Sentences with phrase «of sincere believers»

A small group of sincere believers studying and discussing scripture together does not lead to heresy.

And yet in this deeply Christian, extravagantly post-Christian nation of ours, a number of sincere believers find the life of Christ and his saints somehow compatible with the sterile, preening, sub-adolescent egoism of Objectivism.

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He was simply a devoted husband and father, a sincere believer, a humble man who put his gifts at the service of the royal family out of love of God and Russia.

The peyote worshipers can be punished, even though we are quite sure that many of them are sincere religious believers, because we can never be certain who is sincere and who is not.

This is how many times the idea of HYPOCRISY rears its ugly head, because to onlookers, even a sincere believer in God whose life does not match his worlds LOOKS like a hypocrite.

That said, if it brings someone to Christ then that's good — one trait of a believer is a sincere desire for the word, and it is very likely that the Christian will eventually gravitate toward a more accurate translation, just as many of us have done who were initially enamored of Good News for Modern Man (TEV) and other such paraphrases from the past.

One of the many themes not dealt with adequately if at all, by contemporary fiction is a realistic portrayal on the effect of religion upon sincere believers.

It simply means this — there should be a sincere desire in the soul of every born - again believer to live righteously to please the Lord.

There is probably no greater cause for the ease in which believers are being misled by the teachings of others (however well - intended and sincere such teachings may be), than the fact that they have for all practical purposes never been taught how to rightly divide the word of truth themselves.

@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

For most Christians it will come across as mocking at best and blasphemous at worst, though Brown says the target of his act is to send up the charlatans and frauds, not sincere believers.

Mu`awiya knew that Ali had a strong faith and that the majority of his followers were sincere believers.

That's because receiving the Spirit can only happen to sincere believers; if we received the baptism of the Spirit, we were sincere.

This is a logical position to hold to if you are a Calvinist as well who recognizes this dilemma of so many sincere believers coming to different conclusions.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of Nortbeliever, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of NortBeliever's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

It is yet another manifestation of that radical anthropocentrism, the main enemy of sincere religion, that tempts believers to bring the language of transcendence down to the level of purely human wants and choice.

Can it be, we Christians may well ask ourselves, that, unlike the «men from every nation under heaven» (Acts 2:5) on the day of Pentecost, we have failed to master that hidden tongue, which allows every sincere believer to say with David, «Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt make me full of gladness with thy presence» (Ps.

Are the reachings out for spiritual community with sincere believers of other faiths to be one - sided, in that the insights of Western Christianity alone are to be held true and sufficient, and the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter) simply yearnings toward fulfillment in Christianity, as has been held for so many years?

The Gospels and Epistles are full of guideposts in a strange tongue that seem to direct us to a realization of a Christ who could include the Christ beyond Christianity and so the sincere believer in God outside the visible church.

I take it you are a sincere believer so why do nt you follow words of Jesus himself and pray to end the sëx trafficking of human beings.

The marks of the true church are «especially the lawful and sincere preaching of the Word of God as it was delivered to us in the books of the prophets and the apostles, which all lead us unto Christ... the only head and foundation of the Church,» and the participation of faithful believers in the sacraments instituted by Christ, worshiping one God with «one faith and one spirit.»

I knew some American Missionaries India who retired back in the USA in their late 70's, sadly left the Christian village they had started 40 years earlier with a school and hospital, and watched it fall apart from a distance as money stopped pouring in and apparently sincere believers of decades grab the next benefactor.

I think that only a cynic could see cynicism in this cosmically, freakishly sincere true believer: The 40 - foot - high topiary sculpture of a West Highland terrier that Koons created the following year in Arolsen, Germany, isn't here, but another equally great topiary work, Split Rocker, now stands in front of Rockefeller Center.