Sentences with phrase «author of scripture»

In turn, the very idea of inspiration, as arising from meditation on the Holy Spirit, is deprived of the enrichment it might receive from those forms of discourse which are less easily interpreted in terms of a voice behind a voice or of a double author of scripture.

Since the Bible is an inspired book, God is the primary author of Scripture, and since He has a view toward the redemption of all humanity from the predicament we find ourselves in, God's primary intended audience is all people throughout time.

My first thought after reading your review is that his view of the Bible as dialog would seem to deny the Holy Spirit as being the author of Scripture, and would attack the idea that the Word — a.k.a. Jesus — became flesh and pitched his tent among us.

Thus, the fact that God is the ultimate author of Scripture is downplayed for apologetic reasons, the stress being instead put on the «fallible» human minds and hands that produced the text.

And no human being could ever come up with a definitive answer — not even an inspired author of Scripture.

But finally to say that the true author of scripture (God) didn't understand things as well as we do today, is a pretty arrogant stand.

If modern authors can change in their theology, terminology, goals, focus, vocabulary, verb tense usage, and so on, and be allowed to revise, edit, and redact their own works, why can we not allow the same freedom and flexibility to the authors of Scripture?

Personally, I see the ideas in the heads in the authors of Scripture quite varied.

The authors of Scripture do not always speak with one voice, but this is because they are presenting the question of the character of God in different ways.

Jesus intentionally set His face to the cross so that He might bear the sins of the world, just as God had been intentionally inspiring human authors of Scripture to write what they did so that He might bear the sins of Israel.

And the authors of Scripture are like the moderators in this debate.

The problem is that we are told that Jesus was the Son of God by the human authors of Scripture but with proper human analyses the passages that indicate there is a link have been found to be embellishments.

Though it might be true that the ancient Israelites had undeveloped cosmology, this is not true of God, and so for this view to be correct, we must either deny inspiration, or have God inspiring the authors of Scripture to write about Himself in inaccurate ways.

God Himself, of course, is always loving and just, but sometimes the human authors of Scripture confused the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ with the actions of Satan in history, and referred to the actions of both as coming from «Yahweh.»

The general view now would be that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Scripture, but did not dictate what they wrote.

Most often, when the authors of Scripture want to write about eternal life, they use the words «eternal life» (or «everlasting life» in some translations).

Furthermore, since the Holy Spirit is the divine author of the Scriptures, speaking the One Word of God, the Church has avision of the unity of the Bible.

Why does God inspire the human authors of Scripture to write about Him in violent ways?

I believe that by looking at what the authors of Scripture say about Scripture, we can arrive a much better position — one where we maintain the accuracy and authority of Scripture, but in such a way that Scripture is not set up as a sacred idol.

I'm also not sure what I think about the idea that the authors of Scripture were aware of this over-arching story, especially the part about Christ.

In yesterday's post I suggested that if we understand the inspiration of God as the «whisperings of God» then it makes sense to think that God has been whispering truth not just to the authors of Scripture, but also to people who wrote the writings of other religions.

Not exact matches

He also suggests that these songs have stood the test of time because many of the authors were pastors, who held both Scripture and the struggles of their congregations in mind.

I hope the author takes your advice and heeds the warning of scripture.

It's interesting that the author of this article left out two very important scriptures that seem to say Judas was in big trouble.

CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the meaning and ends of war

It's a cherry - picking of scripture used to address what's happening right now in popular culture,» says Knust, author of the recent book «Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions on Sex and Desire.»

Of course most NT scholars find good reason to think that Peter did not author Peter 2, where Peter allegedly deems Paul's works as divine scripture.

What bothers me most is that so many of the Scripture references that are used to support the pledges are taken out of context and really have little or nothing to do with the author's theories.I believe God will hold this man and those who abuse God's Word accountable.

I guess you could argue that Jesus is God, God authored the scriptures, the scriptures make out men as a class to be liars... But it's not worth arguing because it's not the point of the cartoon.

The authors and writers may not have intended this, but the longings, desires, and ideas that connect most with people, are the longings, desires, and ideas that are found everywhere within the story of Scripture.

It is, like all of Calvinism's doctrines, not explicitly taught anywhere in scripture, but extrapolated by taking a few verses or partial verses out of context and granting them a meaning never intended by the authors.

Think about the fact that the Quran has one author and the Bible has many authors yet all of scripture is in perfect alignment explaining the coming of God's Son Jesus and how this was the plan before the foundation of the world.

As I read the passages of scripture in the lectionary for today, I found myself identifying most with the author of this psalm.

The author quotes scripture and closes with the following statement: «Maybe this Christmas season, we can reflect not so much on whether or not Jesus was white and instead consider what it meant for him to be called the «light» of the world.»

Under his inspiration, several of the Hindu scriptures were translated into Persian, and he was himself the author of many books on religion, including a biography of Sufis and saints, and a treatise on the technical terms of Hindu pantheism and their equivalents in Sufi theology.

Its author lives in another world than the Palestine of Jesus» days — one can scarcely believe that he ever saw Palestine, or knew Judaism and its sacred Scriptures intimately and sympathetically.

To this day there is controversy over whether Dante actually wrote the «Letter to Cangrande,» whose author overtly claims that he wrote the Comedy making use of the four senses of Scripture, almost exactly as these are defined by St. Thomas near the beginning of the Summa (I, i, 10).

But it is also a human word: the human beings who wrote it were also true authors.8 The scriptures therefore share to some extent in the nature of the incarnation: they use human things as the means for God to communicate with us humanly.

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

The authors were not passive instruments, mechanically recording what God dictated, but the Spirit used their personalities and individuality in the process of writing Scripture.

The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old - fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel — half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity.

The author adds that they did not yet realize from the scriptural prophecies that Jesus must be raised; if they had discerned the truth from scripture, it may be implied, the sight of the tomb would have been unnecessary, as it is for Christians now.

Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

The author, warden of Greyfriars and lecturer in history and doctrine at Oxford, clearly poses the question of his title, examines the answers to the question proposed by Scripture, authoritative tradition, and a wide variety of contemporary thinkers, and then presents his own conviction, persuasively giving the reasons why.

The Bible, The Qur «an and Science by Dr. Maurice Bucaille THE HOLY SCRIPTURES EXAMINED IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE Translated from French by Alastair D. Pannell and The Author

So where is that approval of Paul's word as divine scripture now that most NT scholars believe that Peter did not author Peter 2?

John P Burgess is associate professor of systematic theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and the author of Why Scripture Matters.

Many of the notes consist of fussy reminders that a phrase Augustine uses comes from scripture or from a classical Latin author.

CNN: My Take: Obama's Newtown remarks show presidents as pastors in chief Stephen Prothero, an author and Boston University religion scholar, says President Barack Obama was «a pastor among pastors» as he recited scripture and inspirational quotes to comfort the people of Newtown at Sunday's interfaith memorial service.

People who do not read scripture who fall for this I can excuse, the author however - This is intellectual dishonesty of the highest degree.