Most Evangelicals believe that the Bible should be interpreted like any other document.
Volf's work is brilliant and provocative, but also just not what
most evangelicals believe (see Scot McKnight, hardly as conservative as I am, on the issue yesterday).
It seems like an obvious statement if you believe that Jesus was «fully God» and «fully man» (as
most evangelicals believe and call the Incarnation), but to some of us it seems in the least, inappropriate, and at the most, sacrilege, to imagine Jesus in this way.
Holy Scripture does not present us with details about what happens to those who die in Christ» whether, as
most Evangelicals believe, they enter immediately into the fullness of God's glory or, as Catholics believe, ordinarily undergo a period of further preparation.
You say that
most evangelicals believe «something miraculous» happens to make unborn babies human from the moment of conception, but you argue that «there is no way to prove that they are right.»
The Prime Minister was at
his most evangelical believing that everything was better and brighter after eight years of Labour.
Not exact matches
@Chad - Right,
most, but not all you listed
believe in «creation», but not the literal goddidit creation that you and your backwoods - southern - inbred - bible - belt ignorant
evangelical brethren
believe in.
most people i know
believe that it spread simply because people enjoyed the message, their numbers grew, then it was adopted as the official religion of the romans, etc. maybe it's an
evangelical thing.
Richard Steel, an
evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon,
believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the
most important relics that the Christian Church has.»
I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that
most evangelical Christians
believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.
However,
most evangelicals seem to
believe that these no longer apply.)
To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «
most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of
evangelical Christians no longer
believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «
most Christians think all paths lead to God.»
Are you serious... lol...
most of these so called
evangelicals are racist and have no problems oppressing anyone who isn't given to their brand of belief, and even then, they
believe in their fallback racist ideals.
«If
most evangelicals follow a pattern of
believe - behave - belong, we reverse that pattern and make it belong - behave -
believe,» said Keel.
He does not
believe that postliberal theology is likely to speak increasingly in an
evangelical voice «unless you think that the
most determinative
evangelical voice among us today is that of John Paul II.»
In which I tell you the truth about telling the truth:: I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that
most evangelical Christians
believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.
For
evangelicals, humanity is
believed to be the
most significant aspect of creation.
For example, they don't really
believe in the Trinity the way
most evangelical Christians do, and they don't seem to
believe that Jesus was eternally God.
@ Steve Martin — «And, if
most evangelicals really
believed it, there would be a lot fewer multi million dollar buildings and more reaching out to «the least of these.»
Most Baptists and
evangelicals I talk to
believe that this passage IS talking about water baptism.
In addition,
most evangelical pastors
believe that Christians do not have to vote only for a candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning.
While
evangelical pastors
believe American Christians have a biblical responsibility to vote (94 %),
most don't think Christians who follow their conscience will end up voting the same way (59 %) or that Christians are obligated to vote for someone who has a reasonable chance of winning (63 %).
The Vineyard churches looked like charismatics and Pentecostals, but they
believed (at least in regard to subsequence) like
most other
evangelicals.
We're
most tempted to divorce — or as one apparently former
evangelical put it, to «resign from evangelicalism» — when we
believe that our particular political concerns are so woven into the fabric of the gospel they can not be separated from it.
Yes there are those who claim to be Christian mostly the «
evangelical right wing» who
believe that Jesus is an American CEO and hates gay people, who
believe women should not receive equal pay or rights, and oppose every social justice known to humankind and
most if not all are Tea Party Republicans!
I disagree, though, that this has anything to do with God, and I am disappointed that a good Bible -
believing evangelical wouldn't call this so - called masculine Christianity by its
most appropriate name: sin... Each of us gravitates toward language that speaks to us about our own relationship with God.
Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «
Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the
most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for
believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.
Most are mainline, a few are evangelical, but most simply are not as excited about what they believe — and don't think it needs to be propagated as much — as the Pentecost
Most are mainline, a few are
evangelical, but
most simply are not as excited about what they believe — and don't think it needs to be propagated as much — as the Pentecost
most simply are not as excited about what they
believe — and don't think it needs to be propagated as much — as the Pentecostals.
If a presidential candidate
believes that God come before country, which is the belief of
most evangelical christians, than yes their religion should be an issue to consider esp.
What I find the
most interesting in all of this campaign is that the
evangelicals who all along would have said that Mormonism is a cult are now rallying behind Romney and basically ignoring that they
believe he and all members of his religion are going to hell for rejecting the mainstream version of things.
There are other groups out there too, from Climate Parents to Young
Evangelicals for Climate Action, and recent polling shows that
most Americans
believe (finally) that climate change is a problem.