Sentences with phrase «not accept the doctrine»

These churches lack full communion with the Catholic Church because they do not accept the doctrine of the papal primacy, which, according to the Catholic reading of the scriptures, the successor of Peter objectively has and exercises over the whole church.

I say love all, but do not accept the doctrines...

There was no possibility of repentance after death; as we must note, there was either the definite sending to eternal damnation of the evil man or the preparation of the good man for a final heavenly state (in circles that did not accept some doctrine of an «intermediate state», there was instead a sort of «waiting» until the final consummation)-- but the moment of death, with its judgement of this and that individual, was absolutely final in its determination of the direction that was thereafter to be taken.

Not exact matches

This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one who unthinkingly accepts every facet of my Doctrine of choice.

Volf argues that Muslims have routinely misunderstood the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of polytheism, but the fact remains that traditional Muslims do not accept Jesus as the Son of God.

One may or may not accept Thomas's metaphysical analysis, but at least one can see that the doctrine of creation, in its philosophical foundations, is not challenged by any discovery in the natural sciences.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.

Could it be that the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist was that which Judas could not accept?

But you left out some pretty crucial details, such as the fact that Mormons do not accept the pivotal doctrine of the Trinity.

Furthermore, if the Christian teachings regarding salvation and necessity of accepting Jesus as your Savior is so critical, why have the vast majority of the worlds religions not contained that doctrine?

One can accept an element of this if this doctrine does nt go so far as to have God decreeing some to believe and others not to believe.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

Even those who formalized the doctrine (the RCC) say openly in their Catechism that nobody can properly understand it, so just accept it and don't ask questions.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

There are people who do not accept the full Christian doctrine about Christ but who are so strongly attracted by Him that they are His in a much deeper sense than they themselves understand....

I won't discuss any of the topics you have raised, but I will only encourage you to ask questions, challenge every single doctrine, and (as much as is possible) refuse to accept any single side of an issue without investigating other reasonable answers as well.

I will not accept your DOGMA andf DOCTRINE, however.

They seem to have changed much from their original doctrine; they don't have a king for a Pope and I think they accept gay priests.

I agree that Buddhism can not accept the traditional doctrine of God as developed in the West.

It is akin to the silence in the Church concerning the Nicene Creed for about 20 years or so after its formulation in 325: there were many bishops and clergy in the East who did not accept homoousios and who thought that silence, obfuscations and subsequent formulations of the creed would sweep away this inconvenient and troublesome doctrine.

Unless one can accept, say, the doctrines of the Virgin Birth, the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, and the Trinity, then one can not be a Christian believer.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

It also accepts Hume's doctrine that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 253).

This is partly because I accept the view that even our natural theology is inevitably a Christian natural theology, in the sense suggested by John Cobb, and partly because some of the doctrines that should be placed under the more strictly Christian aspect, such as the problem of evil, are not as strictly limited to Christian theology as are some others, such as christology.

In The Nature of Doctrine, Lindbeck accepts Aquinas's assertion that while we can not begin to imagine what it means to say it, we must affirm that God is really good.

The doctrine of sovereignty though, shows that the Church is accepted as an autonomous person / state among nations and is not subject to levies by other such persons / states.

What Buber was essentially pointing out to Gandhi was that each one must have his own ground in order to deal justly with the other, that pure spirituality divorced from the concrete is futile and ineffective: «Would the Mahatma,» he wrote, «who advises the Jews that Palestine is not a geographic district but an ideal within their hearts, accept the doctrine that India was not a subcontinent but merely an ideal wholly divorced from any soil?

Certainly we can not maintain this if we accept a metaphysical doctrine that refuses to admit any difference in kind between a living mind and a mechanical structure.

The church recalled it, from the beginning, in dramatic action; and in this it was wise, or fortunate, for a doctrine of «representation,» or «corporate personality,» may well appear abstruse; but those who share the broken bread in Christian fellowship know in themselves what it means, whether or not they could form, or accept, any particular theory about it.

Radical proposals are made that we abandon the myth of incarnation and, indeed, all doctrines that can not be accepted by members of other religious communities.

Brunner appeals explicitly to the prologue of John and to certain sayings of Paul, but surely one who is as emphatic as he in rejecting the authority of Scriptural teachings as such does not mean to say that we accept the doctrine of creation because of the presence of these passages in the New Testament.

But the third source of Tillich's thought, the tradition of German idealist philosophy, gives greater emphasis to impersonal conceptions and is more evident in his systematic discussion of the doctrine of God.33 He does not accept Hegel's vision of participation in the all - inclusive Absolute in which all differences are overcome in harmonious synthesis.

I have friends who are devout and prayerful Christians but who sincerely do not accept certain doctrines of the Catholic Church, and so continue within one of the various other Christian denominations.

As a process theologian, of course, the fact that a doctrine is strongly supported in the Bible is not determinative of whether I accept it.

On the other hand, Whitehead seems to accept (with some reluctance) the physical doctrine of relativity, according to which there could not be a solidarity of entities in a unison of becoming.

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

Niebuhr's theology is based on his doctrine of man as self - transcending yet finite and capable of evil in not accepting his finitude.

They were departures from the generally accepted Christianity too radical to be tolerated within the existing Church, and, although they strove to reproduce New Testament Christianity, they did not correspond fully, either in organization, ritual, or doctrine, to any of the forms which Christianity heretofore had developed.

Duns Scotus in particular affirmed that he accepted the doctrine not through logical persuasion but on the authority of the fourth Lateran Council.

I don't think God judges on the timing or manner of one's death, but whether, per Christian doctrine 101, one has accepted Christ as their savior.

People and governments sometimes scapegoat religion or use it as additional motivation for the massive, but that is not religion's fault and generally not an accepted part of many religious doctrines.

It is quite staggering how many students do not understand some of the most simple doctrines and liturgical practices and, indeed, do not accept, or feel uncomfortable with the Church's teaching on moral issues.

If teachers of status, whether priests or layfolk, do not accept themselves and do not teach to others the doctrine of life and human goodness that Jesus taught on earth and still teaches in His Church, they will not form within others the true identity of the real, the living Jesus.

Therefore, in Christ's life and death the Christian must believe that transcendence was fully transformed into immanence and finally died to itself.5 It is not at all clear why the Christian must accept so literal an interpretation of the kenosis doctrine.

Accordingly, on the basis of the empiricist doctrine (which Whitehead accepts) «that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience,» the subjectivist principle entails that the notion of causal influence between actualities must be dismissed (PR 253).

Just like Christians join churches, not because they want to be a little clone of the pastor or a propaganda / doctrine - spewing instrument, but because they want to be part of a group where they are accepted.

Even within the Kyoto School of Mahayana Buddhism, out of which Abe comes, there are alternative formulations of the doctrine of emptiness that do not accept the emptying of all distinctions.

It should be noted further that although the Jews — and especially in the pre-Mosaic religion — accepted doctrines that were incomplete or even mistaken and rites more or less imperfect, this fact did not deny to the Jewish religion itself, through other of its elements, the positive validity of assuring salvation.

Unfortunately, translators don't always research every word to its fullest, and if something is accepted doctrine they go with the flow.

On the other hand we can not accept a synthesis that contradicts fundamental Catholic doctrine.