Sentences with phrase «primary teaching of scripture»

Next, you object to «varying» interpretations of Scripture on pragmatic concerns — something you evidently define apart from CORE theological convictions... but the PRIMARY teaching of Scripture is theological.

Not exact matches

I am a Mormon who has actually read the Book of Mormon, and I encourage anyone with doubts or questions to actually read it for themselves and study the churches teachings from primary sources — the scriptures, words of the prophets, the church itself — rather than trusting 3rd party interpretations or claims of understanding Mormonism.

I would argue that one of the primary reasons Jesus said what He did in John 5:39 - 40 is because He was speaking to a Jewish audience who taught and believed the Hebrew Scriptures.

That said, my church has a Christian Fellowship within it — a group of people whose primary means of encountering the Holy is through Christian scripture, story, teaching and study.

The vision of this church is to engage in those things which strengthen our primary identity as a family and which allow our pastor to attend to the primary practice of prayer, study of scripture, and teaching.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

A true pastor - teacher is one who knows the primary way of feeding and caring for his flock is through faithful and systematic teaching of Scripture, while at the same time, the teaching of Scripture is not an end in itself which is solely an academic pursuit, but is for the purpose of loving and caring for other people.

In Scripture, teaching includes time of directed, formal learning, but it seems that this type of teaching is not the primary kind.

However, after less than a year of study of early Christian teachings about the Scriptures from the primary Church Fathers (far less than one to two hours a week of study) I can totally answer the whole issue of God commanding the death of the Caananites, etc..

While stories and illustrations would often be a part of such teaching, the primary goal was to clearly explain what the Scriptures meant, and provide instruction on how to live out and apply the Scriptures to their daily lives.

(3) Probabilism is theologically deep, going back to John and Paul's scriptural teaching that Spirit - filled persons are «taught of God,» and to Thomas Aquinas's doctrine that the primary law for the believer is the grace of the Holy Spirit poured into the heart, while all written law — including even Scripture, as well as the teachings of the popes and councils — is secondary.