Sentences with phrase «holy scripture does»

Holy Scripture does not present us with details about what happens to those who die in Christ» whether, as most Evangelicals believe, they enter immediately into the fullness of God's glory or, as Catholics believe, ordinarily undergo a period of further preparation.

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if we take time to interprate the scriptures instead of the holy spirit do it for us....

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

But I believe that we are to not give in to our every urge, and to do our best to live by the laws governing society and those laid out for us in Holy Scripture.

People who murder their own children in order to enable their promiscuous lifestyle are not being led to do that by the Holy Spirit, regardless if what they are doing is not explicitly forbidden in the Scriptures.

Now here is the difference, Judas planned all this ahead, Peter did not (read the Scriptures) and we can tell he repented later in the book of Acts, when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he became a more solid, mature man of God that produced the fruits of the Spirit.

BUT before that, I would recommend that you go and do a good confession... And please, learn more about your faith and the Holy Scriptures..

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

Burning of flags is a political thing but burning of Holy Books such as Torah or Bibles is not an act of a Muslims to do such a wrong thing since our Quran tells us to respect elder holy books because it is (confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over Holy Books such as Torah or Bibles is not an act of a Muslims to do such a wrong thing since our Quran tells us to respect elder holy books because it is (confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over holy books because it is (confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over it.)

Do you clean yourself before touching your holy scripture?

I don't mean to be stupidly flippant about holy scripture.

Let's see, you don't accept Holy Scripture, you don't accept personal accounts, you don't accept the weight of history and you don't accept scientific inquiry.

@Bill «Still Deluded After All These Years» Deacon: «Let's see, you don't accept Holy Scripture, you don't accept personal accounts, you don't accept the weight of history and you don't accept scientific inquiry.

May be the scripture refers to a person (not saved) who is cleared of demons but does not invite the Holy Spirit to take up residence therefore the demons come back in the (empty house)

«We do not come to Scripture alone, but do so with the Holy Spirit who helps us discern God's truth and will within.

According to Enns, we would do well to learn a few things from the Jewish readers of Scripture whose emphasis in engaging the holy text is «not on solving the problems once and for all but on a community upholding a conversation with Scripture with creative energy.»

The Church leaders didn't finish editing the «holy» scriptures until the Council of Trent when the Catholic Church pronounced the Canon closed.

For instance, scriptures come to my mind of what I should do, or I don't feel direction from the Holy Spirit — but I need to remember I am not walking by sight, nor by what I feel.

Islam lends itself to fundamentalism even more than does Christianity, for the strength of fundamentalism lies, as we have seen, in its appeal to Holy Scripture.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

Where does the scripture say that the Holy Spirit will be removed.

Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to life that is the power of the holy spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz

Where does the scripture state that the Holy Spirit restrains the anti-Christ.

NOBODY, including Cathy and Graham, obeys what the BIBLE actually says about marriage, because to do so, they would have to obey these HOLY SCRIPTURES!

All you got to do is research them yourself, also Christianity in it's purest form is not religion, it is truth because all you have to do is study the Holy scriptures and apply them to your life & human history & you'll see this is the real deal & not some book written y a bunch of random guys whio wanted to tell a good story.

I don't see that it in scripture, instead I see the Holy Spirit playing a role in revealing truth to us.

I can totally handle that Jesus came to offer us a different way; but, If we really believe that the Old Testament is the inspired Word of God, or even if we want to understand more about the culture that gave us these holy scriptures, what we should do is take courses in Judaism, to get a better understanding of what God was supposed to have been telling the Jews.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

Moving on, I've quite enjoyed what I've read of your thoughts (and His) on the «holy doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture» — I don't know who I'm quoting, just someone with an air of pious church authority tone!

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

Do you believe he was arrogant enough to think that he was writing «holy scripture», as he wrote that letter?

If the Bible states that The Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one, the why would you think to have a special gift that seems to negate the very scriptures and aspects of a Sovereign and Holy God who does send judgment and wrath.

How do we approach a Holy Scripture that not only explains events differently than we would, but that also has a very different understanding of what even counts for a reasonable explanation?

While the basic structure and words of the core components of the liturgy do not change from Sunday to Sunday, there are changes in other texts, particularly the various readings from Holy Scripture appointed for every Sunday and festival day, that give the various times in the Church Year their unique emphases and nuances.

Nothing would lead us to believe that women invoked the Holy One with any less frequency or fervor than did their male counterparts, yet the scriptures record only a fraction of women's prayers in comparison with those prayed by men.

One thing I didn't mention in this post is the work of the Holy Spirit to teach us, guide, and help us understand Scripture.

[1] He acknowledges that a truly historical approach is necessary, but while it only deals with the isolated past as past it «does not exhaust the interpretive task for someone who sees the biblical writings as a single corpus of Holy Scripture inspired by God».

These exegetes were: capable of setting free the spirit bottled up in the composition of holy scripture... Insofar as they themselves did not create the text which is to be interpreted, the source of the spirit, they are subordinated to it.

During the Caliphate of Othman, it is reported, an important leader came to him beseeching him to do something about the matter lest the Moslems come to «differ in the Holy Book as the Jews and Christians differ in their scriptures.

Do you think that the things that the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Scriptures to write did not intend them for you?

Let us turn next to something we do possess, namely, the Jewish Holy scriptures.

The general view now would be that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Scripture, but did not dictate what they wrote.

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

Luke's gospel recounts that Jesus read the Holy Scriptures in the synagogue: «He came to Nazareth... and went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as he usually did.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

But there is a Biblicism that is not theological because it does not make God so much as Scriptures the object of its interest, and which depends for law and grace not on Father, Son and Holy Spirit but on Bible.

But that denial can not be reconciled with the declaration that the Church «does not derive her certainty about revealed truths from the Holy Scriptures alone.»

But, as all moderately educated Jews and Christians know, the God of Israel does not incorporate Jesus of Nazareth or the Holy Spirit, and the Tanakh (Hebrew Scriptures) does not include the New Testament.

What if decisions were made, not based on what other churches or doing, not based on what the church has always done, not based on what the numerous church policies say, but instead only made after people had sought the truth of God through Scripture, the timing of God through prayer, and the leading of God through reliance on the Holy Spirit?

Please tell us what you do not agree with, based on your knowledge of the he Holy Scripture.