Sentences with phrase «about biblical accounts»

What, then, do we say about the Biblical accounts of miracles?

Jesus keeps it simple plus we can avoid judgments and speculation about biblical accounts of war, slavery etc. that related to a specific nomadic tribal people or at a minimum require taking into account a people, time and place some say never existed.

The KJ song that you lash out at shows that you know nothing about the Biblical account of a woman who brought her most valuable possession, an Alabaster Box, in which she broke open and bathed the feet of Jesus with her hair.

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They speak so much about the Sovereign - God, but what about the Creator - God, because many of them reject the biblical account of creation in favor of Darwinism.

Our survey question about the «most important» way that theology meets science offered three options: theology 1) gives meaning, 2) defends the biblical account of creation or 3) provides ethics.

The investigation of the relationship between fat and perception is not a matter, I suppose, that formal epistemology concerns itself with; but in its words about the knowledge of God the biblical account is steeped in it.

Their reading of biblical teachings about particular kinds of sexual activity often fails to account for the cultural setting and circumstances in which each book of the Bible was written.

So, in the biblical account the tower of Babel was destroyed by God as judgement about them and then confusing them with giving them different languages so they didn't understand each there for making it impossible to work together to build another tower.

Even a more moderate historian — one who suspects that the biblical account of Solomon's reign is based on folk tales and legends that circulated more than a half millennium after the real Solomon lived, yet is open to the possibility that these folk tales and legends hark back to a historical figure — may have reservations about crediting this legendary Solomon with the fortifications and gates at Hazor, Gezer and Megiddo.

It takes great care to list generations of biblical figures supposedly all the way from Adam, and even if you account for individuals living for hundreds of years and God's «day» being like a 1000 years, you're still only up to about 13,000 years, at most.

We need such an account in order to prevent the breakdown of realism — doctrines are truth claims about objective realities — from leaving us unsure that the biblical narrative provides the datum of faith.

You can not just blindly swallow what biblical scholars say about how the accounts in the Torah were written.

If we hold fast to the biblical witness that God does care for us, individually as well as corporately, what must we infer about God and the world that would account for the fact that petitionary prayer sometimes seems futile?

As far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he lived.

Only when the great minds were liberated from the biblical accounts of creation and the controls and censures of ecclesiastical authorities were they able to make a qualitative leap in scientific progress, bringing about the un-fettered birth of modern science.

My experiences with raising questions about religious pluralism, heaven and hell, biblical inerrancy, and the creation account have not been pleasant ones to say the least.

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.

Of course the Biblical account gives us the information about who is on the other end of the cord, but if we were to imagine a bit... what (or who) might be on the other end of a cord being held by a courageous, outspoken, compassionate, fierce fighter such as Rahab in today's world?

If this claim is true, the biblical account of a young earth (about 6,000 years) is in question, since 14C dates of tens of thousands of years are.