Sentences with phrase «of doctrinal truths»

It goes for any number of the doctrinal truths about God, Jesus, and the Hoy Spirit, such as God's natural attributes, that He is the Creator, etc..

We do not aim in preaching at mere information transfer or persuasion of doctrinal truths.

So for as much time as you devote to the mental gymnastics of doctrinal truth, I'd spend twice as much time doing all you can to leave no stone unturned in a world that desperately needs to hear what you're certain of.

I still struggle to understand your view of Scripture, and many time we «orthodox - types» seem so thick headed while the «emergent - types» seem so mircurial in their presentation of doctrinal truth.

Particularly problematic is Radner's downplaying of the significance of doctrinal truth claims.

Not exact matches

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

It may be overstating a significant truth to notice that, in part because of the emphasis on faith, the generations after the Reformation were devoted to the clarification of the faith and they left us the legacy of great creeds and doctrinal symbols.

There are many spiritual truths and principles in the Gospels and they are of great benefit to us, but doctrinal truths for the church were given by Jesus to us through the Apostle Paul.

We should state quite frankly, especially if we take the «hierarchy of Christian truths» seriously, that the doctrinal differences which divide the modern Protestant Churches are much deeper andmore radical than those that separated the original Protestant denominations from the Tridentine confession.

I have a responsibility to «invite» them to the truth, according to the DOCTRINAL STATEMENT OF THE BIBLE, not according to Joseph Smith.

While truth can be found in doctrinal statements, they themselves are not the source of truth.

Well, God's written word is the truth as well and, insofar as a given doctrinal statement reflects the truth of God's word, the doctrinal statement is also the truth.

But what so often happens is that we write a doctrinal statement, and then we think it is the truth, rather than recognizing that it is our interpretation of the truth of Scripture.

There are many wonderful truths for us in the book of Hebrews, but if you want to get firmly grounded in doctrinal truths for the believer you need to be studying Paul's other epistles (Hebrews may have written by Paul too).

As Carl Henry has put it, the Bible is «a book of divinely disclosed doctrinal truth.»

Others of his shorter works, which are also published as Faith Pamphlets, and many as yet unpublished gems from his ordinary parish newsletters, reveal the effectiveness of this living vision of Christian truth - simultaneously doctrinal, moral, spiritual and practical.

Since the founding of ECT more than twenty years ago, Evangelicals and Catholics have learned much from one another and our joint commitment to biblical and doctrinal truth.

Seeker services aim at introducing the unchurched masses of our post-Christian culture to the rudiments of the faith, teaching them the elementary truths of the gospel in ways that liturgical worship and doctrinal preaching might not.

If we believe that the Holy Spirit has helped guide Christians of the past to know and understand the truth of Scripture, then doctrinal statements can help us in our own understanding and interpretation of Scripture.

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.

Inasmuch as the entire people of God partakes in the search for and the unfolding of the truth of God's word, all the charisms and services are involved according to their station: the theologians by means of their research activities, the faithful by means of their preserving fidelity and piety, the ecclesial ministries and especially the college of bishops with its function of making binding doctrinal decisions.

In this new feature — under the heading «The Truth Will Set You Free» — we will explore a range of pastoral and doctrinal issues from this perspective.

When Jesus says, «I am the way, and truth and the life...» (John 14.6), we Christians of evangelical heritage and loyalties are quick to make this «way» and this «truth» into a cognitive, doctrinal litmus test for inclusion in the sphere of God's grace.

But there are several problems with the development of doctrinal statements as a way of protecting the truth.

He warns of the real danger of dialogue leading to the dilution of confessional standards, leveling out all genuine differences, doctrinal minimalism, or what he calls common denominator ecumenicity, all of which have resulted in darkening the light of truth such that «believers do not even know at what points they are really one, to say nothing of the points on which they are divided.»

Trent and Vatican I remain normative for the Catholic faith, but a distinction should be drawn between criticizing their incomplete or unbalanced formulations of the truth and claiming that these councils formally committed the Church to doctrinal error.

Granted the need to recognise legitimate doctrinal development in the Church, along with the important contributions of Vatican II, the Church does provide the security of a tradition that rests upon unchanging, divinely revealed truths.

Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church about what was truth and what was «heresy.»

Our political commitment and our religious commitments insist that we lay aside the complexities of truth in favor of party spirit or doctrinal purity.

Most importantly, he helped me to think about «doctrinal development» not as a change in the «faith delivered once for all,» but as the intra-systematic unfolding of the very givenness of supernaturally revealed truth.

To imply that as a Catholic, I can have greater communion with a separated Christian on the grounds of fuller doctrinal agreement on the few (or many) remaining doctrinal truths that unite us, relativizes the visible bonds of sacramental communion into mere «juridical» boundaries.

You would think that the UN / IPCC would be on board with this, but they are so obsessed with their doctrinal approach of redistributive economics through climate reparations, they can't handle the truth.