Sentences with phrase «which teaches doctrines»

One who is born, for example, into a Christian group which teaches the doctrine of perfection may be expected to interpret a decisive religious experience as the granting of perfect love by the Holy Spirit.

Not exact matches

It is written; «If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness»

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.

The definite doctrine which this King and teacher Christ is to urge and exercise is this: not to teach the law or our works, but Christ, the Son of God, that one may look to him....

I also took a two - year catechetical certificate program, which included a class on Catholic social teaching with the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church for a textbook.

If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of traditional - Christian churches that read from one bible, yet teach hundreds of different doctrines, which confuses us as to which interpretation is the truth.

They exist to teach a certain set of doctrines / beliefs to people who want to be indoctrinated in that system, which will convince certain types of churches that they are «experts» in doctrine and perhaps Bible and therefore should make a valued employee who will perpetuate the beliefs of the group.

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.

Heresy can be defined as any departure from Christian orthodoxy which is a teaching, doctrine or practice that goes beyond the apostles teachings — the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3).

lies in the Catechism itself»; and that «It is important not to pick and choose which doctrines of the Church to teach children, particularly very young ones.

It's not hate towards Joel, it just when you haven't been schooled in religion or teach, atonement, the 10 commandments and doctrine which Jesus taught.

He argued from the Qur» an and early Muslim history that Islam is a doctrine of self - assertion which teaches man to work for the attainment of worldly power and to attempt the conquest of the self and the non-self.

Some Sufis even denounced the Pillars of Islam and taught that union with God is the aim of Islam, a pantheistic doctrine which is heretical.

159:4.9 «But the greatest error of the teaching about the Scriptures is the doctrine of their being sealed books of mystery and wisdom which only the wise minds of the nation dare to interpret.

The Doctrine and Covenants and the teachings of LDS prophets (both of which hold the same authority as the Book of Mormon) are what make Mormonism what it is, and what make it so blasphemous to Christians.

To be sure, we have an expanded canon of Scripture, but nothing within the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price contradicts what is taught in the Bible regarding the virgin birth (which, by the way, we definitely believe in), teachings, miracles, atoning sacrifice, or bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

The religious schools, which are only concerned with teaching the Qur» an, Islamic doctrines, and Arabic, have greatly declined in the cities and villages because of the spread of modern schools and are now found chiefly in the desert and the lodges of the Sufi orders.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

It hardly needs to be said that the new view of man, to which today's studies and sciences are leading us, constitutes a severe challenge to the doctrine of man assumed and taught by Christian orthodoxy.

The «orthodox» Protestant may say that he tolerates radical heresies in his Church only for the sake of freedom of conscience and teaching, but that they are not for this reason part of the official creed of his Church, while that of the Catholic Church includes doctrines which he must reject in conscience, even if it were only the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope or perhaps a Marian dogma.

Leaving aside this quite possible case, we may say that the dialogue between a theologian and the magisterium is an intra-ecclesial one, and the doctrine of this theologian an ecclesial doctrine only if he respects and accepts as binding that teaching which the Church considers inseparable from her faith and proclaims with absolute engagement.

In my judgment a reworking of Christianity along progressivist lines, i.e., along lines which teach God's insistence upon democratic dogmas and which discern doctrine - altering «Revelation» in democratic social trends, remains an ongoing potentiality, whether initiated by «Protestants» or «Catholics»; this follows, I hold, from Tocquevillian premises.

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.

So several of these leaders developed an approved set of doctrines and teachings which should be taught to all the new «converts» in all the churches, and quickly developed a system to train and send out a small army of teachers and priests to distribute these empire - approved church doctrines.

1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

A former student said of his teaching: «He not only thought out the -LSB-...] doctrines upon which he lectured, but he felt their power, and falling tears often evinced his emotion while he spoke of some particular aspect of the truth.

And in the next place, describing what properly is defiance, it teaches that a man does wrong although he understands what is right, or forbears to do right although he understands what is right; in short, the Christian doctrine of sin is pure impertinence against man, accusation upon accusation; it is the charge which the Deity as prosecutor takes the liberty of lodging against man.

That being said, not many people are aware of these anomalies on our planet since there is no formal teaching which questions religions and / or deductions of our archaeologists; for this reason, we can not blame anyone who has been raised with strict religious doctrine wishing to display their religious symbol.

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.

People can think they are saved when they aren't which is the urgent reason for teaching against OSAS doctrine apart from the fact that it is erroneous.

The lack of an agreed apologetic framework through which to think, teach, love and pray the faith, one which truly answers the agnosticism of our times, has opened the door to that same uncertainty and subjectivity in doctrine and discipline inside the Church.

If the Church has the power to define doctrine, then the written word which was the living Magisterium of Christ before the evangelists wrote it, before Paul dictated it, still lives on in the living word of a teaching power which is guaranteed by the living, working, intervening Divinity of Christ.

If, however, the rejection of war in toto — which apparently is how McElroy understands the words of Paul VI — is at the very center of Catholic teaching, it would seem that the Church's traditional just - war doctrine has not been developed but repudiated.

Some Lutheran theologians contend that the reason for the Lutheran communion's continuing separation from Rome is to maintain the teaching of justification by faith, «the doctrine by which the church stands or falls.»

Particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.

I am committed unashamedly to teaching Christian doctrine and draw a clear distinction between that which is taught in a secular environment... and what is confessionally committed.

Over the next several posts, I will summarize what I was taught in Bible college and Seminary about this doctrine, and then, just as we did with inspiration, we will look at some of «the hard questions» about inerrancy which are often avoided or ignored in most Bible Colleges, Seminaries, and churches.

Whether or not you share my admiration of the orthodox doctrine, we have to recognize that it represents an interpretation of God and Jesus which not only has had the allegiance of the vast majority of Christians in the history of the Church, but which also has a proven track record as a doctrine which can help people to lead faithful lives following the teaching and example of the Christ.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

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.

In his address at the solemn opening of the Council, Blessed John XXXIII explained exactly what he meant by this term: «That which most interests the Council is that the sacreddeposit of Christian doctrine be guarded and taught in a more efficient form.»

Original Sin then - that overlooked but vital doctrine of the reality of our state, and the introduction into the material universe for the first time of «the problem of evil» - teaches the rupturing of that living, holy communion of good by which, from the first pair, men were to minister life and fulfilment to one another through Christ.

Now certainly, the concept of false teaching and unsound doctrine is found elsewhere in Scripture, and the term «false prophets» which is also found in 2 Peter 2:1 is also found in other passages, but the disparaging label of «false teacher» which is so frequently tossed about these days, is not a common term in Scripture.

[47] This was because philosophy was a preparation to bring people to Christ, since Christian doctrines are anticipated in Greek philosophy, in particular in the teachings of the Timaeus of Plato, which, Clement is convinced, was learnt by Plato from Moses.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

In discussing the kind of doctrine that ought to be taught to Jesuit students, he wrote in the Constitutions: «The doctrine which they ought to follow in each subject should be that which is safest and most approved, as also the authors who teach it» (no. 358).

Pastor Albert Mohler, a Southern Baptist, has commented that he respects the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's document Subsistitbecause it is consistent with previous Catholic teaching (with which he strongly disagrees), is honest about its inherent belief that the Papacy is integral to the nature of the Church, and that it shows a very sensible concern for the danger souls can put themselves in by being in serious error (as he believes Catholics are).

Throughout the 1970s and 80s Faith magazine often protested against these betrayals of Catholic truth and of God's people, all the while calling for and offering the outlines of a development of doctrine which is faithful to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes and the tradition.