Sentences with phrase «who taught the doctrine»

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

But it is not just the winds of doctrine that blow immature Christians around, it is also the false teachers who teach these doctrines.

Those who teach a doctrine of sanctification in the Wesleyan, Holiness tradition, the «three works of grace.»

Not exact matches

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

I would ask those who have left, or study the differences between Mormon doctrines and Christ's teachings.

My father also taught me, even when I was a child, that Bruce R. McConkie, who wrote some unflattering stuff about non-whites in «Mormon Doctrine,» stood in Conference after the 1978 announcement and said he had obviously been wrong on those points, and he retracted everything not in keeping with the Brethren's announcement.

Anyone who wants to get the official church doctrines should visit the website"mormon.org» not detractor's false teachings.

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.

Why is it that Calvinists, who claim to teach «The Doctrines of Grace» are so ungracious when dealing with those who disagree?

But anyway, I myself struggle with the same question you asked about pastors who know and embrace the full implications of Calvinism, and I have to say I DO regard a pastor like that as one who teaches False Doctrine and who is dangerous because of it.

I agree that the church keeps people away by teaching wrong doctrine such as hell being a place of everlasting torment - who wants to serve a God like that.

In this book, a sequel to his much acclaimed Ascension and Ecclesia, Farrow, a Catholic theologian who teaches Christian thought at McGill University, presents what he hopes is a «more accessible sketch» of the relevance of the doctrine of the Ascension.

But this is taught in many churches, that those who do not agree with specific church doctrine / dogma are not healthy to be around.

Heresy and Doctrine in the Early Church In the first few centuries of Christianity, teachers taught wildly different ideas about who Jesus was.

Of course there are many churches who teach non-traditional views of the doctrines you've listed above, so I'm sure you could find some church that wouldn't care.

Section 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code, called «Vilification of Religious Teachings», criminalizes «Anyone who publicly disparages a person or thing that is the object of worship of a domestic church or religious society, or a doctrine».

The liberals who abandoned this teaching clearly broke with explicit doctrines of Wesley.

On the other hand the scribe who fears the Pharisee does not teach the differences between heresy and sound Bible doctrine; nor does he teach the historical views to understanding the Bible.

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

When we see that the gospel contains a whole host of truths and doctrines to believe and teach and also a broad spectrum of behaviors to practice and obey, those who believe Christians should be listening to more sermons and attending more Bible studies can nod and smile toward those who prefer to be out feeding the poor and tending the sick, and vice versa.

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

Calvinists have also been known to use this verse against other Christians who disagree with the Calvinistic teachings and doctrines.

Only persons who adhere to that doctrine, of the duty to seek truth and do justice through unrestricted disciplined investigation of the same, are fit to teach in an authentic democracy.

For those of you who feel that LDS doctrine is at odds with Christian doctrine, first learn what LDS doctrine is, then read the Bible (something few on this board probably do) then you will realize that LDS doctrine is in line with Christ's teaching perfectly.

A more sophisticated screening of Scripture is carried out by others who claim that we must look in Scripture for the «locus classicus» of a Biblical doctrine and concentrate on its teaching, interpreting all else in light of its truth.

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.

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.

One correspondent expressed what was clearly the dominant view among those who attend the Masses, that «It is not the teaching of the «Church» that we should refrain from sexual activity outside of marriage, but the doctrine of the Vatican.

Teachers who are going to teach in this area should be expected to give an affirmation that they believe inand will teach the moral doctrines of the Catholic Church.

That people who can't even teach proper doctrine are on this list is terrifying in itself.

The Crouches are known for being indifferent to correct doctrine and / or teaching false doctrine, and for inviting guests onto their televsion programs who promote heretical doctrines.

As reiterated in the 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio and the 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus, the teaching is that everyone who is saved is saved through the redemptive work of Christ, whether or not they have ever heard of Christ.

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

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.

Hence, a person who» becomes as a young child», who acts as a «lesser one», is one who allows themselves to be taught by our Creator, Jehovah God, rejecting creeds, doctrines and traditions that are not based on the Bible, just as Jesus did.

Scripture teaches that we all have a responsibility to grow into maturity and not remain baby Christians who are easily knocked off course by dodgy doctrines or by chasing after faddish spiritual practices.

Studies of 19th - century topics (with concern for contemporary relevance) have been undertaken by Gayle Carlton Felton, who examined Methodist baptismal teaching and practices in the previous century (Duke, 1987), and by Carol Marie Norén, who studied the doctrine of Christian perfection as expressed in the preaching of a Swedish - American Methodist preacher of sanctification, Nels O. Westergreen (Princeton University, 1986) A dissertation on 19th - century Methodist services for marriage and burial is currently under way at Notre Dame by Karen Westerfield Tucker.

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.

It is the function of codified doctrines and authoritative teachings to determine who is in and who is outside the system.

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).

When the teachings of the Church are attacked and their advocates described publicly as bigots, who is there to come forward to restate and defend the universal principles that underlie Catholic doctrine on abortion, homosexual and extramarital sex, euthanasia and so forth?

The fact that different schools of thought have come to different conclusions after reading the same bible does nt seem to register with many christians who effectively hold to the position «My doctrine is what the bible teaches so the other view is wrong».

One who affirms a doctrine of apostolic succession culminating in the authority of the bishop of Rome must not only choose between succession of teaching or succession of office (as J. B. Lightfoot in his own day understood), but also surmount the historiographical difficulty posed by the early Church's transition from apostles to presbyters, and from presbyters to a single monarchical bishop.

Martin Luther's interpretation of Paul's writings heavily influenced Luther's doctrine of sola fide.So John who is into credentials is not respecting the credentials of Saint John.With Paul's upbringing and teachings he would not even think it was ok to be gay and might be the one to kill you if you were.

Either you misquoted 1Corinthians 11:3 (also look at Ephesians 5:23 as well) or you're teaching a false doctrine it is God who is Head over Christ and CHRIST (JESUS) who is the head and authority over man NOT «THE ELDERS».

I hate to say «who decides the doctrinal teachings of the church» (even tho that's what I think it is) because the word ««doctrine» has taken on unnecessary baggage (after all, what you wrote is «doctrine» — doctrine in itself ain't bad — it's what we do with it).

Those who are more mature in the faith, who know sound doctrine, should be the ones who decided what to teach.

They are easily deceived by false doctrine and those who teach these strange ideas.

Most people who teach false doctrine are fully convinced of the truth of it themselves.