Sentences with phrase «regarded as heretics»

On the other hand there seem to have been Christians at this period, nicknamed «Alogi» (= anti-» Word» men, also — anti-Reason men) by their opponents, who rejected the Johannine authorship of the gospel and the Apocalypse, but were not generally regarded as heretics.

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

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We shall see how important the creeds and other summaries of belief have been to many Christians, who have unchurched those with whom they disagreed and at times persecuted people whose opinions were regarded as unorthodox, whom they called heretics.

In reply, Jesus told the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30 - 37), where the neighbor who must be loved is clearly one whom strict Jews would regard as a half - breed and a heretic.

If your theology regards Catholic Christianity as the Whore of Babalon, and considers both Luther and Calvin to be heretics, you'll have a lot more difficulty finding resources, than if you consider Andrew Murray to be the world's best missionary, and Moffat's translation to be the ultimate English translation of the Bible.

Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?