Sentences with phrase «teaching a doctrine about»

The Bible is not so interested in teaching a doctrine about God as it is in eliciting a kind of relationship to him.

Not exact matches

It is written; «If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness»

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

1 Timothy 4:1 - 6 foretold exactly about the fact that false teachers would teach about such doctrines, among them, forbidding marriage and goes on to refer to such teachings as teachings of demons.

My father also taught me, even when I was a child, that Bruce R. McConkie, who wrote some unflattering stuff about non-whites in «Mormon Doctrine,» stood in Conference after the 1978 announcement and said he had obviously been wrong on those points, and he retracted everything not in keeping with the Brethren's announcement.

Among those revelations recorded in 1843 in the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of Mormon scripture, were teachings about plural marriage.

It is your task to teach newcomers about Christian doctrine and Christian behavior and that sort of thing; it is our task to make sure that newcomers know about local traditions.

But anyway, I myself struggle with the same question you asked about pastors who know and embrace the full implications of Calvinism, and I have to say I DO regard a pastor like that as one who teaches False Doctrine and who is dangerous because of it.

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.

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

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.

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.

159:4.9 «But the greatest error of the teaching about the Scriptures is the doctrine of their being sealed books of mystery and wisdom which only the wise minds of the nation dare to interpret.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Mormonism has no authoritative doctrine about how this conception occurred, but placing the origin of at least some aspect of Jesus» body in God the Father seems to deny the traditional teaching that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

We could understand a theology of liberation as a doctrine of liberation, namely, as what the church teaches about liberation.

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.

Several things about this text, however, indicate that something else is being taught in this text than the Calvinistic doctrine of Unconditional Election.

Lynn, Just headed out the door to work... but Lutherans (some of us) are passionate about correct doctrine and the Bible teaches that God chooses us... that we do not choose Him.

1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

This is why the Irish clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.

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?

Also, the sad thing is the Bible doesn't teach the hellfire doctrine that so many talk about.

They often point to passages like 1 Timothy 4:1 that warns about how doctrines of demons will be taught in churches in the latter days.

Over the next several posts, I will summarize what I was taught in Bible college and Seminary about this doctrine, and then, just as we did with inspiration, we will look at some of «the hard questions» about inerrancy which are often avoided or ignored in most Bible Colleges, Seminaries, and churches.

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.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

In 1966 Paul VI would recall that the Council was about «voice... style... approach» in the teaching of doctrine rather than debate or apologetics (p. 426).

(3) The goal of paideia can not be taught directly — for example, by simply conveying information about various philosophers» doctrines regarding virtue.

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.

The New Testament speaks frequently about true and false teaching and doctrine.

Pastor Albert Mohler, a Southern Baptist, has commented that he respects the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's document Subsistitbecause it is consistent with previous Catholic teaching (with which he strongly disagrees), is honest about its inherent belief that the Papacy is integral to the nature of the Church, and that it shows a very sensible concern for the danger souls can put themselves in by being in serious error (as he believes Catholics are).

I make my living studying and teaching these important doctrines and I have convictions about them.

One crucial distinction is that teaching the basic principles of Catholic social doctrine go to the heart of her charism, but she has no special expertise in prudential judgments about how to apply them.

Jesus had something to say about this «But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.»

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.

(It was a pretty short book) So if he started with the as.sumption that miracles don't exist, then how can he make a definitive statement about the doctrine of the Trinity that is everywhere taught in the Bible?

He had taught us so well that most questions about doctrine had already been answered, but one thing did come to my mind.

And lest we get too puffed up with pride about our own ability to spot false teachers and sniff out bad doctrine, all Christians (including you and me) have occasionally fallen prey to false teaching.

He wants Christians to move on from milk doctrines and teachings that make us feel warm and fuzzy, to the meat truths of the Word that we mull over, think about, and digest (cf. Heb 5:11 — 6:3).

Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church about what was truth and what was «heresy.»

What most people actually complain about is DISCIPLINE - how individual preachers teach doctrine and dogma.

99 % of what people complain about in Doctrine, is really merely discipline - Doctrine taught incorrectly or in such a way that it can't be understood.

Doctrine are those human lessons we've learned over time trying to live under Dogma, and are usually about the mistakes made along the way (doctrine only develops by human actions that caused additional suffering that didn't need to happen - doctrine is about teaching you NOT to do those Doctrine are those human lessons we've learned over time trying to live under Dogma, and are usually about the mistakes made along the way (doctrine only develops by human actions that caused additional suffering that didn't need to happen - doctrine is about teaching you NOT to do those doctrine only develops by human actions that caused additional suffering that didn't need to happen - doctrine is about teaching you NOT to do those doctrine is about teaching you NOT to do those things).

One question was about Jesus» disciples, and the other, about his doctrine or teachings.

Paul taught in Ephesians 4: «11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;» Without apostles and prophets we can not come to a «unity of the faith» nor be perfected in Christ.

If you wanted to know about the Islamic basis for any particular known ISIS doctrine (when it's reasonable that it is (or claims to be) based on Islamic priniciples), that could work here but asking about what any particular state does or does not do (which may or may not have any direct tie to Islamic teachings, regardless of whether they claim to be an «Islamic» state or not).

However, Professor Brian Benestad, who teaches theology at the University of Scranton, argues «If the Catholic schools are required to recognize the union, then you're going to have government... intervening in the school, making decisions about whether the bishops» invocation of doctrine is really genuine.»

He taught us that our vanity had blinded us to the true nature of minds, animal and human; that so much more is to be learned about animal minds than received doctrine allowed.