Sentences with phrase «for heretical»

Sorry for my heretical viewpoint, but I think gamification is, in most cases, a total and utter waste of time and effort.
It means that there will always be a need within organized religions, and in spite of organized religions, for the heretical and the heterodox, always a need for people like me to close their remarks and listen carefully to what others have to say.
He became the first person to die for heretical beliefs.
Well that type of «Christian» was said by the Apostle Paul should be emasculated for their heretical teaching.

Not exact matches

If that notion is odd, this one is heretical: Justin Trudeau might be better for business than Stephen Harper.
A few years ago, I watched as my boss at one such title — an offshoot of a brand famous for ranking the nation's 500 largest corporations — proposed to his boss the heretical idea that we cover more startups.
But his solutions for shrinking the U.S. trade deficit with China, namely labeling China a currency manipulator and placing tariffs on Chinese goods, are not as heretical as you might think.
A fee structure where a wealth manager was penalised for long - term sub-par performance (e.g. by rebating some of their fee to the client) would counter this, but ideas like this are heretical in the wealth management industry.
He belongs to a heretical cult of Lutherans and his main mission is to spew unbased comments on Catholic topics for which he has no knowledge.
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.
This is necessary both in order to identify and reject heretical deviations from the truth of the gospel and also to provide sound instruction for passing on the faith intact to the rising generation.
No way to know the exact route for sure, but it is noteworthy that a lot of that exact Prophet - Priest - King teaching comes right from the theology of Derek Prince — one of the four originators of the heretical Shepherding Movement — but amping up his hyper - authority structure for fathers in the family and applying it to the elders in the spiritual family.
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.
The LDS were considered heretical for their additional texts; their view on God the Father, Son, and Spirit; Christ's visit to the ancient Americans after his resurrection as translated by their prophet Joseph Smith; and so on.
Privately, Evers had asked for permission to invite Martin Luther King to join forces, but his NAACP bosses ignored the heretical idea.
He is being denounced also for being heretical.
At Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary they taught you how to think thru heretical arguments in light of scripture and come to reason it out for yourself AND how can any CHristian Apologist be worth anything if they don't know and understand the heretical views that oppose Orthodox Christianity!?
One must grasp, for instance, the particular philosophical problem that John Locke faced, namely, how not to seem like a heretic while actually proposing a heretical solution to the «theological - political problem.»
Our god has for so long been economic growth that such a proposal may seem heretical and unrealistic.
Of course, my personal favorite bit of Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thought.
But because the Church successfully evolved, because believers were willing change their minds about the structure of the universe in order for their faith to makes sense in a modern world, what was once considered heretical is now embraced as scientific fact.
I thought he was a weak teacher at best, a heretical charlatan using the Gospel for his own personal gain (and a jet) at worst.
Thus more than two - thirds of Americans are heretical with respect to what is for Bloom the American religion.
Indeed, the formal Catholic procedures for beatifying and canonizing saints are intended, inter alia, to guard against superstition, miracle «mongering, and popular enthusiasms of a possibly heretical nature.
For centuries, however, the two sides condemned each other as heretical.
The Crouches are known for being indifferent to correct doctrine and / or teaching false doctrine, and for inviting guests onto their televsion programs who promote heretical doctrines.
Some Christian workers are even heretical or to help set up a base for working behind the scenes.
The Armenian was a Monophysite, despised by the Greeks for holding the heretical view that Christ was essentially of one (divine) nature.
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.
He probably has learned all the best arguments for every theological position that exists — both orthodox and heretical.
Be warned though... you must be ready for foul language, coarse jokes, and heretical ideas.
For example, if someone were to assert that as he read the Bible the Word of God commanded him to set fire to a «heretical» church, the community of faith (and the political community as well) would insist that this is no Word from God at all, and that the man is not to be honored as a prophet or mystic but to be treated in a mental hospital.
It is not impossible, heretical, or apostate, for me to believe that God might inspire either myself or other Believers to utilize the political system to further God's work in the world, in orther that God's will might be done.
As Galileo, a devout believer in God who once ended up in hot water with the Catholic church for «heretical» ideas about heliocentrism, said, «I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.»
Demarest explains, «The early church defended itself against heretical teaching by appealing to «the rule of faith» or «the rule of truth», which were brief summaries of essential Christian truths... The fluid «rule of faith» gave way to more precise instruments for refuting heresies and defining faith, namely, creedal formulations such as the Apostles» Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed.»
But this doctrine was taken for granted by basically all Christians (except some heretical sects) for more than a millennium prior to the Reformation era.
Have you ever been in a church where a leader quoted 2 Timothy 4:3 - 4, and then proceeded to show why most other churches are heretical or spiritually immature because they can not endure sound doctrine, but instead, heap up for themselves teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear?
I consider that a very wrong way and heretical in the sense its not giving the unbeliever what is necessary for them to know the importance of what they are considering.
For this reason Jesus» retort to the wily Sadducees — «For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven» (Matthew 22:30)-- is not a heretical denial of incarnational life or a plug for interchangeability, but an anticipation of the reunion that his own life already inauguratFor this reason Jesus» retort to the wily Sadducees — «For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven» (Matthew 22:30)-- is not a heretical denial of incarnational life or a plug for interchangeability, but an anticipation of the reunion that his own life already inauguratFor in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven» (Matthew 22:30)-- is not a heretical denial of incarnational life or a plug for interchangeability, but an anticipation of the reunion that his own life already inauguratfor interchangeability, but an anticipation of the reunion that his own life already inaugurates.
Interestingly, several of the doctrines we now hold firmly as «sound biblical truth» were at first (and for about 200 years) considered by the majority of people to be «heretical
To me, for example, one of the most exciting recent developments in Spinoza scholarship is Carlos Fraenkel's argument that Spinoza could have adopted a more conciliatory approach to biblical interpretation, one that would reinterpret the Bible in accordance with his teachings, thus mitigating their heretical tone.
The heretical question as to what men and women ought to offer one another may be worth pursuing if for no other reason than it prevents us from stepping in the paradigmatic alternatives.
But the views of Copernicus were regarded as heretical by the church authorities, and an eminent philosopher, Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600), was convicted of heresy in 1594 for professing them and after six years of imprisonment in which he refused to recant, he died at the stake.
They did this, Ehrman claims, to bolster their case for orthodoxy in the face of challenges from heretical groups such as the Adoptionists, the Separationists and the Docetics.
Would it be right to place a regulation on me that says that I have to give BOTH sides of the discussion, and start carrying heretical books like «Your Best Life Now» and «Heaven is for Real?»
For me, however, delineation with regard to the theological «right» is equally important, and I hope that The Heretical Imperative has now fulfilled this purpose.
They elected to break with the Plan of Union, to support only Presbyterian societies for missions and reform, and to cut off four large New School synods that they considered heretical.
To Rosemary Ruether, the evidence assembled in recent times makes it difficult to conclude that female imagery for the Spirit is a late deviation of heretical Christianity.
«Heresy is in the eye of the beholder... no one thinks that their beliefs are heretical, so denouncing another's theology as «heretical» is meaningless and purposeless, for what one judges to be «heresy» is dependant upon one's accepted church's dogma.
those blinkered fans who believe that winning stuff is the right approach need to be banished to far of lands as they are really just heretical supporters of the unholy spuds and the idolatrous Maureen who The Lord is now casting aside for his blaspheming against the prophet.....
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