Sentences with phrase «heretical christians»

It may be that some heretical Christians at the time of Muhammed were teaching this.

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I will even say, for now, I like Zuckert's Locke better, insofar that it can be understood to be an heretical or nonrelational version of the Christian idea of the person.

Well that type of «Christian» was said by the Apostle Paul should be emasculated for their heretical teaching.

Were the Founding Fathers proper Christians and modern «liberal» Christians who do not own slaves or marry 14 year old girls are not, or the other way around in which case America could have been founded upon heretical, flawed Christian beliefs?

Furthermore, from the Christian sight, a man, which has become a leader of a heretical church is to treat harsh, in order to show him that something is wrong.

Without the deepest truth of Christianity — the truth which Stratford Caldecott explored so deeply and presented so well — the «mysticism, spirituality, whatever you want to call — even gnosis perhaps (not in the heretical but in the Christian sense)» — without that, all the «serious business of intellectual argument and social action» is «doomed to fail».

But both Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and George W. Truett Theological Seminary professor Roger Olson, in separate blog posts, said that parts of the document sound like semi-Pelagianism, a traditionally heretical understanding of Christian salvation.

Justin admitted that other gentile Christians did not show the same leniency.1 By the fourth century, the church had ruled that it was heretical even for believers of Jewish birth to observe the Law.

In fact, to suggest that good works are of central importance to the Christian faith is often considered heretical in the world of conservative evangelicalism, where advocating any form of «works - based salvation» is looked upon with suspicion.

(2) What David wrote here is heretical to the vast majority of Christians.

The polytheist is an ally and possess a Christian world view though he hold heretical doctrines of worship.

Of these contemporary heresies, civil religion, or what Douthat terms «political theology,» emerges as perhaps the most heretical betrayal of Christianity because it encourages Americans to believe that patriotism is, in its essence, a Christian enterprise.

At Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary they taught you how to think thru heretical arguments in light of scripture and come to reason it out for yourself AND how can any CHristian Apologist be worth anything if they don't know and understand the heretical views that oppose Orthodox Christianity!?

Some Christians do indeed welcome those ««heretical» opinions,» because, in their view, they serve to correct doctrine by its proper biblical standard.

and... let's also just forget all of the muslims, «heretical» scientists and presumed witches that the christians have tortured and slaughtered... because that might interrupt your rant.

As a millennial Christian living in the United States, it seems almost heretical not to embrace the call to change the world.

American * Christianity * has always been a bit heretical with its emphasis on law over love; but with the advent of the Moral Majority / Religous Right many Christians have become more like the Pharisees than like the disciples who followed Jesus.

The way things are (and have always been), Christians believe and practice all sorts of crazy, heretical, outlandish things, but people feel like it's «okay» because they have priests, clergy, and seminary - trained pastors who teach them to believe and do these things.

Some Christian workers are even heretical or to help set up a base for working behind the scenes.

Also in fact, the Puritans and many other Christian sects refused to celebrate Christmas as a heretical holiday.

In contrast, the Islam is not merely heretical, but it wants to destroy the Christian faith.

on his teaching that there is no eternal hell — which is seen by many Christians as a heretical view.

Or is modern apocalypticism a genuine recovery and renewal of an original Christian apocalypticism, one which had perished or become wholly transformed in the victory of an ancient Christian orthodoxy, then only to be renewed in profoundly subversive and heretical expressions?

The ecumenical councils later achieved the only true form of Christian teaching only by declaring to be heretical all who failed to accept their definitions.

But those «heretical» movements also claimed to be Christian.

You have to remember that it took the great Church thinkers hundreds of years and several heretical battles to actually define the Trinity into an idea that Christians could sorta wrap their brains around, and even now how many can actually explain it sensibly?

It's so full of hatred, biblical distortion, etc. that it's heretical to mainstream Christian thinking.

Demarest explains, «The early church defended itself against heretical teaching by appealing to «the rule of faith» or «the rule of truth», which were brief summaries of essential Christian truths... The fluid «rule of faith» gave way to more precise instruments for refuting heresies and defining faith, namely, creedal formulations such as the Apostles» Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed.»

Thus, any action taken by Christians on the basis of Matthew 18 that involves arrogance, pride, or malice — so common in how some carry out Matthew 18 process — is downright heretical.

But this doctrine was taken for granted by basically all Christians (except some heretical sects) for more than a millennium prior to the Reformation era.

He also justifiably insists that while research on Jewish Christianity has been summoned to argue that Islam is nothing but a Christian heresy, or that Christianity is nothing but an Islamic heresy (or at least a heretical departure from the teachings of the Muslim prophet Jesus), his work attempts to strike a balance between these two trends.

There is, admittedly, something heretical in minimizing the importance of the historical facticity of the foundation on which the Christian community stands.

Beginning with a definition of the Christian idea of responsibility they proceed to examine the erroneous or heretical forms of church responsibility and conclude with an effort to understand the positive content of the Church's social obligation by considering its functions as apostle, pastor and pioneer of humanity.

the only Truth... most Christians believe it is heretical and false... Open any Christian book on cults... why is Mormonism listed?

Attempts to make the nominally Christian peoples of Western Europe fully to conform to the standards of their faith were not confined to monastic movements and to groups which the Catholic Church branded as heretical.

Orthodox Christians should be hopeful about our current heretical situation.

In dismissing the feminine Holy Spirit as an idea present only in «obscure and heretical sects on the periphery of the Christian church,» Jewett had relied on research that did not take into account the 1945 discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of some 50 ancient texts.

I love CS Lewis» heretical writing on this entitled something like «Good Buddhist, Bad Christian».

The significant teachers of Christian antiquity were not popes, and the heretical teachers did not spread their innovative perceptions from the city at the center of the world.

Until recently Quiros's statements would have been considered heretical in many evangelical communities, where the faithful tended to subscribe to a creed that Christian historian Mark Noll in his book,

In the Menil's comment book there were some Christian visitors that were very much offended by this work, assuming that is was heretical along with Untitled, 2007, a sculpture of a woman face down and crucified in a shipping crate.