is simply not «what the Bible teaches» but is far more something rooted in man - made doctrines heavily influenced by western Medieval philosophy.

Was Luther boldly proclaiming the doctrine of justification by faith alone against Roman Catholic teaching of justification by works?

If the Church has the power to define doctrine, then the written word which was the living Magisterium of Christ before the evangelists wrote it, before Paul dictated it, still lives on in the living word of a teaching power which is guaranteed by the living, working, intervening Divinity of Christ.

Some Lutheran theologians contend that the reason for the Lutheran communion's continuing separation from Rome is to maintain the teaching of justification by faith, «the doctrine by which the church stands or falls.»

One who is born, for example, into a Christian group which teaches the doctrine of perfection may be expected to interpret a decisive religious experience as the granting of perfect love by the Holy Spirit.

All the more so, of course, because the Church's own teaching denies him the expedient of a «double truth», and does not permit him to adapt the Church's doctrine by some de-mythologizing or other re-interpretation, in order to reconcile it with his scientific conviction.

Hence, a person who» becomes as a young child», who acts as a «lesser one», is one who allows themselves to be taught by our Creator, Jehovah God, rejecting creeds, doctrines and traditions that are not based on the Bible, just as Jesus did.

The now Wilsons WERE members of this church, and people join churches because they feel at home in a particular church, they believe the doctrines taught by that particular denomination, and other reasons, so evidently this couple felt at home in this church.

The official teaching of the Church, described by Pius XII as fides catholica (Denzinger 2327), though not, strictly speaking, an actually defined doctrine, holds that the individual spiritual souls are directly created by God.

You believe the nonsense taught to you by your religions and never bother to check the accuracy of your man made doctrines.

And it is this that explains why Kadushin could not follow Kaplan into Reconstnictionism, a theological doctrine even more dominated by naive positivism than the positive - historical school of The Jewish Theological Seminary where they both taught.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

In his address at the solemn opening of the Council, Blessed John XXXIII explained exactly what he meant by this term: «That which most interests the Council is that the sacreddeposit of Christian doctrine be guarded and taught in a more efficient form.»

Original Sin then - that overlooked but vital doctrine of the reality of our state, and the introduction into the material universe for the first time of «the problem of evil» - teaches the rupturing of that living, holy communion of good by which, from the first pair, men were to minister life and fulfilment to one another through Christ.

As Evangelicals, we saw this teaching as implicit in the doctrine of justification by faith alone and tried to express it in biblical terms.

«It seems to me that there is a persuasive case for believing that the doctrine of Humanae Vitae, regardless of the pastoral difficulty it causes, regardless of the philosophical and theological arguments thrown against it, regardless of the historical conditioning of its neo-scholastic framework, has been, and is being taught infallibly, that is, irreversibly and without error, by the Church's ordinary universal magisterium.»

However, in Article IV, on church membership, it is specifically stated that a member must be a «believer in the doctrines of Christian Science according to the platform and teaching contained in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy.

(3) The goal of paideia can not be taught directly — for example, by simply conveying information about various philosophers» doctrines regarding virtue.

Scripture teaches that we all have a responsibility to grow into maturity and not remain baby Christians who are easily knocked off course by dodgy doctrines or by chasing after faddish spiritual practices.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.