Sentences with phrase «far better christian»

President Obama is a far better Christian than you are.

I get the feeling, based on the posts I've read by you, that you feel you are a far better Christian with a better grasp of the faith than anyone alive.

Not exact matches

The best piece I've seen so far on the latest machinations comes from Ellen Huet at Bloomberg, who has uncovered how Chahal's shady behavior extended to the boardroom — including his creation of a fictional employee named Christian Gray (nope, he has zero self - awareness) that came complete with his own LinkedIn profile.

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO --(Marketwired - June 4, 2013)- The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, today announced decisions to further promote competition in the Canadian wireless telecommunications market to give Canadians access to the latest technology at better prices.

Rush Limbaugh is so far from Christian it is difficult for me to believe that anyone would think that listening to his show would do any good for their soul.

Although disliking Jews go further back, such as their exile, one of the reasons is that the Pope made a rule that Christians can't loan money (but accepting a loan is ok) so Jews end up taking the job and so long as things are going well, people probably like jews because they received money (though they probably didn't like paying them back with interest).

The evidence for early Christian persecution is direct and far more credible than many other well known historical events, yet we appear to have deniers in our midst.

I am not sure about this as far as legality, but to me a Christian group should not have to consider an atheist as president not necessarily because of discrimination, but because the atheist is not the best representative of what the group stands for.

I myself, having been exposed to the ancient beliefs of Taino Native Americans and Far Easterners transplanted into Latin America as well as Christianity, have a more pragmatic, holistic outlook on divinity and religious teachings which I choose to defer expressing, lest I be branded here in the Christian South as a HERETIC.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

And a historian may well look at how the advances in infrastructure during the spread of Pax Romana during the 2nd and 3rd centuries enabled people to travel further and more efficiently as well as improving communications, or how the development of a Lingua Franca contributed to the communication of the Christian message.

Although I always appreciate a new discovery, we all know Christians will just continue to do what they do best and stretch themselves as far as they can to make their beliefs make sense.

this web site does nt really put christians in a good light as far as acceptance of the 2nd largest religion... islam... and that category is shared with catholics, restorationists, gnostics and episcopalians... so do nt flatter your self too much.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

day to day life of a muslim revolves around these beliefs and traditiopns.as far as christianity is concerned or a christian is concerned he or she is just a christian on traditions and stories told in man - made bible and their life does not revolve around any true beliefs or traditions and they do not take them seriously as well.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

I remember countless conversations in the dorm rooms of my conservative Christian college about how to defer to a guy as the «spiritual leader» in a relationship, an ideal that far too often resulted in women deliberately diminishing their own gifts, ideas, and dreams in an effort to better play second fiddle.

True — a lot of it is indeed hokum, Deepak Chopra type stuff, but it is far, far better than being a Bible believing Christian or Koran believing Muslim.

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

I think the point of the cartoon was that there is a belief among most Christians (Catholic and Protestant alike) that there is something special about Jesus the man that is other - worldly and goes far beyond just a man with a good message — and if you «take in» Jesus then you get certain special privileges (like going to heaven).

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Time.

As far as most Christians should be concerned (my view), May 21, 2011 is as good a day as any.

No matter how far you get as a Christian, you can always be better.

Being «offensive» is typically not a good argument as far as law, otherwise, I would attempt to make laws that make radicalized ignorant christian zealots such as you, as «hate» groups.

«They» attack the others as well, but in the west, you hear more about the judeo - christian god because religions based on that god are far more prevalent.

Hi my name is Lindsey and I'm recovering heroin addict and my mother is a very devoted rightous Christian her favorite saying is I am the head and not the tail meaning she is the head is far better than me and I am the tail and because the way Christians have treated me recently through my struggle I have felt that I should convert to Hinduism when I brought this up to my mother she told me I will go to hell because Jesus is the only God which I do believe to an extent but I also believe in having peace within your own life and treating others equally fairly with love respect and dignity which my mother and my sister do not do the act as though they are better than anyone they do not sin they do not make mistakes and they are perfect in every way another one of her favorite sayings I'm not perfect but I'm going to try to be BC Jesus loves me that much.

Atheists and agnos are far too short in charity considering their numbers, and they only mimic Christians in doing any good.

It's a pretty good book, though it seemed to me that the further you got in the book the less it became about discussing interesting ideas about applying Christian ideals in the society we find ourselves in and more it became a lot of his personal prescriptions for what needs to be done and a venting of his worst pet peeves, filled with just a bit to much anger.

I was amazed and moved when several of the men responded positively to this material, since I was all along well aware that — to the extent that some of them had Christian backgrounds or had even become Christians in jail — such traditions of silence within Christianity would be far removed from the affective and sometimes noisy spirituality of much African - American Protestantism.

I need not press you any further on this as you've exposed your lovely caring Christian position quite well.

What he is doing is trying to start a war, and by calling himself a Christian he is well aware that this will enrage matters further.

Most of the Christians I know are decent people who get a great deal of personal satisfaction from their community and find that the good done by fellow Christians and the church far outweigh the negativity and bigotry of some in their community.

If Christians would focus on what Jesus thought important what a far better world we would have.

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

It is good to challenge the status quo when it does not line up with scripture (like confronting the desire for violence and vengeance especially among «conservative» Christians), but we should not in our zeal push the pendulum too far the other way and undermine our view of God's sovereignty, power, and holiness.

Christians were far better tolerated in most Muslim - ruled countries than Muslims were in Christian - controlled territories.

Further, freethinkers often have a better knowledge of Christian scripture and apologetics than many believers.

Thus, while Prof. Novak can admit that the faithful Christian necessarily believes that Christianity supersedes Judaism, and can further admit that «any Jew who believes Christianity supersedes Judaism can only in good faith become a Christian,» he nonetheless denigrates the motives and faith of most of those whom he calls «apostate» Jews.

Actually, non-believers that do good deserve far more credit than Christians because they do it because they feel it's right, rather than due to bribes (heaven) and threats (hell).

In any event, the point of this chapter, intended to prepare the way for further discussion of what I have styled «another» (and I am convinced a better) theological approach, is simply to insist that we can only be loyal to our ancestors in the Christian tradition, but above all loyal to the chief stress in the faith which that tradition has conveyed to us, if and when and as we are ready to put stress on love's centrality — and to use that as our key to the whole theological enterprise.

Thus I am obliged to say, with H. H. Price, that theism, at least in a Christian sense, is «a metaphysics of love»; and with this, I am obliged to affirm that «the world», including nature in its farthest stretches as well as in the intimacy of human existence, is given its proper «interpretation» only when «the key» to it is found in Jesus Christ.

To - day we see that, far from endangering a well - grounded faith, Christian or otherwise, an acquaintance with other religions has a beneficial influence.

The next essay, «Christ, Reality, and Good,» is a further treatment in depth of the view that Christian ethics is not concerned with the knowledge of good and eGood,» is a further treatment in depth of the view that Christian ethics is not concerned with the knowledge of good and egood and evil.

Well - intentioned though these tales may have been, they stood in stark contrast to most Christians» experiences with the devil — and only further enforced the notion that he wasn't quite real.

To Christians, even to theists, the particular form or moment in which death comes... surely can not matter very much; except in so far as it gives... an opportunity to «die well.»

as far as good music, i have never really been into the christian music scene that much either.

ken margo is stating a fact about so called parents or Christians as well as your politicians, when he states that they do nt care, Gods word says it best my words are on your lips but your hearts are far away from me.

So far from being the God of classical philosophy, who is in no way related to others and whose sole object of experience is self, the God of Christian scripture as well as of the Hebrew patriarchs is consistently represented as the supremely relative one, who is related to all others as well as to self by the unique experiences of creation and redemption.