Sentences with phrase «by unbelieving»

But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

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He was dubbed by some as the «unbelieving bishop» after doubting that God would have arranged a virgin birth and the resurrection, however Very Rev Michael Sadgrove, the former Dean of Durham says that the name is unfair.

If that doesn't sound like your Christianity, it's because you weren't listening when Jesus said we are supposed to be hated by everyone, including our unbelieving family members, and that we are supposed to be persecuted and despised and called bad names and crucified every single day for telling the truth about who He is — the reason He was crucified.

I think that students often take their cues from the adults in leadership, so by pointing back to the student rather than the unbelieving parent, it can help keep the discussion from turning into one about something that may be confusing and upsetting for the child, but is instead an encouragement to them.

Even more than their «unbelieving» contemporaries, the fundamentalists, living in a world of terrifying change, have lost hope of being able to deal rationally and effectively with their problems by their own intelligence and activity.

In 1 Corinthians Paul simply assumes that a certain kind of behaviour is unquestionably unacceptable, while in the same letter making very careful moral distinctions between matters covered by a «word of the Lord» (for example against divorce), matters he himself advises are best (keeping an unbelieving wife), and matters intrinsically indifferent where we must be governed by respect for the consciences of others (eating butcher's meat which may have come from offerings to idols).

It prepares the unbelieving heart to receive Jesus by faith.

Whenever I debate a believer, in a calm rational debate it usually devolves into the person defending religion getting angry because he or she can not simply answer any question other than by saying stuff along the lines of, «well our brains are too small to understand» or «god works in mysterious ways» or my personal favorite «God will judge you for you unbelieving ways».

All unbelieving Israelites, represented by the rich man, will miss out on the rich Abrahamic blessing of entering the Millennial Kingdom of God with Christ, because they are temporarily cut off from their rich Holy Olive Tree of Israel.

The Protestant continues to engage his unbelieving brother, but he is likely to be engaging him by working alongside him.

After five days we finally float into the ramshackle outskirts of Juba to be greeted by hordes of waving children and an unbelieving national press.