Sentences with phrase «christians by behavior»

I would never judge all christians by behavior of those who post here.

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The free will concept is totally denied by god's supposed behavior in the bible and the claims of Christians.

Meanwhile, christians in the United States are pouring funding into legislation in several African countries that seeks to make gay behavior a criminal offense, punishable by death.

Meanwhile, christians in the United States continued their campaign to deny legal rights to gays, while continuing to pour funds into efforts to make gay behavior a criminal offense, punishable by death, in several African countries.

It might have has even more impact if the behavior of the occupied Polish was compared to that of many western nations, run by christians, who turned away Jews, literally by the boatload.

Meanwhile, christians in the United States continued their efforts to fund campaigns in Africa that make gay behavior a criminal offense punishable by death.

I expect that «Christian» «leaders» and pastors across the US will be astounded by Russia's «behavior» [or whatever words are used], as the US military implements a «defensive» war for «justice» that it has been preparing for decades.

It's just another lie perpetuated by christians, rather like Darwin's deathbed refutation of evolution, or the lies about Pat Tillman's behavior before his death in Iraq.

There is widespread agreement with the view presented in the article on homosexuality in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics (edited by Carl F. Henry [Baker Book House, 1973]-RRB-, which declares that «those who base their faith on the OT and NT documents can not doubt that their strong prohibitions of homosexual behavior make homosexuality a direct transgression of God's law.»

If you actually believed all that nonsense about God and spirit and Christians wanting to please God and perfect themselves you wouldn't try to justify your poor behavior as a Christian by comparing it to that of an atheist.

In regards to Muslims «learning» bad behavior from Christian, that is an argument that could be used by Christians as well.

Any small differences in their divorce rates and divorce rates in the general population can easily be explained by ordinary things such as Christians encouraging behaviors that increase the chances a marriage will be successful.

The ultimate purpose of the whole death - of - God system is to justify a certain kind of behavior on the part of Christians in relation to society — a kind of behavior that is dictated by conformism to the modern world.

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

The essence of Christian behavior is to treat people as people, all equally loved by the same Father, however much they may differ in talents or development.

If a gay Christian accepts what scripture says about that behavior, that it is a sin, and then truly tries to repent, they will be vilified and called a hater by the gay community — and certainly no longer accepted in the gay community.

In Christian communities discernment and response to God is mediated in a variety of ways — by ritual action, normative patterns of behavior, exemplary persons, appropriate images and music, and above all written and spoken words.

I have seen a lot of bad behavior from christians, (or those claiming to be) I was also incredibly surprised to find so many nonchristians, whether they be from varying religions, or agnostics and atheists, to have good behavior, and even exhibit «fruit of the spirit», what I once considered to be a way to test the faith, or rather character of a christian, (they will know them by their fruit).

The problem is many Christians want to think it's been defined by their god but all social animals, from ants to elephants, have modified their behaviors, by restraining selfishness in order to make group living worthwhile.

For Christian ethics, the effort is to determine how certain moral behavior is consistent with, or even perhaps required by, the tenets of Christian faith.

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

I think it is sad when people refuse to intellectually and sincerely consider the claims of Christianity because they have been offended by the behavior of people who call themselves Christians.

The language of the Christian faith, like the language of friendship, is meant to be performative, in terms of trust, decision, commitment, followed by behavior in both words and deeds.

We are always amused by the ignorance of Christians who feel it necessary to read or tell LGBT people what the Bible «says in plain English» (presumably about LGBT people and / or behavior).

A sermon that is delivered in a loud, angry voice and punctuated by a closed fist banging down on the pulpit sanctions, at least by example, such behavior as appropriate to the Christian community.

One is startled then to read in Christian's book:»... on Whitehead's theory God is certainly not morally good, judged by those standards of behavior that are necessary for the peace and prosperity of human community.

Were she to understand her church by the first perspective that extracts recognized piety from other behavior, she might identify Communion as specifically Christian and the other activities as the unavoidable, self - oriented burdens of corporate life.

But interestingly, most of the things listed by James are activities and behaviors which most people — even Christians — don't think are all that bad.

The Day of Truth, held on the same day as the Day of Silence, «was established to counter the promotion of homosexual behavior and to express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective,» according to a manual for this year's event published by Exodus International.

The Jewish and Christian Bibles frown on religious behaviour (fasting, almsgiving, prayer, pilgrimage, correct theology) not backed by spiritual behavior (love, joy, peaceableness, faithfulness, honesty, humility, self - control).

As then we perceive the bare elements of the apostolic message, and observe how this shape, re-enacted within the behavior by the power of the Holy Spirit, constituted Christian life in the fellowship of the community, do we not also, perhaps, find a pattern for Christian worship?

Christian liturgy recognizes tendencies toward death dealing in ritual behavior by looking in two directions at once.

Biblically conservative Christians today rightly reject recreational sex as a psychologizing of Scripture if undisciplined sexual behavior is justified by conclusions drawn from modern theories about sexual repression.

The faith which informs the Christian's life, by virtue of which he can say «I believe in...» is another and essential part, as is also the orientation of the totality of one's existence towards God manifested in the daily course of life — in what we call Christian behavior.

The Catholic (or Christian) psychiatrist is easily caught in a bind if he or she tries to adhere to the moral teachings of his or her religion and to apply these teachings when treating patients, for any psychiatrist is also expected to keep abreast of medical knowledge, which now teaches that homosexuality is a deeply ingrained pattern of behavior that is probably established by the age of five years.

«if you call yourself a Christian College then you have to be clear as to what behavior is expected on campus, Christian behavior and you must stand by a solid conservative Biblical Worldview, or don't claim to be a Christian college.»

Some people are afraid of the supposed «Christians» — and with good reason, given some very unstable behavior exhibited by some of them — but I don't know anyone afraid of the actual religion.

If both of these views and behaviors by Christians towards Israel is to Israel's benefit that is good.

By coopting it and declaring the holdiay as «Christian» then criticizing behavior that does not emphasize the primacy of Christian observances, how is that different from «stealing» the holiday?

Note that the origins of the Golden Rule pre-date Christianity by many centuries, and many of the behavior dictates of the bible such as casting out of various folk, as well as Christian god's apparent own extreme cruelty such as wiping out whole civilizations point against it.

If you are a Christian, then Jews, Muslims and Hindus are Christian, because all believe Christ to be merely human and a very good model of behavior, just that the early Christian church was misled by St. Paul and St. John concerning the co-eternal divinity of Christ and his role in our salvation, which only God could provide.

The divine purpose and the divine management can not be violated or even momentarily frustrated by the behavior, intentional or unwitting, of any part of creation» («Creation and Providence» in Christian Theology, edited by Peter C. Hodgson and Robert H. King [Fortress, 19821, p. 120).

This behavior is reinforced by the broadcasters» general lack of emphasis on the centrality of the local church to Christian faith and their apparent unwillingness to channel persons who contact them toward involvement in a local church or to encourage local church members to establish contact with the respondent.

The watching world sees this behavior by Christians, and understands that such behavior is nothing more than a logical extension of our theological belief in a God who demands blood payment for the forgiveness of sins.

He calls it hatred, and his voice rose in anger when he talked about the claims by Sprigg and other Christian groups that gay men are more predisposed to molest children and that homosexual behavior is inherently harmful.

Hardly surprising behavior given the overwhelming legislative majority enjoyed by Christians throughout the history of the United States.

Well, I've long felt that as someone who is intimately familiar with the culture and climate of Christian parenting, Gary Ezzo exploits the fears of many Christian parents by portraying families who don't follow Babywise as families where the children usurp the authority of the parents and bring shame on them with their selfish, demanding behaviors.

I think for once the Christian leaders in this country should come out from their cocoon and tell the whole world their intention as orchestrated by this devilish and unruly behaviors of theirs on the issue of hijab and other related issues as it affects the Muslim child.

Eastwood's film follows the three childhood friends (played, in their younger days, by William Jennings, Bryce Gheisar and Paul - Mikél Williams) as they buck against the authority of their Christian middle school and the teachers want to impose upon them an unnatural rigidity of thought and behavior.

Off - task behaviors in class decreased by 25 to 35 percent and students» body mass indexes (weight divided by height) stabilized or decreased, said Deborah Rhea, a professor at Texas Christian University and the lead researcher on the longer - recess initiative.