But Christ has not penetrated it.
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Their Church split from the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in 451AD because of a theological dispute over the nature of Christ but is now, on most issues, doctrinally similar to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Until a few years ago, travellers walking up the trail would bypass the ticket booths to reach the belvedere on the summit of the Corcovado and the statue of the Christ, but stricter controls are now in place and no one gets there for free anymore.
What he ended up saying was many, many things, both about Reverend Wright, about the Trinity United Church of Christ, but also about the sense of race, and anger, and the flawed and beautiful institutions by which we have to try to heal generations of wounds in this country.
But he said the ultimate test of Christianity was not whether it was beneficial to the human race, but whether the resurrection of Jesus Christ actually happened.
But Canon Simon Killwick, vicar of Christ Church, Moss Side and leader of the Catholic group in the synod, insisted that the measure before it was "not fit for purpose".
Certainly, Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it?
But when Peruvian museums boast artifacts from before Christ, focusing exclusively on Atahualpa and his predecessors is akin to being so impressed by books that you conclude world history began with the Gutenberg press.
They may be believers in Christ, they may be Christian, but they want to know, for instance, their world view.
Let's touch on Easter for a moment, how do you feel and how do you respond to people who say I believe in God, I believe in Christ, I'm a Christian but I cannot accept the Resurrection as a historical fact when I know you regard it as the heartbeat of Christianity?
He altered its wording in 2008, but it still calls for Jews to "recognise Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all men", a more explicit demand than was included in John Paul II's revised wording.
But Brian, Reverend Johnson mentioned that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints contributed heavily to the campaign to support Proposition 8.
Mormon men as young as 12 years old can receive offices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' priesthood authority but can't receive the title of priest until at least age 16.
As the prophet Isaiah said: seven centuries before Christ did not come from the balance of forces, but from justice.
But for Byron Buffalo, lay minister at the United Church of Christ in Bridger, South Dakota, the designation was a call to arms.
Wine consumption may or may not have divine sanction in Georgia, but its production here goes back much earlier than the birth of Christ.
In him, dear friends, we learn how to respond to God's call, readily and willingly, but we also see the core of the Christian vocation, which is Christ!
But as Christians, we believe that redemption can be delivered -- by faith in Jesus Christ.
In the Passion of Christ, argues the pope, the Greek aesthetic of ideal beauty had not been rejected but rather overcome by a broader vision that included brokenness and suffering.
But it is perhaps more controversial and noteworthy here because Utah, the home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for years has had some of the nation's most restrictive liquor laws.
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True, as Pope, he moved swiftly and decisively against the Legion of Christ, a Catholic religious order and favourite of John Paul II for its militant orthodoxy, but whose founder, it was revealed, was himself a sexual predator.
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But perhaps his best chapter is on 19th-century America, where he distinguishes the reformers who prepared Christ's coming, as they saw it, by combating slavery, alcohol and other social evils, from the separatists, who withdrew into their own sects and cults, the better to wait out Christ's judgment on an unrescuable world.
But the thing about the annual culture war that would probably most surprise those who want to "keep the Christ in Christmas" is this: The original Puritan Protestants regarded the whole enterprise as blasphemous.
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