Sentences with phrase «based on scripture»

This policy is based on the scripture from Ephesians 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

Ready - to - color line drawings, based on Scripture verses and uplifting messages, are accompanied by insightful prompts on the meaning of faith, with plenty of room to write and reflect.

«There is parenting based on Scripture, but Christians have been totally captured by the secular parenting thing.»

The problem with any views based on Scripture, is that if God doesn't exist, and I'm not saying he doesn't, then it's pretty much just a fairy tale.

This thinking is intended to legitimize these current practices, supposedly based on Scripture.

Here the Pope seems to be opposing a long tradition, based on Scripture, which has defended capital punishment for its value as retribution for the evil done and as a deterrence against future crime.

The Bible, a TV mini-series based on scripture, has been granted a sequel on American TV network NBC.

If they are unable to say what it is, he encourages them to define an ecclesial purpose based on scripture.

I'm not aiming to spend much time arguing against complementarianism, but rather showing that egalitarianism is a tenable position for Christians, based on scripture, reason, tradition, etc..

I honestly thought that I'd be reading an article based on the Scripture.

An appeal to the unchanging teaching of the Church does little justice to the Church Fathers who engaged their whole minds and souls in the defense and articulation of the truth, based on Scripture, reason, liturgy, peculiar strands of philosophy, and sundry other allies they mustered to their side.

If this is meant to be spiritual food it should be based on scripture and that scripture should be referenced.

Perhaps we should institute some annual ritual, based on this scripture in Acts, by which we memorialize Judas's supposed act of perfidy and the selection of new leaders who have walked with Jesus in all aspects of his earthly ministry, from baptism to ascension.

It's all based on scripture.

Dave, to the best of my ability, my beliefs are based on Scripture.

Is there any possible justification for going to such a wedding because 90 % of Christians I've talked to are fine with it, but based on scripture and the gay issue that feels like a double standard.

Encouraged by these developments, we rejoice in a greater measure of common catechesis based on Scripture and the ecumenical creeds that we share.

I think Neville has provided a very good case for individual choice based on scripture.

They've taken a position based on some scripture or laws.

There is no way that the Lord could have been married based on scripture.

In their opinion the Church needed to return to a «pure» religion based on scripture alone, sola scriptura.

The leader gave a high - quality message based on Scripture which was better than most sermons I have heard in churches.

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

Again, other Christians do this with our favorite beliefs: We'll claim our views are wholly based on scripture, but in fact our favorite proof - texts are cherry - picked, and least - favorites are dismissed, wholly based on our theology.

I think we all like to claim that our theology alone is based on Scripture, etc, when in reality, there is a whole host of other influences that get poured into our theology as well.

It's been a while since I've tried to justify veganism based on scripture.

It's a religion, its tenets based on scripture, not on the demands of its membership.

They shun people based on a scripture that has been twisted and rewritten by greedy men for ages, to reach salvation for themselves they'd turn their backs on their brothers and sisters.

Based on the scripture verse, «Keep your head in all situations!»

Based on their scriptures and traditions Jews, Christians (of ALL types, including Mormons) and Muslims all worship the one god of Abraham.

YOU want your own brand of «christianity» that bears no relation to the real one, based on Scriptures, the Word of God!

You said, «YOU want your own brand of «christianity» that bears no relation to the real one, based on Scriptures, the Word of God!

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

religions to preach spirituality and morals are dying down based on scriptures, but are maintained by civil law and orders.

Further, he «made an appeal for prayer based on the Scriptures,» because he was speaking to a group of men «who were predominantly Christians.»

That basic pattern of Buddhism (now known as Theravada and based on scriptures written in Pali) was taught in India in the sixth century B. C. and spread throughout much of India and Southeast Asia.

Not exact matches

This being said, when gay and lesbians want to promote their views as normal or that would be permissible for a priest or bishop to be a practising homosexual, I disagree based on the clear statements of Scripture.

Meanwhile, the believers have to follow the moralistic codes based on tradition and scripture lest they may become a «bad witness» to the truth of redemption by Jesus the Christ.

I came out of the Methodist tradition which is based on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral which demands that faith be based on four elements — Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Experience.

Their interpretations are based on the Torah (including those Leviticus passages) and they consider all thing in their interpretation — not just 2 scriptures as «evidence».

My aim is to take scriptures at their most obvious, and I am not bending or breaking a single thing from any passage in Genesis (most of this is based on Rabbinic interpretations).

(Based on experience, I interpret scripture to mean any work that resonates the sacred — not just the Bible.)

By the evidence of the scripture (if you were to actually study it instead of making broad assumptions about it based on what you read somewhere else) God set this earth in motion.

Since Christianity is based on the Bible, it is inconceivable how one can reconcile progressive attitudes towards gender equality with what is written in scripture without being an extreme semantic acrobat and moral contortionist.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

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 vast majority of them are based heavily on the themes and plotline of Scripture.

Rather than base his arguments on a detailed analysis of pertinent Scripture texts, he tended to quote St. Augustine (who predated Calvinism), John Calvin, and other prominent Calvinistic theologians.

It seems to me that those who express a negative attitude towards attending a «church» base it on emotions and feelings more than scripture.

Gambling your soul away on a guess based on ancient texts out of fear of torture doesn't sound logical at all, especially considering how many other versions of the scriptures have been found and conflict with today's bible.