Sentences with phrase «which presents the teachings»

Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you're living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve.

Not exact matches

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.

A number of people that have written to respond to this article have spoken of the interpretation of the Bible, which is the number one problem in this present world as the Bible itself teaches us that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20).

It is very im - portant to join the right Church, because the Holy Spirit is present solely in the Church, which teaches right.

From the earliest weeks of life, when an infant is taught to control hunger in order to meet the sleeping needs of parents and to fit into a social pattern in which people do not eat during the night; through babyhood, where etiquette skills include learning conventional greetings such as morning kisses and waving bye - bye; to toddler training in such concepts as sharing toys with a guest, refraining from hitting, and expressing gratitude for presents, manners are used to establish a basis for other virtues.

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

Humanae Vitae (1968) talked of the procreative and unitive meanings of the marital act as governed by «two divine laws» which were in harmony, and the relevant teaching of the Church is often presented in terms of these two equal «polarities» and their inseparability.

How then do we present the Church's teaching to the modern world in its orthodox meaning, yet without introducing any sense of arbitrariness or incoherence into God's works, which is what the thinkers named above were all rightly keen to avoid?

They confuse what is being taught theologically with the cosmological garb in which the teaching is being presented.

This is the schooling which will teach our present Christian generation how to await the future.

Nothing in that teaching precludes, and much in that teaching seems to invite, the hope that everyone» past, present, and future» will be saved, even as we are painfully aware that that may not be the case, and even as we guard against the sin of presumption, which is to take for granted that it will be the case with us.

If you have time to take a look, Ben Williams presents some thought - provoking ideas... some of which I can agree with and some of which I struggle to reconcile with what I've been taught or what I currently think.

Only for the Roman Catholic did the parity of Christian teaching remain unchanged, a phenomenon which has continued, to the amazement and indignation of other Christians, even to the present time.

But I must challenge you to reconsider what you have presented here, which is in line with the common teaching of the church today, but not in line with the Scriptures.

In the official course books, any social norms which are opposed to Catholic moral teaching are treated as «controversial» and presented with a range of views for and against.

All of them use the current values of secular society as the point of reference against which to present the moral teachings of the Catholic faith.

what makes the school a theological school is that its practices of teaching and learning yield growth in abilities and capacities to discern and respond to God in the particular and odd ways in which God is present when and if God is present.

These youth share and engage in relationship with those present, not to necessarily teach, but to — as you so wisely pointed out — share what they feel and know in their hearts are ways in which God and Christ work through them and around them.

These are sayings for the authenticity of which it is possible to offer strong arguments, and they present the fundamental emphases of the teaching of Jesus concerning the Kingdom.

The Gospel presents the figure of the Christ as the expression of a non-coercive love which draws the world in its freedom toward a finer community of being.49 As Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died with the authority of a supreme ideal.

If the earlier liberals were guilty of distortion in their attempt to make Jesus over in the image of a historical evolutionist, Albert Schweitzer's work made it impossible for liberal scholarship ever again to ignore the authentically apocalyptic theme which is present in Jesus» teaching.

Obviously, any idea of inspiration which implies equal value in the teachings of Scripture, or inerrancy in its statements, or conclusive infallibility in its ideas, is irreconcilable with such facts as this book presents.

This seems to me the point at which private prayer is most threatened by an all too easy misunderstanding of the present teaching on the liturgy.

Acts 1.6 introduces teaching from the risen Lord in which Luke's own particular conception of the Kingdom is presented.

For that reason the Church teaches moral maxims with specific content to be observed by the faithful in every case where the inner structure of reality to which these principles apply is actually present and where this presence is recognized by the Christian.

Bringing life to a dried fish (this is only present in later texts)(First group) 3 Miracles — Breathes life into birds fashioned from clay, curses a boy, who then becomes a corpse, curses a boy who falls dead and his parents become blind Attempt to teach Jesus which fails, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles — Reverses his earlier acts, resurrects a friend who fell from a roof, heals a man who chopped his foot with an axe [1]

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

The war of 1914 — in its effects on the Hapsburg Empire or on Germany's overseas possessions, for example — shook the very basis of such «legitimist» doctrine; and in a wider sense France and Britain should have the credit for the democratic ideas and the nationalist teaching which are working to their detriment at the present day.

Martin Luther presented the theology of Sola scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teaching.

As my American friend observed, this was present under the surface long before the scandals broke, and at the root of it is probably the widespread rejection of Catholic teaching on sexual morality, which emerged later in Ireland than other Catholic countries.

In my understanding the Trinity is a symbol which affirms the Christian experience that God is known as our Creator and Sustainer, that God is also known in the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus and that in both the fellowship of believers and in personal devotion God is present as the Holy Spirit.

This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, is essentially the edifying, and the form in which it is presented, however strict it may be, is altogether different, qualitatively different, from that sort of learning which is «indifferent,» the lofty heroism of which is from a Christian point of view so far from being heroism that from a Christian point of view it is an inhuman sort of curiosity.

Daniel, which influenced them all, was itself influenced by Zoroastrian teaching on the Last Judgment, the battle between good and evil in which humans and angels participate, the punishment of evildoers by fire, elements not present elsewhere in Old Testament tradition.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

As young, or old Christians they found they had to reject something that was presented as a teaching of God which, of course, meant they had to reject everything, even God himself, according to their churches.

First, he will refer to the total picture of Jesus which the biblical record presents; in other words, he will use the specific act or teaching in context.

Walls attributes to this document the teaching that «the Mystical Body of Christ, which although the same entity as the visible Church in which it subsists is nonetheless to be distinguished from theChurch «constituted and organised as a society in the present world»».

The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is present in the Eucharist as a causal agent, somehow giving us bodily strength and health, and Catholics» acceptance of that teaching is expressed in the way in which they receive that sacrament, but the doctrine of Christ's bodily presence in the Eucharist is one with which even Catholics today have difficulty, and it would be unrealistic to make it thecentre of the belief that Christ was the Son of God.

Later on, as the tradition and the teaching gradually developed and took on form, the different tendencies which had been present from the very beginning — let us call them the realistic and supernatural tendencies, although the difference in meaning would have been great — must inevitably have become unwieldy and thus incapable of being expressed through a unified terminology.

What I am calling for here is for the Birmingham programme to present that approach in a more systematic way which will show to best advantage the compellingnature of the Church's moral teaching as true.

It contained three gnostic writings, which purported to present the teachings of the risen Jesus and part of an apocryphal work about Peter.

It is not so much a «resurrection appearance» as a Christophany, which presents Jesus as the universal ruler of the world, commissioning his disciples to take his teaching to all nations.

The Apostle's Creed presents us with the Trinity (that is not all it presents, but just an example), which gives us the basic idea that the Gospel is about community, which then needs to be expanded through the teaching in the church to explain social justice, kingdom living, responsibility towards earth - care, etc..

Even if, however, all the contextual and exegetical material presented above is wrong, and this verse does in fact teach that God ordained these particular Gentiles to receive eternal life (which the arguments above show He did not), this verse is still not a good proof - text for the Calvinistic doctrine of Unconditional Election.

Everything proves it: its style, its contents, the extraordinary events by which it was revealed, taught, and written down; its constant conformity with past, present, and future truth; its transcendent character which never shows a trace of a particular man, of any one society or epoch of history or specific region of the globe.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

So far as we can tell today, there is no single pericope anywhere in the gospels, the present purpose of which is to preserve a historical reminiscence of the earthly Jesus, although there may be some which do in fact come near to doing so because a reminiscence, especially of an aspect of teaching such as a parable, could be used to serve the purpose of the Church or the evangelist.

Another dangerous duality is present in our culture which the church's teaching can help to dispel.

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

Throughout the book, Capon presents a view of grace, the universal forgiveness of all sins, and the presence of Christ in everybody at all times which is contrary to most of what is taught and believed in most churches today, but which seems to be closer to the radical grace of God which is presented in the both the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.