Sentences with phrase «other false churches»

For example, how could dozens of Christian denominations fight and call each other false churches?

Not exact matches

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

he joined with others in launching a «confessing church» that bore uncompromising testimony to the lordship of Jesus Christ and against the false gods of Blood, Soil, and Volk.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

In True and False Reform in the Church (a seminal 1950 work disappointingly never mentioned in any of the books under review), the Catholic theologian Yves Cougar argued that the first condition for genuine church reform was charity — caritas, that selfless, unsentimental love that wills only the good of the Church (a seminal 1950 work disappointingly never mentioned in any of the books under review), the Catholic theologian Yves Cougar argued that the first condition for genuine church reform was charity — caritas, that selfless, unsentimental love that wills only the good of the church reform was charity — caritas, that selfless, unsentimental love that wills only the good of the other.

He gets attacked by other conservative believers because he's a false - teacher and enemy of the church.

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

Of course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of others.

More problematically, when we defend these false descriptions of man, we go against the clear teachings of the Church and lead others to embrace one of the great confusions of our age.

The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).

The Catholic Church is a false Christian church who by its teachings and practices contradict the Bible more than any Church is a false Christian church who by its teachings and practices contradict the Bible more than any church who by its teachings and practices contradict the Bible more than any other.

The declaration's negation, following immediately upon its affirmation, makes this clear: «We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and beside the one Word of God, still other events and powers, figures and truths, as God's revelation.»

The third distortion is much more common in the contemporary Church: a selective acceptance of the Bible, whereby some parts are true and lovely, and other parts are false and difficult.

Lest the Deutsche Christen of the Nazi church (or anyone else) mistake what this means, a clear reference to der Führer follows: «We reject the false doctrine [that] the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events, powers, figures, and truths as God's revelation.&church (or anyone else) mistake what this means, a clear reference to der Führer follows: «We reject the false doctrine [that] the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events, powers, figures, and truths as God's revelation.&Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and besides this one Word of God, still other events, powers, figures, and truths as God's revelation.»

The thing that people want to exclude themselves from, be it the Christian label, church, religion, or even the institution, can directly relate and feed on the other, thereby creating a false dichotomy.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

The fact that neither you nor the church has yet identified ANY SORT of «false doctrine» that Kate was supposedly teaching, leads one to believe that her question must be the REAL reason she was ex-communicated as no other viable reason has been presented or even hinted at!

Because we disagree on the proper method of baptism, the role of women in the church or the proper interpretation of a certain Biblical passage does not make one of us correct and the other a «false teacher».

The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.

The current church model is that of a business which depends upon others to purchase its goods and services, but the only goods and services it has to sell are false messages, false promises, fear, shame, abuse.

If the task of Masonry is to lead souls to perdition, bringing them to the worship of false divinities, the task of ecclesiastical Masonry on the other hand is that of destroying Christ and his Church, building a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church.&Church, building a new idol, namely a false christ and a false church.&church.»

We are taught NOT to listen to any other doctrine... there are false teachers out there... don't compromise your faith... don't ask questions... God has appointed us to teach you... WE have the truth... we're not like those OTHER churother doctrine... there are false teachers out there... don't compromise your faith... don't ask questions... God has appointed us to teach you... WE have the truth... we're not like those OTHER churOTHER churches.

It is clear that the BEM document was an attempt to consciously, creatively, sincerely and prayerfully to face up to the challenges of the time and to offer to the churches a document, which while not being in a position to satisfy everyone and reflect every shade of opinion, nevertheless, optimistically looked forward to a time of greater ecumenical interaction, moving beyond «the false ecumenical solution of a comfortable denominationalism in which the churches each tend their own gardens, careful not to bother or insult others, but in no way living out or even seeking a truly common life.»

To believe you ONLY hear the «Word of God» (whatever you mean by that) in the church is crippling, emotionally stunted, enslaving, abusive, and downright false when heaped upon the head of others.

I saw church leaders plant false rumors about opponents; priests barge into other colleagues churches to insult them; and parishioners shout at each other like kids throwing tantrums.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

One reason numbers are declining in church attendance is because we do not share our thoughts, concerns, opinions and doubts with each other for sake of keeping this false sense of peace.

@Rainer You are the problem, you say, all other belivers in their religion are believers of a false god / church, how arrogant and biggoted can you get.