Sentences with phrase «saying about your church history»

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To say the church is non-transitory shows that you know very little about the history of your own religion.

And frankly, given the Catholic church's history I'd say their credibility is about as low as it gets in the realm of Christianity.

Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.

Even if what has been said is found acceptable, differences of opinion may persist about various particular questions of history and the day to day life of the Church, and in fact remain insoluble, and therefore have to be borne in patience.

Nygren gives an important suggestion about the history of doctrine when he says that the Church Fathers were saved from falling completely into a Greek pattern of thought by the three biblical assertions of Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection.32 But rather than conclude, as Nygren does, that these themes require us to reject all metaphysics, why not say that they require us to reconsider our metaphysics?

So it seems all the more difficult to accept the Bible as authoritative just because somebody — tradition or the early Church — says so, when in fact these somebodies did not know as much about the Bible's history and background and diverse elements as we do today.

I have come to my beliefs in what the bible is saying though many years of reading the bible, reading about the history of the church and how it has read the bible, studying the original languages, and above all praying that the Spirit guides me in all I do.

People who say religious dialog is more vitriolic than ever know nothing about church history.

Just think about the implication through church history of what you are suggesting (not saying bad about another person....).

Can we say «history aided, prompted, or forced the Church to recognize what exactly constitutes the truth of a doctrine,» and what about the prompting and directing role of the Holy Spirit?

«So as much as people talk about my history with the African - American church and such, I would say that there were all these other things that were formulative in helping me understand the complexity of the life of a thing,» Gates said.