Sentences with phrase «interpreting gods word»

Jeremy's call for us to Interpreting Gods word through the lens of Christ is a startling experience and one we should all embrace.

Not exact matches

You should know as well as I do Fishon — you are using your own (plus others) knowledge to interpret God's words — admit it.

aka the book written by man to control man... of course it has things that are evil... u can only interpret the word of «god» by what u know around u cuz apparently he speaks like nostradamus so man hears peace and love and changes it to bigotry and war

, or any number of Christianity splinter groups that interpret the «word» of god differently.

It is not for me to interpret God's word as carte blanche to kill other human beings.

If it were the inspired word of god, than their would be no need to interpret it.

Any person claiming to be a Christian (especially a preacher) who, unqualified, tries to badly interpret the Word of God to you or to the world is calld a «false prophet».

It is not for me to tell anyone how to interpret God's word.

The BIble, when interpreted by the Holy Spirit (and all our best efforts to hear the texts as the original hearers would have understood them), is the Word of God.

I should have specified at the beginning that only fundamentalist Christians believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God, and that many people interpret the stories as allegories.

Interesting how having faith means setting aside all normal human decency and refusing others rights to interpret the «word of god» as they feel is right and correct.

God still exists, of course, but from now on the word «exists» shall no longer be interpreted to mean «exists» in the literal sense.

«Scripture interprets scripture», so it is very easy to distinguish between what is the Word of God and what is not.

It's not a perfect representation of the word of God if passages have the potential to be interpreted differently depending on the language of translation.

And if God chooses to convict us through the words of another broken human, we can easily interpret conviction as being judgmental, behavior modification, rule - making, legalism or worst of all — shame.

So did Paul and so do I. Craig, when you let down your guard and start to embrace the truth, you will begin to rightly interpret the whole Word of God, which you admitted at the top is all inspired by him.

Specifically, Christianists are linked with another «ism» — «dominionism» — a political ideology that interprets a passage from Genesis (1:26) as commanding Christians to bring societies under the rule of the Word of God.

So, by suppressing all reference to God and God's word, Christian beliefs can easily be interpreted as consonant with revolution.

The information I present comes from God's inspired word which interprets itself.

Another contribution along these lines published more recently is E. Jüngel, Paulus und Jesus (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 2 [Tülbingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1964]-RRB-, where the existentialism is modified by the use of the «word - event» concept of the «new hermeneutic», and the present (Kingdom of God) and future (Son of man) elements in the teaching of Jesus are interpreted in terms of the nearness and distance of God to history.

It also requires the authentic and authoritative tradition and teaching of the Church, for if the word of God was inspired by the Holy Spirit, then it can only be authentically interpreted by the same Holy Spirit.

[2] The direct word of God must surely be interpreted directly and literally.

A radical Christian would interpret these words as meaning that the glory of the God of the old covenant is abolished, for apart from an abolition of the God of judgment, there remains no possibility of transforming humanity into the likeness or image of the glory of Christ.

But don't use your religious bigotry or conveniently self interpreted «word of god» to keep benefits for yourself while I and my HUSBAND of 23 years are denied.

If the text of the Qur» an is the eternal and uncreated word of God, then the only logical option for interpreting it is fundamentalism.

By relating what is written in the Song of Songs to other passages from the Old Testament, and especially to the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John, Gregory is able to interpret the phrase «living water» as life flowing from the divine Word of God like water to refresh the soul.

It was Bonhoeffer's conviction that only a church whose message is a part of her own being, a church who witnesses in obedience to her own ultimate concern through her actions, is able to interpret and proclaim the word of God to a world come of age.

We also forget that the Word of God can be adequately understood and interpreted only in its vital relation to our present human situation.

And herein lies the challenge in relying on anyone to interpret God's word for us.

He is usurping to himself authority to speak and interpret the Word of God without the Spirit of God.

Just as the Beroeans of Acts responded to the events around them by searching the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul said was true (Acts I7: II), so we must interpret our experience afresh in the light of God's word.

Asserting the ability of the individual to interpret the word of God for himself, the Disciples of Christ sought to restore Christianity to its pure primitive state.

In the Reformation preaching image the Word of God may wrongly be equated with the solid lines of type in the book; the solidity of the pulpit may be misrepresented as the authoritativeness of something or other; and the preacher's power to interpret may be mistakenly equated with some kind of weight — not necessarily the girth of his stomach, but perhaps the athletic cut of his shoulders, or more probably the weightiness of his voice.

Calvinists try to say that this verse supports their concept of total depravity (that fallen mankind does not have the inherent free will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts) because they interpret the words «the natural man» to be all of fallen mankind.

And the term «Lord» has been interpreted like the word «king» as an analogical description of God's rule over creation, rather than a stand - in for the unpronounceable name.

Nonetheless, according to Paul, Abraham wrestled with his doubts, discounted his own experience, rejected skepticism, and clung to the promise of God: «No apistia, no suspicion, made him waver Thus, Abraham becomes the prototype of the community of faith, which interprets all human experience through trust in God's word.

Harvard professor Feldman: «Shariah, according to Muslims, is god's word on how you're supposed to live your life... as a general matter, shariah is what you make of it, and there are plenty of Muslims who interpret shariah in a progressive way so that it's equal towards women and progressive towards women.»

For this and other reasons the best Biblical preaching going on in the churches today undertakes to interpret the Word of God as a word spoken to Israel and the ChuWord of God as a word spoken to Israel and the Chuword spoken to Israel and the Church.

Let me write this again «RELIGION IS FAITH BASED» which not only means having faith in God but also having faith in that particular religions ability to properly interpret the Word of God.

The prophets took their stand on the conviction that God has a hand in human affairs, and they therefore interpreted the events of their time with insight derived from their converse with the Eternal («hearing the word of the Lord.»

The Word of God, written by Man, but edited by the Holy Spirit (God), interpreted over 3800 years by Man under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

But first, the no - inherent - free - willers interpret these verses to indicate that the phrase -LRB-...» can come»...) in these two verses indicates that fallen man does not have inherent - free - will capacity to accept / believe the call / drawing / granting salvation message of God being given to them through Christ's words (God's words).

But first, the no - inherent - free - willers interpret the phrase -LRB-...» can come»...) in two verses (John 6:44,65) to indicate that fallen man does not have inherent - free - will capacity to accept / believe the call / drawing / granting salvation message of God being given to them through Christ's words (God's words).

We must focus on Christ and keep our eyes on Him, so that we read and interpret the word of God (the book) through the Word of God (Jesword of God (the book) through the Word of God (JesWord of God (Jesus).

But we must return to the Incarnation itself: can we interpret it as the coming together of the Spirit of God and the world, the erasure of the breach, as reintegration in unity, and therefore the reconciliation of reality with truth and thus of image and word?

The theme of the father - child relationship of humankind and God is interpreted here as transmission of the word which «commands.»»)

In the third round, we explored our understanding of the word of God and found ourselves in agreement that Holy Scripture, faithfully interpreted in the community of believers, is the divinely given rule by which we are to understand our life and mission in obedience to Christ.

God didn't write a mystery we can not discern, or words that can be interpreted (with honesty) in just any old way.

Nietzsche wrote that as soon as Man decided that he had invented God and began to interpret God's word, then God was dead and was killed by Man.

The word «grace» has been almost mined for many thoughtful Christians because it has been mistakenly interpreted as if it means the sheer mercy of God descending upon man apart from any moral demand or human effort.