Sentences with phrase «teach you the truth rather»

Let God through His word and by His Holy Spirit teach you the truth rather than believe the deceptive philosophies of man.

Not exact matches

Maybe they taught the different viewpoints and discussed the differences rather than generating interpretations to square dogmatic Truth.

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».

But rather than lengthen this already too - long sermon, I hope your interest has been piqued sufficiently to discover for yourself the wonderful truth the Scriptures teach us about glorification.

If a pastor does not faithfully and systematically teach Scripture to Christians, they will always be bottle - fed Christians who want only milk rather than meat, and who base their decisions on feelings and emotions rather than on the truth of the Word of God.

To the fundamentalist Christians, I say that the Bible is not a science textbook; its purpose has never been to teach scientific truths, but rather, spiritual ones.

It means, rather, that in the economy of divine revelation, more theological weight, as it were, is given to those teachings that relate directly to the foundational truths of the Christian faith.

Thus the gospel was concentrated in the person of Jesus; the hope of the Kingdom receded and became eventually only another name for «heaven,» the other world, the state of bliss beyond death, or, as in Thomas Aquinas, a term for the divine theodicy in general — though in truth this interpretation really emphasized a fundamental element in the whole biblical conception, in Jesus» teaching as elsewhere — and thus an intellectual concept of the person of Jesus tended to become central for Christian doctrine, theology, and devotion, rather than the person of God, his sovereignty and his redemptive will, his wisdom and his love.

Keep believing in the man - made lies of the talmud rather than the Truth Jesus taught us in his letter to us, the Bible.

To make a deal with the SSPX and the Lefebvrist movement on Archbishop Pozzo's premise — that this new personal prelature would be conceded a right to reject certain teachings of the Second Vatican Council — would be to make the symphony of Catholic truth discordant rather than melodic.

So no one can help anyone unless an individual wants to be helped... and unfortunately we human like to say that my teaching is better than other rather trying to find the Truth...

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

His language on this echoes that of the most famous of his recent predecessors, Joseph Ratzinger, in its emphasis on the importance of truth and of teaching it, rather than of seeing the Church as essentially resting on rules.

But if we are true to these rituals we will know that they do not teach us to rule others as others might rule us, but rather to witness to the truth even as we know it will be rejected, by thought police and many others, of any generation.

As with sacred Scripture, so with the exercise of the Petrine ministry: the truth or otherwise of a teaching is based on the authority invested in it — in both cases, by God himself, guaranteed by his Holy Spirit — rather than on the identity, oftentimes unknown, of this or that composer (or composers) of a particular text.

Well, GES advocates have been much satisfied with their claim that Romans 1:16 does not refer to the message preached to the lost but rather refers to general truth preached to believers for salvation from God's wrath (even though the Bible teaches believers are NOT subject to God's wrath).

The truth is that serious attempts to teach teachers, to engage them in educative practice and inquiry rather than provide them with a set of bureaucratically endorsed recipes, is a relatively new phenomenon.

Our values as expressed through Christian counseling for Wheaton, Aurora and Naperville include providing services according to Biblical truths and ethics; utilizing our God - given gifts of love, understanding, teaching, healing, knowledge, helping and wisdom; and encouraging others to understand that seeking counseling is not a weakness, but rather evidence of placing faith in God to work in their lives.

Couples, Families and Relationships I teach communication skills to help you speak your truth in a honest, caring, effective way; comfortably hear and respond to the other person's perspective, and be in the «now» rather than speak from y our past history.