Sentences with phrase «taught about christianity»

There is a lot more we could do for the poor and everything I have ever been taught about Christianity leads me to believe that is true.

In the second segment, the protagonist, Charles Ryder, muses on what he had once been taught about Christianity in terms that took me back to that joke, and to Rowan Williams «sitting and breathing in the presence of the question mark» while «waiting on the truth:»

When a person becomes a Christian at an Evangelistic Crusade, what is the first thing we teach them about Christianity and following Jesus?

Paedophile who was snared by vigilantes as he tried to meet a «12 - year - old girl» for sex after asking to see her naked is jailed for more than three years Resources for teaching about Christianity in Religious Education, suitable for Key Stages 1 to 4.

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To all about the supremacy of religion: The mission statement of Christianity is to spread the lessons of peace and love taught by Christ to the world.

Real christianity is about following and emulating the teachings of Jesus... that's all.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

Christianity's doctrine about «the law» teaches that G - d is like Pharoh, demanding more than we can deliver.

Mark — it seems to me that MOST Christians don't have it correct about Christianity and what Jesus really meant in his teachings.

The subject is not theological dialogue about how or whether Christianity and Islam teach the love of God and neighbor.

Author and pastor Brian McLaren, has called you, «One of the most courageous pastors in the US» and Christianity magazine editor John Buckeridge has raved about your teaching style.

Skytag: «If what Christianity teaches about God is true, why is it that only religions that share their roots with Christianity (such as Judaism) have anything significant in common with it?

Someone who has made a study of religion and teaches them may know far more than you do about Christianity.

Indeed, given what Christianity teaches about charity, human sinfulness, and God's grace, being a Christian may make Benedict or any other Christian far less likely to be fanatical than the atheist.

No one teaches a course on comparative religions in our country who «knows nothing about Christianity».

Heresy and Doctrine in the Early Church In the first few centuries of Christianity, teachers taught wildly different ideas about who Jesus was.

Yes, I was one of the freaks of Christianity who got his kicks studying, debating, and teaching the finer points of theology that few people even knew existed, and fewer cared about.

If, as some persons maintain, Christianity was a total transformation of the message of Jesus — a doctrine about Jesus rather than Jesus» own teaching — then it is of paramount importance to see how and why this transformation took place, or rather, first of all, whether the theory of transformation is true.

Yet such as it is — and the more certainly so, the more clearly we recognize just what the book is — it remains an extremely valuable document of primitive Western Christianity; though it by no means provides us with all we wish to know about the life and teaching of our Lord, or the life and teaching, activities, and beliefs, of the early church.

She holds a PhD in physiology and is a respected scholar who has been writing and teaching about the Jewish background of Christianity for the past fifteen years.

(A: people who don't know about Christianity and are looking for an attempted «gotcha» or those who didn't pay attention in Church, or had pretty horrible teaching)

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

• Fact # 9: I taught at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary early this year and spent some time with the President, Byron Klaus — who is a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate and keeps up with (and says good things about) his friend Paige Patterson, whose seminary has taken a position against some practices associated with Pentecostal Christianity.

@Simran - I never said anything about Christianity or teaching Christianity or any other religion in school.

/ / I never said anything about Christianity or teaching Christianity or any other religion in school.

Christianity is all about spritual mind of Jews teaching while Islam is about wordly mind of Jews teaching.

No, what American Catholics are happy about, or should be, is that the pope is bringing Christianity into the dialogue with secularism in a way that doesn't alienate the people he would like to introduce to Christ via grace and mercy AND that he is doing so while maintaining the firm teachings the Church holds on moral matters.

Martin Luther presented the theology of Sola scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teaching.

The raw emotion, and even whispers of torture, in his voice can teach American Christianity much about the nature of sin and the longing for repentance.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

We would have far less wars, and people would actually care about each other rather than thinking only about themselves, as christianity teaches.

In sum, the Court has fashioned, in Romer v. Evans, a powerful new instrument for blocking from the academy and the professions people who are «overly serious» about their religion» which is to say, people who take seriously the traditional moral teachings of Christianity and Judaism.

Harnack reduced what he called «the essence of Christianity» to something very simple: the love of God, the love of one's neighbour, and incorporating into human society whatever Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God.

We're talking about Christianity and what the Bible teaches, so I'm just asking you questions (or trying to) to see if based on those things you would qualify for Heaven.

Not because I don't think Christianity is true and the kids, like all sinners, need to know the truth, but because teachers who don't know all the basics about the Bible would mess it up or if they were an atheist being forced to teach it would probably spread their bias and teach things wrongly on purpose.

Schools and formal instruction seem effective for teaching persons about Christianity, but not for enabling growth in faith.

I have recently been at a seminar by Frank Viola — he taught us about the Organic Church, and although his books «Pagan Christianity», «Reimagining Church» and others, really stirred the idea of the «Emerging Church» OUTSIDE the institutional church, in my life, I realized we are going to miss it again.

It would be a bit like a Muslim teaching a room full of other Muslims about Christianity and using Westboro Baptist Church as the only example.

Ever since the Black Plague swept through Europe, Western Christianity has had an unhealthy preoccupation with what happens to people after they die, and as a result, has often read the Bible through life - after - death colored glasses so that everything seems to be teaching about what happens to people after they die.

Parents were also expected to teach their children about the Bible and Christianity.

From 1870, the state has taken increasing control, although the Church of England and Roman Catholic churches still have a significant role, and religious education, which now includes teaching about the other major world religions as well as Christianity, is still required, as well as a daily act of collective worship.

Christianity should focus on the Gospel's core message, which is to teach about salvation and immortality.

Further, people with such different attitudes as those I have mentioned are united in a common inability to listen with complete objectivity to what the texts teach us about the faith and hope of primitive Christianity, without mixing their own opinions and the views that are so dear to them with their interpretation of the texts.

At the root of the disagreement about perfection, I think, is the fact that we sometimes forget that according to Christianity the purpose of moral imperatives is not to make people righteous, but to show them their sin (as Paul taught in Galatians).

Christianity is about following the teachings of Jesus.

If that has been your experience, I'm sorry, and suggest you find a bit more mainstream venue to learn about what Christianity really teaches.

Under such circumstances the life and teachings of Jesus could have been only a minor factor in the adoption of Christianity, for the multitude could have known little about them.

It often seems like Christianity is more about teaching, preaching, speaking, writing, printing, and publishing than it is about actually doing the things we teach and write about.

It later explained, «While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God's revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation, and the life of prayer.»

I am Christian and I believe that we have to teach radicals persons what Christianity is about.