Sentences with phrase «even a practicing christian»

Hitler for that matter was not even a practicing Christian, stop giving lame excuse.

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I have no idea what AvdBerg practices, but he BELIEVES that his interpretations of scripture are so obviously the true ones that they aren't even interpretations, which makes it all the odder that so many hundreds of millions if not billions of christians over the centuries apparently missed these supposedly transparent truths.

I am neither a christian or muslim but what right do christians have in making fun of muslims and their books when so much trash exists in their houses only difference being that other religions are open about their practices and even accept their mistakes..

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

They acknowledge the God of Israel, even though they do not know his name, just as truly as other Christians deny him when, according to the Q tradition, they perform wonders in the name of Jesus while practicing lawlessness.

I have even declined the opportunity to be more involved in some progressive Christian events, because labels like Emergent and Progressive do not reflect my theological positions and do not always FIT with how I see or practice faith.

Maybe the spread of Buddhist practices in the West will even be of help to Christians!»

Any Christians caught publicly practicing their faith can be sent to hard labour camp, but they can also be sentenced if a family member was caught practicing their faith or even if they become Christian and move to China, they can still be sent back and imprisoned, according to the report.

Noddings finds the Judeo - Christian tradition especially culpable in women's denigration: there is the Adam and Eve story, with Eve held responsible for accepting the serpent's temptation and leading man to sin; the Old Testament «uncleanness» references and practices; the long history of burning witches; even the veneration of the Virgin Mary.

If you believe in The Bible, as we do, being Christians, then this is true: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15:28-30&version=NIV or you can read it here also: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/1-cor/15.29?lang=eng#28 So, even though CNN wants to ridicule a Gospel principle, for us, LDS member, we have nothing to hide, it's in the Bible and at the time of Christ that was a practice that was in place as part of the Gospel of Christ.

The Christian must normally adopt an analogous attitude in theory and practice in regard to teachings and moral precepts of the Church which are put forward authoritatively by the Church, even if not as irrevocable dogma.

The atheist is there to point out the fact that christians did not create ANY of their practices or rituals, not even christmas.

Still, it should be noted that the prayer practice in Greece was even more egregiously exclusive and sectarian, with all the prayers over a nine year period being given by Christians.

Take it from a practicing and believing Christian, or better yet, allow me to use the words of George Carlin: «In the BS department, even a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.»

While practicing Christians may be justifiably disappointed in a sterilized «happy holidays» from their grocer, even this greeting extends something beyond the all - too - human midwinter bacchanalia historically provided by Saturnalia and the Mithraic birth, or today by New Year's Eve.

Even when I was a believing and practicing Christian, I realized that regardless of their beliefs, doctors still saved lives, made discoveries, scientists still learned more about the world we live in... the idea that all knowledge has to be attached to the «creator» or it is somehow tainted or suspect, just doesn't pan out when you look at it logically.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

Today around the world, the Church is alive and flourishing in places like North Korea, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Vietnam, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, China and more — despite restrictive and even oppressive violent government policies and practices against Christians.

I have even heard some say that the pagan writings and traditions were changed to match the Christian beliefs and practices, and that is why there are similarities.

Why didn't the president himself stand up for the human rights of the Christian missionaries and medical team in Afghanistan, including six Americans, to practice medicine and their faith, even after they were murdered by Islamic extremists?

Even after the birth of the church in Acts 2, the vast majority of the early Christians were Jewish, and most of the Gentiles who converted were «God fearers» which means that they knew and respected the teachings of Judaism, and even followed many of the Jewish traditions and practices (cf. Acts 10Even after the birth of the church in Acts 2, the vast majority of the early Christians were Jewish, and most of the Gentiles who converted were «God fearers» which means that they knew and respected the teachings of Judaism, and even followed many of the Jewish traditions and practices (cf. Acts 10even followed many of the Jewish traditions and practices (cf. Acts 10:2).

Even as conservative a Catholic moral theologian as Thomas J. O'Donnell admits that AIH was an open question in theory and in practice before 1949 (see Medicine and Christian Morality [Alba House, 1976], p. 266).

No modem theologian can continue to assume that European and North American modes of Christian thought and practice can, even in principle, any longer suffice for an emerging world church.

If you actually listened, you might realize that the pontiff has a DUTY to call into question practices that run counter to His teachings, even if that means placing the Christian value system above your personal economic value system.

Even though specific Christian beliefs were unknown in Athens, Christian thinkers used resources which were far less internally consistent than process thought to express religious meanings, defend practices, doctrines, and so forth.

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

So Christian practice believes that human bodies, even after death, mediate God's grace.»

Long before this time, Christians who faced martyrdom under the persecutions of the Roman emperors rather than deny Christ met this problem in practice, even as many of our contemporaries have been forced to in our own day.

So the practice is not a particularly «Christian» or even a «religious» one.

Also, Christians and Jews at the time used to stone adulterers to death as well; even today, most Republicans support the practice.

The practice caught on, and Sunday eventually became known as the «Christian» Sabbath — even though Jesus Himself observed Sabbath on the last day of the week... Saturday.

If those who are practicing evil are not even bothered to do it openly, I don't see why a Christian should be ashamed about doing something relating to his / her faith in Christ.

Our practice is the only sure evidence, even to ourselves, that we are genuinely Christians.

To a great extent this taboo probably even inhibited the practice of husbands and wives (this is still true of a surprising number of people reared in the Judeo - Christian taboo system).

Even the most mystical of Christian mystics practiced silence so as to attend more closely to the ever - speaking God.

Still they realize that members of other Christian churches challenge the sufficiency, or even the rectitude, of their teaching and practice.

The claim of the Christian Church to make its voice heard in matters of politics and economics is very widely resented, even by those who are Christian in personal belief and in devotional practice.

What is even more terrifying is if any Muslim that practices Islam... has a grudge against any Christian... what's stopping them from making a false claim against a Christian, of blasphemy?

For many, even today, the attitudes and practices of Christian missionaries have much to do with their opposition to conversion.

God has provided for non-Christians a different government outside the Christian estate and God's kingdom, and has subjected them to the sword, so that even though they would do so, they can not practice their wickedness, and that, if they do they may not do it without fear nor in peace and prosperity... 73

And most Christians don't even practice the worship correctly.

They want freedom to practice THEIR religion in the US yet they harrass Christians and even other Jews who are not conservative.

Even more radically, the fact that the practice of worship of God inherently requires critical self - reflection means that it inherently requires critical examination of whether and why we should engage ourselves in the Christian thing at all, and hence in the common life of this or any congregation.

Having a group committed to a standard of practice or a positive series of actions, perhaps prayer and study and even other Christian disciplines is the best approach.

Even on this basis the Catholic nowadays is himself very often, and in the most important questions, in a situation which in practice resembles the one assumed to be always and necessarily present by those who advocate a Christian situation ethics.

But he then proceeds to explain that there are, in practice, no circumstances under which we are justified in identifying an anti-progressive politician as sufficiently wicked not to deserve Christian votes, even if he is a «dark Machiavellian.»

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

Some Christians and theologians, open to the world of cultural and religious pluralism, fascinated by it and eager to experiment alternative ways of practicing their faith, are willing to go a second mile, a third mile, even any number of miles, with their new found friends and neighbors of other faiths.

Perhaps if more Christians did their corporal acts of mercy in secular humanitarian institutions, or if we practiced Gospel ethics in the workplace even though it put a promotion or even our job at risk, the influence of the Gospel would be more widely spread.

I am a practicing Christian — even a red state one according to the CNN poll — but I'm not interested in making everyone believe exactly as I do.