Sentences with phrase «most doctrinal statements»

For example, most doctrinal statements include the idea that Jesus is fully human and fully divine.

While I do think that there are some things we can know with absolute certainty, I think that several ideas found on most doctrinal statements do fall into this category.

Not exact matches

To this day (as well as when I wrote this post) I can in good conscience and with full conviction sign a doctrinal statement like that of DTS or GES or most any decent Bible church.

In today's blogging world, you have to be somewhat provocative to garner attention... As I mentioned above, I do believe in the value of doctrinal statements, but in a much different way than how they are used by most churches.

«The most beautiful names of God» that appear in Muslim devotion have been used by Muslim theologians to express God's attributes even though they are more expressions of praise than doctrinal statements.

Indeed, the consensus of the universal Church regarding doctrinal decisions was, from the outset, the most important criterion in determining whether a doctrinal statement was to belong to the Church's binding tradition of faith.

If one believes all the right things, and can sign on the dotted line of the best doctrinal statements that the church has ever written, but their life is full of hatred, greed, and selfishness, I would argue that while they may have eternal life, and while they may believe some good truths from the gospel, they really have not understood the most essential parts of the gospel.

Most conservative theologies are cognitive - propositional; they claim that doctrinal statements directly or «literally» refer to reality.

But I think there is feature of those earlier doctrinal statements that are absent from most creeds and confessions from today.

... typically don't have a building, a budget, a staff, a doctrinal statement, a mission's team, a children's program, or any of the typical trappings of what most people think of as «church.»

Even more emphatically than the «normal» unanimous judgment, «By the Court» depersonalizes and thereby institutionalizes the Court's most important doctrinal statements.