Sentences with phrase «as a book of»

T13, it's set up as a book of rememberance, they'd take it with them where ever they go.

They do not follow satan in ANY way and we follow the Bible as well as the Book of Mormon, which has nothing about following satan or anything against the will of God.

Ben Franklin write his own bible where he removed every supernatural reference and took what was left as a book of «parables» not a history book.

As a book of «facts», It will die a slow death, and you will then find it in the «Mythology» stacks instead of under «Religion».

Denominations / buildings / altars are just place believers continue to «meet together» as the book of Hebrews puts it.

For your information Mormons also believe in the New Testament and Old Testament and study it as much as the Book of Mormon.

The intention of the series is to reclaim, at long last, the Bible as the book of the Church's living tradition.

An extreme example is to be found in the exploitation of the more obscure «apocalyptic» writings» such as the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crank.

The Doctrine and Covenants and the teachings of LDS prophets (both of which hold the same authority as the Book of Mormon) are what make Mormonism what it is, and what make it so blasphemous to Christians.

As the Book of Exodus recounts, Moses

The dominant Protestant culture enabled some Christians in this country to forget, as the book of Hebrews proclaims, that here we have no abiding city.

And the Bible is kept by the Church as a book of history to remind believers of the dynamic nature of the divine revelation, «at sundry times and in divers manners.»

The prophetic influence, therefore, was effective far beyond the ambit of the prophets themselves and, as the Book of Proverbs shows, became part of the homely common sense of many of the people:

@oneStar... Yes... Pagan Rome was replaced by Christian Rome exactly as the book of Revelations predicted three hundred years earlier.

Mormons have their stories, as the Book of Mormon and their saga of a cross-country trek and kingdom - building make clear.

To Bonhoeffer, the Bible was meant «to be expounded as a witness, not as a book of wisdom, a teaching book, a book of eternal truth» (No Rusty Swords, p. 118).

Each sentence and each paragraph must be understood as a contribution to the sense of a complete book, such as the Book of Jeremiah or the Gospel According to Matthew.

The first Latter - day Saints gathered around Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, as the Book of Mormon came into being; the Mormon field has, even now, been «white to the harvest» for a century and a half.

The Yashts and minor texts combined, as they often are, form a kind of abridged Avesta or smaller Avesta, called the Khordah Avesta which serves as a book of prayers for laymen.

Now there are some who believe that we should read Esther as a book of judgment.

I view the Bible as a book of information and instruction from God, that helps me to understand something of him, his character and purposes.

They have looked at the events occurring in their day and have tried to fit them into what is described in Daniel as well as the book of Revelation.

So first we attempt to enter and understand the story as the Book of Exodus relates it, at the stage when it achieved a written form.

I've heard it said that that man is as old and as obsolete as that book of «truth» to which he so desperately cleaves.

To the persecuted Christian believers the Revelation to John brought hope, as the Book of Daniel did two centuries earlier.

Test 3: «Under the doctrine of [new] continuing revelation [such as the Book of Mormon], Latter - day Saints believe that Jesus, under the direction of Heavenly Father, leads the church by revealing his will to its President» This is in direct contradition to Jude 1:3 which says that the faith was «once for all delivered unto the saints.»

In fact, this freedom of will is an important concept within Christianity that can be found in the Bible as early as the Book of Genesis.

Some of the clearest statements regarding Yahweh's antagonistic warfare against Israel are found in the collection of poems known as the book of Lamentations.

As a piece of apocalyptic literature it takes its place naturally in the series which begins with the Book of Daniel, and includes such works as the Book of Enoch, the Assumption of Moses, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 2 Esdras.

After all, as the Book of Proverbs pragmatically advises, «Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth» (27:1).

No one said it as clearly as John in his political tract called «The Apocalypse of Christ,» otherwise known as the Book of Revelation.

Rather than seeing it as a book of proof texts, it helps us see what God has been doing in the world, and what our role might be in carrying the story forward.

He later wrote them the letter we know as the book of Ephesians and established Timothy as their pastor.

Suddenly, I saw the Bible as NOT a «religious book» nor a «bunch of rules about how to please God»... but instead as a book of PRINCIPLES about how to live an abundant life.

There I only gave it a B + as a book of rock criticism, partly on the basis of its too - encyclopedic style, but in retrospect, my sense is the power of its basic ideas will make it something of a classic of the genre.

I was talking about the centuries of editing up to that point — multiple authors, rewriting etc, as books of the Torah coalesced.

After this mode of understanding Jesus and the Church took root it was a short step to label the Jewish Bible as the Books of the Old Covenant; nor was it long before the Christian literature was called the Books of the New Covenant, or simply the New Testament.

Be religious by all means but know that the Bible is not the word of God, it's a book of bronza age stories, the same as the Book of Mormon is a book of stories from a renowned con - man in the 1800s and Dianetics is a book from a 2nd rate sci fi writer in the 1950's.

The NT is about as credible as the Book of Mormon.

As a book of collected myths that evolved and melted together over time, the bible is somewhat interesting, but it's obviously got no magic or universal truth.

Jews, not Hebrew Israelites as far back as the book of Esther were ran out to Gresian, Turkey, and were there for 2000 years, even loosing their Hebrew language, speaking Yiddish, then when the 1897 Herzel Movement came, this is when the jews began to claim Israel, or Zion, and the instigation of both wars, World War I, & II, following the Holocaust, also instigated to establish the vision in Daniel 11:14, exposed by a rich jew, former zionist Benjamin H. Freedman, these jew zionist cracked a few eggs to make an omlet, it has even been found that there wasn't 6mill.

As the Book of Revelation is early Christianity cast in the mold of Jewish apocalyptic, so the Fourth Gospel is early Christianity trying to commend itself to the Hellenistic mind and, in order to do this, setting itself to supersede the literal dramatics of the Jewish hope.

She was the first result of the new outpouring of God's Spirit, and when God's Spirit had finished his work, there would be a new heaven and a new earth just as the book of redemption promised.

(Amos 5:18 - 20) By the time Greek domination was in full swing, however, the outlines of typical Jewish Messianism were established, as the Book of Daniel makes evident.

Oy... the book you are referring to is known as The Book of Revelation and NOT the Bible.

As the book of Acts, Galatians and Hebrews reveals, it has always been difficult for Jewish people to give up trying to obey the law, and turn instead to depend solely on the grace of God.

One of the things that most Christians do nt think of is the Bible as a book of promises.

Take his essay on the literary genealogies of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, which provides exhaustive (and exhausting) documentation» all for the sake of showing that Burton «conceive [d] his own work as a book of heaps out of a heap of books.»

Mohammad's book (Koran) had an almost identical presentation as The Book of Mormon... a man was visited by an «angel» and was given the story to tell.

That is was also distinctly possible that gathered fragmented written sources as well as oral traditions regarding the laws of Moses and histories of the kings of Israel and Judah coming from prior to Babylonian captivity were then secured and placed into a combined written sources from which what we know as the Books of Moses as well as other books that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old Testament.