Make sure your date has a healthy
view of other Christians.
Students could compare this practical response to
the views of other Christians who see redemption as a spiritual salvation from the power of sin.
Not exact matches
Or is it just that one party is
viewed predominantly as the party
of white, straight, traditionalist
Christians and the
other is seen as the party
of everyone else?
«While I applaud and agree with many
of Glenn Beck's conservative and constitutional
views, that does not give me or any
other Bible - believing
Christian justification to compromise Biblical truth by spiritually joining Beck.»
He frequently cites the work
of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists
of family and gender relations whose
views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance
of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and
other practices that conservative
Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.
I spend years in Apologetics and arrived at rational basis for my
Christian faith, defend the faith against objections, and expose the perceived flaws
of other world
views.
It is what has lead me to my veiw that Atheism as a religion, the passion most Atheist have for their point
of view from the start you may not fall in this category but I'm sure you know someone that does.The same applies to
Christians that freak out on someone and start forcing their
view on
others, I see that as wrong also if someone asks or brings the debate to you then by all means debate but why be rude how does it help?
So, though southerneyes44 writes
of Christian «appreciation
of alternate
views», there's a long and brutal history
of Christians persecuting adherents
of other religions, including the followers
of Judaism, from which Christianity arose, during various European pogroms against Jews throughout many centuries, and adherents
of other branches
of Christianity.
But for many reasons Mormans are thier own religion and not
Christian because thier
view of the trinity, the holy spirit, and who God was is not consitent with what any
other Christian really believes.
Imagine a day where
christians respect the rights and
views of others and actually leave religion in their churches.
Atheists (not all just as not all
christians preach) that try to spread their beliefs to
others do so with similar ideas
of helping people free themselves from they
view as mentally oppressive.
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I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious
views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type
of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind
of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a
Christian president for over the first 50 years
of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one
of our founding fathers were
Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the
other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be
of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.
It is understandable why the New York Times's Editorial Board would conclude that
Christians view sinners as inferior — the tragic history
of Christianity, even within our own country, offers many examples
of Christians who have used sin as an excuse to dehumanize, discriminate, and hate
others.
The media hounded Tim Farron for his
Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold
views other than those
of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood
of the unborn child and the sanctity
of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».
A couple years ago, however, I began to find
other Christians (throughout church history) who have not held to the substitutionary atonement
view of Christ's death.
She says that it is important that
Christian college students welcome the challenge
of discussing their faith to
others, particularly to people who hold opposing
views.
The «prevailing
Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion
of the rapture, the equality
of women, the emancipation
of slaves, and a host
of other things that most
Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.
I think it's important that
Christian college students welcome the challenge
of discussing their faith to
others, particularly to people who hold opposing
views.
While we may not drown people because
of their
views on baptism, it is not uncommon for one group
of Christians to condemn another group
of Christians to everlasting hell because the
other group has a different
view on baptism.
Hence we must conclude with Professors Branscomb, Lohmeyer, Werner, Bishop Rawlinson, and
other recent writers, that Mark's point
of view is that which was «in general characteristic
of the Gentile -
Christian Church
of the first century,» but that it was not, «in the narrower and more distinctive sense
of the words, a «Pauline» Gospel.»
Does this
view of Scripture make it frustrating to «debate» with
other Christians, which can often lead to verse slinging?
I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental
view of living, being a
Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace
of ancient church practices as a charismatic
Christian, writing, social justice, and many
other topics.
When you hear a
Christian advocate personal purity, do you hear a judgment
of yourself or
others, or do you get angry because you don't want to live that way and then decide that the
Christian's spoken point
of view is a judgment?
This is in fact a resurgence in
other terms and with
other objectives in
view —
of the error always committed by
Christians who intervene in the sphere
of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for doing what he does.
Of course this is just another case where you think your church has it right, and all
other Christians who don't hold the same
view are wrong.
From a
Christian point
of view this is idolatry, just as the absolutizing
of prestige, or status, or any
other value is idolatry.
Some
Christians might believe this, but it is not explicitly taught in Scripture, and there are many
other views on how the «atonement» worked and what the death
of Jesus accomplished.
I don't mean to sound the doomsday alarm with no ray
of hope, because I know there are many great examples like the
Christian Community Development Association, The Amos Project, and many
others who are moving past reductionist and stereotypical
views of one another to build communities where we see and are seen by one another.
[12] They will do this because the law will give the green light for Churches to be prosecuted by homosexuals who disapprove
of Christian views such as that which holds that only couples born
of the opposite sex should marry each
other.
Many liberal
Christians, on the
other hand, are essentially deists; it is their
view that after having created the world and revealed the divine will in its structure and the laws
of nature, God can not be looked to for further intervention.
In this lecture, which like the
others in this series is intended as a general exposition
of process
views rather than a
Christian development
of them, we shall not make as full use
of his teaching as we shall
of that in
other representatives
of the school.
From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that
other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic
view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners
of Christian libraries is a wealth
of scholarship on the subject.
The fact that these principles have such great similarity to principles
of obligation found in
other religions and philosophies has led many theologians to believe that what is unique about
Christian principles
of obligation is not so much their context as the particular
view of the world that follows from the metaphors and stories which surround them and which are found in the
Christian drama.
The James O'Kelly
Christian Church, which represents an important southern heritage
of the United Church
of Christ, underscores
other nonhierarchical biblical Reformation concerns by
viewing the Scriptures as «the only creed, a sufficient rule
of faith and practice.»
In my mini-documentary The D Word: A personal
view of divorce and the Church, I and three
other Christians talk candidly about our experiences
of divorce.
If valid, this
view rightly gives
Christians and
others hope that respect for the integrity
of creation is less alien to human life, and more attainable, than circumstances have often led us to believe.
As
Christians, Birch and Cobb believe that in many respects the Whiteheadian vision
of reality is more compatible with biblical points
of view than are
other visions, Platonic for example, on which
Christian in the past have relied.
Insofar as our own culture participates in — indeed, is founded upon — structures
of systemic evil, a happy outcome
of our difficulties, as opposed to
other people's difficulties, ought not be expected in the
Christian view.
On the part
of the minister there is an empathetic or phenomenological concern for the attitudes
of all the
other people (and their conditions such as broken arms) to all serious things, including
Christian faith but not confined to it, regardless
of the existing content
of those
views and conditions.
So these atheists they're looking at are people likely just recovering from a bad upbringing while the
Christians, like many other a christians, are people for whom this isn't just an issue of ontology, but their whole ethics, lifestyle and w
Christians, like many
other a
christians, are people for whom this isn't just an issue of ontology, but their whole ethics, lifestyle and w
christians, are people for whom this isn't just an issue
of ontology, but their whole ethics, lifestyle and world
view.
These and
other similar articles are written by Muslim,
Christian, and Jewish contributors reflecting different points
of view, supported at times by different bibliographies.
Moreover, since God is infinitely good to all who truly seek him, I do not see how anyone's experience
of grace or formation by grace can settle the truth
of one confessional position as against another, and I doet want to look as if I think that the quality
of my
Christian experience or the strength
of my
Christian convictions should be decisive in persuading
others to accept my
views.
In
view of the onerous restrictions in this predominantly Islamic society, it is not surprising that their enthusiasm sometimes leads them to steal sheep from
other Christian pastures instead
of preaching to Muslims.
I could fill a large hotel full
of the most World's most «learnerd» Jewish,
Christian and Islamic theological scholars (to take the, inaptly named, monothistic religions) and they would be unable to agree on anything
other than some nauseating throw away line like «we should all rewspect each
other's
views»».
Just as my
Christian faith will look similar and different to
other Christians, atheists are not a homogeneous group, but encompass a range
of views.
This is partly because I accept the
view that even our natural theology is inevitably a
Christian natural theology, in the sense suggested by John Cobb, and partly because some
of the doctrines that should be placed under the more strictly
Christian aspect, such as the problem
of evil, are not as strictly limited to
Christian theology as are some
others, such as christology.
For a long time now the
Christian understanding
of man has been obscured by theories
of his nature built on
other dogmas than that
of the sovereignty
of God and constructed out
of observations
of his behavior made from
other points
of view than those
of Christian faith.
It is assumed that the soul by its nature is eternal, which was also the
view of the third century
Christian thinker Origen (c. 185 - c. 254) although in Advaita philosophy from the standpoint
of realization the individual soul is not
other than the Universal Soul.
What happens when young,
Christian students aren't supported in their pro-life
views from
other Christian organizations, ones that supposedly follow Christ - like teachings
of love and compassion and the calling to protect those who can not speak for themselves?