This is exactly what Paul says will happen to churches that do
not remain true to Biblical truth, and Alan Wolfe has documented it.
Not exact matches
Of course, as the series has only just aired, it
remains to be seen whether or
not it will have a similar revelatory impact as some of its predecessors, but it still stands as yet another example of TV's growing
true crime trend.
A source told Marcus that the decision
to implement the agreements came about in February or March 2017, when there was «lots of leaking, things that just weren't
true, and a lot of things that were
true and should have
remained confidential.»
Most of the time you can use your
true name and
true details about yourself and that makes it very easy, but you still have
to remain «under cover» at all times and can
not let anyone identify you as a shopper.
Professor Noll is looking at us from the outside, but he does see us clearly His advice that we
remain true to our heritage and confessions, demonstrating
to the world that they are important
to us, can
not be faulted.
Now although the standard is essentially and always
true (do
not murder) we admit that the law needs
to be looked at from a variety of angles — and sometimes we have
to step aside from the absolute and subject ourselves
to «grey areas»... and the standard can still
remain in tact.
I can't
remain silent, and yet it's so hard
to speak what is
true and right without offending someone.
A country can
not survive if it is built upon anything other than Christianity and
remains true to God.
«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend
not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed
to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall
remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts
to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only
to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose
not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power
to do, but
to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only
true and infallible, and as such endeavoring
to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»
An animal displaying characters belonging
to two different groups can
not be treated as a
true link as long as the intermediary stages have
not been found, and as long as the mechanisms of transition
remain unknown.»»
True enough; but it yet
remains, for all our struggle
to speak for God, it accomplishes little if He isn't in the flow, attaching pulpit
to pew and vice-versa.
If it's
true that Osama bin Laden was just a criminal who hijacked the religion of Islam and
not a
true Muslim as some Muslim apologists claim, then why is is then so important that his
remains be taken care of in accordance
to standard Islamic burial practice?
'» However, a lead proponent of the law, Mark Harrington of Created Equal, has also made it clear that the
true motive of many of the law's supporters is for women
to realize «it isn't just a blob of tissue» if they have
to deicide whether
to bury or cremate the
remains.
He decided that his faith would
not allow him
to wrestle her and
remain true to his values, that come from the bible.
The goal isn't
to agree but
to remain faithful
to the love and grace embodied by the gospel, while at the same time
remaining true to what you believe.
This
remains true despite the reality of divine revelation, since, according
to Islam, God does
not reveal himself, but only the decrees of his will.
The obedience of a St Francis of Assisi
to his heavenly vocation was obedience
to a call which did
not come through the intermediary of the Church's hierarchy, however
true it may be
to insist that it
remained within the limits of the official Church and was tested and approved by the Church's ministers.
I think he simply wants
to remain true to who he is, and doesn't want
to all of a sudden start speaking «Christian - eeze».
In fact, as we turn
to chapter 3, we see he continues
to stand tall for God,
to not bow
to pressure, and
to remain true to God, even when it seems God and the king has forgotten about him.
Frei knew that and, with a modesty as frustrating as it was admirable, was likely
to admit that he did
not himself know how
to solve the problems even as he
remained convinced that he had glimpsed an insight that was somehow
true.
For me there's something inside me that I hold
to be
true and I will keep it
true, while the rest of the world seems
to spinning out of control I will
remain true to the truth and allow every one else
to be where they are with this of belief or none belief but I will without hate or malice vote my truth
not the way of the day.
All I can say is that I've been around long enough
to know that I haven't learned everything yet, that my mind has changed before and can be changed again with new evidence, and that anyone who claims
to know that something will
remain true forever is a damn fool.
Assuming that
to be
true for the moment the reality
remains not everyone (except perhaps in an imaginary, fictional world) is (or does) good without God.
However, if he
remains true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will
not be sufficient for him
to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».
22 That this is so, and, especially, how this is so, may be clearer from the ecological perspective than from the sociological, but it
remains a
true and important point about human society, which sociological theology need
not and should
not continue
to neglect.
It won't happen because He is trustworthy Abraham's words
to the Lord
remain true to this very day.
If she
remains true to her supernatural call, the Church can
not acquiesce in War for War, however camouflaged or excused, must always mean the effort of a group of men
to achieve their purpose... by inflicting destruction and death on another group of men.
The fact that Jesus can be made an object of historical critical research is given with the incarnation and can
not be denied by faith, if the latter is
to remain true to itself [The Crucified Messiah and Other Essays, 1974].
And even if someone should, even if he succeeded in enumerating them all and for an instant succeeded in holding them together so that they could
not, like
true runaways, slip away and assume another role while
remaining in essence the same, still one evasion would always
remain behind even if none ought
to be there, even if by repeated inspection a commendable cleverness should be unable
to discover that a single ground had been overlooked and hence that a single evasion was still possible.
But does it
not remain true that this event was a symbol of the human dignity of all persons, of their participation in the common life, of their will
to be free from the control of another people?
there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will»
to retreat
to is the zone of
true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or
not this atom of uranium chooses
to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can
not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or
remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.
’15 He further conceded that this view of «bodily resurrection» may
remain equally
true whether the original corpse of Jesus continued
to remain in the tomb or
not.
If Republicans are
to remain true to the verdict of 2010, they can
not accept that the message of this election was just containment; it must mean roll back.
His Israel of God in Prophecy and Chariots of Salvation are two books that stick particularly
to the Bible In both books he
remains true to an exegesis that is rooted in the OT and
NT Scriptures making it possible for the Christian
to understand what has otherwise been an eschatological landscape filled with clouds of personal prognostications that masquerade as Biblical.
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to pay for abortion - inducing drugs.»
The only man whose work we can trace in the synoptic tradition who ever concerns himself
to remain reasonably
true, in our sense of that word,
to his sources is Luke, and even he does
not hesitate
to make very considerable changes indeed when he has theological reasons for doing so.
This illustration of how I had
to forgive my old friend does
not begin
to compare
to the way God
remains true to himself — but must be forgiven when we are disappointed or feel betrayed.
Yet it
remains true that if educational questions can
not be answered theologically, neither can theological questions be answered by use of the techniques of social or behavioral sciences however relevant the insights derived from these sciences may be
to theology.
It is
true that this latter procedure, in contrast
to reductio ad absurdum, does
not render the initial concept of a universal - movement altogether impossible, even though the concept would
remain indefinite and ambivalent in its truth - functionality.
«There is genocide again in Europe [No there isn't, unless one debases the term
to mean perennial ethnic and religious conflicts]; there is economic inequality at home [There always will be; the question is whether there is greater economic opportunity]; civil rights are
not assured for all Americans [Sullivan's particular campaign is for same - sex marriage]; civil liberties have had a terrible decade [I'm
not sure what he means; perhaps new and intrusive antiterrorist laws in the Clinton era]; the racial question
remains and festers [Undoubtedly
true, although it is currently festering below fever level].»
True to that vision, The Goldfinch
remains a largely secular story, and its characters often act as if God does
not exist: They live for the moment, sin boldly, and speak in profane ways.
Though the thinking of our animistic ancestors may seem
to us naïve, it
remains true that a multitude of whimsical gods, so constituted that they are likely
to be pleased or displeased by almost anything, is
not incongruous with the welter of man's joys and miseries, befalling him, at least when superficially observed, with irrational capriciousness.
The sublime thought of Gregory of Nyssa
remains a
true guidepost today: «these gliding and glittering lights of God's word which sparkle over the eyes of the soul... but now let what we hear from Elijah rise up
to our soul and would that our thoughts, too, might be snatched up into the fiery chariot... so we would
not have
to abandon hope of drawing close
to these stars, by which I mean the thoughts of God...»
People need
to know that our story is
true, unfailing and permanent, that our villain doesn't triumph in the end, that our fight isn't
to remain on top of the feed but
to report
to the world that the feed no longer matters!
One can
not, however, so readily assert of Aristotle that in his concept of process he consistently
remains true to the immanence that he therein supposes one being
to have in another — as his theory of place gives witness.
The image of God in man has been defaced, so that there
remains only an awareness of God's power and law, and therefore of condemnation and wrath; but there is
not in unregenerate man any power
to know, express or share the love which alone can restore him
to his
true humanity.
Judaism was
to be discarded (Matt 21:19; Heb 8:13) and the
true religion that Jesus established (but which Christendom has
not followed) would
remain forever.
I will
remain true to the new cause, declaring loudly and unashamedly: «Thousands for myself but
not one cent for the government.»
we worship an extraordinary God who says that in order for your worship of me
to be authentic, in order for your love of me
to be
true, I can
not allow you
to remain in your spiritual ghetto.
Atheists aren't going
to admit they aren't better but the facts still
remain true.