Sentences with phrase «church accept an idea»

How can the church accept an idea or practice which it had earlier condemned?

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Finally, the Maryknoll religious says, while the church perhaps did not approve the Crusades, the two world wars, the Korean war, or today's Vietnam war, the fact that it did not condemn them «shows that it accepts the idea that there can be a just war, and that men might sometimes be right in taking up arms to defend themselves.»

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

Today, however, her faithful members are asked whether they truly love the Church, accepting the change even though it appears strange at first, or whether by their secret or public protest they show that they have not really loved the Church herself, but only their idea of her.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

But a theologian may not accept this presupposition from the beginning, or he may try to eliminate it implicitly or explicitly by demand - ing that the Church should revise her faith or her idea of herself according to his theological opinion or that she should accept the latter as of equal right.

and to say a roman emporer is responsible for the modern Bible shows you have no idea of the history of the Bible... we have a list of almost ALL the NT that was ALREADY accepted widely by the church in 150 AD!

I will certainly be using the ideas where there are no barriers or hurdles to jump to be accepted into the Church.

Although many churches refused to accept the sculpture because they didn't agree that Jesus was a homeless person, Rev Alistair Duncan from St Georges Tron told Premier the church welcomed the idea with open arms.

Imagine what a blessing it would be for the Church, were a large and vital group of reformed Catholic traditionalists — freed from harmful ideas and fully accepting Vatican II (rightly interpreted) and the Novus Ordo — were to fully reconcile with the Church, and not do anything to betray the Vatican's good faith, once re-united.

We accept without special difficulty the idea that the Church was the visible efficacious sign of salvation for past ages anterior to Christ and the Church, when salvation had not yet appeared ecclesiastically although it was salvation from the Church.

In the 17th century, the ideas of the Reformation were spreading throughout the world and the Church did not accept very graciously the new scientific ideas that mixed themselves with God and religion.

I agree to take this test or at least research the idea, for the glory of God, and I will not accept the payment for money, I will donate it to the charity or church of my choice.

the idea of the pre-existence of Christ was accepted not only by Paul himself but also by the churches generally.

Both in thinking of the context in which we work in the Church and of the goal we pursue, it seems easy to accept and propagate the idea that the last reality with which we are concerned is the Church itself, and that the summary commandment we obey is to love Christianity with heart, soul, mind and strength.

We have a natural revulsion to the idea of checking people's BMI before accepting them into the Church, especially when obesity is not necessarily reflective of gluttony (often, in this country, it is a result of poverty), and when we know from our own experiences or the experiences of those we love that an unhealthy weight can result from a variety of factors — from genetics to psychological components — and when some of our favorite people in the world (or when we ourselves) wrestle with a complicated relationship with food, whether it's through overeating or under - eating.

Didn't read the article, so I have no idea how President Obama's faith has been labeled, but as a person who began attending a Christina Church during adolescence, I know that it is very hard to accept a number of tenets of the faith, so I find myself doubting that a person who was raised for a number of years in a Muslim household and whose mother does not appear to have been of a Christian denomination, is likely to have adopted the tenets of the Christian faith.

I believe a lot of questionable doctrinal ideas also slipped in — with very little scriptural open - ness on the questions — you accept the doctrines or you leave the church.

The church lost when it accepted from the Enlightenment a reinforcement of the idea that God made the world and left it to follow its own laws.

Christian moral thinking has accepted this and has given marriage a special blessing, surrounding it with the aura of divine approval even if it has not always realistically grasped the fact that marriage is not inevitably an ideal state and that to insist on its continuance when love is absent is to condone what in effect is legalized rape and hence hardly an appropriate symbol for the Christian idea of marriage as representing «the mystical union of Christ and his Church.»

I don't know the history really well, but I'm pretty sure martin luther had a much bigger problem with the church accepting money for people to «get out of purgatory faster» and with the idea that saying 10 «Hail Mary's» gets people forgiven than he ever had with the act of confessing.

Such an idea contradicts the constant practice of the Church in which subsequent teachings of Popes, Councils and the Catechism reiterate, sometimes using different words and expressions, prior non-infallible teachings of Popes (in encyclicals) and other documents to be accepted and authoritatively binding at the appropriate level.

Jedi groups have struck back against a Scottish church who called the idea of a legally accepted Jedi wedding «completely nonsensical».

Here in the UK warmist ideas are unquestioningly accepted, and carelessly promulgated, by every major political party, scientific and cultural institution, church, charity, university, school, trade union, local authority, NGO, and even, universally, by big business (with the energy companies and even the oil companies towing the line).