Sentences with phrase «ancient biblical people»
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Secondly as stated further up the thread, the biblical account of creation was to show the authority of God to an ancient people.
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In ancient biblical cultures, the term was often used in connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedom.
It juxtaposes ancient Biblical form and contemporary reality, challenging the reader to see and seek God in all persons.
It is therefore extremely difficult for the average person so to translate the biblical view into his own idiom that the ancient experiences become relevant to him.
Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.
Mike, if I were a biblical literalist I would have a problem with the Book of Job; but it is a very ancient text and speaks to a people for whom Satan was often suspected of being more powerful than God.
This is, of course, the issue addressed on a more personal level in Rabbi Harold Kushner's highly popular When Bad Things Happen to Good People, reassessing a conflict at least as ancient as the biblical Book of Job.
«No responsible doctrine of inspiration can deny that the biblical authors were thoroughly encultured, ancient people, who spoke as ancient people.
«There were a lot of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good,» says Ehrman, an expert on ancient biblical manuscripts.