Sentences with phrase «by the christian story»

The church, to be itself as it is shaped by the Christian story, needs to be separate from the world.

The theme of displacement from home and subsequent return has been rehearsed in the literature, drama and music of many cultures not directly affected by the Christian story of salvation.

Perhaps, indeed, patience could be a virtue only within a world such as that depicted by the Christian story: «the disclosure of God's nature in his mighty acts, the obedience of Christ, and the reciprocity and responsiveness that life in community involves.»

We are story - formed, and those of us who are Christians are formed (or transformed) by the Christian story.

Not exact matches

The story of King David, a sinner who remained beloved by God and favored by his people, has been a favorite of evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump, even during the Republican primaries.

You might not choose to live by that story, but if more people did and did it better (including Christians, non-Christians, athiests, agnostics, and myself), the world would be the heaven or the Heaven that all of us long for.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

It's a BS story perpetuated by christians.

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.

«The story about «spreading the faith by the sword» is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims — the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

The intense antagonism between Jews, Christians, and Muslims is explained by the fact that they share the same characters but tell different stories about them.

The Christians that would have us believe that stories by non-Christians are a form of escape from the real world have not been paying attention to what is being said in those stories.

There are more stories out of the bible that have been proven impossible and or wrong by science than have been shown to have any credibility... Of course I'm talking about actual science... not that christian science and creation «science»... which use scientific sounding things and jump to ridiculous unjustifyable conlusions, or that create incorrect premises and then make up answers to suit the questions.

The first Christians were never systematically persecuted by the Romans, and most martyrdom stories - with the exception of a handful such as Perpetua's - were exaggerated and invented, several scholars and historians say.

i work in a doctor's office where we take care of refugees from burma and have heard many stories about christians being hunted by the military to be murdered.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Given the limitations on communication during the late Roman era, and the widespread illiteracy, it's not surprising that stories were exaggerated, embellished, or made up of the whole cloth by Christian enthusiasts.

Except the early church father Justin Martyr admitted these pre-Jesus resurrection stories were known, but just sent ahead of Jesus, by Satan just to confuse Christians.

CNN loves to post either stories that smear Christianity or fluff stories like this by luke - warm Christians.

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.

The first Christians were never systematically persecuted by the Romans, and most martyrdom stories — with the exception of a handful such as Perpetua's — were exaggerated and invented

He is considered, by many Christians, a liberal, who can be said «argued that biblical stories were mythical rather than historical, and taught that Jesus had a sinful nature.»

That story has been described by the literary critic Harold Bloom (himself not the least Christian) as one of the great stories in world literature.»

Judging by the reaction to yesterday's story about a company not allowing religious baubles to be worn outside of the uniform combined with this story, it seems that certain Christians think they should be allowed to dress up as the pope and prosthelytize in the workplace without any possible reprisal from their employers.

Although there is much wisdom to be learned from the stories of the Exodus and Exile, I do not believe they are models to be emulated by Christians today.

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

If the Christian story is true, it is indeed by losing our lives that we gain them (Luke 17:33).

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.

From these diverse stories of «thinking Christians» a common theme emerges: the search for truth demands (to paraphrase contributor Kathryn Wiegand) a willingness to die to self» even to the hopes bequeathed by one's most cherished intellectual gifts» in order to be reborn in Christ.

Moreover, none of the four Gospels tells the story of the Passion in such a way as to make it a simple tale of injustice done by the bad Sanhedrin to the good Christians.

Hmm — when I think charlatanism, I must confess, what comes to mind is this ridiculous excuse by early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) that the devil was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order (to fool people into thinking that other similar stories before the Gospels came first).

The most important has to do with the structure of the play, which turns the story of the Passion into a melodramatic clash between on the one hand the good Christ and his followers (including by implication the entire Christian Church), and on the other the evil Sanhedrin and its followers.

Many people who follow abusive church movements are well aware that such abusive organizations will release stories that get picked up by Christian media that are purportedly impartial but are really just paid ads for the ministry.

I read this story last night about Mark Driscoll's interview by Justin Brierley who hosts the UK Christian podcast Unbelievable.

Christian missionaries in Mughal India were constantly trying to present the Christian faith not only by writing in Persian (the language of the Court) but also by telling the Christian story, for example, through the painting of miniatures, a notable art form at the time.

In the coda, he speaks fondly of the joy he took in writing the book, and he reminisces about his childhood training by Methodist missionary parents, «which prepared [him] to tell the Christian Story from the inside.»

When I read the story of Faith Christian Church in Tucson, Arizona, that is being investigated because some believe it is a cult, I wasn't alarmed by any one of the accusations.

Escape from North Korea, the Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad, by journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes how Chinese Christians and churches are supporting escapees in defiance of laws prohibiting such assistance.

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Still other material was found and used by Mark, including some that is clearly legendary — that is, «popular» stories handed down orally in extended form, and not necessarily all of them really Christian in origin — for example the great legends of the Gerasene demoniac, 5:1 - 20; the death of John the Baptizer, 6:17 - 29; the walking on the sea, 6:45 - 52; and the cursing of the fig tree, 11:12 - 14, 20 - 25.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Really... If the «Jesus story was written 35 - 70 years after He died», then how was it that the Christian religion had already spread throughout Asia, Europe, and Africa, by that time?

A congregation that is able to live simply and faithfully out of the Christian story is a gift of grace, but that gift must be sustained by some remarkable social creativity.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

My friend who helped me tell my story here is also a Christian and has been told the same thing by some of his LGBTQ friends.

One of those who has given evidence told me the story of a Christian family: a mother and 12 year - old daughter which were raped by ISIS militants, leading the father, who was forced to watch, to commit suicide.

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