Sentences with phrase «good christian morals»

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A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

Most atheist have a better moral compass than so called Christians especially the Catholic church.

In a chapter on «the idea of moral progress» he energetically argues that Christians have no reason to deny that the agency of science has given us a better world.

«I think Mitt Romney is a good, moral man, but I think those of us who are born - again followers of Christ should always prefer a competent Christian to a competent non-Christian like Mitt Romney,» Jeffress told CNN's Jim Acosta.

They even brought defrocked priests and nuns into their fold, as well as disgruntled Christians who bemoaned the declining morals of their old churches.

But if «judge not» means that Christians are to abstain from all moral evaluations, all assessments of good and bad, then Jesus contradicts Himself in the analogy that follows His famous command.

I would argue that a Christian and an Atheist could have equally good lives, both from a moral standpoint and a fulfillment standpoint.

As part of its handling of the moral and spiritual questions surrounding death, Christian writers developed a literature devoted to the «art of dying well.»

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

The questions addressed the moral role of TV celebrity chefs in the food waste debate as well as body image, food poverty and the role of the Christian faith in the overall debate.

I happen to agree with Maher that Christians have terrible answers to these sort of moral issues in Scripture, and it is past time we decide to have a better answer than the traditional trite explanations and pat answers of the past.

I'm not going to define good and evil according to humans, since that would kill moral realism, and most Christians (most people, in fact) would not be willing to let that happen.

The Obama Administration will help us christians restore the good morals of christianity which is good.

Get over yourself, you're a bad Christian without good morals

It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.

How does a saved person differ from a decently moral, well - behaved, public - spirited citizen who is not a Christian?

A Democrat being a Christian is nothing new... and a Democrat justifying policies with moral obligations is nothing new either, as well as Republicans questioning their policies for other reasons... Obama is not at all unique in this manner.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and its Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.

According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they [the laity] possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.

Some christians believe that whether you believe or not, if you live a good and moral life you'll still be accepted into gods good graces, this is their workaround for why, say Ghandi is still allowed into heaven and not in hel.l because he was a hindu.

Drawing upon the Western, Judeo - Christian tradition, the authors remind us that work not only defines who we are, but that it is a moral imperative as well.

The sad thing is these intolerant Christian fundamentalists actually think they're being moral, good, decent people by discriminating.

Restitution and Compensation for colonial exploitation are perspectives that are not well developed explicitly in Christian moral theology.

It is the fringe fundamentalist christian and crazy Catholics that think they can legislate your morals and change thsi country for their own good.

One can read a good many books about the moral and political implications of Christian faith without finding much discussion of prisons.

- Would you 1) Rather live like a Christian with honor, values and standards based on a good moral, then die and find out there is no God or Heaven or Hell.

It was no better than the piety of bourgeois idealism with its naive preachments about moral optimism, its identification of the ideal society with the Kingdom of God, and its simple confidence in the possibility of implementing in public life the absolutes of the Christian faith.

Alvin Plantinga, prof. of theology @ Notre Dame: he defends the notion of reformed epistemology, which states that if moral arguments for Christianity are true, then principles of the Christian faith are likely to be true as well.

If my account is fairly accurate, then I think my judgments about how we should act are also well - grounded in basic Christian moral teaching.

«Without morals, a republic can not subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion... are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.»

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

He reported that he and his boss talked theology almost every day over lunch, and that his boss, although good and knowledgeable Christian, had distressing antinomian tendencies due to his neglect of the moral law of the Old Testament.

They embrace not only the philosophies of the Judeo - Christian faiths and the many religions of the East, but nonreligious, ethical and moral thought as well....

The Christian conception of the moral life as service in the world of the order of good which is never wholly realized in the world opens the way to moral integrity.

To do here and now what needs to be done for the sake of the real good, is the substance of the Christian acknowledgment of our moral obligation.

This «good news» of the Christian gospel is that if one is willing to pay the price of obedience and moral surrender, God can take any life and make it over.

I also reject the common Christian notion that it is not required for one to be a Christian in order to have a moral compass or be a good person.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

Either torturing people for rejecting you is moral and good in ALL cases, or the Christian god is immoral and evil.

Implicit belief in the power of a good woman as a moral influence in the lives of children and men continues wherever Christian nurture in a good home is believed essential to the process of becoming Christian.

Against tendencies to depersonalize and to dehumanize which are prevalent in society the Christian will want constantly to emphasize the importance of personal relationships... The development of the person in all his aspects, religious and moral, as well as physical and mental, is therefore a matter of the deepest importance to him.7

Those who fully appropriate the central message of Jesus into their lives, whatever portion of «Christians» this may be, evidence a combination of freedom, moral concern, inner peace and good works of love that often bear fruit in the lives of others.

Even the way you are phrasing this implies that Christians who refuse to consider all the options of all the other gods available to them and all the other heaven / hell pictures available to them paints this refusal as a moral failure, which it very well might be in a limited sense, if we are to regard intellectual laziness as a moral failure.

Congregations cared about the well - being of members not so that everyone would conform to the same moral and social values, but because Christians are expected to respect their brothers and sisters for whom Christ died.

To say that nothing whatever has come out of that discussion is to make nonsense out of all the great moral traditions — Stoic, Buddhist, humanistic, or democratic, as well as Christian.

This nation is so broken... the core values of being a republican has become the so called moral majority which apparently means that all good people and american's have to be christians.

In their historical context, however, the issues, in response to which the Pauline formula was forged, no longer existed: because Christianity was well on the way to becoming a gentile religion, separate from Judaism, the question of the salutary benefit of faith in Christ, which earlier had arisen among Christians who did not observe the cultic requirements of Jewish law, and in that sense were without «works of the law, arose now among Christians whose lives exhibited moral laxity, which could be understood in terms of popular moral philosophy.

One may well ask whether the religious situation of «Christian America» is capable of informing democratic deliberation and decision by reference to religion and religiously grounded moral discernment.

Against H. Richard's emphasis on human finitude and dependence, Reinhold's awareness of human freedom and the Christian's political responsibility seems better to acknowledge the creative and liberating possibilities of moral action and of God's work in history.