Sentences with phrase «act on scripture»

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Now the pressures of the sexual revolution are tempting the Church to loosen her claim on the bodily act that Scripture consistently treats as most deeply implicated in spiritual things — sex.

The question is whether those who would condemn homosexual acts should be able to force their views of Scripture on those who disagree any more than those who affirm gay relationships should be able to force their view of Scripture on those opposed.

Yes, when we begin to see the crucifixion of Jesus as a supreme act of love and revelation, rather than a punishment from God, this has a domino effect on everything else we think about God and Scripture and ourselves.

The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and holiness.

So when scripture condemns homosexuality, it is condemning the action, and if you are not acting on it, you are not homosexual.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

When they learned «foreign» languages they acted on the knowledge by reading the Scriptures.

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that «homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»

Perhaps we should institute some annual ritual, based on this scripture in Acts, by which we memorialize Judas's supposed act of perfidy and the selection of new leaders who have walked with Jesus in all aspects of his earthly ministry, from baptism to ascension.

Even to look on the Scripture with the reverence of a true believer constitutes, for devout Muslims, an act of worship to God.

The only reason we limit the discussion to the so - called «side A» and «side B» debate is because, as Cindy mentions above, the most you could ever squeeze out of Scripture is a prohibition on same - sex acts (which I still think takes quite a bit of squeezing).

Even if we already acknowledge Scripture to be the final authority on how we act and what we believe, sometimes we simply need to remember to refocus our attention.

Pius XII already commented on the unitive significance of this powerful biblical expression: «In its natural structure, the conjugal act is a personal action, a simultaneous and immediate cooperation on the part of the husband and wife, which by the very nature of the agents and the proper nature of the act is the expression of the mutual gift which, according to the words of Scripture, brings about union «in one flesh»» (Address, October 29, 1951: AAS 3 (1951), 850).

In Christ God had performed a supremely important act for the world, so climactic that prophecy found there its culmination and so determinative that all man's future was conditioned on it — such is the Christian Scripture's dominant conviction.

What I find puzzling is the obsession with consensual and faithful gay relationships when Scripture says much more about divorce and remarriage (every single sex act with a second spouse is ALWAYS adultery unless someone is unfaithful and that the only moral choice is reconciliation with your first spouse or lifetime celibacy — 1 Cor 7:10 - 11), charging interest on a loan, our moral obligation toward the poor and other things most conservative Christians ignore.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

(1:26 - 30) After that, scripture in Chapter 2 CLEARLY reiterates certain elements of creation and basically acts as a «How He Did It», in - depth story of the creation of humankind on the earth.

For those who offer opinions about what role they think God plays in such horible acts of violance, please support your comments and opinions with scriptures so the readers can also see for themselves what the Bible Really Teaches on such questions and issues!.

In this relaxed state, the subconscious mind imprints those words of scripture deeply and directly and responds to and acts on the encouragement — even in the face of possibly difficult circumstances.