Sentences with phrase «about biblical questions»

He takes calls from the pubic about biblical questions.

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But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

These are not stupid, but legitimate questions that serious biblical and theological scholars have asked and written about extensively.

We talked about his theological journey: «did you need to answer any biblical questions before determining how to act?»

You're just refusing to answer my questions again and this time about Biblical texts — and you're a pastor!

Although biblical values and the good news about Jesus are not in question here, many ministries struggle to embody them in congregation or community in a way people understand and care about.

Now that my year of biblical womanhood is over, I thought you might have some questions for us — about the project, about our marriage, about our strange, self - employed life in East Tennessee.

That's a complicated question for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the reality that Christians themselves disagree on exactly what constitutes «biblical principles about marriage»!

I was 21 or 22 when I began questioning what I'd been taught about what constituted «biblical» politics, «biblical» marriage, and «biblical» womanhood, and wondering if it was wise, or even possible, to reduce the Bible into an adjective.

If you have questions about the biblical doctrine of election, this excellent book by Shawn Lazar will help you see why and who God elects.

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

East Tennessee doesn't have a large Jewish population, so for the first few months of my year of biblical womanhood, I searched high and low for a Jewish source to answer my questions about Jewish holidays, kosher eating, mixed fibers, head coverings, and niddah.

I was asking good questions, worthy questions — about creation, science, biblical interpretation, gender, religious pluralism, heaven and hell — but I was angry with those not asking these questions along with me; I wanted to force them into my season.

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.

(CNN)-- On Friday we posted a story about U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann responding to a question about a biblical admonition for wives to be submissive to their husbands during Thursday's Republican presidential debate.

In a 1998 exchange with Placher in the Christian Century, Gustafson charged that postliberals never give straight answers to questions about the historical credibility of biblical narrative or about the relation of Christian truth to the truth of other religions.

It also led to the ascendance of biblical criticism (relativizing, to a certain extent, the Holy Scriptures), which in turn had negative influences on theology, generating a questioning attitude about the objectivity of established truth and the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and institutions.

And this raises the troubling question about the environmental value of biblical revelation (not to mention that of other religious traditions).

The movement was largely a reaction to Darwin's theory of evolution and questions that modern science raised about biblical authority.

Currently I am about to complete a book on this question of the encounter between the biblical faith and African religion.

Years ago, when I began to seriously study Scripture, I often had questions about a certain Biblical passage or theological issue.

Still, to answer your question about why it seems like we don't presently see extravagant spectacles like seas splitting, the lame walking, donkeys talking and axe heads floating, we need to establish the biblical meaning and purpose of miracles.

It generates questions about what happened, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

Doing this will generate questions about what happened, and why it was done, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

To look for specific biblical texts as the definitive resolution of questions about war, sexuality, personal rights, public policy, etc., and to present these as revealed truths, is highly questionable.

In discovering the biblical definition of church, you will also discover answers the most basic questions all humans have about their own existence and identity.

The biblical writers were untroubled by many of the questions we raise; they were simply narrating what they believed to be true about God's continuous activity in history.

Biblical studies oriented to theological questions about the nature and criteria of adequacy of congregations» common life are central to study of congregations as characterized by distinctive social space.

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.

What questions and issues do you have about the biblical doctrines of election and predestination?

I've gotten a lot of questions about the biblical womanhood project over the past few months, and I thought it might be fun to bring Dan in on a video post so we can respond to them together.

The debates are ongoing (not the least those about the ecclesiological question of what counts as Church doctrine), but this does not prevent the Nicene tradition from providing a reliable biblical horizon for biblical interpretation.

I've been called a socialist and a baby - killer for voting for Barack Obama, an enemy of the Church for asking questions about biblical inerrancy, a Buddhist for reading Thich Nhat Hahn, and a raging liberal for supporting basic civil rights for gays and lesbians.

«When we study biblical writings about marriage and celibacy the question is not whether Jesus, Paul, or anyone else endorses same - sex marriage,» he writes, «or whether they instead enjoin gay people to lifelong celibacy.

Lay leaders responding to these new developments pummel their pastors with questions about creationism, faith healing and the verbal inspiration of Scripture, and are overtly suspicious of the historical and critical interpretations of biblical texts.

Regarding (3), my question about our ability to see our daily lives absorbed by the biblical world, Placher uses anecdotes which, unfortunately, do not address the complexity of my initial inquiry about postliberal theology I agree that visions of the world which try to dictate details collapse.

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.

Scientists have debated whether the first significant phase of the compilation of biblical texts happened before or after the fall of the first Temple, in 586 B.C. To get at the potential answers to that question, a group of researchers in Israel analyzed mundane inscriptions about the needs of daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. from an ancient military fortress in Arad, at the northern edge of the Negev desert.

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.

Discover biblical answers to questions about sex, marriage, sexual addictions, and more.

With Christian Bale set to take on the role of Moses in next month's Exodus: Gods and Kings, it's inevitable that the press tour for the biblical epic is going to throw up plenty of questions about his thoughts on Warner Bros.» Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Empire Magazine (via CBM) has got -LSB-...]

The idea that ten percent of a person's paycheck is a biblical mandate by God is what my book questions, and it also provides answers about the so - called tithe that many have never realized.

You can discuss your personal relationship with God and ask any questions you might have about things such as Biblical interpretation, prayer, or anything pertaining to your walk with Christ.