Sentences with phrase «even about doctrine»

Paul is clear that there are some disagreements, even about doctrine, that shouldn't divide.

Not exact matches

It is written; «If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness»

Even if you do nt believe Christianity is true, you still need to understand Christian doctrine to speak intelligently about it (now, that all as.sumes you WANT to be able to speak intelligently, and you have some reason for being here other than just to mock without understanding).

(In order even to begin to comprehend this story, one must understand first that Missouri Synod people care deeply about church doctrine, and second that Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of Missourians.

My father also taught me, even when I was a child, that Bruce R. McConkie, who wrote some unflattering stuff about non-whites in «Mormon Doctrine,» stood in Conference after the 1978 announcement and said he had obviously been wrong on those points, and he retracted everything not in keeping with the Brethren's announcement.

Like a spiritual corpse, he is unable to make a single move toward God, think a right thought about God, or even respond to God — unless God first brings this spiritually dead corpse to life (Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74).

1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

(People could well differ on what this would allow us to say about God, with some opting, for example, for Whitehead's primordial nature of God while rejecting the consequent, with others considering even the primordial nature too speculative and speaking only of «creative interchange» or «creative passage,» and with still others considering the consequent nature of God the most empirically grounded feature of Whitehead's doctrine.)

Such rigidity has changed, but even today Councils of Christian Churches argue about whether Unitarians, who reject the doctrine of the Trinity, may belong to such Councils.

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.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Even so, the number of people with serious doubts about the basic Christian concepts and doctrines was still extremely small in the eighteenth century.

The charge which tries to divide the confessors of the faith or guides of the flock from the general assembly of God's people, so that the latter become as sheep without a shepherd and as men carried about with every wind of doctrine, is remarkably successful even to our own day.

There is no self - conscious theology of revelation in the Scriptures, and the topic receives little formal attention even in the history of doctrine up until about the time of the Enlightenment.

even the nuns that have been on here complaining, they want power as well, sad really because the doctrine that they believe in is all about being humble.

What the church has to say about the secular institutions follows solely from the preaching of Christ, and the Church possesses no doctrine of her own which is valid in itself with regard to eternal institutions and natural or human rights such as might command acknowledgement even independently of faith in Christ.

Paul blessings as i shared with Christine it is a personal relationship with Jesus when Jesus called his disciples he said follow me not the church not man.I belong to 2 churchs and i keep in touch with a couple indirectly and minister from time to time they are all different styles and different doctrines and in each of them i have people i care about they are family to me brothers and sisters in the Lord and i can go there and feel at home we sing and worship the Lord and hear the word together its awesome.I used to feel that i did nt fit in now i can fit in anywhere because where we go he goes with us.There is unity in Christ even though we may differ in doctrine.brentnz

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.

Similarly no one religious faith or religious conception of the Ultimate Reality or even any one doctrine about the relation between religions should be made integral to Open Secularism.

Steve... Try using your freedom to state some disagreement with your pastor about an issue of doctrine, or even better, an issue of love... You may quickly find out that the relationship is tightly based on agreement, and not on mutual respect between two equal adults.

But its very success in creating a new community led to doctrines about that community that created new and even more intense divisions.

«Labour's doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man's word against the woman's and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together.

I find it rather remarkable if not ignorant that you speak so easily about a judgment devoid of any logical, economic or even legal arguments, which stretches the scope of Article 101 to operators which could not possibly have foreseen this; in any case not on the basis of the Treaty text, not on the basis of any precedent, and hardly on the basis of competition law doctrine.

He forces us to think about the media we use to present legal doctrine, even we do write about it.

It's one thing to talk about law practice management topics in a podcast, but it's another one to see podcasts as a medium for credible commentary or even as a source of law (at least if one can imagine that academics providing long - form commentary about Québec civil law in a podcast would be creating «doctrine»).