Sentences with phrase «seems heretical»

It seems heretical even to suggest it, but it may be time to return to the earlier, essentially free - market model of mission support — encouraging individuals and churches to support the specific mission efforts they choose.

Our god has for so long been economic growth that such a proposal may seem heretical and unrealistic.

The idea of Stan Brakhage's films being transferred to DVD once seemed heretical.

Not exact matches

Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.

The battle of Pius X was, instead, turned inward to the Church itself; as a result, the Vatican came to seem a constant bully, obsessed with tracking down heretical or confused professors in the seminaries.

One must grasp, for instance, the particular philosophical problem that John Locke faced, namely, how not to seem like a heretic while actually proposing a heretical solution to the «theological - political problem.»

Again, the meaning of 1 Timothy2: 8 - 15, which places various restrictions on women's dress and speech, depends not on our context, but on the double background of Paul's Judaism (where women were exempted from learning) and the situation at Ephesus (where untrained women who had submitted to heretical teachers seem to have been seeking to spread their beliefs, perhaps like the hierodules in the service of the temple of Diana, cf. 2 Tim.

As a millennial Christian living in the United States, it seems almost heretical not to embrace the call to change the world.

it seems like its u who belong to heretical sect of Christianity since ur not following the true bible.

(Even though the latter statement pleases me, as an old infantryman, both statements seem to me to border on the heretical.)

In many ways, replacing the district system seems inconceivable, almost heretical.

As Joe will note in his article, I'm an advocate of much more caution about stock investing than seems to prevail today (thanks, in my opinion, to Wall Street marketing), and I hold what many would consider heretical views on equity investing.

Seen from the other side of the culture wars, his work, which had been neglected for many years, no longer seems out of step or heretical.

Heretical or not, it seems to be working.