Sentences with phrase «testament certain passages»

To select from the New Testament certain passages which seem to have a «modern» ring, and to declare that these represent the «permanent element» in it, is not necessarily to preach the Gospel.

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If it be argued that certain passages contain mistranslations of hypothetical Semitic documents which are more comprehensible than the text we possess, it must be answered that we do not know that such documents existed and that exegesis of non-existent documents is hardly the task of the New Testament scholar.

Brunner appeals explicitly to the prologue of John and to certain sayings of Paul, but surely one who is as emphatic as he in rejecting the authority of Scriptural teachings as such does not mean to say that we accept the doctrine of creation because of the presence of these passages in the New Testament.

We do not know for certain what Old Testament passage was here intended, but there are some grounds for supposing that it was Hosea 6:2, «after two days he will revive us, on the third day he will restore us, that in his presence we may live.»

Some understandings of the Old Testament, the book of Revelation and certain other passages notwithstanding, how can we possibly think God created us so that we would destroy each other, that we would degrade or enslave each other?

Defending Balthasar against Scanlon, he cited the passages from the Pope's Crossing the Threshold of Hope mentioned above and referred also to his own book, Death on a Friday Afternoon, in which he had argued from several New Testament texts that although we can not be certain, we may indeed hope and pray for the salvation of all.

In no regard is the attitude of certain passages in the New Testament more troublesome to modern minds than in this insistence that eternal bliss for the good and eternal torment for the bad would be an ethically satisfying finale for the universe.

This idea, that the Passion of Jesus fulfilled the Scripture, had already become determinative for the earliest communities and had prompted them, even before there was any story of Jesus» Passion, to read certain passages of the Old Testament as accounts of his suffering and death: e.g., Ps.