Sentences with phrase «suffering of other christians»

Not exact matches

Christians in other parts of the world have to suffer because of the Christians in the US and Europe.

Some have praised the books for bringing Christian thoughts and theology to a mass - market audience, while others have accused them of revelling in the suffering of people who don't know God.

I think the other issue is that a lot of Christian ministers suffer from mental health problems but feel unable to share those with their congregation or even more privately.»

Regarding the Pain of Others «It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks,» said Jonathan Swift.

Walker, meanwhile, takes me to task for my Christian willingness to «bear the sufferings of other folks,» as Dean Swift put it.

The article concludes: «For those Christians opposed to elective abortion, however, the issue becomes complicated because of the laudatory goals of those trying to help persons suffering from diabetes, Parkinson's, and other diseases.

Consequently, according to Moltmann and others, the only God we can believe in now is a God who suffers, and the ancient Christian doctrines of divine simplicity, immutability, and impassibility must be discarded.

The cruciform participation in the suffering of Christ that Francis sought is now the lot of millions of Christians around the world, who are violently persecuted for no other reason than that they are Christians.

It is apparently not obvious to just any man that he should care for the need of others, but to be Christian is to identify oneself with humanity in its deepest suffering and highest glory.

I believe that Christian thought has suffered immensely from its inability to grasp and articulate the depth of mutual indwelling that Paul, and other biblical writers, experienced and affirmed.

They show that the Old Testament can, and must, be read as a Christian book, prophetic of Jesus; that the paradox that the Messiah should suffer death can be understood in the light of the scriptures; and that the risen Lord's presence, even if it is not recognized at other times, is to be discerned when he encounters his people in the breaking of bread (the Church's Eucharist).

More than the gruesome tales of how they were tortured, it is more horrifying to imagine how mankind could create a burning hell on earth, that was what it must have been for the Christians of Lyons and Vienne; yet these primitive Christians suffered and endured just believing that a man called Jesus gave his life for many others.

Asian and African Christians, on the other hand, are very aware of the suffering and evil that dominates so many lives.

What other Christians do not share is Christian Scientists» conviction that God is absolutely not the author of the conditions of finitude — meaning material existence — which give rise to suffering and disease.

The abuse I've suffered at the hands of church leaders, other Christians, the insane chaos of a church split, being fired from another international ministry for «insubordination», etc., are all not just little episodic blemishes in church life, but revelatory symptoms of deeply serious defects, profound flaws, and continental faults that need immediate and radical treatment.

If mature, wise and widely respected Christians are of the opinion that there is a demonic dimension to the suffering, in the company of at least one other Christian, there can be a time of prayer for the person.

As Christians, we're not meant to dwell in hopelessness, but we're not meant to blind ourselves to the pain and suffering of others either.

Second, Korean Christian faith, unlike the «ghetto faiths» of many other Asians, bears witness to the ways in which Korean Christians, moved by their deep faith in Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah, joined other Koreans to resist historical forces of injustice that were denying Korean people of life, justice and dignity.

Former president Jimmy Carter challenges a gathering of Christian leaders to follow Paul's example — to be drawn to Christ thus drawn closer to one another, to follow Christ, the Prince of peace, and reach to out to the lost and alleviate the suffering of others.

He added: «He himself wanted to introduce the work of the meeting, thanking the participants gathered to pray and reflect together on what to do to meet the dramatic situation of Christians living in the Middle East and other religious and ethnic minorities who are suffering because of the violence raging throughout the region.»

To summarize our lesson for today: Paul reminds us that the vast Christian world needs to rise above divisive controversies and heal our differences; to adhere to the basic and undistorted gospel message («We are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ»); to draw close to Christ and therefore to one another; and to follow our savior Christ, the Prince of Peace, in reaching out to the lost and alleviating the suffering of others.

A positive approach to suffering becomes a reality, an extension of the basic Christian attitude of living with and for Jesus and for other people.

«If Christians engage in inappropriate methods of exercising mission by resorting to deception and coercive means, they betray the gospel and may cause suffering to others,» it states.

In raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violence.

«I'm worried about the advance of that and whether now we're going to see a return back to the heavy persecution that Christians and other minorities suffered previously.

To return to the recent war in Lebanon: once a Muslim appreciates that a Christian partner in dialogue really cares about Muslim civilians who suffered in the attacks on their homes and on the infrastructure of civilian life, that Muslim can also appreciate the Christian's concern about Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets to target Israeli and Palestinian civilians in Haifa and Nazareth and other places in Galilee;

A family of Christian people is sustained by the bonds of affection that transform it into a community of compassion... A family shaped by Christian principles is therefore not only a place of empathy where each one seeks to understand and honor the uniqueness of the other: it is a compassionate community of people who suffer with one another.8

It leads to the alleviation of the sufferings of others, but through the operation of sympathy and compassion, of asceticism and the sense of sin to the increase of suffering among Christians.

Apply the Bible's many passages about the suffering of children to the real - world horrors facing the youth of the Congo, Uganda, Brazil or other countries that before too long will be among the world's largest Christian countries.

Hundreds of Christian leaders signed a letter sent Wednesday to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders voicing support for a bill that would expand rehabilitation programs for prisoners suffering from drug or sexual addiction, grant job training and anger management classes to inmates, and expand risk assessment programs to match prisoners with programs that could help them.

The Corinthian Christians suffered from an early form of Gnosticism where they saw a deep separation between the physical and the spiritual worlds so that what happened in one did not affect the other.

A good Christian will do what he can to alleviate other's suffering, but would never approve of stealing from some to give to others.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

Christians can understand the distinctive religious truth of other religions as rooted in connections with real dimensions of the triune God, I am convinced, for instance, that the Theravadan Buddhist end is, in fact, as that tradition claims, a cessation of suffering.

All Christians know, of course, that it is through God's self - outpouring upon the cross that we are saved, and that we are made able by grace to participate in Christ's suffering; but this should not obscure that other truth revealed at Easter: that the incarnate God enters «this cosmos» not simply to disclose its immanent rationality, but to break the boundaries of fallen nature asunder, and to refashion creation after its ancient beauty» wherein neither sin nor death had any place.

The perception of innocent suffering is the chief factor pushing many Christians to the other side of the theological watershed.

Christians, like many others, suffered severely during the Cultural Revolution, but in recent years there has been quite a rapid growth in numbers of both Catholics and Protestants.

We see it right now in the suffering of Christians and other religious believers in many places around the world.

If, however, neither side accepts instruction and you start to fight with each other — may God prevent it — I hope that neither side will be called Christian... Your declaration that you teach and live according to the Gospel is not true... You want power and wealth so that you will not suffer injustice... The Gospel however... speaks of suffering, injustice, the cross, patience, and contempt for this life and temporal wealth... You are only trying to give your unevangelical and unchristian enterprise an evangelical appearance.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

Baldwin's comparison of the sale of Joseph to other examples of suffering servants (Isaiah 53: 3 - 6; Zechariah 11:12 - 13, 13:7 - 9) echoes some of the typology used in early Christian interpretation and it is good not to overlook this part of the history of exegesis.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

She unflinchingly blasted «the omnipotence of a heavenly being who decrees suffering» 40 as a manifestation of either «Christian masochism» (the calamities we accept as somehow God's will) or «Christian sadism» (the calamities we inflict on others in God's name), or both.41 There is «no way to combine omnipotence with love.»

Several of the artists in The Others have reworked classic Christian depictions of the heroic, holy or suffering body in order to speak about identities and desires that have historically beencondemned or excluded by the Church.