Sentences with phrase «teaches a doctrine other»

Any group that teaches a doctrine other than Christianity is a cult?

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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.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

Still others stray from the faith (1 Tim 1:5 - 6), shipwreck their faith (1 Tim 1:18 - 20), fall away from the faith (1 Tim 4:1 - 3), deny the faith (1 Tim 5:8), cast off initial faith to follow Satan (1 Tim 5:12 - 15), stray from the faith by loving money (1 Tim 6:9 - 10), teach false doctrine (1 Tim 6:20 - 21), and deny Christ and live faithless lives (2 Tim 2:11 - 13).

North Korea has strict laws about Christian evangelism so the school doesn't teach doctrine, but does teach its students about other countries and other forms of government — something you can't get almost anywhere else in North Korea.

This is why I laugh when people like Calvin and others actually have the nerve to teach an iron clad doctrine out of the most deliberately vague chapters in all of the NT.

On the other hand the scribe who fears the Pharisee does not teach the differences between heresy and sound Bible doctrine; nor does he teach the historical views to understanding the Bible.

In other words, although Calvinists sometimes use Titus 1:15 to defend their doctrine of Total Depravity, this verse might actually condemn theologies that include teachings like Total Depravity as being «unchristian.»

False doctrine is what all religions claim other religions teach.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

The word doctrine is therefore being used in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate the variety of biblical teaching on these and other subjects as well as the factor of development in some themes as we move from the Old Testament into the New Testament.

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

Calvinists have also been known to use this verse against other Christians who disagree with the Calvinistic teachings and doctrines.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Even the Apostle Paul stated, that if any man teach any other teaching or doctrine other than what the apostles have taught and left in the scriptures, let him be accursed.

For this reason, among others, the faith is presented as adherence to a set of formulations of doctrine rather than a following of the moral teaching of Jesus that God is love and calls us to love one another.

A more sophisticated screening of Scripture is carried out by others who claim that we must look in Scripture for the «locus classicus» of a Biblical doctrine and concentrate on its teaching, interpreting all else in light of its truth.

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.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

The fact that neither you nor the church has yet identified ANY SORT of «false doctrine» that Kate was supposedly teaching, leads one to believe that her question must be the REAL reason she was ex-communicated as no other viable reason has been presented or even hinted at!

We allow for opinion on some doctines, and will not recognize as equal or even a true teaching other doctrines.

At the same time Niebuhr felt that these two biblical teachings about man gave significance to his doctrine of man's finiteness and nature on the one hand and man's freedom of spirit on the other.

All the more so, of course, because the Church's own teaching denies him the expedient of a «double truth», and does not permit him to adapt the Church's doctrine by some de-mythologizing or other re-interpretation, in order to reconcile it with his scientific conviction.

The now Wilsons WERE members of this church, and people join churches because they feel at home in a particular church, they believe the doctrines taught by that particular denomination, and other reasons, so evidently this couple felt at home in this church.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.

Now certainly, the concept of false teaching and unsound doctrine is found elsewhere in Scripture, and the term «false prophets» which is also found in 2 Peter 2:1 is also found in other passages, but the disparaging label of «false teacher» which is so frequently tossed about these days, is not a common term in Scripture.

So this means that all Christians, and all churches, and all theologians are in 99.9 % agreement with each other on the major teachings and doctrines of the church?

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

With particular pertinence to the present discussion, Levada, for all his considerable gifts, did not distinguish himself in his teaching, and his seeing to it that others taught, the Church's moral doctrine during his ten years as archbishop of San Francisco, a city commonly called the gay capital of the world.

You've got 32,000 Protestant denominations and «non-denominational» one - off denominations all teaching different doctrine from each other on various matters depending on the denomination.

Nevertheless Werner proceeds to examine other doctrines and teachings: the Law, the gospel, faith, sin, flesh and spirit, sacramental teaching, eschatology, the view taken of the primitive apostles, the attitude toward the Jewish people, also that toward the heathen; and he concludes with an examination of the vocabularies of the two writers.

If teachers of status, whether priests or layfolk, do not accept themselves and do not teach to others the doctrine of life and human goodness that Jesus taught on earth and still teaches in His Church, they will not form within others the true identity of the real, the living Jesus.

The fact that different schools of thought have come to different conclusions after reading the same bible does nt seem to register with many christians who effectively hold to the position «My doctrine is what the bible teaches so the other view is wrong».

We are taught NOT to listen to any other doctrine... there are false teachers out there... don't compromise your faith... don't ask questions... God has appointed us to teach you... WE have the truth... we're not like those OTHER churother doctrine... there are false teachers out there... don't compromise your faith... don't ask questions... God has appointed us to teach you... WE have the truth... we're not like those OTHER churOTHER churches.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

As I urged you when I went into Macedonia — remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 4 nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.

If we were to take the time to study the entire book, as I hope to do someday, we would discover that the book of Hebrews teaches the doctrine of eternal security more than many other books of the Bible!

This principle of discontinuity, as it is often called, does not presuppose that Jesus was never in agreement with the Jews of his day or that his character and doctrine were generally out of phase with the teaching of the early Church, but simply that it is more difficult to account for dissimilar statements as originating from sources other than Jesus himself.

He will teach a false doctrine that appears to be righteous truth, so much so that I think that he will be able to convince atheists of his evil teachings, but that doesn't matter, he already has them in his «basket», but they would be extra «tools» to use to convince others of his wicket ways.

In contrast to the doctrine, ascribed to Whitehead by Leclerc, that «the truly active entities must be identified with the ultimate constituents, those which are not themselves composite» (MN 104), Buchler teaches that there is no level of complexity which has any sort of priority, that any one sort of aggregate is, ontologically, just as good as any other sort.

Our and «All» Creations ever being created by God, a name above all mannerisms to - be-named such as Jehova or Elohim or any other name calling and / or labellings other then the most simplstic and of God should all be stricken from all peoples» minds and doctrines and teachings!

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

Reformed doctrine, among all others, teaches that works do not save.

The Holy Spirit is not teaching different doctrines to different denominations, but some are listening better than others.