Sentences with phrase «of doctrine he believes»

should a judge who believes that the common law is found rather than made ever be willing to follow a line of doctrine he believes to be clearly erroneous?

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what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

The reason is because they believe that Christ's original church in both form and doctrine, unaltered in any way, was restored to the earth again after a long time of being gone through apostasy (or a falling away — 2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 3 KJV).

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

Is it any wonder the western world hates Muslims and Jews, when you maintain the ancient barbaric doctrines and then believe that it should be part of a modern society?

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

since this woman entered a Catholic Church to be a part of their service of worship, she shouldn't be surprised that they follow the doctrine they believe in — namely, that someone openly unrepentant of what the Catholic Church teaches is sin should not partake of communion.

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

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 ethics and compassion and example that Christ lived by and was killed for, or do you believe more in the dogma, and doctrines of your «faith»?

West Western churches became guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

I do not condemn others for picking and choosing any specific dogma / doctrine of the church to believe and obey.

For the life of me, I can't understand why you don't follow it, especially since you believe it is the truth, and the doctrine of the Catholic Church to be in error.

I love that the message is about the healing power of love and not a doctrine or particular path that you might believe in personally.

They carried around the tablets of the 10 commandments, you know... the covenent (hence the name ark of the covenant), and it had as much meaning to them as transsubstantiation does to good christians who, by doctrine, have to believe they are legit eating and drinking christ, which is whackier in your opinion?

You have given an outstanding list of records covering thousands of years of examination by brilliant minds on the doctrines and — at times — myths taught and believed.

Most of these Christians do not believe in the doctrine of total depravity and that there is «good» in people when infact the bible is clear otherwise.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Since, too, they have no certainty of the doctrines they profess, they do but feel they ought to believe them, and they try to believe them, and they nurse the offspring of their reason, as a sickly child, bringing it out of doors only on fine days....

Based on the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints we believe that if we endure to the end Mark 13:13 we will be joint heirs with Jesus Christ in all that the Father hath.

A lot of churches believe in order to be considered a true Christian, you have to also accept the doctrine of the Trinity.

None, other than the LDS, believe that one (male only, and until recent time, white only) can only get a pass into the celestial realm if given by the LDS church, after the believer proves that he abides by church doctrine in all aspects of his life.

1 Timothy 4:1 - 3 — But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

Since Latter - day Saints believe in continuing, modern revelation, that means that we follow what is in the canonized scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) AND whatever our current leaders teach.

They have unsound doctrine towards people of different races and those their Prophet» received a new revelation that blacks could hold the priesthood, it is contrary to Christ's teaching with having no respect of persons.The believe Native Americans are lost Jews, not to mention alot more.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

I believe Whitehead wanted to avoid just this proliferation of prehensions beyond necessity in his doctrine of epochal time.

Quite frankly, Satan (an interesting and appropriate nic), because of the above short list, a normal human being might find it difficult if not outright impossible to believe in the Jesus Doctrine.

So many people believe in so many different gods and in so many different doctrines and dogmas because there is no proof for any one of them.

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.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Either, like the Pope, you believe that all human beings — no matter how small, weak, or handicapped — have a right to be protected, or, with Singer, you adopt the doctrine of lebensunwertes Leben and recognize the need to eliminate the unfit.

(A difficult concept, I know, for anyone who believes that doctrine can always be oversimplified without losing any of the message...)

Anyway, yes, Roger, if one believes in the doctrine of Grace, Hess is in Heaven right now, and the Jews who he helped kill but never accepted Jesus as their savior, they are all in Hell right now, for all eternity.

But however tempting such a position might appear, however weary we are before the onslaught of irreconcilable theological claims, we ought to be cautious about answering Paul's warning against being «tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine» with a refusal to believe much of anything.

Doctrines and dogmas, if we really believe them, inevitably affect our self - understanding, our values and our grasp of the world around us.

I get that someone who has messed up their marriage might be your friend and ministry associate, and that you might want to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe them... But when they invent a false doctrine of spiritual versus legal marriage, surely some kind of red flag has to go up?

He believed that his general doctrine of each experience taking account of the entire past favored the view that there are direct or unmediated prehensions of other than contiguous events.

Many evangelicals, Catholics, and others sincerely believe that Christianity's doctrines on marriage and sex are inextricably tied up with the foundations of the faith.

Consequently, according to Moltmann and others, the only God we can believe in now is a God who suffers, and the ancient Christian doctrines of divine simplicity, immutability, and impassibility must be discarded.

For the first half of this consequence of his doctrine, Whitehead has never been forgiven by those who believe that sophisticated thought has once and for all learned to do without God.

Among evangelicals, so much emphasis has been placed on the doctrine of substiutionary atonement that the focus has shifted away from FOLLOWING the life and teachings of Jesus (in order to be saved from sin) to simply BELIEVING in the death and resurrection of Jesus (in order to be saved from judgment).

Being a Catholic, says Greeley, is a matter of what one believes, in the sense of doctrines affirmed.

For example, he still believed in the Virgin Birth, but when his New Testament professor pointed out that the genealogies in both Matthew and Luke seemed to assume that Jesus» descent was through Joseph and that the doctrine of Mary's virginity played no role in Paul's letters, he found it harder to suppose that this belief was essential to Christianity.

I still believe these things to be true and biblical, but I am now aware of different ways of approaching these doctrines which require further study on my part.

Furthermore, many of the discussions in which philosophy plays the primary role consist in developing distinctions or new concepts that make possible the intelligent affirmation of doctrines that are believed strictly on the grounds of revelation.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).