Sentences with phrase «biblical time which»

Biblical time which is full of promise, judgement and transcendence has been replaced by the mere succession of chronology.

What we have seen throughout this survey of Scriptures on baptism is that water baptism was a symbolic ritual in biblical times which everybody understood, even those who were not followers of Jesus.

Not exact matches

Surely people need comfort, but at this critical time they need biblical truth, which was completely lacking in the story.

Furthermore, he recognized that although Biblical eschatology resembled Oriental mysticism in its negation of the given reality, it was a different sort of negation, which somehow also affirmed the forward movement of time and history.

By this «in - mythologizing,» there is the possibility of penetration into the reality which the ancient cosmology and the mythology used by the biblical writers was attempting to state in language appropriate to their time.

It should be that she is faithfully discerning the responsible actions of that movement which arose through the long history of Biblical times and which is alive today.

Surely, however, the basic affirmation of Christian theism, founded (once we have got behind the images in which often it was phrased) on the biblical witness to the faithfulness and consistency of God and to his unfailing maintenance of the creation in being, is that all things at all times and in all places are present to God, that he is always at work in them, that he constantly energizes through them, that he never ceases to move in the creation towards the accomplishment of his holy will and the revelation of his holy purpose.

The alternative method, often used by scholars, considers one epoch of Biblical religion at a time, presenting the entire complex of ideas which characterized that era, and then moves on to study the next succeeding epoch as a whole.

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.

This means that through the internal creativity of the biblical perspective, joined with the modern historical consciousness which it helped to create, a new possibility has been opened up for reconceiving the meaning of God's being in relation to time and history.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

Salem Kirban was a biblical - prophecy guru who flourished in the 1970s — think of a minor - league Hal Lindsey — who produced a Bible in which every passage of Scripture relating to the end times was highlighted, magnified, commented on, and surrounded by illustrations.

In ancient and biblical times, the word is often used regarding things like children who recovered from sickness, a battle which was won, or a successful trading voyage (See my article on the gospel where I document this in more detail).

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

John Partington, author of The Happiness Factor (New Wine Press) and national leader of the UK's Assemblies of God group of churches, says happiness (which is referred to around 30 times in the Bible) and joy (which gets 300 mentions) are separate biblical entities.

God is not only disclosed in him, nor is revelation confined to «biblical times»; but Jesus is the supreme disclosure which opens my eyes to God in the present, and while remaining a man who lived in a particular historical situation, he will always be the unique focus of my perception of and response to God.

No such problem had in fact arisen in the stage of social evolution which had been reached in biblical times.

From Biblical passages which there is no reasonable cause to doubt we can draw this general account of the time in Jerusalem:

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

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».

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

For a time biblical criticism played a creative role in genuine liberation and individuation, insofar as its «agentic» function was dialectically related to what Bakan calls «the communion function,» that is, the process by which separation is finally overcome.

On the other hand, such activities require the perspective of Biblical faith which seeks the Kingdom of God on earth without falling into the illusion that we are going to bring this Kingdom into being by our own actions or that we can expect to participate in it within our own time.

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?

The «altars» of biblical times were smelly, blood - covered, fly - infested places that no one wanted close to his tent, and which graphically reminded any worshipper of the messy and deadly - serious consequences of sin.

At some point Dan and I flew into New York City during a hurricane, got interviewed on The Today Show and The View, and celebrated the release of A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which you helped catapult to the New York Times Bestseller list for ebooks.

What is important for our present purposes in Bultmann's enterprise, however, is the insistence on getting at what the biblical material is saying without our being obliged at the same time to accept for ourselves the form in which it is said.

Start a Jesse Tree tradition in which ornaments representing various biblical figures and events in the redemption story are placed on a tree, their stories unfolding one at a time each day of Advent, building up to the arrival of Jesus.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

His A History of the Work of Redemption, which he was unable to complete before his death in 1758, similarly cast the history of the Church alongside the acts of God in biblical times.

I read this article by charisma magazine which i thought was well written which is pro Women preaching http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/16851-why-i-defend-women-preachers This debate is an on going one John Piper who i respect as a bible preacher believes that scripture is clear women shouldnt have authority over men or teach in the church some go as far as saying women shouldnt preach in sunday school if the classes are mixed.Personally i think times are changing and i say that because i have a women manager she has authority over me and other men so if we follow the biblical example i shouldnt allow myself to be in that situation which is just crazy thinking.

Even on the level of man your argument breaks down because you limit God to operating in our time line which is contrary to Biblical representations.

At the same time this paradigm poses a constant temptation for the Church, the more so because its humanism is post-Christian and draws so heavily on a vision of the human which is inspired by Biblical revelation and the person of Christ.

I confess I checked out few times while plowing through Chapter 6, which explores the effect of the Enlightenment on biblical interpretation and scriptural authority.

We will be devoting future posts to discussing the biblical and political aspects of this issue, at which time we are free to whip out our Bibles and constitutions and engage in civil debate... but now is not the time.

Next week — if I find some time during the Great Arizona Tour of 2012 — we'll delve into the trouble with the word «biblical,» which should be fun... cause y ’ all know how irritated I get with that one!

What is remarkable in these theological constructions is that they do not retain the biblical perspective which sees the state as ordained by God, in harmony with the divine order, and at the same time as the Beast of the Abyss, the Great Babylon; as wielder of the sword to chastise the wicked and protect the good, but also as the source of persecution and injustice.

«A Christian congregation is a group of persons that gathers together to enact publicly a much more broadly practiced worship of God in Jesus» name, regularly enough over an indefinite period of time to have a common life in which develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story, and that holds its conduct, outlook, and story accountable as to its faithfulness to biblical stories of Jesus» mission and God's mission in Jesus.»

The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.

Which may have more to do with us having access to a better historical record of his time than of biblical times.

It follows Genesis, which as the first biblical book has to do with beginnings — beginnings of self - conscious, time - conscious, ordered human existence (Gen. 1 - 11) as well as beginnings of destiny - conscious, Covenant - conscious and peculiarly God - conscious Israelite existence (Gen. 12 - 50).

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.

Around the time that Robertson's comments were being ridiculed, I was re-reading some of the presentations given at the 1971 Jerusalem Conference on Biblical Prophecy, organized by Carl F. H. Henry, who also edited the volume Prophecy in the Making, which contains the proceedings.

The biblical material stresses the material world, the bodily condition, the time - and - space reality, which we all know and in terms of which we exist as men and women; it does not take flight into some supposedly more «spiritual» realm where these things are of no importance and where presumably life is lived, at the creaturely level, without any genuinely created order at all.

They contended that the biblical writers were conditioned by the times in which they lived, and that biblical religion, like all religion, was subject to historical development.

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.

Milah: Symbolic Circumcision of Covenant The original Biblical circumcision of Abraham's time was a relatively minor ritual circumcision procedure in which only the redundant end of the foreskin extending beyond the tip of the glans was removed.

And the last time I intentionally cheated on the gluten - free diet, it took 7 weeks of eating gluten - filled meals 3 times a day before my dermatitis herpetifomis exploded in a rash biblical proportions (gluten didn't make me feel bad as I was eating it, which is why I continued to cheat for 3 years after my diagnosis).

The two screen dynamos have worked a couple of times together — once on the 2013 movie Her, and now on an upcoming Biblical story, in which she is Mary Magdalene to his Jesus Christ.