Sentences with phrase «even early church fathers»

There are even early church fathers that have influenced what we believe today who did not believe Adam and Eve were literal people, but allegorical symbols of the sinfulness of all humanity.

Not exact matches

Even though history clearly speaks to Paul dying at the hands of Nero, all the apostles except John being murdered, and early church fathers such as Polycarp being killed by Rome?

He believed his chances for faith had been hurt by his father, the early loss of his mother, the air of unbelief in the Church of his youth, even the «terrible» liturgy and the modernized music (pitfalls he counted «inherent in Protestantism»).

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

Few of the Church Fathers even mention it, and it seems that the only group that loved John as much as the evangelicals now do were the gnostics, and we know what the early Church did to them.

As I pointed out, there is no reference to it before Eusebius in the 4th century even though many early Church Fathers writing centuries earlier were familiar with the works of Josephus.

Add to this fact that the early church fathers are not even in agreement about the gender of Junia.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Nevertheless, the first and even the subsequent early councils were not called at random but because there were people ---- like Arius, Sabellius, the Nestorians (though not Nestorius), and others ---- who were teaching things about Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit that, so far as our evidence can tell us, were not being taught by the majority of the Church.

The teachings of Jesus were also the primary content of the Gospel of Thomas and similar writings which were rejected, prohibited and even destroyed by the early church fathers.

If Paul did not fully understand his experience, his followers and the early church fathers understood it even less.

Yet, as the early Church Father St Justin points out, not even the fervent devotees, or worshippers, of Sol invictus («unconquered sun») were prepared to lay down their lives for the sun — unlike the decisive witness of martyrdom of Christians.

In fact, you can even find some early church fathers who seem to have supported subordinationism before the Nicene Creed was affirmed.

This is also in part because evangelicals today are reading the early Church Fathers and the Reformers and appropriating aspects of the great tradition that would have been unthinkable even a generation or two ago.

The following «thy will be done, on earth as in heaven» in Matthew is doubtless liturgical explication, but the petition itself differs from the Kaddish petition, «May he establish his kingdom in your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of all the house of Israel, even speedily and at a near time», which it parallels in sentiment, in ways which are characteristic of Jesus, not the early Church: the brevity of formulation (cf. «Father [abba]» versus «Our Father who art in heaven»); the intimate «Thy» for the formal «his»; and the use of the verb «to come» rather than «to establish» (the early Church prayed for the coming of the Lord, not the Kingdom, cf. I Cor.