Sentences with phrase «teach the truth in»

Some Evangelicals see the communal office of discerning and teaching the truth in the covenanted congregation of baptized believers, while others see it in a wider synodical or episcopal connection.

I'm passionate about the topic, personally, of course, but in all of the conversations I've had since Jesus Feminist came out, I've come to realise that it's even more important than I could have dreamed to speak the truth here and teach the truth in our communities.

But there comes a point where we have to teach the Truth in love.

Not exact matches

The truth is, there is little taught in school that today can't be handled with a quick Google search and an Excel spreadsheet.

Now people have fought wars in the name of Christianity (the Crusades), but they did not have the truth, they were fighting under a highly distorted view of Christianity that also allowed torture for heresy and taught that works will get you into heaven.

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

@ Freethinker Seeking Reason, If you really want to be a «free thinker» take the advice of the Son of God — Jesus Christ - who said, «If you continue in my teaching you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.»

Psalm 51:6 reads, «Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.»

Study the Mormon faith, study Orthodox and Catholic teachings, look for the root the Abrahmic faiths in the Torah, and you will learn how differing beliefs systems yet share a universal, central truth - the knowledge of a benevolent and loving God.

Teaching Creationism as an alternative to science damages science, damages trust in science and in truth.

In truth, we are not a Christian nation and this country was not founded on Christian teachings since «Christian teachings» are just recycled fairytales older than Christ himself.

It is one thing to offend by speaking truth, that'll happen, but any other type of offence is unnecessary and against the teachings (which show God's heart on the matter) in scripture for those who claim to «know Him».

Bishop Vigneron reminds Catholics of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council that it is a primary responsibility of laypeople to bear witness to the truth in the secular realm.

In a similar fashion we are taught to treat the bible as the ultimate source of truth and not rely on our insights or understanding.

Susan, get a clue, girl, Jesus taught us to be kind and the truth is «in the end only kindness matters»!

Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the Church to explicate the truth of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.

All the others nations in the world must be taught the truth and humble themselves (Genesis 27:29 - 30) * Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of host:

More so for the ones who sit in a pew each week seeking Gods true face and never finding it because no one will teach the truth anymore...

We shouldn't fall trap or victim of logic interpretation of defintion of bible teaching and what the truth in it really intended to convey to people like you and me!

Christianity is «intolerant» in the sense that (like its monotheistic relatives, Judaism and Islam) it claims to possess a universal truth superior to the teachings of other religions; and it has spread this doctrine with a missionary zeal perhaps exceeding even Islam's.

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

Until religion teaches and preaches the Truth, I will refrain from perticipating in any religious affairs that fall short of the Word in Truth!

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

Religious folk often act as if the world would be filled with depravity if religion didn't exist, but the most important moral truths are universal — that's why they are found in the teachings of classical antiquity, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc..

We have been promised that if we worship God daily in the midst of his people, and if our worship remains faithful to the teaching of the Apostles, God will be made known to us in both Spirit and Truth.

But what I've always wondered is, if there is an ultimate truth, why doesn't God stick it smack in our faces, so we can't make these mistakes of whether women can preach and teach men, whether blacks can marry whites, whether slavery is OK, and whether we can worship with instruments or not?

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

This is due to the mere fact, that if Roman Catholics were to start reading the bible themselves, they would see that the man made teachings within the Vatican through the catholic priests are mostly just man made religious laws, If catholics read the bible, they would see the truth in the teachings of GOD and His Son Jesus Christ.

«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.

This is another example where the Spirit of God moves in the hearts and minds of people all around the world to see similar truths at similar times so that we all work together to teach and learn what the Spirit is saying to the church.

But genuine Christianity is called «The Way» in the Bible (Acts 9:2; 19:9), establishing that there is only religion that teaches «the truth» of the Bible, not some 41,000.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

I was taught to always seek the truth, therefore I can not believe in something like a god.

Some hold that numerous bishops have failed because of their complicity in corrupt ecclesial structures, while others believe that these leaders lacked the courage to teach unpopular truths and to govern their own dioceses.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

The council also led to a renewal of the liturgy, an affirmation of religious freedom and the primacy of conscience, a rejection of church - state unions, an openness to the truth of other religions (especially Judaism) and a renewed sense that the church's teaching authority resides in all of the faithful, not exclusively in the hierarchy.

If, as a progressive Protestant, I am fully committed to the truth, whether or not it is supportive of my Christian biases, should I in fact continue to follow a Jewish teacher of the early part of the first century whose teaching obviously reflected a very different socio - cultural situation than mine?

I would agree with Hope Griffin, that not all of what you wrote I agree, but, again, the holy spirit in us will teach us how to discern between wrong teaching and a good one, the lie and the truth....

We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.

Observer — I am neither those... However I am a hypocrite who knows the truth and teaches the truth yet does not in my everyday life am consistent with my behaviors.

Jesus is the Wisdom of God in Person who became man to teach us the full truth and show us the only way to be fully alive with God for ever.

Teach them the beautiful truth of Romans 8:1: «Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.»

Indeed many of the challenges facing the family in the modern world are probably symptoms of the mostly uninformed rejection of this beautiful teaching, held as truth by the entire Christian community until the 1930s.

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

On the other hand, it gave a basic signpost on the way: the great truths taught in scripture are indeed the way of salvation, and those entrusted with the teaching office in the church have no right to use that office to teach anything else.»

The document also insists, however, «that God has been present in their seeking and finding, that where there is truth and wisdom in their teachings, and love and holiness in their living, this, like any wisdom, insight, knowledge, understanding, love and holiness that is found among us, is the gift of the Holy Spirit.»

But because this truth is beyond or beneath the level at which science and morality operate, and because in its nature it liberates from bondage to any particular formulations, we are quite free to be open to what others have to teach us at these secondary levels.

But the concept of the personal and personal values can be taught only where they can also be caught in community life where one can «speak the truth in love» and learn and assimilate it in that process.

When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».