Sentences with phrase «fundamental element of the faith»

What was once thought to be an essential, fundamental element of the faith - a geocentric universe - is now considered a ludicrous idea to any educated believer.

It differs from traditional fundamentalism in that it acknowledges love a fundamental element of faith, but it remains distinct from mere moralism in that it includes certain basic beliefs about God and Jesus Christ.

The fundamental elements of our faith are too enigmatic to be explicated fully by one set of moral or philosophical considerations.

Not exact matches

8:28; Job 38:4) and a solid firmament (Genesis 1:6; Job 38:22; Ezekiel 1:22; Daniel 8:10)-- but they tend to cast a literal seven - day creation as such a fundamental element of the Christianity that one's faith can not survive without it.

What do you think are the most fundamental elements of the Christian faith?

If we use the overpowering rationality of God alone as the clue to resolving the problem of suffering in the world, then, we miss a fundamental element which has always been basic to Christian theology, namely, the recognition that both reason and faith are essential for salvation and liberation.

3) Biblical scholarship relating the creation account of Genesis and ancient Near Eastern cosmology continues to become more accessible to the average reader, so Christian university students are in a great position to learn from Bible professors why a literal, scientific reading of Genesis 1 and 2 need not be a fundamental element of the Christian faith.

Another version of this same fundamental objection states that process thought does not do justice to the eschatological elements of New Testament faith.

My parents never really pushed young earth creationism on me nor taught that it was a fundamental element of the Christian faith, but for most of my life I travelled in circles where it was assumed that good Christians embraced a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2, which describes the earth as being created in six days.