Sentences with phrase «held by christian»

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First off, much of the positions this misinformed pastor says Christians should «adopt» are already the positions held by every Christian I know.

Much of it sounds familiar to those acquainted with the more extreme millenarian beliefs held by some Christian groups.

«It began its operations,» he wrote, «by questioning the truth of certain conceptions held by Christian people — particularly the literal inerrancy of the Bible, the obscurantist dogmas concerning the origin of the Christian revelation and a cosmological view of the origins of the universe and of man.»

This idea was held by some Christians who at the same time accepted Jesus as the divine Messiah.

He was an active member of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship and, in a sign of the esteem in which he was held by Christians from across both Houses, he was asked to act as chairman of the National Prayer Breakfast, held annually at Westminster.

Our study of the path followed by the idiom, however, has made it abundantly clear that while the Lucan tradition has been dominant throughout most of Christian history, it is by no means the only view that has been held by Christians, particularly in the first and twentieth centuries.

When we begin to get spiritually curious outside the box of our assigned religion, we begin to survey the at first baffling array of sacred literature that is held in just as high an esteem by their adherents as the Bible is held by Christians.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma City - based Hobby Lobby is a closely held chain of craft stores, owned by an evangelical Christian family.

Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

«Neglected Christian truths can be revitalized only when by prayer and long meditation we isolate them from the mass of hazy ideas with which our minds are filled and hold them steadily and determinedly in the focus of the mind's attention.»

The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.»

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

I was under the same impression before speaking to Catholics, apparently their belief in Christ is the same belief held by other Christians.

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

always nice to see that children will always have help given to them held hostage by proselytizing Christians.

The first Christians were tortured, reviled and held in contempt by Romans - and their example helped the church grow, they say.

But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

While some texts, such as «Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World,» proved to be more controversial than others, the agreement to hold the Council as planned was respected by all.

Finally, I admit that, even if I accept the Lawlerian idea that Locke partially corrects Aristotle, by stealing certain Christian insights about the limits of the polis (see chapter 7 of Modern and American Dignity especially), I still hold that Aristotle is better than Locke.

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

The Jews and the Muslims worship the Moon god of war but the Christians worship a «Three in One God» created by the meeting of bishops that Constantine, held in Nicea to consolidate his control over the Roman Army.

Augustine of Hippo, arguably the most influential theologian to ever live and the theologian that a majority of modern Christian theology has been influenced by, did not hold to literal six - day creationism.

There is something deeply moving and reassuring about the shape of the Christian community that emerges from these readings: a community founded on and held together by love.

A Christian charity has urged people not to forget about the Dapchi schoolchild being held captive by Boko Haram.

Indeed many of the challenges facing the family in the modern world are probably symptoms of the mostly uninformed rejection of this beautiful teaching, held as truth by the entire Christian community until the 1930s.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

He claims to be a shareholder in the Christian corporation, but the stock has been watered almost to the vanishing point and is held, moreover, by absentee owners.

For example, the Bible as held by Protestant Christians contains sixty - six books, no more, no less.

But the most immediate problem here is that raised by our second objection to Christian's solution: specifying precisely how incompossibles are held together.

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

Values that are held in common are treated as moral absolutes; values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or wrong.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian — who can not deal with it by violence — must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.

But he went much further, arguing that Christian philosophy, like that of Aristotle, should be empirical: it should proceed from what can be grasped by the senses — and not, as the Augustinian tradition held, by what can be grasped purely by the Mind.

The crucifixion of Jesus was marked in Jerusalem on Good Friday when thousands of Christians attended a service held at a church considered by some believers to be where Jesus died and was buried.

Too often Christians have clung to the doctrinal formulations of former generations long after they could be honestly held, and this has led to that all too popular idea of faith, so aptly defined by the schoolboy, as «believing what you know ain't true».

It aims to counter the rise of Christian fundamentalism by means of holding conferences and seminars that will bring church congregations up to date with biblical scholarship.

Traditions held by religious people, especially Christians, are particularly ridiculed by people who do so as a way to appear enlightened.

[12] They will do this because the law will give the green light for Churches to be prosecuted by homosexuals who disapprove of Christian views such as that which holds that only couples born of the opposite sex should marry each other.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

Since these three ideas are now identified as within the spectrum of legitimate Christian belief, a Mormon can hope that, the next time the question is raised in these pages, these three beliefs held by the Latter - day Saints will be moved from the down side to the plus side of the answer.

A mass funeral was held on Thursday for 72 Christian farmers killed by Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria.

It has been held by sectarian Christians at least since the Middle Ages.

Representatives from the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats spoke to Premier at a hustings held by the international Christian humanitarian charity, Tearfund on Wednesday night.

It is hard to see how a commitment to pacifism will ever be held by more than a small minority of Christians in the U.S., especially after the September 11 attacks.

I find it ironic that the pioneering work done by Christian scientists are being held in high regard by the atheist scientists of today.

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

The poor are getting poorer, the rich getting richer, a while pathetic christians stand by holding your hands together praying for it to change.