Sentences with phrase «evidence than the church»

Not exact matches

The challenge facing the church is to discard the unproven scientific theories of the 1980's and 1990's; to understand the scientific evidence that shows non-reverable sexual orientations; and to give the gay believer in Christ mercy to be married for life to the same sex spouse (rather than to continue to insist on the sacrifice of celibacy).

For more than two years, occupying Islamic jihadists tried to erase any evidence of Christianity from the city — burning churches, destroying crosses, toppling bell towers.

More likely than not it was an inside job, burning evidence, or someone from the church that started it wanting sympathy.

I don't have scientific evidence to support this, but I would hypothesize that church people tend to feel this pull more than non-church people, because church people tend to pack their calendars stupid full.

The Council teaching readily recognizes the evidence of Christian faith and holiness outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church; evidence, one might add, that is sometimes more conspicuous than the evidence found among some who are in full communion with the Church.

Here, more than in any testimony developed at the trial, was the mute evidence of the anguish caused by the rift in the church: «Green silk altar hangings given by Miss Winifred Walker in memory of her sister, Ruby Walker... Private communion service given by Mrs. Annie Rose Robertson Sprague in memory of her mother and her sisters... A dogwood planted on the front lawn in memory of Marie Gatling Payne...»

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

So you take what the early church fathers, the ones trying to legitimize their religion as much as possible, the ones saying that all the similarities are products of the devil, and just take their word rather than actual archaeological evidence and anthropological study?

The sufficient evidence of this point in the case of the New Testament writings is that all of them have now been shown to depend on sources, written or oral, earlier than themselves, and hence not to be the original and originating witness that the early church mistook them to be in judging them to be apostolic.

'» [1] The Greatest Work of God It seems fair to summarise St Thomas» view by saying that he relied on the direct testimony of two scources, the Scriptures and the Church Fathers, rather than on the arguments of human logic, and since he found no evidence for the Scotist position in either source, he did not entertain it.

Using a variant of instantaneous hazard analysis, we have, however, been able to rule out differences associated with denominational family and church polity types — that is, the evidence indicates that denominations with congregational polities are no more and no less likely than denominations with presbyterial or episcopal polities to experience schisms.

I should mention that she has probably been more involved in church activities and other evidence of Christian commitment than most church members her age.

God never has and never will use scientifically - proven evidence to convince people; personal agency and faith are more important to Him than trying to prove to every person that He exists or which is His Church.

Any opposition that a heliocentric view provoked at the time was due to a lack of scientific evidence and was from fellow natural philosophers rather than Church authority.

I think the incorporation of MMA into church ministries is part of a pile of evidence that suggests American Christianity has been impacted by American ideals more than we like to admit.

Saddleback demands far more of its multitudes than mere church attendance, and it actually drops from the rolls people who do not move toward membership and evidence this growth by making covenants, giving generously and developing from members into ministers.

The church's witness to the reign of God is crucial but also provisional, for the mystery of God is beyond all domestication, as evidenced in Barth's radical rethinking of baptism and the Lord's Supper as witness to something from on high rather than as the established «sacraments» of Christendom.

This is evidenced in such things as Barth's eschatologically oriented framework of creation, reconciliation and redemption; his focus on promise and hope rather than the present possession of God's reign; the reconfiguration of experience as a determination toward the future; the placing of the divine summons to action — the ethical life — at the summit of each volume of his doctrinal work; and, above all, his refusal to make his theology an apology for Christendom or to give priority to the established church.

There is FAR more evidence that I am god than any church has ever provided for the proof of a Christian god... I created two sons, they are my proof....

Finally, most troops are sponsored by churches, and anecdotal evidence suggests that most of them are more serious about religious observance than is the by «the «way nature piety of «Troop 49.»

One of the things we'd like to accomplish here is a more nuanced discussion of the evidence, rather than calling it «good» or «bad» as if some of the evidence went to church and the rest went out to the tavern and got drunk.]

Emotional Freedom Techniques to Treat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: Review of the Evidence, Survey of Practitioners, and Proposed Clinical Guidelines Dawson Church, PhD; Sheri Stern, MS, CRNP, APRN - PMH; Elizabeth Boath, PhD; Antony Stewart, FFPH, FRSPH, MPH; David Feinstein, PhD; Morgan Clond, MD, PhD (Cand) The authors surveyed 448 emotional freedom techniques (EFT) practitioners: Most (63 %) reported that even complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be remediated in 10 or fewer EFT sessions; 65 % found that > 60 % of PTSD clients are fully rehabilitated, and 89 % stated that less than 10 % of clients make little or no progress.