Sentences with phrase «facts about christianity»

After all, educators who deny any link between Islam and violence are often perfectly happy to take note of similar facts about Christianity's past.

Uncomfortable facts about Christianity.

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@ CM; Actually, the more facts you learn about Christianity, the more irrational Christian belief becomes.

It was not uncommon for people to believe in the cyclops, or the sirens until christianity took over, outlawed that belief and as.serted its own» = > the fact that people believed all kinds of things does nt imply anything about other beliefs.

But when you and I insist on that all - too - comfortable paradigm of cosmic score keeping, we stop talking about Christianity and in fact adopt a Westernized form of Hinduism.

How little you know about your own faith — in fact, Christianity has evolved and «progressed» over time.

In fact, there is nothing special about christianity — it is just one of many cults that claim to have all the answers, none of which provide any real evidence for any of their supernatural claims.

Becoming more tolerant to gays, more left leaning, hipper, modern, or whatever else you want to throw out there still doesn't change the fact that Christianity is based on a lie about a man who supposedly walked on water, reincarnated, was born from a woman who claimed to a be virgin, and changed water in to wine.

Christianity is not about joining a particular club, it's about waking up to the fact that we are all in the same club.

The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.

• Fact # 9: I taught at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary early this year and spent some time with the President, Byron Klaus — who is a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate and keeps up with (and says good things about) his friend Paige Patterson, whose seminary has taken a position against some practices associated with Pentecostal Christianity.

Well, if Christianity (or even one of those other religions) is correct, then the «correct religion» isn't decided by a Democracy... so the fact that 2/3 of the world doesn't care about Christianity doesn't matter, except that it means we still have 2/3 of the world to reach with the Gospel.

The other interesting facts in this article were the Unitarian sound of his upbringing, a religion in its own right that is not compatible with Christianity and Obama's statements about the Bible that reveal he really does not know much about Christianity.

It's a shame that some believers have scoffed at some of Shia Labeouf's recent comments about converting to Christianity, pointing fingers at the fact that he still uses bad language weeks after becoming a Christian.

They same can be said about saying the Christianity is a protection racket that builds dogmatic closed minded followers who will willfully turn from fact in favor of faith.

The one fact that is important to notice about Matthew's gospel is its strong emphasis on Christianity as a new law.

One thing seems to be noteworthy: even the true freedom of choice, that is the freedom which consists not only in the absence of external compulsion but in the fact that man must freely decide about himself, and which is, therefore, a demand rather than «freedom» — this freedom becomes evident only in Christianity, because only there each individual is eternally valid (in the personal love between God and man) and hence must realize himself in perfect responsibility and thus in freedom.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

It's just amazing to me to think about the fact that you have scores of millennial and younger evangelicals and I'd say also Gen Xers who are clueless about the actual history of Christianity in this country.

At the root of the disagreement about perfection, I think, is the fact that we sometimes forget that according to Christianity the purpose of moral imperatives is not to make people righteous, but to show them their sin (as Paul taught in Galatians).

Whether in fact this was the effect of the author's proposal about Paul is a historical question; but at issue in this question is the success or failure of the proposal in early Christianity, as well as its truth or falsity, but not its interest for us.

The fact that later Christianity effected a link between the two beliefs and that today the ordinary Christian simply confuses them has not persuaded me to be silent about what I, in common with most exegetes, regard as true; and all the more so, since the link established between the expectation of the «resurrection of the dead» and the belief in «the immortality of the soul» is not in fact a link at all but renunciation of one in favour of the other.

To be fair to both sides, I think the author should be posting an article about Mitt Romney's religion, which is not Christianity, but is in fact a cult.

I think one of the things about Christianity is that it is not simply a faith that you understand at a spiritual faith level, but in fact can be also justified through logic... You look at how Jesus fulfilled perfectly, to the letter, every single prophecy that was made of the coming Messiah.

Reynolds also highlights some of Akyol's oversimplified rhetoric, as when he calls the Paul / James divide «historical fact,» and questions some of Akyol's debatable assumptions about the prominence of Jewish Christianity in Muhammad's Arabia (a point that Reynolds is especially qualified to debate).

One of the things people liked about early Christianity was the fact that no one needed a go between to talk to god.

Christianity is not primarily about becoming rationally convinced of a set of facts about the cosmos - though it is also that - but about falling in love.

In fact, nothing about Christianity is natural.

Bob — I can totally understand that you were exhausted by the «deeper life» approach to Christianity — it is a notion that is so often driven by a dissatisfaction which buffers us constantly about what we are (failing) and what we should be, and it can so easily create a cycle which dis - enfranchises us from the actual riches of grace — which put simply, stem from the fact that God justifies the wicked.

But as I read this interview, I had two thoughts: 1) Driscoll is absolutely wrong in the way that he characterizes emerging Christianity, and I hope he is absolutely wrong in the way that he characterizes Reformed theology, and 2) Driscoll is absolutely right about the fact that Reformed and emerging are the big trends.

Ok how about the fact through Christianity, the Bible states that Christ is the only religious figure that throughout the history of any other religion that actually RESURRECTED through God.

If not a word about Christianity were heard, men would not be so conceited (as paganism never has been at any time); but by the help of the fact that Christian conceptions are unchristianly floating in the air they are employed in the interest of this most potentiated impertinence, in so far as they are not misused in another and equally shameless way.

It's just a fact, there are humans on this planet right now, who don't know the first thing about christianity and the bible and never will, because they will not be exposed to it.

Furthermore, you're a complete liar, you can't give me mounds of evidence that my religion is not true, you have no «Facts» to try and disprove my religion, And the part you're completely lying about, is Being put to death for not believing in Christianity, you are trying to label Christians as Murderers?

Is it that they are allowed to be themselves in America (build mosques, while their women look like they are about to rob a bank) while we have to conform to their rules over there (women have to wear the stupid scarf thing, Christianity and other ideas and beliefs are often suppressed, and often with violence)... Or is it the fact that they ALWAYS start trouble with violence with everyone (yes, before 9 - 11 and before the crusades they invaded Europe - google the Battle of Tours for details).

Besides the fact that most humor comes from some inappropriate pairing of themes («A priest, a rabbi and a prostitute walk into a bar...»), it's always ironic to me to see a group of right - wingers freaking out about some creative endeavor that doesn't bother to take Christianity or some other part of Traditional America seriously, when they also freaked out about Muslims freaking out over cartoons about the Prophet.

Say what you want about «redeeming» the holiday for our Christian youths, the fact of the matter is that when you're a Christian kid in a secular high school and all your peers are getting Valentines and «getting laid,» Christianity and the «redemptive» nature of Valentine's Day tends to take a back seat.

In that there has been discussion of Christianity on this thread, let me just add that those who understand what Christianity is all about are very much aware of the fact that we have a relationship and communication channel with our Creator, through our living Saviour, Jesus Christ.

It is important to understand that this is not about favoring Christianity, but it is in fact targeted specifically at Islam.