Sentences with phrase «biblical teaching about»

Biblical teaching about priesthood fills out the picture, because in the Bible priests are always embedded in liturgical communities and attached to a liturgical center.

I think that these scriptures do clearly portray the Biblical teaching about redemption.

The hostility to Buddhism, for example, does not arise out of Biblical teaching about Buddhism.

You can deny Total Depravity and still accept the biblical teaching about the universal sinfulness of humanity.

Yet the more mainstream Lent becomes, the more it seems to be divorced from the biblical teaching about fasting.

Biblical teaching about the divine foreknowledge appears to contradict biblical teaching about human freedom, and it is nigh unto impossible to see how the puzzle can be resolved rationally.

It is because the biblical teaching about the kingdom of God promises joy, contentment, and significance to those who live under the rule and reign of God that the invitation to enter into the kingdom by faith in Jesus Christ has such persuasive power.

What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?

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.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

Their reading of biblical teachings about particular kinds of sexual activity often fails to account for the cultural setting and circumstances in which each book of the Bible was written.

Not exact matches

I believe biblical teaching and Christian discipleship do have important implications for the way we think about and do politics.

The authors write, «Christians have too often been silent about biblical teaching on sex, marriage, and family life.»

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

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.

I was 21 or 22 when I began questioning what I'd been taught about what constituted «biblical» politics, «biblical» marriage, and «biblical» womanhood, and wondering if it was wise, or even possible, to reduce the Bible into an adjective.

So while I agree that this is an example of how long some of these teachings went, even here they were interactive discussions, and while we can not be certain, the discussion was probably about the interpretation and application of biblical texts.

And I like the suggestion that we teach about biblical leadership again to try to recover some truth and hold our own experiences up to the light again.

Maybe they are just going by their Biblical teachings and not worrying about other ppl's sins and trangressions and worrying about their own.

Christian liberty implies that reasonable and faithful Christians will disagree about issues situated farther away from the core of biblical teaching.

On Biblical grounds, we note, for example, that Jesus» ministry is summarized in the Gospels in ways like the following: «And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.»

I certainly wouldn't assume as much about the undergraduate English students I teach, and I have ceased to be surprised by blithe ignorance about Western literature's biblical groundings in otherwise brilliant and intellectually agile doctoral students.

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.

Then after giving unconditional election a second and more Biblical look, I went through the musing s about how it could be true if all unbelievers go to eternal hellfire torment, and then I got hit with the realization that the New Testament teaches eternal torment for Satan and his followers, which I heartily endorse, but It teaches destruction for unbelievers.

On page 254, I quote again from Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood to share what John Piper and Wayne Grudem say there about women teaching and leading in the church.

A lot of churches have been practicing this but I believe the Biblical principle about tithing is not being taught to the people.

Alfred Edersheim, a Biblical scholar and historian, thinks that Levi followed Jesus about and taxed the crowds that came to hear Jesus teach.

Today that same qualification, if the church teaches biblical truths about homosexuality, is a detriment to one's candidacy in many areas of our country.

One reason we hear about biblical illiteracy so much is because the people who champion it are the ones who have the spiritual gifts of teaching, preaching, and knowledge.

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.

I believe that all of the Biblical Feasts and Festivals were intended to teach us things about God, Messiah, ourselves, and living in community.

As a deeply spiritual act, it's important for people to understand what the Bible teaches (and doesn't teach) about sex, to be able to speak openly and honestly with their ministry leaders regarding sex, and to find solid, biblical teaching on sex.

This post looks at what Jesus says about election in Matthew 24, and in so doing, shows that the biblical teaching of election is different than what Calvinists claim.

And whatever «form» of church one attends (small group, house, small local body, mega-church) has some form of leadership (some good, some not - sThe biblical issue isn't, in my opinion, about whether women can teach in a church — it is the issue of qualifications for elders.

One of these issues has been put to me in words like these: «Altogether too much teaching about prayer, particularly in circles that are highly orthodox and consider themselves also highly biblical, amounts to telling us that we must cringe before, imperial majesty, as if we were in the presence of an oriental despot.

The Biblical Gospel includes everything related to the incarnation, life, teaching (including teaching about the offer and future acceptance of the Kingdom of God) death, resurrection, ascension, finished work and continuing advocacy of Jesus Christ.

I had hoped we could teach the UCC about biblical theology.

Bottom line is that your entire premise just doesn't fit the biblical imagery or teaching about redemption.

I would ask you to consider studying what the true «Biblical imagery or teaching about redemption» is while using the Bible as your reference.

Yes... if taught the biblical ideal about using «measure» on themself (as it is presented)-- and what responsibility truly means (or as the church calls it — repentance).

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 if so, how do you go about correcting theological error in a community that is already so wounded and vulnerable because they have grown up battered by «biblical» teaching?

The Bible is not about conveying divine principles for starting and managing a Christian business — but is instead about Christ on the cross triumphing over all principalities and powers and so radically transforming everything we consider to be our business... Scripture then ceases to about teaching about biblical manhood and womanhood or biblical motherhood and fatherhood — and becomes instead the story of how a covenant - making and promise - keeping God took on full human personhood in Jesus Christ in order to reconcile this alienated and wrecked world to the eternally gracious Father.»

She probably has not been taught clearly about those very important biblical truths.

However, by the end of these posts you will hopefully understand why I believe what I believe about biblical illiteracy and why I still think I should be writing and teaching about Scripture and theology on this website and through my podcast.

Over the past twenty years or so, I have read, written, and taught a lot about the cultural and historical backgrounds of various Biblical texts.

What I like best about the series is the solid biblical teaching, which is what kids need more of these days!

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