Sentences with phrase «other than some believers»

[51] The Eucharist is referred to, almost euphemistically, in this way, precisely because the first Christians believed it was so holy, that it was barely to be spoken of to anyone other than believers.

Not exact matches

In other words, the ratio of angry believers to not angry believers is greater than the ratio of angry atheists to nonangry atheists..

When the totality of facts are taken into account, «miracles» turn out to be nothing more than believers who are desperate for some sign of my existence ignoring the downside of a set of facts, focusing solely on the upside and calling the quarantined «good» a miracle from me or one of the other sky - fairies.

Christianity is growing more rapidly than any other faith, but the vast majority of believers will be neither white nor European nor Euro - American.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

You have, based more on your own prejudices than you may realize, condemned me and Christine and any other gay believer.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

I am VERY tired of people preaching to me and others about how «a Christian would and should act» when the hypocrisy of the matter is that I, a «none believer» practice «The Golden Rule» more than most!

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

She also was not a believer (in anything other than herself).

Worse than failing to cry out, the NCC continues in its historic role as de facto apologist for the persecution of Christians and other believers.

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.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

If prayer did anything other than waste time, there would only be one religion and there would only be believers.

Uncle David: If there are more God - believers in the population, and more of them are attracted to AA because of their belief in the higher power in the first place... it does not necessarily follow that AA's approach is more successful than any other program because of sheer numbers.

Instead, you are simply seeking to be the church in a different way than by sitting in a church building with other believers on Sunday morning.

So far, you are batting zero, just like every other believer — you have not proven anything other than that you are probably delusional.

As an atheist I would love nothing more than for moderates to stand up to these bullies, but my experience has been that they leave that up to us because they're just too nice to criticize, and they can't stand being told that they're not following Jesus by other believers.

You by your own admission set it aside and go with what YOU THINK your god wants which you can no more demonstrate is the correct path than any other believer who does the same but does not agree with your moral conclusions.

We must be vigilent or we may find ourselves meeting in basements with other believers sooner than we think

Obviously, God intervenes radically only in response to a radical attitude on the part of the believer — radical not in regard to political means but in regard to faith; and the believer who is radical in his faith has rejected all means other than those of faith.

To soften my deconversion, I started out just being quiet, then I stated things a little different than my fellow - believers (but still orthodox), then I started being vague (hinting at unorthodoxy), then finally, I was able to come out fully — both to myself and others.

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

How about, an erroneous concept of God (an idol), erroneous interpretation of the bible, and a concept of the «church» as an organization or something other than consisting of all of the believers in the world.

tf: Did you once consider that maybe the reason it appears we speak out more against your god than other gods is because it is your gods believers that seem to be at the center of so much in this world??? I don't see Pagan's standing on street corners or attempting to use their holy books to deny equal rights.

No, it becomes arrogant to think you have it right and everyone else is wrong when you can't objectively demonstrate your god any more than believers of other gods can.

muslimism, absurdity of a muslim secular, ignorant self centered, who reveled truth of flow of fresh and salt water flowing together in seas, but never mixing with each other, hundreds of years before muslim s, non believers could see it with their own eyes, None other than truth absolute, GOD, foundation of existence and consti tuion of USA, designer and creator of world HIMSELF.

You should ask yourself, to help cure you of your horrid delusions, why it is that even the majority of believers in the world believe in a different god than you do, with wildly different rules to follow, and why your supposedly omnipotent creature can't do a better job of marketing himself over those other beliefs.

I still don't think that guy instantly becomes a believer but is still a skeptic and doesn't believe this adventure will show anything other than how stupid the believers are.

Craig both seventh day and anglican are believers they are saved by faith in the death of Jesus Christ and they believe in the forgiveness of sins sactification and the resurection at Christs return.This is what i meant regarding theology one has to be careful otherwise you exclude groups of christians because some of there other theology may not be the same as ours.They still hold to the central truths of the bible but have differences ie like sabbaths or baptism but that does not mean they arent saved or are christians.What church denomination do you belong to if you mentioned jehovah witness or mormons that is a different story as they do nt believe that Jesus Christ is central to there faith they have relegated him to nothing more than a prophet so there is no salvation in those religions.brentnz

They are learning what it means to follow Jesus into the world, to experience true community with other believers, to read Scripture in a new light, and to serve others out of love rather than compulsion.

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.

An atheist has more faith than any believer in any other religion.

The wording of the presbyter's remark leaves open the question of Mark's use of other sources than Peter, whose «interpreter» he was: sources, or traditions, in circulation among the Christians in Rome no doubt from the first founding of the church in that community, long before Paul's arrival and perhaps some time before Peter's coming; and also, no doubt, traditions that were added to the common stock by every believer who came to Rome from Palestine.

Sometimes the first act of commitment is more dramatic than any others which follow, and the believer looks back to it in gratitude as a turning point in his life.

You are not any better than believers, you withdraw your conclusion right of papers, Not much different than the ones who read the bible or any other books.

The optimist will always tend to see the glass half - full and the pessimist see the glass half - empty; but the mature believer will be more inclined to chose the Cross rather than pursue his or her self - interest through unjust means or indulge disordered passions at the expense of others.

In the George M. Philip lecture of 1995, EMS said that the idea of finding solutions to practical problems by cooperation between religious believers and Marxists is more relevant in Kerala than in any other state of India.

I do, of course, think that community and fellowship with other believers is important, but there are so many ways of doing this other than by sitting in a pew on Sunday morning from 10:30 - 12:00.

But this is entirely symbolic and actually has no value other than it increases his stature in the eyes of believers.

They are godless because hate and pride are the hallmarks of non believers and those who reject God / Christ as well as anything or entity that would dare suggest they bow to any other than self.

Unfortunately Agnostics and Atheists are the most trusted less in this country than any other belief, lack of belief, group in the entire country, running for public office as a non believer is a sure way not to win, so I running as a christian is the only logical approach to public office if you want to actually win

We could be no more significant than any other speck of matter in the Universe and at the same time no less important than we believers think we are.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

We, TRUE believers have lesser tendencies to commit murders and other unpardonable sins than atheists because, we believe that aside from it is logically, morally and lawfully wrong to harm our fellow beings, we also believe that they are abominable in the sight of God.

It is no more or less serious than other acts that can alienate believers from God and themselves.

The New Testament teaches that each LOCAL body of believers is to be separate from other bodies, with no common leader other than God and Jesus.

I only know personally of two successful christian communities where believers live either together or buy up houses on a particular street and run businesses (other than some cult communities which are differently run — they are not, I think what we are talking about here) and share resources.

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.

I've been warned by more people than I can count that if I don't say just the right thing, if I don't toe the party line when it comes to sexuality, I could lose speaking engagements, book deals, readers, even fellowship with other believers.