Sentences with phrase «while unbelievers»

Believers, because they are believers, need to be held up to a higher standard of living, while unbelievers, because they are unbelievers, can be accepted as they are.

I've seen in my marriage the pain of abortion, in my family the pain of a child who lived a handful of hours, of being in need and not even fellow Christians will assist in the smallest of essentials while unbelievers readily will.

If Christians are wrong, they will only rot in the grave as unbelievers do; but if Christians are right, they will live forever in a painless, righteous world with eternal bodies, while unbelievers suffer forever in torture.

Obviously, the believer must have faith, while the unbeliever does not / can not have faith [in God].

Not exact matches

And while I'm grateful believers and unbelievers can agree that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, without a basis for this knowledge, this is a position can turn on a dime.

The results of the Reformation have been to make the Bible readily accessible to people, and while this may be a good thing overall, it has caused problems — lay people, believers and unbelievers alike, take bits out of context, misunderstand, and misrepresent them.

But after their stories are out there for a while, and substantiating evidence and maybe even proof starts rolling in, and the tide seems to turn and their peers start believing too, then sometimes the unbelievers change their minds and listen to the victims, the survivors, and the marginalized.

While the term gospel is a non-technical term for any good news, the NT usage seems to define it as good news for everybody, whether Jew or Gentile, believer or unbeliever, regarding the benefits and blessings which come to us from the person and work of Jesus Christ.

In my case, once I realized what I have actually lost, the cartoon would have been a more accurate depiction if it showed the newly faithless having a celebratory glass of champagne, welcomed by fellow unbelievers while standing on the grave of the lost faith.

It reminds me a little of the pastor who says give your $ and you will be blessed - Oh I know you owe that rent and need food and clothes - but give to the church and you will be blessed - all this while there is a verse that says a man who doesn't care for his own household is worse than an unbeliever.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

While I do agree with everything Unbeliever said, I can't resist saying to Keith: «An atheist must be looking pretty good given those (not completely true) choices»

You just freed me from the bondage of tithe, I call it bondage because it's a law and in this part of the world (Africa) where poverty reigns many churches tell you if you don't pay your tithe you can never prospers and while we see a lot of unbelievers like Muslims etc becoming rich.

While it is true that God commands believers to engage in loving interaction and dialogue with unbelievers for the purpose of persuading them that Jesus is indeed the Christ, the primary purpose of the church is for the equipping of believers, not unbelievers, for this work of service in the world.

Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.

«while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.»

No need to take my word, warning comes before destruction and it Jesus Christ who shall give you the very evidence that you refused to accept while being alive and by then, it will be too late for the unbeliever and the religious people who has taught false doctrines.

One response is that while in the Qur» an the imperative to «slay the unbeliever» (S. 9:5) comes without any clear historical context and therefore appears to be a command for today, the Bible's commands to slay Canaanites are imbedded within stories that clearly are part of the past and have no manifest application to the present.

But alass I digress you can not and fell that as an unbeliever I should be more accepting of your views while I get reminded that my unbelief is because I have wickeness in my heart despite being a loving father and contribute to the community through community service

Ever careful and ever mindful and ever conceited ye be while ever in denial are the unbelievers» eyeing minds!

The reporter says that while «legal experts said the First Amendment grants Supreme Court justices, just like any other U.S. citizen, the right to speak their mind,» other experts insist that «Scalia's comments were difficult to reconcile with his judicial obligation to regard citizens of all religious persuasions — whether believer or unbeliever, Christian or non-Christian — as equals under the law.»

While repentance will not give anyone eternal life, it will aid the unbeliever in hearing the believing the Gospel.

Peter's testimony was given while Saul of Tarsus was still an unbeliever and many years before the Apostle John composed his Gospel and Epistles.

Quran (25:52)-- «Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness...» Quran (33:60 - 62)-- «If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while.