Sentences with phrase «church under persecution»

If you are going to deny the content of the historical confession of the Christian church, as you have done repeatedly on this blog, and now on the eve of the day on which the church commemorates the «incarnation of the word», God with us, Emmanuel, not an insignificant percentage of said church under persecution, hardship and threatening circumstances trying to worship, I would consider it more forthright, if you called yourself something other than «Christian» because that really does imply a historic confession.

Not exact matches

Shamgar, is your claim that, if the church was under greater persecution, we would all agree about these things because the people holding to one side of each of these debates aren't true believers, and so they would leave under persecution?

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

The LDS church did not grant the priesthood to blacks in the early days of the church, mainly because they were already under so much persecution, having to flee from state to state and finally into Utah territory that the additional trouble granting this authority to blacks would have caused might have sunk the early church.

At another church, a prayer of the faithful called for strength for Christian victims to hold up under persecution, without any details.

On Sunday, let us remember that true liberation is found in sacrifice, that the Church usually thrives under persecution, and that our extra resources and freedoms only make us more responsible to care for our neighbors.

They paid for a book, Christians under Fire, written by Humberto Belli, which summarized the supposed persecution of the church in Nicaragua but had nothing to do with what was really going on inside the country.

Mention of the Donatists is a reminder of the agonizing choices that those who have faced persecution have had to make, as much in the twentieth century under Fascist and Communist regimes, as in the early centuries of the church.

Alexandria was one of the chief sees of the early church, but Christians in Egypt suffered severely under the Diocletian persecutions.

It enabled him to break with the church of Rome and its external system of salvation, and under persecution to speak these historic words at the Diet of Worms: «Here I stand; I can do no other.»

The author is in fact appealing, over the heads of the agents of persecution, to intelligent and well - disposed persons in Graeco - Roman society, in the belief that accurate information about the origins, aims and principles of the Christian Church would do much to disarm the hostility under which it suffered.

In his day, the church of Persia suffered severe persecution under Shapur II and Varuhara IV.

Though the church consistently backed the state under communism, it clearly did so under duress and the threat of increased persecution.

While the Church in the West, under Constantine enjoyed comparative peace, the policy of persecution was continued in the east by Galerius and his Caesar, Maximian.

Pagels and Ehrman tell a similar story: Under the threat of persecution, certain church leaders, especially Irenaeus, became convinced that Christianity could survive only if it became more unified in doctrine and structure.

It is that 9.1 is directed to a specific group, the members of the Church under threat of persecution, whereas 13.30 is addressed to a totality, all who will overhear or read it.

Communism tried to kill it, but when communism crumbled it was found that the «church» that body of believers had grown stronger under persecution.