Sentences with phrase «christian holy text»

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First of all, I would like to point out that Toby begins his post by writing that, «Christians believe that their holy text, the Bible, is the inerrant word of God.

In my opinion it takes more faith to live with the mystery, struggle to hold together all the opposites and seek to listen to the Holy Spirit for your own unique life's circumstances than it does to simply quote chapter and text as if the Christian walk is a predictable black & white / cause & effect existence.

The chances are that the Vedic text has been much more correctly transmitted than has the text of ancient holy writ of the Hebrew - Christian tradition, which came to us via the copyists and the printers.

However, the use of «she» as a pronoun for the Holy Spirit is more than a matter of personal choice; such usage appears to have some theological possibilities, especially if serious attention is given to certain research on early Christian texts, apocryphal as well as canonical.

But, Luther said, all Christians were priests — and quoted a text much beloved of supporters of the second Vatican Council, «You are a royal priesthood and a holy people» (1 Peter 2.9).

In dismissing the feminine Holy Spirit as an idea present only in «obscure and heretical sects on the periphery of the Christian church,» Jewett had relied on research that did not take into account the 1945 discovery near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of some 50 ancient texts.

And it is the Scriptures that I am concerned with — not biblical texts as records of discrete historical times, but rather the Bible as a coherent unit, brought together under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and fitted in God's providence for leading Christians to the contemplation of the Triune God as revealed in the text, the Church, and the world.

Pearls may be the holiest stones we can think of --- the gorgeous orbs are mentioned with reverence inHindu, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sacred texts alike.

«Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so - called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair - minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and «texts of terror.»