Sentences with phrase «scripture points to him»

This is why Jesus could say such radical things as; «If you see me, you see the Father» (Jn.14: 9) and could claim that all Scripture points to him (Jn 5:39 - 45; Lk 24: 25 - 7; 44 - 7).

Scripture points to how we should stand on this issue.

But in Isaiah 40:22 the scripture points to the view that the earth is round.

The whole of Scripture points to Christ.

In the biggest way, all of Scripture points to Jesus Christ.

I could spend a lot of time dispelling the notion of a «prosperity gospel» and many of you readers might very well write me angry letters with specific scriptures pointing to God promising actual prosperity.

In fact, doesn't Jesus tell the Pharisees that they search in vain in the Scriptures, because the Scriptures POINT to Him.

All the Scriptures point to Christ.

Not exact matches

He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

These days, I prefer my scripture to get to the point a little quicker.

Sugar - coat it all you like, AE, but the point is that Galileo was found «vehemently suspect of heresy», namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture.

To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinionTo prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinionto link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinionto a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

They know every scripture, chapter and verse, that condones them pointing out your sin and feel its their duty before God to get other people in line.

The scriptures point out that only a few of us should seek to be pastors as we will be judged by a higher standard.

A great many of your points have little to do with actual scripture which has even less to do with the moral scaffolding of 21st century life.

When Judas went back and try to give back the 30 silver coins he did so because he felt remorse, now there is a huge difference between remorse and repentance, which I don't have time to explain here, my point is let's not be ignorant of the Scriptures, we have to dig in real deep so that we can understand what it is trying to tell us.

If we spend our lifetime studying Scripture without getting to know Christ better, we are missing the whole point.

Cherry picking scripture is a good example, you had a point you wanted to make, which is refuted merely by providing the entire context.

You have provided no scriptural support for your assertions (yet you say scripture is the most important thing), and you can't even respond with anything substantial to when it is pointed out that the site you linked to is complete crap.

There follows from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state of cosmological physics or by....

We can point to scriptures that should help others realize that their actions are contrary to what Jesus taught.

My point to Steve was to point out that we do come to different conclusions using the same scripture therefore neither of us can claim scriptural authority.

Good point, but now to fully understand the topic approach it from the other side, if God does exist then what value does scripture hold.

And then Scripture does point to Christ as the Savior.

I just hate it when he points sinners and the sick [alcoholic] to scripture.

You seem steadfast in your condemnation of gays to the point that you yourself are rejecting scripture that calls your prejudice out.

I guess you could argue that Jesus is God, God authored the scriptures, the scriptures make out men as a class to be liars... But it's not worth arguing because it's not the point of the cartoon.

If we have the Bible, but not Christ, we will surely miss the point because eternal life does not spring from Scripture (Jn 5:39 - 40), instead, the Life Himself must be known (Jn 17:3) in order to gain knowledge and wisdom (Col 2:2 - 3) as it should be.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

I say that simply to point out that so far, as I attempt to adjust my thinking regarding the authority of Scripture, I have not found a universal command for all people everywhere throughout time.

your own words define you... I lookewd up the verses you quoted earler and youre words appear to use scripture incorrectly to make your point....

And biblical scholars on both sides of the debate point to scripture for support.

The second reason the Hebrew Scriptures can be considered unique is that they are the writings which Jesus explicitly claimed to fulfill and which He said pointed to Him (John 5:39 - 40).

As I pointed out earlier you keep appealing to anthropomorphic analogies which I suppose is fine except that they do not mirror Scripture.

Wright notes that «we need to note carefully that to invoke «the literal meaning of scripture,» hoping thereby to settle a point by echoing the phraseology of the Reformers, could be valid only if we meant, not «literal» as opposed to metaphorical, but «literal» (which might include metaphorical if that, arguable, was the original sense) as opposed to the three other medieval senses...»

Most are right and how is this any different than christians copying and pasting scripture to try to make their crazy point???

If He had been born a Norseman, He could have pointed to the Poetic Edda, «These are the Scriptures which speak of me.»

You see my point had nothing to do with the ramblings of what you want to «imagine» as a means of sidestepping the actual scripture.

The Hebrew Scriptures are rich and full of life in all of its and their complexities; the God revealed in its pages transcends the limited and limiting portrayal in the text, pointing to a God beyond the text who is shadowed by God in the text.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is really the Parable of the Loving Father, but we seem to always have to make everything, even the Scriptures about us which, of course, causes us to miss the whole point of the story.

Scripture, therefore, has a secondary authority — it points beyond itself to the self - expression of God in Jesus Christ.

From the Muslim point of view, no one who denies any of these scriptures is considered to be a believer.

If you are a fundamentalist Christian, you will probably be offended at the humorous approach Steve Wells takes in his book, Drunk With Blood, by pointing out all the violence of Scripture, but I think that humor is the only way to write a 300 - page book detailing all the violence in the Christian Scriptures.

So to prove that point, he calls forward a witness which he views as the ultimate authority — Scripture, the very Word of God.

Once again you twist scripture out of its context to proof - text a point Jesus was never trying to make.

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

But Wright points to Scripture itself to make the point, as he had earlier, that «God does indeed speak through sScripture itself to make the point, as he had earlier, that «God does indeed speak through scripturescripture.

The whole point of Scripture is to testify to the Living Word, which is Jesus Christ.