Sentences with phrase «from false churches»

But Paul, in writing this, was not simply trying to give criteria to help us determine true churches from false churches.

Not exact matches

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

Those holidays, along with every denomination and belief that is apart of Traditional Christianity ALL come from the Catholic Church; which is FALSE AND IS IN ERROR itself!

However, in those cases where we have seen the church bully (bullies) continue to bully from afar those who have left (spreading false rumors about them and why they left), we would be wise to give no explanation.

Weeellll, I wouldn't go so far as to call the Catholic church the whore and the Protestant church the false bride, but I do see your point and agree with you that much of institutional religion is not at all what God intended or wanted from followers of Jesus.

Ironically, like every false message finding its way into our churches, this one has the power to lead people away from the truth and serves as an obstacle to genuine relationship with Christ.

Churches feel they need to separate the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the wolves, the sound teacher from the false teacher, the orthodox from the heretic, and the righteous from the wicked.

Don't let some false practices of a church put you away from Jesus.

Theology as self - examination on the part of the church will have to distinguish what is valid in Marx's critique of religion from what is out of place and false.

Glad to see people are free from the false teachings of the Catholic Church.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

At the very least this is a call to church discipline; at most a command to keep away from everyone who's doctrine is false.

Today we have plenty of cults, sects and false churches replacing practical love and righteousness in daily life (that would require the true faith) through ridiculous rituals (for example, the Muslims keep the 5 Pillars of Islam; that is enough to be a good Muslim, but they are not required to love all people independent from belief, nationality, etc.) The cults, sects and false churches make their members practicing a biased love.

The Church was established in part to free us from these sorts of false constructs of man, as Blessed John Paul II proclaims in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor:

Our knowledge of the early church prior to the Council of Nicaea in 325 is fragmentary, but the fragments reveal many of the concerns African churches have today, from distinguishing between true and false prophets to deciding what should happen to church members who behave badly.

One of the tasks of Cox's church, like any Marxist avant - garde, was to exorcise people from the demons of false consciousness.

More churches turn people away from God because of the fact being alot of False Teaching.

The declaration's negation, following immediately upon its affirmation, makes this clear: «We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and beside the one Word of God, still other events and powers, figures and truths, as God's revelation.»

Using their common sense, they have been turned away from religion and the Bible because of false teachings of the churches.

It is this false and extremely non-biblical (as if that was our only authority) idea that has lead to some of the crazy notions coming from the church of the dark ages and infiltrating many people's thought processes today.

look at the false image presented in most white churches and stations like tbn and honestly tell me that's not from the devil.

All because the false preachers back then were loosing money from their churches.

I can't imagine anyone on a mission trip withholding medical care until the patient first hears a sermon or is coerced into making a (false) profession of faith so that the missionary can notch his belt with the number of «souls saved», nor can I imagine that the missionary's home church receives any monetary benefit from this new member you imagine they have strong - armed into joining.

«I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security... More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: «Give them something to eat.»»

Lest the Deutsche Christen of the Nazi church (or anyone else) mistake what this means, a clear reference to der Führer follows: «We reject the false doctrine [that] the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events, powers, figures, and truths as God's revelation.&church (or anyone else) mistake what this means, a clear reference to der Führer follows: «We reject the false doctrine [that] the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events, powers, figures, and truths as God's revelation.&Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events, powers, figures, and truths as God's revelation.»

The thing that people want to exclude themselves from, be it the Christian label, church, religion, or even the institution, can directly relate and feed on the other, thereby creating a false dichotomy.

* She claims she was excommunicated for asking questions although she posted the letters from the church to her website saying that she was actually being excommunicated for building up a group to teach false doctrine and to pressure the church to change its doctrine.

At the same time, the early church was struggling to survive against persecution from the Romans and the Jews, and also striving to protect itself from false teachings about Jesus.

You can just say something is false, you have to back up your opinions with reasons And actually separation of church and state was designed to protect the government from taking over the church, not to keep the church out of the government

«That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error.

If the argument is that we need to protect our churches from false teaching, just look at our churches.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

The idea that Linus, Cletus, Clement, and the rest were successors of Peter is of course a retrospective interpretation from the vantage point of a later stage in church history, but this does not mean that it is false.

Fighting with the resistance is a genuine blast, but it doesn't make you feel like you're taking the church back from the false prophets.

The REAL Church is the heart of man, receiving our LORD's HOLY SPIRIT, true acceptance of GOD's saving GRACE would mean turning away from false teachings, man's doctrines and traditions.

At times in history some churchmen have played into the hands of this false image, but far from the Church being suspicious of cultural and political globalisation, she actually holds the key to the future of humanity.

The Creeds of Christendom multiplied rapidly as the church tried to separate itself from false teaching.

The role of the champion of Christian chastity today, I argue, is to dissociate the Church from the false absolutism of identity based upon erotic tendency, and to rediscover our own anthropological foundation for traditional moral maxims.

From the Catholic side, Vatican II, for all its excesses and false moves, has made the Catholic Church sound more Protestant because it has become more attuned to common biblical and patristic sources.

Just about all of what I see in common «Churches» either separates people from God or leads them into some false fantasyland full of divine mascots and rally songs, pointing them squarely away from honest, discerning, spiritual study of scripture.

I'm taking them from people who are leaving the Church, not because of the cost of discipleship, but because of the cost of false fundamentals — man - made impediments created out of non-essential doctrines and legalistic rules.

And so it is a pastor's responsibility along with the overseers of the church, to protect the church from false teaching and false teachers and the best way to do that is to provide good teaching from good teachers.

In a booklet published during Vatican II, Joseph Ratzinger wrote that the notion of the Mystical Body, as expounded in Pius XII's encyclical of 1943, «made it all but impossible to give any status to Christians separated from Rome» and that it «easily led to a false identification of the Church with Christ.»

From Alanus Anglicus to Pope Nicholas V, a false understanding of the papacy and of papal authority insinuated itself into the Church, finding expression, for example, in the notorious «bulls of donation» which are the target of much opprobrium in indigenous protest movements.

False teachers within the «Christian» Church teach the error that a man must «turn from sins» in order to be saved.

Nevertheless, many Mormons are Christian people who have been mislead into a church that believes, and conceals from early converts, a false religion.

Fair enough, and those of us who have defended Francis against the idea that he is a revolutionary could respond, «Perhaps we have enough faith in the Holy Spirit and in Francis to trust that his inspiring pontificate — which we pray will be healthy and long — will bring about genuine, as distinct from false, «reform,» and will reaffirm the great truths of the Catholic Church, just as Francis did at this initial synod.»