Sentences with phrase «raised by the christian»

I was raised by a Christian mother who made sure I went to Sunday School, and Bible School.

I must confess that I only know 3 atheists, one the husband of a niece who is unsocialable, a poor husband and father and an alcoholic.The other two are husband and wife, both raised by Christian parents.

Jesus» actions, then, are symbolic of adoption; abandoned children are to be brought into the church and raised by Christian parents, not in order to exploit their labor potential but because the biblical God is one with a special concern for the poor, the homeless, the weak and the abandoned.

When we turn to Daniel Day Williams» analysis of those «archetypal forms which love takes in history [and] which can be distinguished and analysed» (SFL 4), we find a thinker who is sensitive to the questions raised by Christian claims of superiority to Judaism.

«I was 17 and had been raised by Christian parents when I met Alan.

My hope is that Jesus, The Gentle Parent: Gentle Christian Parenting will release Christian parents from the hold these punitive, graceless ideas have over mainstream Christianity so that they can study and pray and listen for God's leading on their parenting journeys, and I hope that the next generation of children raised by Christian parents will spend their childhood having the concept of grace lived out in their homes and families.

When asked for his reaction to the issues raised by the Christian leaders, Osinbajo said, «This is a meeting of pastors, it is a family meeting, you know I am a pastor.

Osinbajo stated this while responding to posers raised by some Christian leaders at the stakeholders a meeting held at the new Banquet Hall of the Benue State Government House, Makurdi.

Osinbajo stated this while responding to posers raised by some Christian leaders at a stakeholders meeting held at the new Banquet Hall of the Benue State Government House, Makurdi.

Focusing on the challenges to the relationship raised by Christian's particular needs would seemingly be enough, without these flourishes that, more than anything, resemble a later - season episode of «Falcon Crest.»

Coming from a diverse religious and cultural background, having been raised by Christian grandparents as a liberal, homosexual Muslim, Adams uses Islam and South African «coloured» culture as a departure point to make sense of religious, racial and sexual liminality in South Africa.

Not exact matches

Labour's candidate Christian Wolmar reported that Goldsmith's behaviour during the mayoral election was regularly raised by voters on the doorstep.

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

After early childhood where he was exposed but investigations - and you know the GOP spent plenty on them - revealed he never followed Islam, he was raised by his mother's parents in Hawaii, Christian bankers.

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.

You are dishonest to yourself if you do not acknowledge that this is possible: You where by your own acount in a stressfull state and you had been raised in a christian family, associated with a fundamentalist church, attended bible college, proffesing christianity for years and looking for answers in your church and faith.

Analysts agree that a candidate who does not believe in God would be quickly rejected by voters nationwide — even if he or she was raised Christian.

Since I had not enjoyed the privilege of being raised in a Christian family, commitment to the study of Christian theology could not come about by a smooth and imperceptible process.

The president - elect spoke by phone with Hunter and other Christian ministers, rejoicing in victory but also grieving the death of his grandmother, who helped raise him, just a few days earlier.

Ibrahim says she was raised Christian by her mother after her Muslim father abandoned them when she was 6 years old.

The belief that Jesus died and was raised by God to new life — the Resurrection — is at the heart of the Christian message.

I've always been a doubt - bedeviled Christian, and whereas when I was younger it was the multiple issues raised by predestination and hell that caused me the most concern, the older I get....

By loving the ordinary people we (the Christians) underline the message of the gospel that God delivered his Son for our sins and raised him from the dead for our justification, which is a message of infinite love.

But the most immediate problem here is that raised by our second objection to Christian's solution: specifying precisely how incompossibles are held together.

Raised by a devout Christian mother and a staunch atheist father, Jan followed in his father's footsteps, and spent his entire life looking down on organized religion.

His way of proclaiming the «given» gospel will to a considerable degree be determined by his theological presuppositions, by his way of approaching the needs that are felt in our time, and by his understanding of the questions which are raised today and must be faced by Christian thinkers.

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).

I do not practice any religion at all and it took years for me to heal from being raised by Fundamentalist Christians.

Once Christians began to reflect on the original proclamation that God raised Jesus and that he was seen alive by many witnesses, they would naturally picture the event of his raising in terms of an empty grave.

Such an interpretation, too, would seem inconsistent both with those narratives which speak of a material body of flesh and bones being seen by the disciples and also with the insistence of later Christian preaching (e.g. in Luke's speeches in Acts) that the flesh of Jesus was raised without having seen corruption (in fulfillment of Psalm 16:10).

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.

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.

Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN), a UK - based charity established by Iraqi Christians to raise awareness in Western countries of their plight, launched the Doura crisis appeal in 2007.

I'm 55 and was raised a Christian by a family who as far as I can tell believes in the kind of Christianity that our President believes in.

By calling ourselves open, we mean that we are Christians who open ourselves to the questions raised by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, including (but not limited toBy calling ourselves open, we mean that we are Christians who open ourselves to the questions raised by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, including (but not limited toby the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, including (but not limited to):

This expectation, and the language / imagery used to convey it, was used by the early Jewish Christians to express their experience that Jesus had been raised from death by God.

Bill, please present evidence that children raised by Bible believing Christians are less «scientific» than other children?

Many Christians believed that since Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, and it is to Him alone that we must swear fealty, then any such oath to a flag, or a human ruler, is idolatry (cf. similar concerns raised by Greg Boyd in The Myth of a Christian Religion).

i was raised «pagan» [in the current specific sense of «religion based upon an older religion that pre-dates Christianity and was replaced by Roman / Christian practices»] i LIKE Christianity.

The language of the Christian community needs to be formed by its Scripture, even as the community ponders issues raised up by a postbiblical world.

Brian McLaren's two most important books — A New Kind of Christian and the recent A Generous Orthodoxy — both open by raising the specter of an evangelical pastor leaving the ministry or the church altogether.

I want to first start by saying that though I was born and raised in America and am a 6th generation American I am not a Christian.

The occasion for a dispute to arise was a superficial one, a matter of whether Jewish and Gentile Christians could eat together without the Jews incurring defilement (Gal.2: 11 - 16), but Paul at once raised the real and profound question whether the Law had not been superseded by the new and universal gospel that men can be saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

If, for reasons such as these, Christians choose to continue to confess their faith in Jesus by affirming that God raised him from the dead, they must be prepared to explain in a clear and convincing way just what they mean by «raising from the dead».

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.