(So few rejected only one doctrine that we combined them with the ministers
who accepted all doctrines.)
Exploring the world and various cultures and traditions makes them smarter and more able to deal with diverse people than someone else
who accepts the doctrines of their parents and seeks after nothing.
On a serious note, the difference between Christians and Atheists is really
who you accept doctrine from.
Not exact matches
Yet you refuse to
accept that the
doctrine that they follow — the Quran — is a violent religion even though it specifically calls for the destruction of any one
who refuses to
accept the prophet Mohammed.
This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one
who unthinkingly
accepts every facet of my
Doctrine of choice.
Anyway, yes, Roger, if one believes in the
doctrine of Grace, Hess is in Heaven right now, and the Jews
who he helped kill but never
accepted Jesus as their savior, they are all in Hell right now, for all eternity.
Even those
who formalized the
doctrine (the RCC) say openly in their Catechism that nobody can properly understand it, so just
accept it and don't ask questions.
There are people
who do not
accept the full Christian
doctrine about Christ but
who are so strongly attracted by Him that they are His in a much deeper sense than they themselves understand....
It is akin to the silence in the Church concerning the Nicene Creed for about 20 years or so after its formulation in 325: there were many bishops and clergy in the East
who did not
accept homoousios and
who thought that silence, obfuscations and subsequent formulations of the creed would sweep away this inconvenient and troublesome
doctrine.
What Buber was essentially pointing out to Gandhi was that each one must have his own ground in order to deal justly with the other, that pure spirituality divorced from the concrete is futile and ineffective: «Would the Mahatma,» he wrote, «
who advises the Jews that Palestine is not a geographic district but an ideal within their hearts,
accept the
doctrine that India was not a subcontinent but merely an ideal wholly divorced from any soil?
Too bad, we could use priests
who are able to
accept the
doctrine along with the fallible people
who come with it.
The church recalled it, from the beginning, in dramatic action; and in this it was wise, or fortunate, for a
doctrine of «representation,» or «corporate personality,» may well appear abstruse; but those
who share the broken bread in Christian fellowship know in themselves what it means, whether or not they could form, or
accept, any particular theory about it.
Brunner appeals explicitly to the prologue of John and to certain sayings of Paul, but surely one
who is as emphatic as he in rejecting the authority of Scriptural teachings as such does not mean to say that we
accept the
doctrine of creation because of the presence of these passages in the New Testament.
I have friends
who are devout and prayerful Christians but
who sincerely do not
accept certain
doctrines of the Catholic Church, and so continue within one of the various other Christian denominations.
The separation of jurisdictions made no sense when one of the primary proclamations of the gospel was that in Christ there was neither Jew nor Greek, and when churches outside Judaea were made up of members
who had
accepted this
doctrine.
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.
St Augustine of Hippo,
who is a major influence on Calvin's thinking,
accepted as part of the Christian Faith
doctrines that many of Calvin's theological heirs have regarded as heathen at best and satanic at worst: such as baptismal regeneration.
Which means that all those
who do not
accept Calvin's working - out of the
doctrine of predestination, are not real Christians.
When Christians claim that a particular
doctrine must be defended at all costs or else Christianity is doomed, those
who can not
accept the particular
doctrine can hardly be blamed if they assume this must be so, and, as a consequence, surrender with reluctance all allegiance to the Christian faith.
Martin begins with Rahner and in particular his
doctrine of the «anonymous Christian»
who, while with no explicit faith, «
accepts himself completely» and finds salvation through that acceptance.
Leading Boston clergy
who attacked the gradual encroachment of the British on New England rights also attacked what they felt were the destructive tendencies of the Great Awakening not only in Jonathan Edwards but especially in his less sophisticated and less intelligent cohorts.26 Puritanism was built upon the centrality of the
doctrine of conversion, and in New England it was held that only truly converted people could be
accepted into full church membership.
The Kharijites»
doctrine, which led the community to treat them as outlaws, was that people
who disagreed with them concerning the consequence of committing a mortal sin should no longer be
accepted as Muslims and should be killed on sight.
So, should those
who accept the Bible as their supreme authority for belief hold to the Creed's
doctrine on this point?
When I think of preaching, what comes to mind is one
who espouses religious
doctrine which has been
accepted by the preacher as gospel truth.