Sentences with phrase «not against the teaching»

Now I am not against teaching about giving, but I believe it is a gift from God to us to be able to give, and I believe if the love for God and the love for people are taught, giving will happen — giving for the right purposes.

Not exact matches

(Post-financial-crisis lore has taught us that these instruments are sometimes used to bet against things, but CDS are most often used as hedges against bets that the world won't end.)

The training won't begin until March, but Hodges said it will teach the Ukrainians how to better defend themselves against «Russian and rebel artillery and rockets.»

(not that i am specifically against religion either, but some their ideas / teachings based purely on faith are too unquestionable.)

I just don't like it when people cherry pick their religious sources or, in the case of this article, outright go against what their religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.

But within the context of people saying they are SBNR, I don't really see such people reacting against a loosely defined definition of religion as merely moral teachings administered with certain rituals and structures.

To go against any of its teachings willfully and intentionally simply because one doesn't «feel like» XYZ is a sin, is to condemn oneself.

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.

The issue isn't whether the CAtholic church's position is right or wrong, but rather whether the government has the right to make them provide something so against their teaching, for free.

They often start Christian, aware that there are certain laws against sin: the 10 Commandments, and NT teachings.

Even though the official Catholic Church teaches against contraceptives, I do not feel immoral using them.

it's insane how you know so little of your own religion and how you go against your Christs teaching with such arrogant and disdain towards atheist and other religions your nothing but a bigot and hatemonger your world is only black and white and you can't fathom how a country can have so many different people with different believes that don't match yours and can live peacefully without your christs.

I was taught that there were only 2 sins the Spirit could not forgive despair and presumption: presuming to know the mind of God and presuming to judge for him surely is a sin against the Spirit, your sin, and you should perhaps ponder your own salvation, not someone else's.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

They have all held to this belief that «if you are not for them then you are against them» simply for questioning the teachings or whatever.

Although I hope not your position, the dialogue you use is similar to the one found in counter-culture argumentation, to develop and build anti-Christian positions and attacks against fundamental belief and faith central to real Christian teachings.

Your statement that «all the comments on this subject (concerning atheists) do not come from happy people... who despise, are upset, have nothing, are not thankful and... have nothing to live for» goes against the very way that both Jesus and the apostles taught when speaking with individuals who do not share their view.

The Catholic Church is and has been the Biblical teaching authority for ALL Christians for 2000 + years and will continue to be because Jesus said all the powers of hell (including propserity organizations operating under the pretext of Christianity) would NOT prevail against it.

But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you to the church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not to listen to them, criticize their positions without ever going to them personally to find out what they actually believe and are teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have never been hurt or offended by them.

It wasn't easy, back at the last «church», we were taught some stuff, how to defend our man of God against critics, we were warned if we walk away of the spiritual covering (the man of God) we would die.

The majority of christians have no idea about their faith or what it is to be christian, you see them spout nonsense from a bible they have never read and judge or even hate others who do not believe their beliefs, all the while not knowing they are going against its teachings.

(CNN)- Bill Nye's viral YouTube video pleading with parents not to teach their children to deny evolution has spawned an online life of its own, with prominent creationists hitting back against the popular TV host.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

We can not go against his holy teachings.

However, it goes against everything that is taught around here, and we will not stock or promote your book.»

Nothing in that teaching precludes, and much in that teaching seems to invite, the hope that everyone» past, present, and future» will be saved, even as we are painfully aware that that may not be the case, and even as we guard against the sin of presumption, which is to take for granted that it will be the case with us.

The statement continued, «Indeed, this is not about the church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the church — consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions — to act against church teachings.»

At the same time the Elder writes another short letter, our Second John, to the church to which Gaius belongs, urging its members to love one another and to live harmoniously together, and warning them against the deceivers who teach that Christ has not come in the flesh.

It would appear to be something of a shock, not to say disappointment, to The Tablet's mindset, but a Catholic who has acted against Church teaching does not necessarily join that magazine in attempting to justify their action through dissent.

What I would like to see from the Mosque's Imam is a public, unequivocal statement that he does not tolerate violent teachings or attacks against Americans and issues a Fatwa forbidding any moral, monetary or logistical support for people planning or contemplating jihadist violence.

I don't have to «start» teaching that abuse is evil and that victims are innocent of the crime against them.

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

Islam teaches to fight against cruels who do nt want you (muslim) live peacefully.

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

It does not serve them to teach them a cynicism against everything.

Off topic: If Jesus taught «If they aren't against us, leave them alone.»

Measure the decision to not support World Vision against this teaching of Christ himself and tell me if it's hypocritical or not ««Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.»

However, Jesus did always teach, «If they aren't against us, leave them alone.»

You can't understand whats real if you fight against knowledge, which has been a constant spin on the teaching's of Jesus, the one never called Christ by any man that knew him.

If Jesus taught «If they aren't against us, leave them alone.»

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

I'm sorry but any hokey religion that gets their teaching form a guy reading it out from a hat, and go out of their way to harass people who speak out against Mormonism isn't apart of the christian faith.

I hate those studies, it is conflicting people against each other... That's why i am Spiritual inside and don't need a church or gold chained priest teaching me, how to live MY life... Hallelujah!

Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a «moderate» Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)-- and should be identified as such.

You do understand that evolution encompasses all living things and that it would be very difficult, nay impossible to teach fruit fly's to not compete against each other

However we as Christians can not be required to teach what goes against our beliefs.

We should also teach them that Ma'at will weight their heart against a shu feather when they die and if their heart is heavier than the feather, it won't be a good time for in the afterlife.

Often times, the religious rights are self - righteous, but their lives may be full of conflicts against the Bible teaching; as the article points out, you can not follow all the rules laid out in the Old testaments, and if you believe the Bible literally, why do many religious rights do not follow as the Bible literally says.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).