Sentences with phrase «directly against the teachings»

Most religious organizations have their own rules that go directly against the teaching of the bible.

The problem with p0rn is that it promotes lust, which goes directly against the teachings of Jesus.

Not exact matches

If your religion promotes going directly against New Testament teachings, beware!

The stress on action over against teaching (the kerygmatic tradition) and religious experience (the mystical tradition) is significant, for it ties in directly with the way of the parables.

Surely Steve, you are correct MOST of the findings of those scientist were against the church's teachings; however, the church did run the governments of those men, either directly or indirectly.

While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

People who speak Christian, as this writer put it, are trying to impress others, which is directly against Jesus» teachings.

A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power» its power, on the one hand, to strike down any law enacted with the political aid of believers, and its power, on the other hand, to move directly against churches and denominations that display a perceived animus in their teaching toward certain behavior.

There doesn't seem to be any prohibition against women teaching kids and certainly women can teach other women, but God isn't going to put a calling on anyone or anything that directly contradicts the clear teaching of scripture.

They seem to go directly against the basic teaching that you quote in the introductory remarks:»... the doctrine that artificial contraception is against the natural moral law» and the whole tenor of Fr Dylan James and Luke Gormally's articles earlier on.

James Martin does not preach directly against the Church's teachings — but neither will he affirm them as true.