Sentences with phrase «danger man christian»

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But I was uneasy, and when I did venture to suggest that there was, in fact, a troubling aroma of idolatry wafting within our breezy confidences of the man, I was kindly informed that» being composed of Christian believers» the forum was in no danger of falling into sin against that great and primary commandment.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

If we substitute «Jesus Christ» for «neighbor» Christians in general will accept that statement; but there is danger in that substitution as well as the possibility of enlightenment, since the relation of Jesus Christ to our other neighbors is often obscured in theology; his revelation of what it means to be a man is often forgotten in favor of exclusive attention to his disclosure of what it means that God is, and is Good.

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and several others: the men who constructed and wrote the laws and principles upon which our democracy are founded, were not Christian and purposefully set up the United States as a secular government because they understood all too well the dangers of a «Christian nation».

At this point the Christian is the passive man, and doubtless tempted into all of the easily noted dangers of confusing the self with Jesus.

And this is the real danger for Christians today, a casual attitude toward our religion, a lassitude that lives out that famous line often attributed to Edmund Burke: For evil to thrive, all that is necessary is that good men do nothing.