Sentences with phrase «about biblical things»

When we're talking about Biblical things, the Bible does have the answers.

Not exact matches

It is one thing for Christians to understand and appreciate Jewish convictions about the Messianic Age, and hence of the restoration of the Land of Israel, and therefore to acknowledge that one strand of biblical religion did not «spiritualize» the biblical promises.

In this work he commented one by one on all his writings, giving details about the date and circumstances of the work, noting places where he had changed his mind, pointing out passages where he got things wrong, for example where he had cited a biblical text from memory and not gotten it correct.

The one thing I worry about is the biblical literalists, who think that the Book of Revelation is an actual prophecy that will be fulfilled.

The funny thing about it as that we've changed calendars since biblical times so even if this nonsense was true, they have the dates wrong.

One thing I appreciated about this brief overview was Wright's reminder that the Reformers didn't settle Christianity or biblical interpretation once and for all.

And one reason the conversation has become so toxic is because we've become convinced that the only thing we have in common is the biblical debate about same - sex relations.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

All of these things were going to happen no matter what, but God took the blame for all of them by inspiring the biblical authors to write what they did about Him.

There are some simple things that can be said about the place within a biblical book where we find a statement, and its relationship to other parts of the book and to the rest of the Bible.

In the biblical understanding of things, there is nothing mere about any dimension of the human condition.

Atheists in the 16th and 17th century used to rail about Biblical facts that were incorrect, these things proved there were no God... One big one was that Israel no longer existed as a Nation on the earth... Well I bet they were rolling over in their graves when miraculously the nation was re-created in 1949!

The only thing that bugs me about this guy is that there are more people than not who are teetering on the brink of faith in Jesus, and all this guy does is try to knock people away from faith... This is his word against Gods word, I've been reading these articles they've been posting, and nothing he's said has any biblical foundation whatsoever...

But what about the great biblical heroes who did these exact things?

It seems that whenever Paul talks about clothing, his words are interpreted as being culturally influenced; but whenever he talks about leadership, it's suddenly considered a «biblical» thing.

He seemed to be unaware of this actual process, even though some of the centers of biblical form and literary criticism, (especially in Austria - Germany (ie Tubingen University)-RRB- HAD begun to be aware of the historical, (archeologically validated) processes, (and eventually at Harvard and Yale and Princeton, and I'm sure other places I don't know about), by the time Smith was doing his thing.

We just have gay stereotypes and we base our beliefs on a few biblical passages, ignoring passages about things that people in the church really struggle with, like food and other addictions.

I believe that all of the Biblical Feasts and Festivals were intended to teach us things about God, Messiah, ourselves, and living in community.

One of the things I learned in my biblical studies was that, of the virtues listed in the bible, they mostly talk about how to just be a decent human being.

I listen to pastors condemn the lack of biblical literacy in the church today and then turn around and say the most outlandish things about God or Jesus, and even crazier things about people of other religions, political persuasion, or sexual orientation.

The world offers a lot of different definitions and interpretations, but for one interested in what God has to say about it, a biblical study of the word makes a few things very clear — and for starters, makes clear what it's not.

Or do indifference and ignorance about things biblical and churchly arise when everything is true and nothing is?

Of course, I'm as guilty as anyone else of assuming I know God's thoughts about things, but I've recently found myself a bit more hesitant to call my biblical interpretations absolute truth.

What this communicates to the world is that part of having a biblical worldview is saying hateful things about people, celebrating violence, and ridiculing liberals for their concern for the poor.

does «biblical christianity» still require us to stone to death those who work on the sabbath, commit adultery, curse their parents, worship gods other than yahweh, etc etc or did jesus change his mind about those things after his «virgin birth»?

Some views say that the Bible is full of errors and exaggerations so that the things it describes didn't really happen, while other views hold that the violent events might have happened as described but God did not command them to do it nor did He inspire the biblical authors to write about these events as they did.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

fishon, I don't take passages about «sexual immorality» that way and don't mind at all them being read or preached, but my experience is that preachers name homosexuality specifically and teach things that not only are (in my opinion) and poor interpretation of the Bible, but also things that could have no Biblical basis of support.

The person who wrote this obviously does nt know the first thing about Christianity or Biblical Doctrine on Sex.

I had parts of Gods biblical word supernaturally revealed to me in dreams before I read it, I was dreaming about things i didn't know about that were from the bible.

Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.

«The Bible is not about offering things like a biblical view of dating,» he says, «but rather about how God the Father offered his Son, Jesus Christ, to death to redeem a rebellious world from the slavery and damnation of sin.

The neat thing about biblical baby names is that they all have a story.

The neat thing about biblical baby names is that they all...

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Speaking of Burton, forget the Jews, because this film really looks bad for atheists, as I can see some Bible thumper saying that the most inaccurate thing in this (Snicker, snicker) Biblical drama is Burton's character feeling guilty about killing Christ.

Rauschenberg's use of juxtapositioning various things out of a context, creating a whole new environment and context, always appealed to me more so than making a painting about something; about a landscape, portrait, still life, or historical or classical event and so forth; biblical thing.

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