Sentences with phrase «religious doctrine as»

Like Voltaire, who was ready to vouch for the sincerity of his professed belief in God, but who added «as for Monsieur the Son and Madame His Mother, that's a different story,» more and more Americans are giving lip service to belief in God, while adopting the discourse of «spirituality,» and treating conventional religious doctrine as a very different story.

Politician who use religious doctrine as a governing platform should be excluded from office.

MY gauge is a bit more accurate, those who abuse their religious doctrines as an excuse to commit murder and arson do NOT represent the vast majority of those who follow that particular faith.

He also says that, for any knowledge of God beyond «the bare outline of the dimensions of his being,» we must look to empirical science and theology.6 This, says he, is the reason why purely philosophical theology can say nothing about such pivotal religious doctrines as sin, grace, and forgiveness.

Not exact matches

Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

Of course, one may find atheist in large groups, or find banners, t - shirts... As an atheist myself I am overwhelmed by religious doctrine which I prefer to be absent from.

The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

Without the control provided by the doctrine of creation, they devalued human experience, dismissing it as having no positive religious value.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

The first hypothesis will be denied not only by positivists but also by philosophers who take seriously the religious implications of a doctrine of God as infinite, immutable, simple, and necessary.

As we attempted to outline in our last editorial, when we search the pages of human history we do find such a line of spiritual and religious tradition that not only claims the direct authority of the Absolute Transcendent One whose name is «I Am Who I Am», but is also coherently developmental in doctrine and in providence across millennia.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

One of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new possibility in the doctrine of God's being.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

We believe that the trouble is not that religious questions are inescapably involved in obscurity but that adherence to traditional doctrines is regarded as more important than clarity and universal intelligibility.

In this section I merely want to show how there can be change and development in religious doctrines, since I see the issue as being mainly an epistemological one.

But on the other hand if the person hearing the Gospel is religious, hmm then maybe some doctrine is mentioned but the doctrine is to me never associated with a church or denomination, it is the doctrine of Gods Words as it relates to today in say like our dispensation which I never mention that word either.

Because those are just doctrines that are based on the same faith as religious belief.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

Just as important, however, were his appeals to scriptural descriptions of God acting in history, to the Christian doctrine of the imago Dei, and to religious experience, especially the experience of prayer.

Changing political circumstances altered political ideals over the next seventy years, such that pro-Catholic thinkers such as Félicité de Lamennais gradually began to endorse liberalism's doctrine of religious liberty as a way of providing safe harbor for the Church's social influence within a French state that was no longer officially Catholic.

Further, Johnson defines «religious» as «pious; disposed to the duties of religion» and «teaching religion,» with «to teach» taking such definitions as «to instruct; to inform» and «to deliver any doctrine or art, or words to be learned.»

(2) The Nixon - Graham doctrine assumes that a religious change of heart, such as occurs in an individual conversion, would cure men of all sin.

You may disagree with the premises of religion as much as you want, buddy, but the reasoning and conclusion leading to religious doctrine, especially catholic doctrine, are among the best works in logic in the history of mankind, made by men a lot more skilled in it than most who live today, I dare say.

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

«The more religious, on the other hand, may ground their generosity less in emotion, and more in other factors such as doctrine, a communal identity, or reputational concerns.»

Religious leaders must maintain the doctrines of the community, it is suggested, so long as such doctrines do not get in the way of the truth.

But religious people would maintain that the inalienability of fundamental rights depend on the doctrine that they are not gifts of the state or even of the people who constitute the state, but the gift of the Creator as the US Constitution puts it or the Spirit as we would say in India, and that therefore these rights can not be taken away by the state or the people.

Beside I feel that the same descriptions might be required to be asked or be questioned to Muslims of Different Doctrines, Races and Cultures, who might have among them that who are similar to your nations, such as those who are Atheists, Agnostics or even Satanic but there still will be those who are considered as religious believers «Moderate or Extremes»..!

As far as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expressioAs far as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expressioas the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expression.

In a recent sermon at the 75th annual convention of Nation Religious Broadcasters, Warren emphasized the biblical doctrine of the Imago Dei as the basis for universal solidarity.

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

Public education can be religious in this sense without violating religious liberty and without teaching sectarian doctrines as official public dogma.

The Handbook cites a legitimate exercise of religious freedom» a Bolivian Catholic newspaper's criticism of the doctrine and practice of charismatic Protestant churches» as an example of religious intolerance.

The large majority of Christians have been ready to welcome the new knowledge in such things as medical science, agriculture etc., even if they have preferred to retain the orthodox religious doctrines.

He recognized that liberalism, as a set of doctrines of political morality, could not rest upon, or be defended by appeal to, any form of religious or ethical skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism.

Anyway from Wiki A fourth point of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with the Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah and rejecting doctrines such as the Oral Torah and the Resurrection of the Dead.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 7 We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.

CT noted when Bennett was named the religious freedom ambassador (two years late), as well as several cases where Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board denied asylum because applicants demonstrated poor knowledge of Christian doctrine.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...

Doctrine and Covenants 134:9 9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...

His own mental disarray, culminating in the breach of his engagement, illustrates the existential significance of suffering as presupposed by the religious doctrine of redemption.

Ting also develops an intriguing doctrine of the Holy Spirit which sees it as leading faithful Christians to the truth — to all truth, be it religious, scientific, medical, ethical or political.

People are doing this to not stand out, its a way of making one feel imporetant, as with most if not all so called religious leaderrs they know very little or anything at all about the doctrines of the religion their in and this is a Fact.

Because while religious people practiced them and even defended them on religious grounds, religious tenets have not held them as doctrine, with the possible exception of polygamy,