Sentences with phrase «even heretical»

However, the new (and even heretical) idea that groups of wolves evolved into dogs via natural selection means dogs are not simply domesticated wolves.

Tragically, evangelical theology has largely ignored this doctrine, and thus our theology has been unbiblical — indeed, even heretical — on this important point.

I preach unorthodox, even heretical sermons fairly often, and, three years ago, the board took the results of the sale of some property, over a million dollars, and set the proceeds aside... for the meeting of human need in this city.

Some Christian workers are even heretical or to help set up a base for working behind the scenes.

Even heretical.

Not exact matches

They even express the seven purportedly heretical propositions in Latin.

Even in your heretical cult there are those with formal roles of directing others and processes.

I will even say, for now, I like Zuckert's Locke better, insofar that it can be understood to be an heretical or nonrelational version of the Christian idea of the person.

I think it is funny that most fundies adore C.S. Lewis, yet so much of his writings are controversial, some would even say heretical.

Some Sufis even denounced the Pillars of Islam and taught that union with God is the aim of Islam, a pantheistic doctrine which is heretical.

Without the deepest truth of Christianity — the truth which Stratford Caldecott explored so deeply and presented so well — the «mysticism, spirituality, whatever you want to call — even gnosis perhaps (not in the heretical but in the Christian sense)» — without that, all the «serious business of intellectual argument and social action» is «doomed to fail».

Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.

Justin admitted that other gentile Christians did not show the same leniency.1 By the fourth century, the church had ruled that it was heretical even for believers of Jewish birth to observe the Law.

But even without such a heretical solution she will realize that in view of the complicated conditions of our time in the moral sphere, too, many cases can no longer be decided directly by the official judgment of the Church, but must be left to the individual conscience guided by the great norms of the gospel which she announces.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

I read it (although I didn't have an early copy claiming ``... the church has no right to exist» which would have raised even my hypokinetic eyebrows) and didn't find it to be heretical.

2 Peter 2 But also [in those days] there arose false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, who will subtly and stealthily introduce heretical doctrines (destructive heresies), even denying and disowning the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

You have to remember that it took the great Church thinkers hundreds of years and several heretical battles to actually define the Trinity into an idea that Christians could sorta wrap their brains around, and even now how many can actually explain it sensibly?

Even if this consensus be granted, however, it is not binding, because the theologians did not claim that their opinion was revealed, or that to take the opposite view was heretical.

In most Roman theological circles, however, even the whispered mention of such a possibility is considered heretical.

It seems heretical even to suggest it, but it may be time to return to the earlier, essentially free - market model of mission support — encouraging individuals and churches to support the specific mission efforts they choose.

Too many times, we can be like over-eager watchdogs, sniffing out any morsel of what we deem as offensive, inappropriate or even «heretical.»

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't it heretical to even call God a he, or even call God, God.

(Even though the latter statement pleases me, as an old infantryman, both statements seem to me to border on the heretical.)

God has unusual ways to protect his elect, even in the midst of heretical congregations.

Heretical, pantheistic mysticism continued to exist even though orthodox Sufism became more widely known through the Sufi orders.

I can ask the heretical questions, challenge the long - held traditions, or maybe even agree with something.

I'm going to start sharing with people the freedom and the truth I have come to know outside the church even though most will find it heretical.

But I do know it won't happen by even more furious denunciations of others, by focusing on politics rather than prayer, by concerning ourselves with the sex lives and heretical thoughts of others rather than with the constant struggle to liberate ourselves from what keeps us from God.

With just one exception, Pryce sided with the new Democratic majority on every major bill and rule change that came to a vote in the past two weeks, even voting against her party on a procedural vote, a move considered heretical in the years of GOP control.

As with cold fusion in 1989, heretical findings with far - reaching implications are sometimes worth investigating, even if the chances that there is something to it all are remote.

by Walter Chaw Heretical to even suggest it, I'm sure, Zack Snyder's remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead surpasses the original in any number of ways.

Much like Richard Porter's assertion that sweaty - backed rejectors of air - conditioning are suffering in vain, I'm happy to put forward the heretical notion that even the nape - prickling symphony of an Italian V12 begins to grate when you're covering big distances.

The disposition effect in stock trading, once a heretical idea, is now mainstream, and even arguably part of a new orthodoxy.

Even in this day and age of anything goes, that is a quietly heretical act.»

But, guys, you now that even the most radical and heretical suggestions sometimes have some merit.

And that I can even write such heretical words and expect them to remain uncensored is a good indication of how far we've come in the few years since, say, Climategate.