Sentences with phrase «all over scripture»

To Evangelicals it appears that, in practice if not in theory, the Catholic understanding of Magisterium, including infallibility, results in the Roman Catholic Church standing in judgment over Scripture, instead of vice versa.

And none differed over the Scripture except those who were given it — after the clear proofs came to them — out of jealous animosity among themselves.

Calvinism is tradition over scripture, and one of the biggest (Catholic) traditions that Protestants still peddle today is the Trinity.

If we want to sit in judgement over scripture we are obviously not taking it seriously as a true witness.

It seems as if people are always in debate over scripture due to relying on their own understanding to comprehend it.

No matter how much indoctrination, corruption, errors, or what have you, disputing over scripture, the validity of it and its authenticity, NEVER EQUATES to the «non-existence of God.»

It seems that ultimately, what this does is set humans up as judge over Scripture to determine what is «true» and what is «error.»

A couple years ago, as I was reading through Scripture, I began to notice that there were numerous jokes, allusions, and euphemisms all over Scripture for the male sexual organ.

Jeremy, Under the header «The Failure of the Reformation», line four, shouldn't it read «the authority of Scripture over tradition» rather than «the authority of tradition over Scripture?»

Love may be in vogue, but I find it all over Scripture.

Present - day Christianity seems to value Jesus over God, scripture over Jesus, Paul over scripture, and later theologians over Paul.

Unfortunately, (it might be said) the High Church has had the copyright over the scriptures for well over a thousand years.

«At the heart of mysticism is the primacy of experience over Scripture.

This is, however, to set humanity over Scripture as the final arbiter of what is inspired and authoritative for Christian practice.

I would not fault a person for believing there is more to the human condition than biology while having the ability to see the inherent corruption and hypocrisy present in organized religion in it's adherence to doctrine over scripture and political motivations.

In some fascinating paragraphs he wades into the controversy suggesting the «projection of Tradition over Scripture» so that it is clear that «there can only be one source, Revelation itself...» «Sacred scripture is the regola of the faith in so far as it is divinely inspired; Tradition itself divinely assisted... allows the scriptures to be always contemporary for humanity» and for «faith to be able to have in itself a solid basis for those truths which it bears in itself...» (pp. 437 - 438).

When Justin shared his struggle, they were kind, but tended to turn every conversation into a debate over Scripture and homosexuality.

By contrast, the traditional Catholic (and Orthodox) conception of the relationship does have the Church standing in judgment over Scripture in some sense, for as the Catechism forthrightly states, «the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of sacred books» (emphasis added).

Conversely, they condemn any theory or practice that «results in the... Church standing in judgment over Scripture, rather than vice versa.»

Because of this I spent many hours reading and pouring over scripture and reading books from varying viewpoints to seek to find out just what God really felt about this subject.

Both set the interpreter's judgment over Scripture rather than understanding it as in the service of Scripture.

If we are not united over Scripture as the final authority, then we are not united.

Not saying I believe in the 6 - 10K year old Earth myself but when people of faith start believing science over scripture they cease to be «people of faith» anymore.

«Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture,» writes Matthew.

This led some in Matthew's church (he had come out to a small group) to accuse him of «elevating his experience over Scripture.»

However, in the case of teaching the Word of God, human logic and rationalizing do not take precedence over Scripture.

What do you think of Matthew's response to the challenge that he is «elevating his experience over Scripture.»

(2) Does my method elevate tradition over Scripture?

People who are «religious» 24/7 and obsess over scriptures and rules and commandments are out of touch w / reality.

Frankly, I am surprised at the eclipse of canon within contemporary intra-evangelical debate over Scripture.

I do read books of people writing over scripture, so I was interested to hear about the books of Peter Enns and would love to read them.

While it's true that I've changed my mind about the place of women in church ministry, that hasn't happened because I chose cultural relevance over Scripture.

Both tended to emphasize power over Scripture.

Not exact matches

Come on, I have had debates with Atheist but I have also had to pretty much break up potential fights between two persons of Faith over an interpretation of a scripture.

As Christians wrestle through issues like this in the 21st century, we need to remember these kinds of developments are not addressed explicitly in Scripture — there are only general parameters to ponder, wonder about, pray over and wrestle through.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

Some actively encourage meditation on Scripture, and Pentecostalism has long been known for its tendency to privilege the inner voice of the Spirit over all other ways of knowing.

I don't want to gloss over the historical difficulties of the «phenomena of Scripture,» as I agree with Smith that it's important to take those into account.

You looked forward to the part of your day where you were able to pour over the pages of Scripture that filled you in on this new relationship.

I have no idea what AvdBerg practices, but he BELIEVES that his interpretations of scripture are so obviously the true ones that they aren't even interpretations, which makes it all the odder that so many hundreds of millions if not billions of christians over the centuries apparently missed these supposedly transparent truths.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

Burning of flags is a political thing but burning of Holy Books such as Torah or Bibles is not an act of a Muslims to do such a wrong thing since our Quran tells us to respect elder holy books because it is (confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over it.)

True, there are themes that will be familiar to anyone who has followed the work of Ratzinger - Benedict over the years, and, as one would expect from a pope, the document draws deeply from Scripture and the Church's tradition.

All this shows how much love and respect a muslim has over the word of God compared to other people to their respective scriptures.

Both are Lectionary based denominations, meaning that the scriptures for a given Sunday are set out for years in advance, and follow a progression, meaning that a story in the Bible will continue over several weeks.

by scripture over 300 prophecies that come to pass in the New Testament and shows chapter and verse where

One of the so - called tools that goes along with this hermeneutic principle of using scripture to interpret scripture is to favor clear scripture over less clear scripture when comparing similar themes and concepts.

Then, over two decades of searching for the Truth, I researched and studied mainly the basic principles and some of the details of all major ideologies, and I came to the conclusion that man can not redeem himself from God's judgment on his own based on proclaimed scriptures.

The Doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture was actually an idea that was carried over from Judaism, with some slight modifications.

On the level of authority, the Scripture is set over against reason and tradition (understood both ecclesiastically and as the cumulative and collected wisdom of personal experience).