Sentences with phrase «taught faith not»

My girls are taught faith not religion and I know I will get flack for this but I think religion was the downfall of faith.

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«My faith teaches,» he said, fighting back tears, «that if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him but rather love him as yourself.»

I was taught as a child to pray to God and nothing / no one else and that I need not be in a Church or any building and that God hears all of our prayers, to have faith in following The Ten Commandments, to incorporate The Golden Rule, to be honest and true to myself and most importantly, to not judge others.

(not that i am specifically against religion either, but some their ideas / teachings based purely on faith are too unquestionable.)

On most if not all of these issues, Dionne stands exactly where Podesta stands — preferring his politics to the contrary teaching of the faith he claims to love and profess.

If your faith is so weak as to not be able to tolerate those with different perspectives, may I suggest that you re-examine what your faith actually teaches about loving others?

It is about time leaders of Faith, speak out and call on their people to follow the teachings of Christ, not just mouth the words, but live them... I know more non Catholics that are thinking of converting than I have heard ever....

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).

The LDS faith does NOT teach or believe what Aiki just said.

Such an affirmation, though it might well elicit and sustain «saving faith» in any individual, might not be adequate for the church's public teaching of «the faith.»

As for the latter, those worried about another Catholic slide into incoherence should have faith in the ecclesial experience of the last three decades, which has taught enduring lessons about how Catholicism can not merely survive, but flourish, amidst the cultural acids of post-modernity — if it holds fast to a dynamic orthodoxy lived with compassion and solidarity.

And please, little girl, do not call yourself a Catholic if you are blantantly, openly, and proudly disobeying one of the CORE teachings of our Faith.

Not about the integrity of any individual's faith in God, but about the integrity of the church's public teaching.

I'm not an atheist, I was raised Catholic and believe in my religion but any Christian who openly professes their faith while condemning others who are of a different faith or of no faith at all, are blaspheming the true teachings of Christ.

Christian faith teaches that such a call will not summon us to some vague eternity.

May He also have Mercy on our clergy that does not teach according to our Catholic Faith!

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

What really makes my head hurt trying to understand is when people claim to be of a faith or to be a Christian and have absolutely no clue as to the idea that they're supposed to actually believe and uphold the teachings of CHRIST and not their own religion ideas and call it «close enough».

Many Christians have faith in Jesus, not faith with Jesus and I've always thought the point of Jesus and his ministry and teaching was pointing to a God that could never quite be pinned downed (hence the parables and analogies and such).

Those who willfully remain ignorant of the Church's teachings on faith and morals will not be excused simply because of their baptism.

I wouldn't want my children being taught their faith by someone who likely doesn't believe / understand it themself.

But then, of course, the seminary's opponents would use similar reasoning to suggest that the church's public teaching must regard the Jonah story as a straightforward historical account, and soon no distinction at all would be possible between what the Bible records and what it teaches, what is central to the faith and what is not.

«A church that puts its faith into action focuses not on themselves but on Christ's teaching and his divine example of compassion,» says Zondervan's director of church engagement.

Many religious people I have talked to don't even know much about their faith, only what they are taught by rote.

Now as a Christian I follow the new testament, and so striving to be Christ like as a Christian I accept everyone for who they are, I love them and do not presume to know the right way for them to live their life, instead I simply open my arms to others and know that all people of all faiths are just fine it doesn't matter to me what you do with your life all that matters is the way that you do it... that was my understanding of christs teachings anyways

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

Why don't you try teaching your kids to come to an honest faith in Christ first, and leave the rest of the world the f vck alone!!

People who live by faith and personlaly accept that teachings of God and Jesus are a metaphor of the verb and not noun, these people are the happiest I have known through life.

But the Catholic faith teaches that God gives actual grace, not sanctifying grace, to those in mortal sin.

But my LDS faith teaches me to regard all people as children of God, equally beloved of God, with race not being an issue at all.

But no matter how you cut it, such teachings are adding faith to works, and Paul clearly says that salvation is not of works in any way, shape or form.

These three clearly taught that «saving faith» is not achieved by trying to believe or even choosing to believe, but it is a gift of God.

We clearly teach that it does not matter what path we have followed to faith, or precisely when we came to faith, but it is crucial that we do now stand in faith before God.

«Faith» is evidence; «truth» is what the Bible teaches; do this enough and it doesn't take long before they're living in a world that has little connection to reality.

Although I hope not your position, the dialogue you use is similar to the one found in counter-culture argumentation, to develop and build anti-Christian positions and attacks against fundamental belief and faith central to real Christian teachings.

Moreover, in keeping with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.

Sometimes the wound is apparently random and meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of God, which is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.

It was the faith of our founding fathers, not the political, creep shows that would embarass Jesus and those who value his teachings.

I had been born in the faith, raised in the faith and taught to not even look at other faiths for they were all machinations of the devil.

I think religion promotes this behavior by teaching people that somehow it is better to maintain your faith in something at all costs than admit you're wrong when the evidence doesn't support your view.

The majority of christians have no idea about their faith or what it is to be christian, you see them spout nonsense from a bible they have never read and judge or even hate others who do not believe their beliefs, all the while not knowing they are going against its teachings.

I don't consider non-Calvinists heretics, but brothers and sisters in Christ if they teach salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ.

I didn't say people's faith should be based on this, but since you brought it up, if a religion teaches it's followers God answers prayer and someone never has a prayer answered any rational person would question why his religion is teaching him something that doesn't seem to be true.

It's not what Jesus taught but who Jesus is that lies at the heart of the Christian faith.

Having faith of not should in no way effects ones ability to teach a history class.

In Ephesians 2, then, Paul is not teaching total depravity, total inability, that regeneration precedes faith, that faith is a work, or that faith is a gift.

They teach that while we are initially saved by faith alone, we are not really justified until we die, and only if you have lived a good life up to that time.

'' I have no idea what Bell is trying to prove; but the lost of income» — it doesn't make a lot of sense for a man of no faith to teach at; Christian schools... «his wife» — not related, read the story... «and potentially his home» - once again, related to his jobs at Christian schools.

All those claiming the schools and the church was wrong, listen he taught theological courses at a theological school, which by definition means that you have to be a person of faith (not to mention that these are not theological schools at state or public universities but denominational theological schools) and to pastor or counsel a church you again by definition have to be a person of faith.

It is not acceptable to take an approach to the teaching of the faith that reduces it solely to the simplest, easily assimilated concepts».