Sentences with phrase «practice than his followers»

It is a mistake to assume that Jesus could not have departed more radically from current thought and practice than his followers did.

Not exact matches

I am now convinced that most of American Christianity is a cultural practice, routed mostly in traditional affiliation than a true conversion, a weekly religious exercise, no different than what the Imam demands of the followers of the Muslin faith.

Jim, my friend, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, prophet or no prophet, was Indian, and that is more than enough for any Pakistanis to kill his followers, wise up and get the hell out of place where you can't practice your religion freely, like Dalai Lama

Once Jesus was dead and buried, his followers, who were also Christian Pastors, went to work offending more and more people who continued to practice the Church of Israel, Judaism and Mosaic Covenant to a certain point that emboldened factions that would find them guilty of sedition and condemn the followers of Jesus Christ, who were more than willing to put them to death as well, usually by MOB RULE.

Jesus followers who are unchurched talk about spiritual matters half as much as most practicing Christians, and four times less than evangelicals.

UPDATE: For those who think I mean «patriarchy» as an insult rather than a description of reality, consider this: In the current issue of The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Owen Strachan wrote, «For millennia, followers of God have practiced what used to be called patriarchy and is now called complementarianism.»

When the Bible speaks of «the faith» it is speaking of the doctrines and practices which separate followers of Jesus from those who follow something or someone other than Jesus.