apostate

How To Use apostate In A Sentence

• We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
• We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics.
• It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths.
• But is it reasonable, or just an article of faith in the marriage religion, that apostates must all be cynics or manipulators?
• What did it say about McCain's judgment and steadiness that he could careen between a liberal apostate he knew well and a frontier salvationist he knew hardly at all who's the opposite in most respects? John & Sarah in St. Paul
• The early Reformers probably realized this but they felt the necessity of building up some sort of a Church which could bind together its members into a corporate body professing unity of belief and worship, and which, in contrast with the pope's Church, which they called apostate, could be called the true Church of God. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
• Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Declaring that person an apostate is impossible and impermissible. The Amman Message
• Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy.
• They had charged him as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself upon his being able to say, Our father Abraham, and that he is a faithful worshipper of the God of Abraham, whom therefore he here calls the God of glory. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)