Sentences with phrase «wedges between christians»

It aims to drive a wedge between Christians and the world which is so close to them that they fail to see it and keep their guard up against it, And so Kierkegaard's program is exactly the opposite of Bultmann's: it is not to change the gospel to conform it to the spirit of the age, but to help individuals who desire a relationship with God to arm themselves against the spirit of the age.

Paul's rejection of divorce (I Corinthians 7) is motivated largely by his concern to prevent Christianity from becoming a wedge between a Christian husband and his non-Christian wife.

Not exact matches

In conclusion, I hope this post will not be used as another wedge driven between Christians who disagree on the difficult and complex issues involved.

It's fine for Christians to have strong political opinions and for them to advocate for them, but slandering the other side only drives a deeper wedge between people who disagree, instead of building bridges to find areas of common ground.

For instance, traditional Christian readers will take exception to the wedge he attempts to drive between Paul's account of the resurrection and that of the gospel writers.

Scholars speculate that the rest of the population also converted to Judaism in a bid for political neutrality, because Khazaria was wedged between Muslims to the east and Christians to the west.