Sentences with phrase «understandings of doctrine»

It is difficult to see how «clearly contrary» understandings of doctrine could emerge in such a process.

If so, future historians may debate whether the end was a matter of the church abandoning doctrine or displacing one understanding of doctrine with another.

There many people are black and LDS and are so because they have gained a deeper understanding of its doctrine.

You seem to have no understanding of the doctrine of separation past the Johnson administration.

Having noted basic differences in these positions, we can then look at a number of questions which evangelicals must address if they hope to move beyond the present impasse in their theological understanding of the doctrine of inspiration.

In Isaiah 28:9 - 10 Isaiah mentions who will receive knowledge and understanding of doctrine.

When the chief priests of the rabbinic order chose Barbarus to be a free man, because Jesus vocalized his understanding of the doctrines, and set a known a criminal free to silence this healer, illustrates the extent to which The highest of the order relegated their powers.

This point is sufficiently important to an understanding of a doctrine of man to justify further elaboration.

In fact, this book helped me see that giving up the traditional understandings of these doctrines can actually help strengthen one's faith in God and aid one in following Jesus more closely.

Theologian Alister McGrath recounts that the bishops and early church fathers reached this understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity by looking at the scripture, including Matthew 28:19 («baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit») and 2 Corinthians 13:14 («May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all»), for signs of God's «pattern of divine activity.»

But it was not a moment where the Teacher initially shocks his followers in order to bring them into a better understanding of his doctrine.

In the two chapters on soteriology we find a number of them, for example, a denial of the redemptive dimension of the Incarnation, a purely forensic understanding of the doctrine of justification, and a narrow focus on penal substitution in the doctrine of atonement.

What is really involved here is the understanding of the doctrine «extra ecclesiam nulla salus» (outside the Church there is no salvation) by the Portuguese and St. Thomas Christians, respectively.

Their report also points out a parallel between the early church and the modern missionary movement in their understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity.

Our understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity is another key to congregational health.

The Magisterium claims if one has understanding of the doctrines and chooses to disbelieve them, then they are anathema.

However, the Court's post-Dunsmuir jurisprudence clearly reveals the application of a one - step framework; one that is incompatible with Dunsmuir's understanding of the doctrine's guiding principles and one that makes little room for correctness review.

Not exact matches

[106] In my view, this more nuanced understanding of the effects of the notice of a reserve is in line with a more flexible conception of the pith and substance doctrine that is more consistent with the guiding principles discussed above.

The Christian understanding of marriage rests upon a whole complex of other doctrines, from creation to Christology to anthropology to eschatology.

But one must also understand the ignorance of man like yourself, who has been mislead by false doctrines about God and have been blinded from the truth.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the church.

All of the posts so far show an extreme lack of understanding of Mormonism and it's doctrines about baptisms for the dead.

You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit Who is ever faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Authordoctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's AuthorDoctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.

The religious whose doctrines rely strictly on a literal interpretation are most at risk of losing their faith through education and understanding the history of the bible.

To my understanding, the keepers of doctrine, the arbiters of who and what was allowed, were in Jerusalem.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

If we understood it as a constant evolving and adapting entity instead of thinking that our doctrines and systems are perfectly suited, then maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation.

For the life of me, I can't understand why you don't follow it, especially since you believe it is the truth, and the doctrine of the Catholic Church to be in error.

It had always been the synod's understanding that matters of doctrine were to be decided only by the Word of God, the Bible.

(In order even to begin to comprehend this story, one must understand first that Missouri Synod people care deeply about church doctrine, and second that Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — where classical theological training was offered with considerable rigor — had been revered in the affections of Missourians.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

Here you begin to understand the meaning of verses and creeds and doctrines.

I do not understand all the revealed doctrines of my Church, but I have faith and I live, study, pray daily and I am a happier person for it.

That's what people who don't understand their doctrine like to say to make fun of them.

When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.

Theology is important — we need to strive to understand God, but we must strive to do so with the purpose of knowing Him more and loving Him more, not so that we can participate in debates about doctrine.

I would never expect a nonmember of this church to understand enough about its doctrine to make an honest assessment of anything other than superficial, publicized topics.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

Perhaps the author does not understand there are many doctrines in protestantism and as such many definitions of these common phrases.

So to have someone who can finally speak from experience and explain to me that most of them don't understand their own doctrine, but it's still not an excuse because it's a damaging and false doctrine that the Bible clearly contradicts — is incredibly helpful and healing to my soul.

And, as the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist noted, «It is impossible to build sound doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history.»

I can't really suggest anything because I don't know much about the situation in particular but I can say they must not fully understand the doctrine of forgiveness and their duty as parents.

What Whitehead means by physical or causal prehension is not a species of perception in this sense, and it is not to he understood in terms of the Neoplatonic doctrine.

Their belief in God and Bible is cradled in their system of absolute certainty that allows no deviation from an absolute standard of doctrine which is presumably based on a singular understanding of the Bible.

Doctrines and dogmas, if we really believe them, inevitably affect our self - understanding, our values and our grasp of the world around us.

What is more important, the earlier critics did less than justice to the fact that the Bible has its own doctrine about the nature of history, which deserves to be understood and appreciated in itself.

• «What is the biblical view and Christian experience of the operation of the Holy Spirit, and is it right and helpful to understand the work of God outside the Church in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?»

In legislative politics and, for that matter, in Court doctrine, nothing is forever — an observation that is, as I understand it, at the heart of Mr. Harris» argument.

Ironic isn't it, that our doctrines can cloud rather than clear our understanding of God.

Colin Gunton has astutely observed that «the Christian doctrine of God is for much of its history a hybrid of two organisms,» namely the biblical understanding of God as living and dynamic, and the Greek categories [49] of absolute perfection.