Sentences with phrase «among other scriptures»

At this point we are not concerned with the Bible's place among other Scriptures but simply with the point that our problems connected with the Bible are serious because they are the problems of our Scripture.

Not exact matches

In his encyclical on Holy Scripture, Pius XII warmly acknowledges that the inquiry of modern exegetes «has also clearly shown the special preeminence of the people of Israel among the other ancient nations of the East....»

Others, like Protestantism, allow the individual freedom in its interpretation; but in some sense, among all it is the sacred scripture to which appeal must be made if one desires to know the truth.

It is popular among the elite Bible scholars and academy - trained theologians to sneer at the uneducated lay person who seeks to teach Scripture and theology to others as being «untrained» and therefore, unable to accurately teach others what God is like, what He says in Scripture, and how to live life in light of what we learn.

This is a belief found among Fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Jews, Moslems, Hindus of some schools, and others, with reference to their scriptures or at least certain parts of them.

Many questions ensue, not only from representatives of other faiths but also among members of one faith who may disagree over the interpretation of their scripture.

Among other things, I have attempted an answer myself in The Scripture Principle (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).

- Genesis 1 (100 % written)- The Unforgivable Sin (Revised and Expanded, 80 % written)- The Gospel According to Scripture (80 % written)- Pastoral Leadership (100 % written)- Close Your Church for Good (100 % written)- The Bible Mirror (20 % written)- Commentary on Esther (100 % written)- Jesus among Other Religions (10 % written)- A «Redeeming God» book series on the topic of divine violence (30 % written)

It is good to challenge the status quo when it does not line up with scripture (like confronting the desire for violence and vengeance especially among «conservative» Christians), but we should not in our zeal push the pendulum too far the other way and undermine our view of God's sovereignty, power, and holiness.

But is not this definition, even though in other aspects it may be conceded to have advantages (and among them this which is the weightiest of all, that it is the only Scriptural definition, for the Scripture always defines sin as disobedience), is it not after all too spiritual?

But the normativeness of Scripture should still take seriously the reality of a spectrum of other views among listeners, ranging from the Bible as an imprimatur on the preached word to the biblical text as having little inherent authority (Allen).

Prof. Levenson notes that, among other differences between traditional Judaism and Christianity ignored by Dabru Emet, Jewish adherents of Judaism do not consider the New Testament to be their sacred scripture, do not believe that Jesus was either Messiah or God, do not believe in a Trinitarian God, and do not believe that Christianity either supersedes or fulfills Judaism.

Funny how the Christians never mention that scripture among so many others that fail to support their pro-life rhetoric.

He has, to be sure, answered this question, not only in his Scripture but in the very constitution of our natures: to choose life, to be fruitful and multiply, and to walk in his ways, which means among other things to understand that life makes sense and that human fulfillment resides in resisting the ever - present temptation to return to tohu vavohu — the primordial chaos and void.

Teaching, on the other hand, was an interactive discussion among followers of Jesus about Scripture.

That is, they had a very substantial amount of literature of varied kinds which corresponds closely with the kind of thing that is to be found among the scriptures of other people, notably those of the Hebrews and Christians.

Among the Jews there was a prejudice against committing the Scriptures to writing in any other than the sacred tongue.

They understand, among other things, what they call and take from the Reformers to be the «plain sense of scripture.»

The first reason the Bible is unique among all the writings of the world religions is that the Hebrew Scriptures contain an early unmasking and critique of what René Girard calls «mimetic rivalry» which he claims is not found in any other religious writings.

RC violates Gods multiple severe warnings not to take away from scripture and not to add anything to scripture among many other things.

If other later religious texts, nonetheless, seem to suggest that Muhammad did perform miracles, they stand in direct opposition to these verses, among many others, in Islam's scripture.

Their wisdom and expertise would guide the ECT process as it moved forward to take up such controverted issues as justification by faith, Scripture and Tradition, the communion of saints, and the role of Mary in the life of the church, among others.

The first is that I attempt to show that the revelation of God in Jesus Christ isn't just one revelation among many others in Scripture.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

He then cited, among other things, a Newsweek article from 1975 (whose author recently lamented the way climate change deniers use his work), archaeological evidence, and Scriptures, in addition to the snowball, as evidence that refutes the claim that «somehow man is so important that he can change [the climate].»