Sentences with phrase «about biblical law»

As for «law», I wasn't sure if you were talking about biblical law or modern governmental law, that's why I asked.

Not exact matches

I would constantly bring to the forefront that significantly small percentage of biblical passages (the majority within the framework of Levitical Law) that speak about slavery, selling of daughters, and God commanding the destruction of various tribes.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?

They believed the Law was given to them, and they dramatized this conviction through the biblical narrative about Moses receiving the tablets from the very hand of God on Mount Sinai.

And we must be wary about trying to get our government to enforce Biblical guidelines on all the people in a country, for if it can be done with «Christian» laws, it can also be done at a later time with «Muslim» laws, or «Mormon» laws, or whatever religion is in «power» at the time.

Any man who exactly follows what the biblical Mosaic law says about women or slaves should be arrested and sent to prison.

It is helpful to think about all biblical «laws» this way as well.

Many of those during conventions even told me privately that they don't really believe anymore, and that it was about furthering political agendas, «to get many folks to think the way we think» so that we may establish a true Christian Nation with BIBLICAL LAWS.

Arturo Castiglione wrote about the overwhelming importance of this biblical medical law: «The laws against leprosyin Leviticus 13 may be regarded as the first model of sanitary legislation» (A History of Medicine).»

I can also discuss further about the dietary laws and how they are different from the biblical texts surrounding sexually immoral behavior.

There would be questions of biblical theology about the nature of Christian freedom, the relation between law and Gospel, the meaning of the law for those justified by faith.