Sentences with phrase «biblical authors knew»

Biblical authors knew nothing of Buddhism, and we can only speculate as to how they might have responded to it.

Not exact matches

Obviously both Jesus and Satan and the biblical authors who made up this story did not know that the earth was round.

Regarding the author's attempt to apply the concept of Biblical retaliation to the current situation, the author should not place himself in the position where he is known to be a fool by opening his mouth.

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.

All of these things were going to happen no matter what, but God took the blame for all of them by inspiring the biblical authors to write what they did about Him.

Most biblical authors assume that their readers want to know how to obey God and follow Jesus better.

Now that the author has seemingly done damage to the integrity of the biblical text to the point that we can apparently know nothing more, or do nothing more, than feel our way around in the dark never being certain of what God's Holy Word says I ask this question:

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

I studied the lives and times of the biblical authors to help me know what they were saying in their day so I could better apply it to my own.

I know that some verses seem like He did initiate it, but that is because He inspired the Biblical authors to place the blame on Him, for in a sense, He was responsible that the flood came.

McKnight describes it as «the ongoing reworking of the biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.»