Sentences with phrase «infallible truths»

These myths have been repeated so often that they are often perceived as infallible truths.

He was charged with denying the inspiration of Scripture, denying that Jesus was the revealer of infallible truths, denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus by regarding it as myth, and undermining the authority of the papacy.

This requires a holy and consecrated lifestyle that doesn't compromise the infallible truth of God's Word.

(This being the only infallible truth!)

You are pretending that your childish beliefs in the myths of ancient goat - herders is infallible truth.

«How shall I know in a given case what I ought to do,» he can always turn to the Church which claims to possess the infallible truth of God and which therefore claims to speak with final authority on every moral situation.

If one says he believes in God because he believes the Bible is a monolith of infallible truth, we may wonder if his real faith is a God or in a statement about the Bible.

Both Catholic and Protestant accepted the Bible as the divine revelation of infallible truth.

«The Church... extends his [Christ's] personality and his salvific work through time... If the plenitude of the work of Christ passes over to the apostles... then the communication to men from the Church of Christ is the fullness and certainty of the intellect of God in Jesus Christ, which is to say the fullness and certainty of infallible truth.»

But the judge who realizes before listening to a case that all men [or women] are biased is more likely to make a conscientious effort at impartiality than one who believes that elevation to the bench makes him [or her] at once an organ of infallible truth.

Not exact matches

I wonder, as the child grown discovers that their parents are not infallible, how we discover what truth there is to be had when we are so haphazard in our pursue of it.

Or is the human race an infallible one so that any idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith of its truth no matter the reality of things and then acted on without concern of the real truth which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?

Over against all attempts to prove truth by a literal quotation from Scripture or by an appeal to an infallible leader, Bushnell argued that the difficulty arises from language itself.

The truth of the matter is that there are no infallible interpreters of God's Word in this world, not even in Rome.

(6) And finally, classical theism is marked by an erroneous conception of infallible revelation according to which, «The idea of revelation is the idea of special knowledge of God, or of religious truth, possessed by some people and transmitted by them to others» (OOTM 5).

The world, entire world, would be far better off if people rejected the «infallible word of God» as a compass to moral truth and instead used open minded logic and reason to better understand each other and compromise.

Although Biblical «infallibility» thus seems the better of the two options, as even Pinnock's most recent statements imply, the term is not without its problems within and outside the evangelical community.59 Given the history of controversy over inspiration, to say that Scripture is «infallible» seems to many evangelicals a watered - down statement, one sidestepping Biblical truth.

But the New Testament appeared strongly to support it, particularly in the way it had been traditionally interpreted, and as long as the Bible could be regarded as an infallible source of truth, then that settled the matter.

Hiding behind claims of revealed truth that were not allowed to be questioned and of infallible authority that could not be challenged, Christians have condemned Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud and many other great breakthrough thinkers in the various fields of an exploding human knowledge.

Writing in The Guardian on 12 June, she argues that an «infallible» scientific stance that just rejects all religious truth is an abuse of human knowledge.

However, the Bible is not to be regarded as an arbitrary dictator of dogma, nor as an infallible source of truth either in religion or any other area.

This infallible teaching is sometimes called Monogenism and is not an optional extra for any Catholic but a dogmatic truth that must be accepted.

Only Jesus was infallible and his words only should be taken as «gospel» truth.

There can, therefore, be no infallible understanding of the truth, nor any presentation of it which is guaranteed inerrant.

Ironic how those same posters claim absolute truth and their views are infallible and the most intelligent positions out there.

This was due to a combination of factors including the assimilation of the mathematical treasures of the eastern world and the acceptance that the Aristotelian corpus might not be infallible when it came to the truths of the physical world.

He who acknowledges the imperfectness of his instrument, and makes allowance for it in discussing his observations, is in a much better position for gaining truth than if he claimed his instrument to be infallible.

When he studied the lives of those who gave themselves to the search for truth, he saw that they might be classified in four groups: the scholastic theologians, who proclaimed themselves the followers of reason and speculation; the Isma`ilis and other Shi`as who held that to reach truth one must have an infallible living teacher, and that there always is such a teacher; the philosophers, who relied on logical and rational proofs; and the Sufis, who held that they, the chosen of God, could reach knowledge of Him directly in mystical insight and ecstasy.

Shi`a is based on the belief that to reach truth one must have an infallible teacher in the person of the Imam, the carrier of the divine light - spark transmitted from Adam through Muhammad and his cousin and son - in - law, Ali, and the descendants of Ali.

If one is talking about further understanding of and investigation into a truth taught by the Church in the process of the development of dogma then the hermeneutic criteria given by the Church herself apply in the case of infallible teaching and non-infallible teaching: genuine further understanding must retain the same meaning and judgment regarding the teachings put forward by the Church (cf. Dei Filius, Vatican I).

Leninism boiled down to a central committee of the communist party defining «absolute truths», which everybody had to believe and follow, very similar to the «infallible» pope in the Catholic Church.

In short, Epicurus believes that the highest good is pleasure (ἡδονή) and, at the same time, that the criterion of truth is sensitive knowledge, or rather that only the senses are true and infallible and should therefore be cared for constantly.

Infallible, untouchable and certainly not to be questioned by the unwashed, «they» decide for us what truth is and we will be forced to do as they declare because «they» are closer to God than thou.

Regardless of what an individual scientist will say, the truth is that the IPCC and the reports have been billed as infallible canon, and with that everything and everyone associated with it.

The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the sole and final source of all that we believe.