Sentences with phrase «teachings about enemy»

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Or am I contributing to the problem by helping support this institution - one that has some amazing people but are dedicated to teaching students more about how evolution is wrong than in following the call of Jesus to love your enemies.

I explained that this seemed contrary to what Jesus taught about loving our enemies.

The whole point of Jesus was to show the Jewish people that what the Pharisees were teaching about hating your enemy (the Romans and Samaritans at that time) was scripturally unsound.

Avelino Gonzalez, using language that I had hoped had gone out of fashion among Catholic seminarians, opines that «nothing has changed in two thousand years,» and attempts to enlighten this Jewish author that «what the Pharisees were teaching about hating your enemy... was scripturally unsound.»

Back in high school I heard a pastor teach about heaping burning coals on the heads of our enemies.

Instead, we learn from Jesus who taught us about praying for those who persecute us, praying for our enemies, loving those who are most unlovable to us.

Well I think when Jesus said love your enemies, he was not talking about a teaching that he himself would have needed to practice, cause like the buddhist (or whoever) say, the boat (teaching) is used to cross the water, but once it has done it's job you leave it at the shore, you do nt drag it with you else it will just weigh you down.

How is serving the enemies of Christ going to «truly» teach believers anything about the Word of God?

They are teaching Christians a great deal about how to be engaged in compassionate work without treating those with whom we disagree as enemies.

The church decided that Jesus» teaching about loving our enemies superseded even the Old Testament provision allowing Israelites to charge interest on loans to foreigners.

The increasing humaneness and inwardness of moral life under the influence of the great prophets and Jesus is illustrated in the changing ideas about forgiveness of enemies: In the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.»

outside of their village, to teach babies that crying brought rejection, not gratification of their needs [crying infants could alert an enemy] I am reminded of Dr. Tom Dooley writing about Vietnamese women, who squatted all day in rice paddies, which was great for their pelvic floors, and who had babies the right size for their Asian pelves, and perhaps it was a factor, but he never saw the dead ones, did he?

Jarvis» well - documented military background taught him all about refusing to back down when confronted by the enemy — and is one of the reasons why he is regularly touted as a future Labour leader by many on the party's moderate wing.

Their father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins) is a wise king, and tries to teach them about how not to thirst for war, especially with their sworn enemies, the Frost Giants.

He's also incredibly knowledgeable about Norse mythology — knowing everything about the old Norse language, which allows him to teach Kratos about the many characters and enemies he'll encounter along the way.