Sentences with phrase «church teaches»

Why don't you read what our Church teaches rather than make assumptions.

If you truly reflect on what the church teaches, in morality, it's basically that which is in accordance with Natural Law.

When the church teaches about baptism, one of the things it often says is that baptism is the first step of discipleship.

I don't think your church teaches you the truth, because I don't think your church has all the answers and knows the truth.

As some wise Saint once said «A few people hate the Church and what She teachers, but millions hate what they THINK the Church teaches.»

Wonder if anyone in your little johnny come lately denomination ever says anthing that isn't right with what your Church teaches?

But it is quite clear that the Catholic Church teaches «as one with authority».

The Swedenborgian Church teaches (1) marriage in heaven and (2) the three heavens and (3) the spiritual world is arranged in earths and (4) St. Paul wrote doctrinal statements not scripture.

The Catholic Church teaches that it is the Easter Churches that are the schismatics; but there are five ancient Patriarches (actually 7 at one time, but two did not survive: the Churches of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, Antioch and Rome.

Too many priests and local experts no longer seem sure of what the Church teaches, or they deliberately ignorethat teaching, or worse still, give the impression that traditional teaching is subject to change even on the most fundamental matters.

As soon as you start talking negatively about anything the Mormon church teaches or has done in the past, you are automatically branded as anti-mormon.

I have found in my discussion with my friends and neighbors, there are many things in the Book of Mormon that go against what the modern LDS Church teaches.

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

In fact those who uphold the Church's teaching on difficult and controversial points may not have always understood why the Church teaches what she does.

It emerges with stark clarity that the Soho Masses are built on the unshakeable foundation of a belief that what the Church teaches, as defined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other manifestations of the Magisterium, is not to be taken seriously as an expression of what Catholics ought to believe.

The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is present in the Eucharist as a causal agent, somehow giving us bodily strength and health, and Catholics» acceptance of that teaching is expressed in the way in which they receive that sacrament, but the doctrine of Christ's bodily presence in the Eucharist is one with which even Catholics today have difficulty, and it would be unrealistic to make it thecentre of the belief that Christ was the Son of God.

It is not enough to say that the Church teaches that sex is reserved for marriage.

To be sure, God's household encompasses all, and the Church teaches «the universal destination of goods.»

People can be disposedto believe things on the ground that they are things which Christ said or which the Church teaches, and this could be called faith in Christ or faith in the Church; but religious faith seems to be something more than this and prior to it; it is through having it that we are disposed to believe Christ and the Church.

We said no, because we don't see any point in denying well - established scientific findings that in no way deny anything the Church teaches.

To confound the claim of the natural scientist it was sufficient for the Catholic to hear, «The Church teaches otherwise», and for the Protestant to read in the Bible that God in His holy word had spoken differently.

Finally, how can I expect my children to believe what I say about God and marriage if I do not believe or submit to what the Church teaches about God and marriage?

The preface «The church teaches...» and «The Bible says...» came to be replaced by «Science teaches...», «The scientists have shown that...»

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

The question these Religious Women really need to answer is do they really believe in What the Catholic Church Teaches, Affirms and Asks of them as Religious Nuns.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

The Roman Catholic Church teaches what is known as apostolic succession.

Yet for fifty years we have acquiesced in the professionalization of theology, leaving most Christians either with naive and unexamined notions or an implicit faith in what the church teaches.

The Catholic Church teaches that use of contraception is morally wrong.

Churches need to be teaching centers where faith and tradition can be explored, where truth can be pursued without the employment of authoritarian cliches like «the church teaches» or «the Bible says» to stifle the questioning process.

And there are still sects of this cult that secretly practice this pedo lifestyle!!!!!! And, most distressing of all, given that we're talking about someone who could become the most powerful man in the world, the Mormon church teaches that Mormons can lie if it suits their needs to impose their «religion» on others!

After setting forth what Missouri understands to be the Lutheran teaching of justification by «faith alone,» the ad depicts Catholic teaching in this way: «The Roman Catholic Church teaches that something more than trust in Christ is necessary for us to be saved.

That statement is false and anyone who believes that is either ignorant of what the Catholic Church teaches or biased.

This is only one of many deviations from the Bible and what Jesus taught that that the Mormon church teaches.

But what the church teaches about faith and values is not.

If your claim is true that the Catholic Church teaches fables then what you have is nothing but fables.

I can easily «forgive» a Mormon for not understanding what their church teaches (oops!

For that reason the Church teaches moral maxims with specific content to be observed by the faithful in every case where the inner structure of reality to which these principles apply is actually present and where this presence is recognized by the Christian.

Inevitably a church teaches its members, either directly or indirectly, how to deal with aggression, anger, pride, sexuality, competition, social relations, child - rearing, and marital relations.

I think the Church teaches «If»n yer not for us yer agin us».

That said, Cardinal Kasper has done the Church a service because the observation that there is an «abyss» between what the Church teaches and how so many of her children actually live is demonstrably true.

The Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and strongly advocates against abortion — but the story is even more personal for Vander Woude.

We could understand a theology of liberation as a doctrine of liberation, namely, as what the church teaches about liberation.

Predictably, the secular media has responded by reporting on the disparity in the responses between what the Church teaches and what people believe.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that couples must have «just» reasons to delay childbearing.

Most young people do know that the Church teaches, for example, that abortion is wrong (sometimes it's about the only thing they do know about the Catholic Church!)

Also, the Church teaches us that the subject of our earthly offerings can redirect them to where they are better needed (world peace, those who are not living a holy life here on Earth, etc.).

However, it is essential that they are given a thorough grounding in what the Church teaches and especially the reasons why it does so and with what authority.

To say that «the Church teaches» is equally without force, for the man of intelligence knows, in the first place, that there are a great many churches and that some of their teaching is contradictory.

Within schools it is accepted that it may be possible to state as a proposition that the Catholic Church teaches such and such a thing but not to insist that it is objectively true [10].