Sentences with phrase «biblical passages about»

This can mean anything from discussing Biblical passages about transformation and redemption to discussing Christian values, such as defining what is right or wrong about a particular situation and how the Christian concept of sin plays a role in relationships and human behavior.

Many have found the results of Gottman studies to be compatible with Biblical passages about relationships.

Capes flapping, they flowed like a wind - tossed river in the shadow of Storm King Mountain, where they listened to biblical passages about» terrible happenings» as storm clouds scudded from the north.

I guess I'm just not convinced that simply studying biblical passages about women would convince someone to become more egalitarian.

The discovery at a shrine to Ba'al confirms that biblical passages about the triumph of Judaism over pagan worship are historically true.2 Kings 10:27...

He argues that same - sex relations were condemned primarily because they undermined patriarchal gender roles, meaning that Christians should acknowledge a significant cultural component to biblical passages about same - sex behavior.

It also has a lot of people talking about the meaning of the biblical passage about submission that appears in the fifth chatper of Ephesians.

Not exact matches

I would constantly bring to the forefront that significantly small percentage of biblical passages (the majority within the framework of Levitical Law) that speak about slavery, selling of daughters, and God commanding the destruction of various tribes.

In this work he commented one by one on all his writings, giving details about the date and circumstances of the work, noting places where he had changed his mind, pointing out passages where he got things wrong, for example where he had cited a biblical text from memory and not gotten it correct.

I have yet to meet anyone who claims to have been convinced that what the Bible says is true, or who claims to have been convinced about the correctness of a particular interpretation of any Biblical passage by someone who wanted to argue those points.

Granted I'm no biblical scholar but if I remember correctly there were several passages about the love of material possessions being incompatible with love of God.

of his entire antiquities, there are two passages that mention Jesus, 1 merely says his brother was James, and people called him christ (which says nothing about works, resurrection, miracles, teachings), and the other is recognized as most likely a forgery, even by biblical scholars.

Right about now, a whole string of biblical passages are dancing through your head.

We just have gay stereotypes and we base our beliefs on a few biblical passages, ignoring passages about things that people in the church really struggle with, like food and other addictions.

Years ago, when I began to seriously study Scripture, I often had questions about a certain Biblical passage or theological issue.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

So Justin went on a quest: to reexamine the biblical passages that relate to homosexuality to see what they might teach him about how God wanted him to live.

Usually, something more is needed than logical arguments about biblical passages.

It is the type of Christian who would rather talk about doctrine, theology, and the meanings of various biblical words and passages without ever actually doing anything.

I would like to note this — about the biblical passages.

Observations the industrialist made about how he practiced respect for persons sounded like the Corinthian passage; and the discussion participants listening to these remarks thought they were listening to a paraphrase of the biblical text.

There is no doubt, for example, that the late Biblical Book of Proverbs, strongly impregnated with the feeling of Egypto - Grecian Judaism in Alexandria, is largely indebted to The Wisdom of Amenemope, written about 1000 B.C. Indeed, Proverbs 22:17; 23:11 is an almost verbatim translation of the Egyptian book, and in many other passages the similarity is too close to be mistaken.

Before getting into a more detailed analysis of the various biblical passages involved, Matthew takes Chapter 2 to argue that new information about sexuality ought to compel Christians to rethink their interpretation of Scripture.

fishon, I don't take passages about «sexual immorality» that way and don't mind at all them being read or preached, but my experience is that preachers name homosexuality specifically and teach things that not only are (in my opinion) and poor interpretation of the Bible, but also things that could have no Biblical basis of support.

(and other passages of Scripture we'd rather not talk about, A Very «Biblical Blog Post, and The Problem of Biblicism.)

But, Biblical interpretation aside, I feel it is foolish to place so much emphasis on 5 verses, when there is an entire Bible FULL of chapters and passages all about how we are to relate to each other.

The title of this sinewy boxing drama refers to a passage about Samson, the super-strong biblical figure who was sworn off wine and would lose his strength if he shaved...

Reading researcher Keith Stanovich dubbed this structural advantage in language and knowledge the «Matthew Effect,» from the biblical passage in the Gospel of Matthew about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Biblical marriage counseling therefore generally draws upon specific passages of the Christian Bible, as well as Christian beliefs about marriage, to help spouses resolve their differences and learn to repair their troubled marital relationships.