Sentences with phrase «still teach faith»

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They can «study» their religion, but it still comes down to faith in the teachings, and personal experience, neither of which can ever be meaningfully tested true or false in any kind of objective way.

Still others stray from the faith (1 Tim 1:5 - 6), shipwreck their faith (1 Tim 1:18 - 20), fall away from the faith (1 Tim 4:1 - 3), deny the faith (1 Tim 5:8), cast off initial faith to follow Satan (1 Tim 5:12 - 15), stray from the faith by loving money (1 Tim 6:9 - 10), teach false doctrine (1 Tim 6:20 - 21), and deny Christ and live faithless lives (2 Tim 2:11 - 13).

If it is hard to live according to the teachings of the Church in our society, it is harder still to raise children to have the confidence to live their faith in the future.

And I can't tell you the grief I carry still over the people that were caught in the crossfire consequences of that teaching, believing that their darkness or grief or sadness or despair or sickness was their own fault because they simply lacked faith.

Nevertheless, it is vital to accept the challenge of teaching the controversial aspects of the Catholic faith, while it is still legal to do so.

There exists, therefore, and must exist, a teaching of the Church which possesses an importance and binding force for the faith and moral conscience of the individual Catholic, although in what it directly states it can not and does not intend to make any claim to the absolute assent of faith, and although it is not irreformable but is still involved in the elucidatory development of the Church's consciousness of its belief.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

But parents brought up in the lost age of faith still felt it right that their children should be taught beliefs they themselves had lost, but be taught them by someone else.

As a result of this strategy some students switched from one version of Protestantism to another; other students left Protestantism entirely and became Orthodox or embraced certain features of Catholic teaching such as no longer practicing artificial contraception; others returned to their own branch with a greater sense of where its strengths and weaknesses resided; and still others discovered that their journey away from the Christian faith was not as simple as they had once conceived.

How many different religious faiths can this country support and still have enough days left to actually teach?

[3] Whilst we sincerely thank God for bringing back the full Catholic faith in teaching in spite of ahostile establishment of theologians there is still no synthesising principle around which to focus such a neo-orthodoxy.

I have gone to church for decades and taught Sunday School and other classes for decades, and I have never heard any fire and brimstone, except from the Athanasian creed saying: this is the faith, people, take it or leave it, but if you leave it you are still in your sins, and that is not how you get right with God.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.

The Encyclical Ut unum sint lists among the five still controversial areas: «I) the relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matter of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God,» and «4) the Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and the Bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith.»

When teaching and ruling elders come together in councils they do not leave behind their essential calling; they are still ordered ministers with responsibility for teaching the faith and for discerning faithfulness.

This is the first article of faith that I learned in Sunday School class in the 1950s, and the one that is still taught today.

As passionately as I believe in social justice and nonviolence, I must still insist vigorously that we have everything confused if we suppose that the ethical teaching of Jesus is the essence of Christian faith.

The author hears in current serious fiction a whisper of that still, small voice for which our faith has taught us to listen.

Yet despite the cutesy guardian angels and New Age metaphysics that seem to dominate popular culture, I do hear in current serious fiction a whisper of that still, small voice for which our faith has taught us to listen.

He used to preach a lot on children coming to faith in Christ, and he would say, «Before a child reaches 7, teach them all there is of heaven, and better still, the work will fly, if he learns before he's five.»

This opinion is not compatible with the Pope's teaching, especially in view of his citation from the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Donum Vitae (1974), but there may still be some room for further discussion on technical issues of this type.

Contrary to what you may think, or have been taught, God is still the One who creates faith in those whim He chooses to do so.

The contemporary German theologian Gerhard Ebeling has taught us to think of faith in still another way, which is the sixth and last we will consider in this chapter.