Sentences with phrase «from biblical accounts»

Only when the great minds were liberated from the biblical accounts of creation and the controls and censures of ecclesiastical authorities were they able to make a qualitative leap in scientific progress, bringing about the un-fettered birth of modern science.

From biblical accounts of atonement situations, however, we are able to uncover the connection between rite and disrupted reality.»

I wasn't too happy with many of the changes in the movie from the biblical account, but whatever.

Not exact matches

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

«The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious»

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Esther and Vashti: The Real Story,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husband.

I was saying that all the historical accounts of Jesus (which you rightly pointed out are only the biblical accounts) have the miraculous interwoven from the earliest records.

The «new world order» conspiracy theories clearly draw upon the Revelation account of the Beast; abduction - by - aliens tales evoke the rapture; and persons who report messages from aliens offer a variant of numerous biblical accounts of direct communication from God.

To take that into account means taking seriously some specifically theological themes not identical to, but derived from, biblical faith.

It also hits at a the Biblical account of Satan's fall from heaven, the introduction of sin to earth through the temptation of Eve, the effect of that sin being the introduction of death and God's plan for saving humans from death by sending his son to die for our sins.

But, according to The Atlantic, «Scandal is no more salacious than the accounts of Old and New Testament biblical figures, from King David and his philandering - but-wise son, King Solomon, to Apostle Paul, pre-conversion.»

She is in the biblical accounts one of several women who followed Jesus from Galilee to his appointment with fate in Jerusalem.

As professional biblical scholarship stands now, few would argue that the gospel accounts are 100 % accurate, and that nothing was borrowed from other faiths and mythologies.

A British scholar has found that a 4,000 - year - old cuneiform tablet from what is now Iraq contains a story similar to the biblical account of Noah's Ark..

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It has affected how man understands the origin of life (including his own) on this planet, and Christianity has had to contend with, account for, and reconcile its implications with the biblical narrative of creation and purpose as stemming from God.

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

The few indirect pieces of evidence, like the use of Egyptian names, he adds, «are far from adequate to corroborate the historicity of the biblical account.»

• A great rain covered the land and mountains with water, although some water emerged from beneath the earth in the biblical account (Genesis 7:11).

3) Biblical scholarship relating the creation account of Genesis and ancient Near Eastern cosmology continues to become more accessible to the average reader, so Christian university students are in a great position to learn from Bible professors why a literal, scientific reading of Genesis 1 and 2 need not be a fundamental element of the Christian faith.

At first scholars had high hopes that inscriptions and other written documents from ancient times («epigraphical» sources) would confirm the biblical account and add further information.

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

Propagate the natural reading of the account from a version true to the Hebrew (such as nkjv): godly men marrying women for their beauty producing a generation of ungodly «men of renown;» and lead people to scholarly sites where they can see what the Hebrew says and compare the Biblical basis for the various interpretations, such as Who Were The Nephilim, Genesis.6 & Numbers 13 A Fresh Look, by Bodie Hodge at Answers in Genesis.

It takes great care to list generations of biblical figures supposedly all the way from Adam, and even if you account for individuals living for hundreds of years and God's «day» being like a 1000 years, you're still only up to about 13,000 years, at most.

We need such an account in order to prevent the breakdown of realism — doctrines are truth claims about objective realities — from leaving us unsure that the biblical narrative provides the datum of faith.

Maimonides, in Wyschogrod's account, deviated from the biblical view to accommodate Aristotle's philosophy.

These biblical stories, while not being accounts of actual incidents, nevertheless have a connection with actuality which stories of the ordinary kind do not need to have, Thus the creation story is true only if God is in fact the Creator of the heavens and the earth and of man in his image, and the story of the fall is true only if man is in fact alienated from God and thus actually falling short of the glory of his own true nature and destiny.

Doubt of Abraham's personal existence, for example, once prevalent, is surrendering to an increasing confidence in the Biblical accounts of his migration from «Ur of the Chaldees.»

Thallus (52AD), Pliny the Younger (61 - 113AD), Suetonius (69 - 140AD), Tacitus (56 - 120AD), Mara Bar - Serapion (70AD), Phlegon (80 - 140AD), Lucian of Samosata: (115 - 200 A.D.), Celsus (175AD),... These all were non biblical accounts... Escape from atheism while you can before it wipes your common sense out the window... I did...

And if evolutionary theory can be accommodated by calling creation accounts myths, presumably other aspects of the biblical world need to be corrected or altered in meaning when confronted by materials from more sources of knowledge than I wish to list.

One of the most interesting features of the book is that Mark doesn't shy away from the violence in the biblical account.

The biblical account of Jesus» death on the cross, or crucifixion, his burial and his resurrection, or raising from the dead, can be found in the Scriptures.

Exodus I, 2004, for example, was inspired by Hall's identification with the themes of expulsion and journey in the Biblical account of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

Marriage counseling that is approached from a Christian or biblical framework accounts for what spouses are experiencing in their heart and mind.