Sentences with phrase «raised as a christian»

What I learned being raised as a Christian and spending the first ten years of my adult life as a Christian, is that most Christians are afraid of question and of anybody who asks questions — including Christians who ask questions.

A mother, raised as a Christian, has won the right to raise an adopted child in the UK despite challenges... More

You said you had a Christian family, which likely means you were raised as a Christian.

Overall, for every Christian convert from a non-religious background, there are 26 raised as Christians who are no longer believers.

If you were raised as a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist etc. chances are you believe because of people around you.

One hundred Christs crucified on crosses from Calvary to Krakow to that Carmelite convent could not begin to atone for the cruel and coldly calculated criminal acts committed against our people by people raised as Christians.

But almost all of the persecutors were raised as Christians and thought of themselves as Christians.

She had been raised as a Christian, as had the Buddhists, but had begun to explore Islam as a graduate student in Paris.

By the way, I am an atheist who was raised as a christian and I graduated from bible school.

«The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara» Release Date: TBD Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Oscar Isaac, Mark Rylance and Isaac Eshete Synopsis: «The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara» recounts the story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian.

Tensions continue to be raised as Christian demands obedience from Ana due to the increased danger, while Ana begins to feel isolated not being able to do simple things like go out with her friends.

The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.

I have a friend who was raised as a Christian Scientist, but left that faith after she became a parent.

Not exact matches

My parents are of different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children in one or the other's church.

The signers raised concerns about the Assembly call for a coherent ecumenical theology, affirming the need for theological work but insisting that the «ecumenical movement needs a theology rooted in the Christian revelation as well as relevant to contemporary problems.»

In a sermon called «Unleashed as a Family - Raising and Releasing the Next Gen of Kingdom Builders» at the Chinese Missions Convention, the Christian author said: «A few weeks ago I was in Brazil and I was having lunch with a pastor out there.

Two things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this experiment, and why do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a Christian raised by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis of faith is normal in life, denouncing faith is shameful

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Not all Jews believe this, BTW, but in Judaism I have yet to run across someone who believe that G - d would punish anyone for their «beliefs» and not their «deeds» (take a good look at the Tanach... the contract with the Jews (known as the «teachings of G - d», not «the law») is all about behaviour; and while many Christians have been raised to view «the teachings of G - d» (the law) as something to be «freed» from... one has to ask the simple question..

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

Born and raised a Southern Baptist, spent many years as a «born again» christian in a non denominational church, finally had to admit to myself that I could not continue because I simply could not believe a word of it.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

I was raised Catholic, still go to church semi0regularly but identify as an independent Christian

I was raised atheist and now I am agnostic, when I was a child I had way more issues with Christians trying to save my soul, but never as an adult did my lack of belief effect a job or a relationship.

As Paul argued in I Corinthians 15, if Jesus of Nazareth has not been raised from the tomb, then Christian faith is useless.

Classic atheist argument — raise Leviticus as the true standard, face the truth that it doesn't apply to Christians, then raise another, unrelated argument (go ahead, try and deny it).

As an Atheist raised in a Christian home I think it is good to know that it is OK to not believe.

Christians must raise and answer the question as to the meaning of Jesus» lordship.

I quote Dorff at length because his comments raise questions not only concerning Jewish and Christian ethics, but concerning the project of the volume as a whole.

A Christian who leads a Bible study for his teammates as well as pregame prayers with the New York Knicks recently raised hackles with his comments about Jews printed in the New York Times Magazine.

Voskamp's use of imagery [in the last chapter of One Thousand Gifts] to show the intimacy of our relationship to God, has raised the question, «If we, as Christians, were supposed to think about our relationship with God in sexual terms, wouldn't God have made that clear in His word?»

As King peered at him through his owlish glasses, the musician told of being raised in a warm and loving Christian family and...

I was raised a Christian as a child, and a thorough reading of the Bible was all I needed to realize the whole thing was a crock.

Unfortunately, the writings of these Christian proponents of violence raise suspicion as to their professions about the poor.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I haven't considered myself a Christian of any kind for many years.

If we are raising the question of the basis and meaning of our life as Christians... then this can easily conceal a sidelong glance at what we suppose to be the easier and more comfortable life of other people, who will «also» get to heaven.

Furthermore, by characterizing allegations of child abuse as a sad case of «disunity» and «strife» within the church and urging his fellow Christians not to ask too many questions about the situation, Challies only perpetuates the painfully common narrative that those who raise concerns about abuse in churches are troublemakers, out to sow disunity and dissention, and that we are wise to keep this matters quiet.

Raising concern for all Christians in Pakistan, Nasir Saeed from religious freedom charity CLAAS, said: «I am very concerned by the government's inactions as perpetrators are continuing to take the law into their own hands and kill innocent people with impunity.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

These are matters as technical as they are difficult; yet the attempt to present in the simplest, I had almost said most naked, terms the elements of the Christian faith raises them very sharply.

i was raised as a catholic and the someone told me who Our Saviour really was and His Name and after 45 years i began praying to Our Saviour Using His Name and i always Believed in God but i knew that the christians had it wrong and now i know they did and now without even being in a religion or a community i have found what is True and its better than what christians are saying.

The author adds that they did not yet realize from the scriptural prophecies that Jesus must be raised; if they had discerned the truth from scripture, it may be implied, the sight of the tomb would have been unnecessary, as it is for Christians now.

Since these three ideas are now identified as within the spectrum of legitimate Christian belief, a Mormon can hope that, the next time the question is raised in these pages, these three beliefs held by the Latter - day Saints will be moved from the down side to the plus side of the answer.

The word «nihilism» has a complex history in modern philosophy, but I use it in a sense largely determined by Nietzsche and Heidegger, both of whom not only diagnosed modernity as nihilism, but saw Christianity as complicit in its genesis; both it seems to me were penetratingly correct in some respects, if disastrously wrong in most, and both raised questions that we Christians ignore at our peril.

I wasn't raised in a Christian home, but God revealed himself to through his creation and then his word, and then when I believed in him, he gave me an awsome life and a releationship with him and many others that believe as I do for we love one another and try to help others find the truth that has hope not despair.

Questions about the practice of Christian Science healing for children have been raised in such forums as the New England Journal of Medicine.

He describes himself as a Christian on his website and elsewhere has said he was raised as a «hard - nosed» Methodist taught to believe in the Antichrist.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

He became a Congregationalist «in an attempt to raise, with my Unitarian wife, four children in some sort of Christian context,» and moved to Episcopalianism, «in accord with my present wife,» but one suspects that these compromises fit his own spiritual needs as well.

Nonetheless, people who care about the integrity of religion do have a responsibility to raise some hard questions about groups such as the Christian Coalition.