Sentences with phrase «half true doctrines»

I know of no current church body, which keeps the true doctrine.

Maybe some Russian or some Greek churches keep the true doctrine.

The actual true doctrine of Jesus could have been recorded in some of the ruled out books and practiced by groups of Christians that the stronger party in Rome declared «heretic» and stamped out long ago.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Those who adhere to the true doctrines of Christ often end up poor because they're sacrificing themselves for others, something that other individuals do not often do.

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

The true doctrine of sense - perception is that the qualitative characters of affective tones inherent in the bodily functionings are transmuted into the characters of [external] regions.

As an example he suggests the replacement of the Offertory Prayers in the Novus Ordo with those from the Missal of Blessed John XXIII thereby recovering in its fullest expression the true doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass for the Novus Ordo.

Assuming that among protestants Lutheranism is the true doctrine, (Not Calvinism or Arminianism)

I think that true doctrine, when it is married to a genuine search for holiness, can often be a threat to us.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

Fraudulent religious leaders often peddle false doctrine, but some of them also traffic in true doctrines by which they have not personally been transformed.

You speak on what is «True Doctrine», could we also point to something such as the Consti; tution and the daily court room arguments of lawyers and clerks who feel that they alone know and understand the true meaning of the what the framers when they wrote the laws of this land?

LOL David, you make it sound like there actually is somebody who knows correct doctrine instead of it being each christian makes up his own doctrine because NOBODY can demonstrate by any reliable method whatsoever what the «true doctrine» should be..

>> > «because NOBODY can demonstrate by any reliable method whatsoever what the «true doctrine» should be..»

The issue is that even someone who believes in the true doctrine can nevertheless be a disbeliever when he doesn't overcome the lust of his body by the faith and doesn't love God and his neighbour through God's releasing power.

For example, Celsus in his work The True Doctrine, written during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180 C. E.), criticised Christians and Christian practices by «tailoring out» certain statements of Scriptural material available to him and also by making «some adjustments so as to fit in with his purpose of criticising Christianity.»

[52] The Epicurean Greek philosopher Celsus» work attacking the Christians entitled True Doctrine (ajlhqhß lovgoß), to which Origen would respond in Contra Celsum after the year 245, comes from about the year 170.

Embodied in that story is the true doctrine of the ministry.

Once true doctrines had been accepted, further progress in holiness became possible, and then in turn a further acceptance of apostolic doctrine.

Christ taught the true doctrine of the Godhead when he suffered himself to be baptized by John.

The Protestants and Catholics who have changed the true doctrine.

Theology is not the name for a body of universally true doctrine.

Gregory does not, it turns out, base his critique on concerns about salvation and true doctrine, but instead on the inability of the contemporary world — having unjustly excluded religious ways of thinking from the public arena of the secularized university — to address and resolve adequately for people what he calls «Life Questions.»

The latter two groups felt it was necessary to expound true doctrine and to be of influence on society through the State support of the Church.

They quite obviously wanted to replace what they imagined a corrupted Roman authority with the purified authority of true doctrine and scriptural preaching.

I shall summarize the true doctrine in this field and invite erring teachers and beguiled students to repent and believe the accepted gospel verities as I shall set them forth.

As if writing 40 years ago, the authors of On the Way to Life present the Second Vatican Council in a manner neither in keeping with the true doctrine of doctrinal development, the purpose of Councils, or the nature of the Tradition.

They were now made responsible for the preservation of true doctrine, given a more important part in the nomination of ministers, and empowered to admonish people who disregarded the church laws.

Not exact matches

When «evangelicals» get into politics, their hypocrisy and false doctrine is inevitably exposed, and they bear no fruit in spreading the true Gospel.

And what the pope is saying is true, sound biblical doctrine that.

According to the true Christian doctrine, there should be no hierarchy in the Christian Church.

You can continue to spew out your immoral doctrine until you die, that doesn't make it true, and that doesn't make you any more pious even though you really want to feel better than everyone else because of it.

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

Even if you do nt believe Christianity is true, you still need to understand Christian doctrine to speak intelligently about it (now, that all as.sumes you WANT to be able to speak intelligently, and you have some reason for being here other than just to mock without understanding).

For the true claims of Jews and Christians are based on the doctrine of revelation, which means that they are essentially the recipients of a message about the world, one given to them from the only source who can see the world from the perspective of transcendence — sub specie divinitatis.

A true Pagan may expose other doctrines, but a true pagan will not join combative forces to challenge another person's faith in the form of an attack.

I have gone through that same thought process myself, but have chosen to remain a member because I realize that I believe that the doctrine is true.

The true Church does not get its doctrine from those at the bottom.

A lot of churches believe in order to be considered a true Christian, you have to also accept the doctrine of the Trinity.

The writer to this article is not a very informed or intelligent individual and anyone who judges the LDS church by the polygamist doctrine is missing out on a true and virtuous, motivating, and service oriented religion, and is ultimately rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Just because a religion heavily relies on moral teachings to support is extracurricular doctrines does not make it true to Jesus» teachings in the whole.

Most disagree with the practices, interpretation and doctrine of the other sects and many consider anyone who isn't in their particular church as «not true Christians».

True Catholic doctrine includes the Ten Commandments, which includes you shall not steal, bear false witness, nor covet your neighbor's house or property, among others (Exodus 20:1 - 17).

This was true even for those who had no interest in church doctrines or worship.

Any other cult that thinks it is The One True Delusion has weighed in on every other cults» doctrines.

Argues coherently and logically that the doctrine of Infallibility must be an essential element of the true Church of Christ.

The same is true of a doctrine of human beings or of societies or of electrons, or of the status of the past.

«At the present time of crisis it offers a way out of modernism, a way that is both modern and orthodox, a true development of doctrine.»

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.