Sentences with phrase «not heretical»

This is a radical, if not heretical, thought.

Although Barna's idea of diverse ribosomes goes against the classical textbook view, «the concept is not heretical at all,» says Vassie Ware, a molecular cell biologist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., not involved in the work.

That notion is theologically invalid if not heretical.

For this reason Jesus» retort to the wily Sadducees — «For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven» (Matthew 22:30)-- is not a heretical denial of incarnational life or a plug for interchangeability, but an anticipation of the reunion that his own life already inaugurates.

Full - fledged bridal mysticism did begin with Origen, but it is not and was not heretical, as my quotation from Ambrose indicates.

So, no, your views are not heretical, except to those, like fishon (read — Pharisees) who think they KNOW, but can't see that they only BELIEVE.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't it heretical to even call God a he, or even call God, God.

Not exact matches

But his solutions for shrinking the U.S. trade deficit with China, namely labeling China a currency manipulator and placing tariffs on Chinese goods, are not as heretical as you might think.

The new story produced a remarkable followup segment on Fox News, in which Laura Ingraham grudgingly implied that Trump and his allies have proven themselves to be liars by blatantly contradicting themselves — then quickly softened that heretical conclusion by reframing it as though the important thing is what the left will say, not the actual truth of the matter:

Where I am a bit heretical is I don't get hung up on these «pick the right index» issues that fund manager critics invariably bring to the fore.

Therefore all «baptisms» are heretical, not Jewish and therefore null.

God in His mercy extended His blessings on our nation, and did not deliver our nation over to a heretical leader.

On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative of the Roman Church, at his meetings with Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine of justifying faith was not obviously heretical or in clear opposition to the tradition of the Church.

Were the Founding Fathers proper Christians and modern «liberal» Christians who do not own slaves or marry 14 year old girls are not, or the other way around in which case America could have been founded upon heretical, flawed Christian beliefs?

«But doesn't the fact that those heretical groups faded from history tell us something about the worth of their doctrines?»

I personally find those that challenge the fundamentals of the gospel to be heretical, not those that question non-essential doctrine.

The only sects of any importance among the Sunnis are the Wahhabis, the reformist sect of Arabia, and the Qadiani sect of Pakistan which is generally looked upon as somewhat heretical — although its Lahori branch is not always so regarded.

Without the deepest truth of Christianity — the truth which Stratford Caldecott explored so deeply and presented so well — the «mysticism, spirituality, whatever you want to call — even gnosis perhaps (not in the heretical but in the Christian sense)» — without that, all the «serious business of intellectual argument and social action» is «doomed to fail».

Justin admitted that other gentile Christians did not show the same leniency.1 By the fourth century, the church had ruled that it was heretical even for believers of Jewish birth to observe the Law.

Wisest: Ray Hollenbach with «Bring the Script to Life» «Would it be too heretical to suggest that the words of the Bible on the printed page are not really the word of God until we act upon them?

Anyone who practices freedom of religion and separation of church and state can not impose their religion upon politics without being heretical.

There is a limit to what we can do with ourselves on our own (Pelagius gave too much of the job to us and not enough to God, according to the fifth - century Council of Carthage that declared him heretical), but in general humans are called to actively participate in the mysterious enterprise of being changed by way of grace into Christlike beings.

Such a history does not only exist because a very great deal of time and theological development and clarification was needed in some cases before the Church's awareness of its belief had finally fought its way to a clear realization that such and such a definite doctrine of the Church is really contained in divine revelation, is a genuine expression of what has always been globally believed or an obligatory defence against heretical misinterpretation of what has been handed down.

Earlier, nothing was known about it except the fact that it was used by several heretical groups such as the Naassenes; some church writers denounced it but did not describe it.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

I am the very model of a modern ultramontanist I've been congratulated as an excellent dialogist I have degrees from all the best colleges of theology I do not know quite what it means but I reject ontology I understand the finer points both nuanced and theoretical and when I go on twitter Ross Douthat calls me heretical I've many sage remarks to make on what I call the Christ event and just how many tragic deaths forbidden condoms could prevent

At Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary they taught you how to think thru heretical arguments in light of scripture and come to reason it out for yourself AND how can any CHristian Apologist be worth anything if they don't know and understand the heretical views that oppose Orthodox Christianity!?

Islam: To reject the Islam as a heretical doctrine, it is not necessary to read the Koran, because it is publically known that the Islam rejects the Trinity and the devine sonship of Jesus Christ.

Any theology that so widens the gulf between Jesus and other human beings as to suggest that he is an alien intruder into our human situation is to be rejected, not only because it is heretical but more importantly because it makes nonsense of the Gospel record and denies the dignity and reality of that life once lived among us.

One must grasp, for instance, the particular philosophical problem that John Locke faced, namely, how not to seem like a heretic while actually proposing a heretical solution to the «theological - political problem.»

The point I was making was, it isn't some freaky heretical view of mine that I think Jesus while on earth wasn't omniscient.

Tiggy said — «The point I was making was, it isn't some freaky heretical view of mine that I think Jesus while on earth wasn't omniscient.

Again, the meaning of 1 Timothy2: 8 - 15, which places various restrictions on women's dress and speech, depends not on our context, but on the double background of Paul's Judaism (where women were exempted from learning) and the situation at Ephesus (where untrained women who had submitted to heretical teachers seem to have been seeking to spread their beliefs, perhaps like the hierodules in the service of the temple of Diana, cf. 2 Tim.

I would urge to hold back on such criticism, but seeing as he chose not to actively seek change, dropped the pursuit of celibacy, and considered joining an arguably heretical denomination - seemingly because it accommodated his lifestyle rather than due to genuine theological convictions - I must agree with you.

As a millennial Christian living in the United States, it seems almost heretical not to embrace the call to change the world.

In other words, you can be heretical, but not too explicitly.

I can not tell you how many heretical sermons I have heard because a pastor thinks he has understood a parable, and then taught it, but what he thinks the parable teaches blatantly contradicts what the Bible teaches in other places.

I read it (although I didn't have an early copy claiming ``... the church has no right to exist» which would have raised even my hypokinetic eyebrows) and didn't find it to be heretical.

In contrast, the Islam is not merely heretical, but it wants to destroy the Christian faith.

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

That's why I am encouraged when I see leaders like Lee Grady speaking up on some of the dangers of such heretical and carnal expressions — Grady and others do so not as professional critics, but rather as respected insiders to the movement, and they explain the challenges well.

Even if this consensus be granted, however, it is not binding, because the theologians did not claim that their opinion was revealed, or that to take the opposite view was heretical.

For example, if someone were to assert that as he read the Bible the Word of God commanded him to set fire to a «heretical» church, the community of faith (and the political community as well) would insist that this is no Word from God at all, and that the man is not to be honored as a prophet or mystic but to be treated in a mental hospital.

It is not impossible, heretical, or apostate, for me to believe that God might inspire either myself or other Believers to utilize the political system to further God's work in the world, in orther that God's will might be done.

Bishop, thinking that fixing our dysfunctional political system rather than trusting God's Grace to heal humanity's social ills is not only heretical, it is also apostate, IMO.

it seems like its u who belong to heretical sect of Christianity since ur not following the true bible.

As Galileo, a devout believer in God who once ended up in hot water with the Catholic church for «heretical» ideas about heliocentrism, said, «I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.»

There are a whole lot of heretical forms of Buddhism, quasi-Buddhism in Japan and quasi-Shinto, and each one has a nice idea but it has some other ideas which are not so nice.

I hope that Joanna's reporting is true but a serious difficulty arises here: would the mother of the Catholic Church want conversions to the partly heretical, schismatic Orthodox Church, which does not acknowledge the supreme authority of the Pope?

Have you ever been in a church where a leader quoted 2 Timothy 4:3 - 4, and then proceeded to show why most other churches are heretical or spiritually immature because they can not endure sound doctrine, but instead, heap up for themselves teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear?