Sentences with phrase «references to the church of»

The word «poor» occurs only four times in his epistles, in references to the church of Jerusalem (Gal.

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For example, the China Christian Council, successor to the official Three - Self Movement, was welcomed as a member of the WCC without any reference to continued restrictions on Chinese Catholics and other non-recognized churches.

It was asked in reference to the anticipated Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church planned for Pentecost 2016.

This passage, which is about proper attitude and decorum in church, though it may have a vague implicit reference to the sensual kind of modesty, is actually very explicitly referring to a materialistic kind of modesty.

I will say, though, that no «fundamentalist» Mormon would sanction the marriages you're referencing, which stand in direct opposition to the principles of their Church, which absolutely insists upon upholding the law of the land.

For example, MNAY Gospels were suppressed, including some with references to Christ being Gay and similar radical concepts that would cause todays Church to throw a Pogrom on anyone even SUGGESTING he was anything other than the blue eyed Puritanical Caucasian they are so fond of promoting.

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

Therefore, even if one has not (yet) been excommunicated, one can not both be at variance with the law of the land and, in good conscience, claim to be a Latter - day Saint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer»).

As to whether the television guide is a good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no other reference to religion other than a business story about selling palms to churches and an article in the Sunday magazine about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.

For the age of the church, there is zero reference to an ordained military cause or reason.

Officially, the Catholic Church instructs, «The existence of the State of Israel and its political options should be envisaged not in a perspective which is in itself religious, but in their reference to the common principles of international law,» in the formula given in «Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church» (1985).

26, page 635... Now, in all fairness, their has been a Public Relations campaign recently to remove the «cursed» references to Blacks in the ever changing Book of Mormon / and Covenants and Doctrines — «specially since they have a chance to rule the world through Mitt Romney (gggrandson of one of the LDS church founders, Parley Pratt arrested for murder and treason for attacking and killing members of an army battalion)... Don't look in up in Wikipedia — the Mormons have deleted that part of Pratt's history.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

Your reference to gay people and women who have had an abortion kind of makes it sound like you are one of the «Christian» masses that blindly follow your «Church».

In some ways, Flanders is the embodiment of evangelical cultural stereotypes: He's extremely morally conservative, constantly references his faith, has a seemingly perfect family, is prone to cringe - inducing clichéd sayings and is a fixture at the local church.

The first line is a reference to the church's practice of denying lay priesthood to black male members until 1978.

the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question of God's activity in the other sects and traditions and in the wisdom of humankind.

The chapter - headings, following a long tradition, interpret them with reference to the mystical loves of Christ and the Church.

As this is a transcript of a speech he makes at churches it does not contain the references you would expect a scholar to make in a theological position pieces.

Then, in a detailed analysis of a paragraph at the end of the letter to the Romans, he demolishes any hope given to the cause of women's ordination by the brief reference to Junias (or Junia), clearly showing we can not know with any certainty the sex of this member of the early church, nor his or her place in relation to the apostles.

And it is quite striking just how regularly Kristol's writings reference Christianity, often tracing contemporary economic and social phenomena back to ideas buried deep within Christian thought and the history of the Church.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)

Nevertheless, as I speak of the contemporary situation and its need of Wesley, my reference is chiefly to the United Methodist Church.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Also none of His references to the Judgement Day were religious as in go to this Church or follow that religion but rather feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit pr.isoners and the like.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church itself includes precisely this quotation (CCC 1015) giving explicit reference to Tertullian's De Ressurectione Mortuorum as witness to the Church's optimism about the goodness of body.

Since none of the New Testament was written while Jesus was allegedly alive, who's to say that Saul (and later the Council of Nicaea) simply just didn't remove all reference to Jesus» wife, because it conflicted with how they wanted their church to be run?

Furthermore, it is impossible to understand the Church's teaching about the sacramentality of marriage without some reference to the modern papal Magisterium that begins with Leo XIII and continues under John Paul II, whose instruction on marriage and family remains one of the outstanding features of his pontificate.

«Marxism and Christianity in India», in The Encounter of Church with Movement of Social Change in various cultural contexts with special reference to Marxism, LWF, Geneva, 1977.

Explaining the delay in revealing the vote, Rev Hanna made reference to the Scottish Episcopal Church voting in favour of allowing same - sex couples to be allowed to marry in cChurch voting in favour of allowing same - sex couples to be allowed to marry in churchchurch.

Francis said the Catholic Church knew well the «grave error» of trying to conceal the problem of sexual abuse, a reference to the church's long history of having priests who rape and molest children and bishops who cover up forChurch knew well the «grave error» of trying to conceal the problem of sexual abuse, a reference to the church's long history of having priests who rape and molest children and bishops who cover up forchurch's long history of having priests who rape and molest children and bishops who cover up for them.

Last Friday, Father Richard John Neuhaus, in a piece about the possibilities of reconverting the nation of England to the ancient faith, made a passing reference to Cardinal Newman's diffidence about actively seeking Anglican converts to the Catholic Church and specifically cited....

and it has two of the hallmarks of the differences between the synoptic tradition and Judaism and the early Church respectively, which we have argued are derived from the teaching of Jesus: a use of Kingdom of God in reference to the eschatological activity of God (S. Aalen, ««Reign» and «House»...», NTS 8, 229ff.

There are several references in scripture to the bride of Christ being the church.

Last Friday, Father Richard John Neuhaus, in a piece about the possibilities of reconverting the nation of England to the ancient faith, made a passing reference to Cardinal Newman's diffidence about actively seeking Anglican converts to the Catholic Church and specifically cited Newman's principle: «I am afraid to make hasty converts of educated men lest they should not have counted the cost & should have difficulties after they have entered the Church....

The link between western Christianity and the gospel was broken when the churches formed the doctrines of the divine investiture of kings and apostolic succession without reference to the rights of those who were not kings or apostles.

I believe this is a clear reference to the rapture of the church (cf. notes from the NET Bible).

Throughout the essays are scattered references to everything from ozone depletion to recycling strategies to the effects of American pet shops on the population of parrots in New Guinea — and recommendations of particular courses of action: Aeschliman's commendation of conservancy strategies, for instance, through which churches purchase endangered land to ensure preservation.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

As late as the 1970s, Italian immigrant communities of Pentecostals were still saying to their American counterparts «you do not know the Catholic Church» in reference to their experiences in Italy.

After a sketch of the standoff between views of theology as something «objective» and views of it as something «subjective,» Wood concurs with Farley's reasons for rejecting the picture of theology as universally valid «objective» truths and factual knowledge.2 He also rejects another type of «objective» view of theology, represented by Hough and Cobb, which defines theology by reference to the purposes of professional church leadership (93).

In your apostolic reference, perhaps you are thinking of Timothy 9 - 15 where Paul is making assertions about how he thinks women ought to have limited participation in the church because Eve is the one who fell to temptation in Eden.

Well I'm sure the various monks and theologians of the Catholic Church have managed to write 25K «writings» that reference their god and / or the bible in the last 2000 years or so.

The meeting, along with the multiple public references to the scandal, may have marked the end of a sordid chapter in the Church's life, although the victim organizations and their lawyers continue the long march through the courts and chanceries in search of payouts that now exceed more than $ 2 billion.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

In 1975 when the Vatican issued its «Guidelines and Suggestions» for contacts between the church and the Jewish people, the document was greeted by Jewish leaders with a mixture of delight and distress: delight at the change of outlook it reflected, and distress that it still contained references to the church's «divine mission» and «witness.»

Since the beginning of the Church, when Christians have prayed the psalms, they have interpreted references to Israel and Jerusalem as applying to the Church.

Authority, in all the churches, must give such an account of itself by reference to those sources that enshrine the heritage of the community and, in like manner, those under authority are required by the inner logic of the common tradition to examine the functioning of the authority and challenge it if, in its use of power, it steps outside the aforementioned «circle of permissibility.»