Sentences with phrase «church claims does»

So the freedom the church claims doesn't depend on any political recognition that the church is right on contraception.

Not exact matches

If you are claiming to be in the «body of Christ» and the «institutional» church is not, maybe you have something to offer about who Christ is, what he did and what it means, and you might be able to do it during the week where the west commemorates it.

The irony being that he was threatened by the church for going against the whole «god did it» argument, which is what this guy was trying to claim, and has nothing to do with «real science»

We have christians fighting to make public school give them time to pray and have church clubs, but when jews or muslims do it in a public place it requires a call to the FBI and they claim the jews are being insensitive?

I see this as part of a growing trend in the western world that is getting fed up with the ignorant, pretentious, number - crunching church buildings that claim to be preaching gospel when they're either preaching a list of do's and don'ts or they're preaching what's in demand, and im not saying all churches are like that but a lot are.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Funny how IDers don't claim to be creationists, yet both have the EXACT same language and interpretation of evolutionary theory verbatim, go to the same church, watch the same videos, use the same arguments, vote for the same leaders, listen to the same pastors, and quote the same scripture, etc...

They do claim them as part of the total members of the church.

BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.

Don't try to claim churches and their ministers are just like anyone else when it comes to finances, they're not.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couChurch has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couchurch councils.

«The Church does not have technical solutions to offer and does not claim «to interfere in any way in the politics of States,»» the encyclical notes.

The priest claimed the Church of England didn't necessarily view the cathedral and others like it favourably because of the independence they might exert financially or theologically.

Rigali initially challenged the claims...,,, Church first, children second, rock on Philly Catholics, do your homework and study the history — Inquisitions, Crusaders, nothing new my friends!!!!!

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

I hope you do not claim to be informed of the baptism in Protestant churches.

It surely makes it unreliable, if not «dangerous,» to just turn part of Church history upside down and ignore the almost 2 millennia held facts and claim that it did not happen.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

As long as you don't go claiming after performing the baptism that I am officially a member of the FSM church, it would be a non-issue for me.

The easiest way to do it is through absolutist claims about the separation of church and state, made as loudly as possible.

Which by the way, mormons don't claim people baptized via proxy are members of their church either, merely that they have the opportunity to become so.

Hey LMB123, I'll make you a deal: I won't claim to know much about Mormonism and you don't assume to know anything about how the Protestant churches operate.

the scriptures do not claim as you state «infallible word of God» ------ Well, this is something I've been hearing for years, in church from pastors and in person from christians.

She has claimed to of fractured rib bones by falling on church property while doing a self appointed tasks (alone), then gets a bunch of sympathy, all while blaming someone for her injury because no one helped her do what she wasn't authorized to do.

Yes, the whole law of the tithe is so twisted in our churches, all in an attempt to guilt people into giving their money to an institution that claims to be doing «the Lord's work.»

But Abraham speaks over the head of the rich man, over the heads of the Pharisees, in what sounds like a direct address to us church types who claim faith in a certain Galilean raised from the dead, «If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.»

In the image of Psalm 82, whatever we claim to do in our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the council.

They do not claim to answer every question immediately, nor to be a pre-determined solution to all the problems which face the Church.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

The Fund intervened on behalf of Embassy Church, saying that the claim doesn't add up, due to many other secular businesses and organizations receiving the same or similar tax treatment.

I have see, immature, whinny, spoiled, selfish, bullies get upset cause they didn't get their way or didn't get an answer they liked, claim abuse, abuse, and leave the church and try and get others to go with them.

I don't claim this is the case for all churches.

Maybe the church in Ireland should spend a little LESS time worrying about what happened to some 884 - year - old body part (which I'm sure didn't even belong to the saint they claim it did!)

Even if you or your church claims to believe in Sola Scriptura, you actually don't.

Most of us do not want our government to be run according to the principles and beliefs of the Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, White Supremacists (some of whom claim to be churches), etc..

It can claim to be of Satan and the idea of enslavement to the great LIE... So im not at all surprised this BAPTIST CHURCH started singin a differn tune... Perhaps had they done it on there own it might have MENT SOMTHING MORE

The problem is not what harm it does, it's what good it derails by individuals claiming that going to church and putting money in the plate will help the world somehow....

You may not like the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you may not agree with their tenets, you may even feel you are such an expert on what makes someone a Christian and have the right to make the judgement on who is and who isn't, but spouting off inaccurate claims indicates no credibility, and inasmuch as Jesus said «thou shalt not bear false witness» I guess it doesn't leave you looking much like a Christian.

In the last church I went you when a leader claimed she was being prophetic and doing what God does, I challenged her about being insulting, practicing false prophecy and using God's name in vain in her sexist approach.

Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.

Sure, the church you attend... whatever,... but the religion you believe in teaches right from wrong and claims a connection to, or understanding of, or words directly from, the supposed ultimate moral authority does it not?

Claiming to speak for an entire generation to which she admittedly does not entirely belong, Rachel Held Evans tells us why Millennials are leaving the church.

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

In the great «transvaluation» that followed, there was no sphere of social, religious, or intellectual life that the Church did not claim for itself; much was abolished, and much of the grandeur and beauty of antiquity was preserved in a radically altered form, and Christian civilization — with its new synthesis and new creativity — was born.

despite the claims here by this church, they do not belong to Christ, and they are an apostate church.

The church doesn't claim infallibility across the board; only within very narrow constraints related to doctrine.

There exists, therefore, and must exist, a teaching of the Church which possesses an importance and binding force for the faith and moral conscience of the individual Catholic, although in what it directly states it can not and does not intend to make any claim to the absolute assent of faith, and although it is not irreformable but is still involved in the elucidatory development of the Church's consciousness of its belief.

If the church claims that their problems are caused by invisible demons and send a man with zero medical training to treat them, they're doing a huge disservice that borders on medical quackery.

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nchurch can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nChurch you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

Although Hay does not claim to have produced the definitive statement of NT ethics, his insightful distinction of the four tasks should structure the discussion in NT ethics and church life for some time to come.