Sentences with phrase «hold heretical»

I do need to further say that there is no need to cast those out of the church that hold heretical teaching.

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

The Armenian was a Monophysite, despised by the Greeks for holding the heretical view that Christ was essentially of one (divine) nature.

However, I think holding a heretical view, as I defined it as denial of an essential doctrine, is to deny the Savior and his salvation.

Not exact matches

The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.»

The rabbis who taught in the synagogues held varied opinions on many matters, but when we view them as a whole in their relation to non-Jewish developments and to heretical movements (such as Gnosticism), we are impressed by their unity.

I would urge to hold back on such criticism, but seeing as he chose not to actively seek change, dropped the pursuit of celibacy, and considered joining an arguably heretical denomination - seemingly because it accommodated his lifestyle rather than due to genuine theological convictions - I must agree with you.

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

How ought we to think about other persecuted groups who hold to a heretical understanding of the incarnation or the deity of Christ?

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

Of crucial importance to Galileo's later difficulties were the documents of 1616, when not only was Copernicanism declared to be «foolish and absurd in philosophy and formally heretical,» but Galileo himself was personally warned by Bellarmino not to «hold or defend» the theory.

Interestingly, several of the doctrines we now hold firmly as «sound biblical truth» were at first (and for about 200 years) considered by the majority of people to be «heretical.»

«These are the aliran sesat, beliefs that are held to be deviant and heretical versions of legally recognized religions.»

And I might add to this, ``... or because they hold to some doctrine which we think is heretical.»

I think we need to listen to more apparently «heretical» views because I personally believe that much of what is popularly held as true is in fact false and needs to be challenged by opposing views.

I can ask the heretical questions, challenge the long - held traditions, or maybe even agree with something.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

The second section, «The crystallization of life», proffers what Kauffman calls the «heretical possibility» that the origin of life was an easy, expected event, not the difficult, improbable process it is widely held to be.

As Joe will note in his article, I'm an advocate of much more caution about stock investing than seems to prevail today (thanks, in my opinion, to Wall Street marketing), and I hold what many would consider heretical views on equity investing.

When the premise is held sacred, normal scientific checks and balances come to be regarded as heretical and blasphemous challenges to the infallible faith.