Sentences with phrase «accept biblical authority»

BC I have already corrected your error with regard to Sodom and Gomorrah and your response, in direct violation to your claim to accept biblical authority, was that regardless YOU believe what you want to about it anyway.

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I accept the Bible's authority; at the same time I have wondered — as with suicide — about a precise identification of every person of this type with the biblical model» («The Bible and Two Tough Topics,» Eternity, August 1974).

In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuitybiblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuityBiblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

Light Shines and Jeff: Biblical quotes are only relevant to those who accept the supposed authority of the bible.

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.

Perhaps evangelicalism's most common argument concerning Biblical authority runs as follows: If one will grant the general reliability of the New Testament documents as verified historically, then, as the Holy Spirit uses this witness to create faith in Christ as Lord and Savior, the Christian comes to accept Jesus Christ as authoritative.

On what basis do they accept this extreme version of biblical authority?

We might ask: In a society where everybody, or at least a politically effective majority, accepts the authority of the Bible, why shouldn't we be able to appeal explicitly to biblical teaching in political disputes?

This kind of biblical absolutism can not be accepted, for despite the assurance it can generate, such authority is neither possible nor permissible.

A summary of recent biblical critical scholarship attempts to provide a similarly credible ground for accepting its authority.