Sentences with phrase «biblical statements as»

You will get yourself all wrapped around the axle if you try to take Biblical statements as fact.

Not exact matches

This above statement is as ridiculous as proposing gay marriage and calling it Biblical.

To rush biblical statements into this arena, as though they were of the same order as Charles Darwin's Origin of Species or Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb, or as though scientific conclusions could be drawn from them, is to be very confused about what it is the Genesis materials are teaching.

His stirring opening statement invoked a repeating Biblical pattern of creation, death, and resurrection to new creation to suggest that Protestantism is not a diseased form that needs to be restored to its original health, but the historically - necessary senescence of something bound to die and rise again as some new and unforeseen synthesis.

These comments appeared to me to be a bit pejorative as there was no attempt at biblical refutation or even explanation of the context of your statements.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Political Theology and Ethics (Fortress, 1984), and Walter Harrelson, who in The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980) embraced the Universal Declaration as a modern statement of biblical values.

Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.

This is a complex and not easily definable issue and anyone with «easy» answers in my view is not admitting the fallen and terrible condition of mankind in general and that as much as we would attempt to make categorical statements as to «all war is wrong» or «war is the right soultion» we are making statements that just cant stand up to either biblical exegesis or the reality of the world we live in.

Although Biblical «infallibility» thus seems the better of the two options, as even Pinnock's most recent statements imply, the term is not without its problems within and outside the evangelical community.59 Given the history of controversy over inspiration, to say that Scripture is «infallible» seems to many evangelicals a watered - down statement, one sidestepping Biblical truth.

Yeah, John, nothing will change the biblical statements that the earth is flat (as well as round), and is young.

@Chad «ok, fair enough, I will amend my earlier statement as such: «While there are several passages that are disputed as having been included in the original text, there is zero evidence that the biblical text has been adapted or changed in any way.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

Even if his statements about faith don't measure up to a traditional Christian standard, the fact that Kanye is making them should be seen as an opportunity to talk about real biblical truth in honest ways and be a part of the cultural dialogue.

(One of the merits of Paul Tillich's book, Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), is the fact that it shows how ontological positions underlie the biblical statements and therefore can not be avoided or denied by theology as aBiblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), is the fact that it shows how ontological positions underlie the biblical statements and therefore can not be avoided or denied by theology as abiblical statements and therefore can not be avoided or denied by theology as a whole).

Hence with His own statements, so far as they are His own, such a «proportionate interpretation», in a fine phrase from Bishop Westcott, is required quite as much as it is required for other pieces of biblical teaching.

This statement, as does the citation with which I began this essay, reflects the uncritical belief that the biblical scenario for earthly, and indeed, cosmic history, will be surely and literally fulfilled.

In The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter suggests a key to characters» inner thoughts and motivations which would be helpful even to the inexperienced reader of Scripture: first, external details (appearance, clothing, gestures); second, «one character's comments on another»; third, «direct speech by the character»; fourth, «inward speech... quoted as interior monologue»; and fifth, «statements by the narrator about the attitudes and intentions of the personages» (pp.116 - 117).

[Here, almost as an aside, Matthew makes a very important point: «Focusing on the reason behind biblical statements is not a new principle.

Aside from the fact that this is an example of that penal substitution view rearing it's head, for in this view, God hates sin, and is angry at sinners, and so must kill His Son as a way to appease His own wrath against sin (which doesn't make much biblical or theological sense), the real reason I was shocked to read this statement is because it is the exact opposite of what Paul actually says in Romans 8:32!

Taking the biblical story of creation literally, as though it were in the same family of propositions as scientific statements, creationism sees modern scientifically based views of the cosmos as exclusive of and antagonistic toward biblical religion.

Dr. Acheampong, revealed how at the residence of the said «Opposition Leader» was also offered a whopping US$ 50,000 to constantly attack the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) through statements to be churned out from that offeror's political party, but disguised as biblical message from the Presby Church on good governance.

At Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon, most students responded that they strongly agreed or agreed with statements such as «I recognize that scientific discoveries might have a bearing on how I approach life, work, and ministry,» the surveys showed.

In a statement, Dance Ledge CEO Laurence Bowen described the original Paradise Lost as «a biblical Game Of Thrones» that carries readers through «an internecine world of political intrigue and incredible violence.»

The author uses the research of John Gottman in his book Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, as well as the Biblical statement in Ephesians 5: 30 - 31 — the two will become one flesh — as a basis for his theory and for the book.

Kind of reminds me of the biblical statement about salt: salt of the earth... where, like a handshake bond is given, salt was exchanged as a method of commerce, way back when.