Sentences with phrase «revered as a prophet»

While Muslims believe Jesus was to be revered as a prophet and Apostle of God, they do not believe He was more than this.

Christianity is about 500 years older than Isam, and Judaism is much, much older than Christianity, and yet, with just a little reading one finds that though each religion has its own holy men, many of those who are revered as prophets or knowledgeable men are the same person.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

It may come as a surprise to many Christians that Muslims are generally open to studying the life of Jesus as a model for leadership because they revere him as a prophet.

Not exact matches

Jesus is revered in Islam as a mighty prophet, the last miracle worker, and as the Messiah (savior) to the Jews.

What the young man (he prefers to remain anonymous) found disgusting was the depiction of Islam's revered Prophet Mohammed as a bear mascot in «South Park's» 200th episode.

Muslims revere the Hebrew patriarchs and prophets (much as they revere Jesus as a prophet, just not the final prophet and certainly not the Son of God).

But it's too bad Muslims, who supposedly revere Jesus as a prophet, don't seem to understand that themselves.

The charity in a statement said Muslims would also be hurt by the reference as they regard Jesus Christ as a highly revered Prophet.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

Nevertheless, as long as Mormonism reveres Joseph Smith as a prophet, teaches that Christ failed to establish a Church that would last but Smith did, and supports his extra-biblical scriptures as truth, these teachings are far outside mainstream Christianity.

Prophet Badu Kobi, aside his revered prophetic ministry, is also remembered by many as the pastor who gave out some 110 different cars as gifts to members of his church at Sakumono, a suburb of Accra.

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (Universal, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), adapts the revered book as an animated feature.

Tiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo, revered for his clairvoyance, takes the role of narrator and sits at the center of the configuration, posed gesticulating as though in the midst of a passionate retelling of the tragedy.