Sentences with word «unbeliever»

For unbelievers who have the will not to believe they simply do not understand the whole thing.

Once again generations of unbelievers in the American civil religion had reason to appear.

But my experience has been that I get this more from legalistic Christians than I do from unbelievers.

Problem is, it's been totally hijacked by unbelievers who on one hand are happy to line their pockets due to the holiday, but at the same time want to drive all religious context out.

Upon careful inspection, however, it soon becomes clear that the parables of the Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, and Prodigal Son in Luke 15 are not about unbelievers becoming Christians, but about straying Christians repenting and being restored back into fellowship with God.

If unbelievers do this, such repentance may help bring them to the place where they believe in Jesus for eternal life, but if this happens, such repentance does not in any way contribute to their eternal life.

If a material thing like a building is required to make believer and unbeliever alike feel awestruck, does this not negate unequivocally the idea of preaching against material things?

NOT, you MUST kill unbelievers in Mecca, but you can, you are allowed to, BUT only after a grace period is over and only if there's no other pact in place and only if they try to stop you getting to the Kaaba, and only if they attack you first.

Sometimes what you say makes me wonder if I wouldn't be happier socializing with unbelievers because we Christians can be a pretty uptight bunch!

In fact, however, mainline Christians, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant, far from despairing are nearly unanimous in their buoyant conviction that Jesus loves them personally and unconditionally and that Jesus loves people of other faiths and even unbelievers as much as he loves Christians.

When unbelievers hear it, they roll their eyes.

Of course, what we fail to realize, is that for most unbelievers, the things that make the event «fun» are the sinful things we have stripped out — the alcohol, the sexuality, the secular music, and other such elements.

Sorry to say that there are so many unbelievers who comment on CNN that you are going to get a bunch of worldly backlash.

In that moment, Carlton Pearson, the host of TBN TV shows, a man who counted Billy Graham and Oral Roberts as close friends — stopped believing that hell was a destination that unbelievers go to when they die.

How do you know you were the only unbeliever in the church.

Do not date unbelievers under any circumstance as The Bible commands; do not be unequally yolked!

The verses which call for war against unbelievers were revealed when pagans were still putting obstacles in the way of the activities of Muhammad even after opportunities for reconciliation had been given.

Many people think that Luke 15 is about evangelism, and how God brings unbelievers into His family as believers.

The very example you've given in your original post is exactly what most unbelievers think Christianity teaches in general: «God loves you so much that He wants to have an eternal relationship with you.

Many unbelievers say, â $ œI believe in God, â $ or â $ œI believe in Jesus, â $ or perhaps some might say, â $ œI prayed a prayer and the preacher said I was saved.â $ The problem is in the understanding of the word believe.

Following on the idea that faith is meritorious, and therefore impossible for an unregenerate person to do, Calvinists nevertheless recognize that there are scores of passages all over the New Testament which call unbelievers to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

It's amazing to me that these simple billboards which are just there to let other unbelievers know that they are not alone in these very religious communities, are causing such a ruckus.

We die to sin and not allow it to rule over our lives like unbelievers do.

I've seen in my marriage the pain of abortion, in my family the pain of a child who lived a handful of hours, of being in need and not even fellow Christians will assist in the smallest of essentials while unbelievers readily will.

In 2 Corinthians 4:4 we read that the god of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they might not see the light of the Gospel and believe.

I usually use unbeliever, but you're right that they believe in something.

many non believers have been deceived by the catholics etc as they also have the wrong information about Our God and this is why so many remain unbelievers because don't have the correct information given to them if thye did they may understand and accept that the truth is about Compassion.

The problem with both church models is the same: the church can not focus primarily on training believers or primarily on reaching unbelievers.

However, dating and marrying unbelievers often creates long - term strain because of the vast differences in values and wordviews.

Christians of course grieve for those who have died, but it is not a despairing grief that unbelievers without hope experience.

The point about this is that, in 1963, even unbelievers knew and recognized what was being mocked.

It is not a chapter telling unbelievers how they can be saved by faith alone in Christ alone.

Because if he is not cool with you killing unbelievers then he has changed his mind.

Martin fails to help both believers and unbelievers understand what the alternatives are for dealing with this issue of faith and history because, in a fashion now considered politically correct, he advocates what he calls «multiperspectivism.»

But besides the fact that Thomas Aquinas says that bad arguments for God's existence do more harm than good, since they give unbelievers an occasion to laugh (ST I, q. 46, art. 2, response), I would also claim that apologetics is not that difficult.

So again, the immediate and broader context of Luke 15, we see that the issue is not unbelievers becoming believers, but straying believers being brought back into the care, protection, and provision of God.