Sentences with phrase «if biblical literacy»

If biblical literacy is the goal, how can we know when we have achieved it?

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Another problem is that when people calk for biblical literacy and then see pain and problems in the lives of others, they either think that a Bible verse will help the other person, OR that the other person wouldn't be having these problems if they had just known the Bible better.

If you hire a pastor who has the spiritual gifts of mercy, or service, his sermons will probably not be full of Bible knowledge and theology facts, nor will he place a heavy emphasis on biblical literacy.

If you believe in Biblical literacy and the infallibility of the Bible's writers, then those passages you quote and many others in the N.T. are indeed hard to understand, even after two thousand years of examination and discussion — at least without developing some fantastic theology that goes completely against God and nature.

But if we strive for biblical literacy, we end up with neither biblical living nor biblical literacy.

If we strive for biblical living, we also get biblical literacy.

They see people not living very biblically, and not really having a biblical worldview, and so they think that if they can raise the level of biblical literacy, this will raise the level of biblical living as well.

If properly approached, less preaching and teaching may actually result in a substantial increase in biblical literacy.