Sentences with phrase «accept the authority of»

Hawaiiguest does not accept the authority of the Bible and claims it is a fictional compilation of myths.

Given you do not accept the authority of the Bible then just call it a compilations of myths written by the Hebrews.

i think harri is responding to mark's response to my telling someone who was vomiting up scripture that people those quotes are only valid to those who accept the authority of the scripture.

Mostly we initiated the process because we accepted the authority of the Church.

How can you claim to be a Christian without accepting the authority of the Bible?

But the judge and jury are not ready to accept the authority of Scripture.

Both groups accepted the authority of the «written Torah» — the books of the Hebrew Bible.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

If Christian thinkers accept the authority of a natural theology, they are accepting something alien and necessarily opposed to their own truth, which is given them in the Christian community.

The emptiness of isolated existence and the meaningless of a life that has no goals besides individual gain opens people to accept the authority of those who promise answers in exchange for conformity and obedience.

It just saddens me that you seem to have gotten sidetracked in a vain quest to «change the world» thru planting «churches» that are not in fact churches --- at least not if you still accept the authority of the scriptures and it's definition of what constitutes the Body of Christ, both universally and locally.

«Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh.»

But if someone believes that he can not and should not accept the authority of the Gospel, of Scripture and of the teaching office of the Church he can not consider himself a Catholic, he can not be a partner in the dialogue that takes place within the Church and which presupposes the acceptance of her teaching office in as far as it claims to have 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?

Our Roman Catholic friends accept the authority of the pope.

All Christians accept the authority of scripture, but which interpretation of scripture is authoritative?

There, at Worms, in the presence of the newly elected Emperor, Charles V, the mightiest monarch in Europe, and of the dignitaries of Church and State, Luther, the son of peasant parents, declared that he could not accept the authority of Popes and councils, since they had often contradicted one another, and that unless he was convinced by Scripture and plain reason he could not in good conscience recant anything he had written.

Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.

He wants to use a scientist's «bottom - up» approach to New Testament evidence to vindicate Jesus not only to his colleagues, but also to any agnostic reader who accepts the authority of science.

To become Orthodox entails accepting the authority of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, the Bible, the patriarchs and bishops, etc..

How could they accept the authority of a council called by a pope John XXII who was immediately accused and finally deposed from his throne.

It is the work of a brother in Christ who fully accepts the authority of Scripture.

Sources further revealed that the Campaign Manager, Peter Mc Manu is on a collision course with the Acting General Secretary and has refused to accept the authority of the Acting General Secretary.

They trusted God and accepted the authority of their husbands.

Weitz is so delusional — so enraptured to ambition — that he accepts the authority of The New York Times as American Reality.

While staying at the Great Ocean Ecolodge and participating in experiences you agree to accept the authority of host and tour leader at all times.

Professional painters basically must accept the authority of the established system.

For example, when I go to the emergency ward and am told that my aging grandmother needs a nebulizer for her COPD, I am not going to refuse to accept the authority of the respirology specialist and check out the blogs to see what the lay public has to say about it.

And it's not until we accept the authority of official pronouncements on our condition that we are to be released from the climate mental ward, into the limited freedom outside it, which has been designed according to the exact same specification and principles as the hospital.

A follower is defined as a person who accepts another as a guide or leader; accepts the authority of or give allegiance to, to conform to, comply with, or act in accordance with; obey: (to follow orders; to follow advice) or to imitate or copy; use as an exemplar (They follow the latest fads.).

In fact, in the 2016 Women in Architecture survey, 68 % of women said that the construction industry has not accepted the authority of the female architect.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, authorities in the Swiss towns of Zug and Chiasson have experimented with accepting Bitcoin for taxes and municipal services.

Although the FBI shut down Silk Road, the illicit drug marketplace that only accepted Bitcoin, the digital currency's public ledger helped authorities track down a handful of drug dealers.

««Virtual currencies» means a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority, not attached to a legally established currency, which does not possess the legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange or for other purposes, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.

Many of you have probably noted that most binary options brokers refuse to accept clients from the American market as they do not wish to be taxed by the U.S. authorities.

Let's explore some of the factors that will make a «perfect» link — one that most publishers will accept, one that Google will never penalize, and one that will earn you the highest amount of authority and referral traffic:

Thomas Lee of Fundstraat is generally accepted as an authority on crypto market movements so his word certainly carries weight with alternative investors.

Unfortunately, many of us have already been conditioned to accept these proclamations as fact without even conducting any independent research on our own to (1) determine if the authoritative figure is even an authority on the topic, which in many cases, he or she is not; and (2) determine if what the authoritative figure is stating is actually true or not.

Well, this morning we compared notes and we had come up with two differing solutions, both of which may or may not be accepted by the governing authority on this job.

You said, «Their anger may come from the fact that they do not like the idea that they might have to be accountable to a higher authority (God) when they die and our witnessing to them reminds them of this event that they have to look forward to unless they repent and accept Jesus as their Savior before they die» Make sure that you also accept Thor, Zeus, Ra, and tens of thousands of other gods ever invented by man.

outside of the bible, or any other religious texts (which, again, are only relevant to those accept the claimed authority) do you see any evidence of heaven, hell, sin, or redemption?

robert: you continue to quote from the bible to those who do not accept the dubious authority of the bible.

The only way to find compatibility in such a worldview is by accepting a religion with no authority on the most meaningful matters of human existence.»

Teachings are accepted by the authorities of your particular religion and handed down over time.

They include things like empathy, a sense of fairness, reciprocity, a need to be accepted, altruism and some tendency to defer to authority.

Maybe it's just an issue of semantics but I always thought that accepting the invitation to drink meant we were submitting to Christ's authority — removing ourselves from office and inaugurating a new leader.

Newly received and accepted by the world of honest intellectual doubt and scientific achievement, the university theologian is understandably awed and impressed by the authority and, power of its reason and the meaningfulness of the worlds it has constructed.

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).

If Scripture calls us to love our enemies as Jesus loved his enemies at the cross, we must either accept the way of nonviolence or abandon our affirmation of scriptural authority.

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 ingenuity.»