Sentences with phrase «biblical times about»

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You're just refusing to answer my questions again and this time about Biblical texts — and you're a pastor!

If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years when the science was far, far in advance of anything understood about humans back in biblical times.

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

All biblical evidence points to the fact that there was an understanding about the nature of the earth and many other topics far beyond the secular understanding of the time.

The funny thing about it as that we've changed calendars since biblical times so even if this nonsense was true, they have the dates wrong.

I accept the Bible's authority; at the same time I have wondered — as with suicide — about a precise identification of every person of this type with the biblical model» («The Bible and Two Tough Topics,» Eternity, August 1974).

Of course, we don't find anything specifically about guns in the Bible; they weren't invented until the 14th century A.D. Common weapons in biblical times were various types of knives, axes, spears — and especially the sword.

Young - Earth Creationists: 6000 — 10,000 years ago»... the Biblical chronology is about a million times shorter than the evolutionary chronology.

I've received countless emails from women who, upon reading about the original intent of Proverbs 31 in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of womanhood.

The strong, biblical foundation which took root in his childhood has remained an important influence throughout his life, but by the time he went up to Cambridge, he was having doubts about whether evangelical Protestantism was for him.

Since I do not have time to take a semester of biblical study and get back to, I will have to assume some of these catholic sites know what they're talking about, and you do not.

While more liberal scholars believe this period of time lasted millions (or billions) of years, even the most the most conservative biblical scholars say that there was about 2000 years between Genesis 1 and Genesis 12.

Seems like I feel the same way about you — there is so much that has been dug up by biblical archaeologist and ignored by your type — every time someone like you opens their mouth a biblical archaeologist shoves another spade in it.

Its roots: «The establishment of December 25 evolved not from biblical precedent,» says The Christmas Encyclopedia, «but from pagan Roman festivals held at year's end,» about the time of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

How about the fact that Jesus was not born at this time of the year, since there is no biblical significance at this time of the year... and Passover and Unleavened Bread is rooted in the biblical record.

The bottom line is that the way most people think about forgiveness today is not at all the way people in biblical times thought about forgiveness.

The fact that people are tempted to abuse Scripture by calling upon it to support whatever they believe is one of the reasons it is inappropriate most of the time to think that the primary theological debate is about whether the biblical text is authoritative or not.

One fundamentalist pastor I interviewed some time ago said he was much in favor of the study of biblical theology, but opposed the study of systematic theology because the latter presupposed too much about human wisdom.

The fact that biblical scholars, many of whom have made it their full - time job to study the origins of the many books of the Bible, can't agree on it's authenticity should at least leave you with some doubt about it's authenticity.

For example, Selma is not shy about tying Martin Luther King Jr.'s thirst for equality to God's love of justice, and Interstellar certainly orbits the perimeter of a biblical worldview when its characters identify Love as a force outside the bounds of time and space.

Yall are literate with internet access and wan na tell me a personal caretaker up in the sky cares about you and gave you a «purpose»... which is most of the time to repeat biblical nonsense to anyone and everyone and «spread the word».

Jesus keeps it simple plus we can avoid judgments and speculation about biblical accounts of war, slavery etc. that related to a specific nomadic tribal people or at a minimum require taking into account a people, time and place some say never existed.

He seemed to be unaware of this actual process, even though some of the centers of biblical form and literary criticism, (especially in Austria - Germany (ie Tubingen University)-RRB- HAD begun to be aware of the historical, (archeologically validated) processes, (and eventually at Harvard and Yale and Princeton, and I'm sure other places I don't know about), by the time Smith was doing his thing.

As one of the journal's part - time editors, he used the pages of the Christian Oracle to educate readers about developments in biblical scholarship.

At the same time Niebuhr felt that these two biblical teachings about man gave significance to his doctrine of man's finiteness and nature on the one hand and man's freedom of spirit on the other.

And we must be wary about trying to get our government to enforce Biblical guidelines on all the people in a country, for if it can be done with «Christian» laws, it can also be done at a later time with «Muslim» laws, or «Mormon» laws, or whatever religion is in «power» at the time.

Archaeologists have found new evidence about the time frame of the biblical texts, based on what's essentially a shopping list.

It generates questions about what happened, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

Doing this will generate questions about what happened, and why it was done, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

Niebuhr introduces his own constructive discussion with several statements which are not only a correct report of the biblical - theological situation in our time, but also provide material for our effort to say something useful about the theme of this lecture: what are the requirements for preaching which are suggested by this search for a proper theological method?

Alt and his students were unwilling to speak of the existence of a historical Israel before scattered groups of nomads had settled in Palestine and formed a tribal alliance — or about the time of the Judges in the biblical narrative.

By the end of that century, archaeologists had excavated a number of the ruins and were learning about everyday life during biblical times.

The biblical story tells us time and time again that, important though analysis of estrangement may he, God is about reconciliation.

At that time, I didn't know much about the historical background of the biblical canon.

In biblical times to know about history was to interpret human events in relation to our purpose: to see the building of the Tower as idolatry was to understand an historical event.

Many times, when people of faith are challenged about their anti-gay views, they cite biblical verses or other religious texts as a safe haven when they are unable to articulate why they hold prejudiced atudes toward LGBT people.

As far as the Biblical record, sometimes God does give us some details about why He judged, other times He does not.

This is what biblical language about God is as well: It was contemporary to its time, relevant and secular — God as shepherd, vinekeeper, father, king, judge and so forth.

One of the important points about the new spirituality is how to read the biblical materials in terms of a dominant concern of our times namely the removal of present oppressive structures.

So before we go and mine the Bible for verses about women and then apply them universally as elements of «biblical womanhood,» we've got to humbly acknowledge our own limitations in applying an ancient text to modern times.

After she read A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Grandma called me up to tell me about a time when she was demoted from an administrative position at a Christian school because the new pastor of the associated church believed women should be forbidden from leading in any capacity.

My intention is simply to exchange ideas about what I consider is a Biblical perspective that the church has missed - to be ready for God's plans in times like these.

Time - tested biblical insights about the resistance to growth provide a healthy corrective to the unrealistic optimism which sometimes appears in the human potentials movement.

As far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he lived.

From biblical scholarship alone, for example, we probably know more today about the life and times of Jesus than was known at any period since the second generation of Christians.

Harvard's Helmut Koester, one of the principal interpreters of the Gospel of Thomas, believes that it was composed at about the same time as the biblical Gospels.

You can also create customized reading plans of your own based on the time you would like to spend reading, the topic you want to learn more about, or the genre of biblical literature you want to spend more time reading.

But if it is because of a real conflict with the way in which any decent modern man is bound to think, then indeed it is time to talk about removing the offensive elements from the Biblical story by radical translation into harmless terms.

Infidelity has been a topic of interest in scholarly literature for at least the past two decades, but humans have been talking about it, and engaging in it, since biblical times.