Sentences with phrase «beliefs on scripture»

We must base our beliefs on scripture, not experience.

Not exact matches

In one response you have referred to me as silly, accused me of being unable to reconcile my beliefs to scripture, accused me of stalling, rambling on and on, (love the irony in this one... grin), likened me to a tween, insinuated I do not know or rightly divide scripture, referred to me as sensitive, and implied my post was immature.

Are you really surprised at scriptures quoted on the BELIEF BLOG?

Mormon beliefs are no secret; all teachings, lessons, scripture are available free on the internet at lds.org and mormon.org.

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.

Or is the real idolatry to hold on to beliefs without examining them critically in light of Scripture?

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

From the novelist as well as from the stories in Scripture the theologian should take courage to concentrate on the experience of coming to belief, not on the «beliefs» themselves (the sedimentation of experiences of coming to belief).

While there was a certain security to having this infallible roadmap on my nightstand, there was also a deep fear that came along with my belief that if just one thing was out of place in Scripture, if just one thing didn't resolve, the whole thing would fall apart.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

But I believe he's been taught by his pastor father the old school teachings on tithing and other beliefs so much that he hasn't seen the truth in Scripture.

Your claim that things supported by scripture is based on your belief that the bible is the inerrant, infallible word of god, which is your opinion.

And then we interpret the Scripture based on this wrong belief that it was written by a later author with a different audience and for different reasons.

One can lay out all the evidence and build (and have built) an airtight case against every single religion on Earth past and present, but still believers will not budge from their point of view, even when presented with the lies and contradictions in the very scriptures they they base their beliefs on.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

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

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

One can lay out all the evidence and build (and have built) an airtight case against every single religion on Earth past and present, but still believers will not budge from their point of view, even when presented with the lies and contradictions in the very scriptures they base their beliefs on.

Almost every article on Sunday's CNN «Belief» section is spiritually ridiculous and does not line up with scripture.

When there is a such a wide array of opinions and beliefs on what a particular passage means, and there is very little chance for the average student of Scripture to gain clarity or certainty on which view is right, most people think «Why even try?»

They are often crudely portrayed as voting based solely on identity politics, born suckers for quotes from Scripture or «code words» laced in the speeches of candidates appealing to their spiritual beliefs.

@ Bruce «A couple of things about belief and evidence for belief from the scriptures: (1) the gospel of John encourages us to believe based on the testimony of others who were «eyewitnesses» to key events»

If you have abundant personal evidence then this shouldn't offend you; this attacks the belief of god that is based merely on scripture, not a belief gained through personal experience

It is hard to say whether there will be a single coalescing theological re-interpretation of scripture that is more palatable and catches on or a continued diversification and splintering of belief.

Fundamentalism has been characterized by (1) vigorous resistance to developments in the world of science that appeared to contradict the Biblical text; (2) Biblical literalism; (3) individualism; (4) moralism; and (5) insistence on belief in certain «fundamentals» such as the inerrancy of the Scriptures, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and his second coming.

On the contrary, Nicene Christianity has again and again explored these very questions of the right relationship between belief and trust, personal integrity and communal commitment, canonical scripture and other sources of spiritual insight.

Your comments regarding your wild and exaggerated belief that God was somehow confused on what he created in «Adam then Eve» as male and female and that the bible can be interpreted in any way you choose reminds me of some scripture that you (being a scholar and former pastor?)

Those who use a «theistic» compass, for instance, base moral decisions and perspectives on religious belief scripture, the teaching of a religious group, or the prevailing norms of a believing community.

You wrote: «if you have ever had concerns about «going down the slippery slope» by giving up the belief in the inspiration or inerrancy of Scripture, this book is an excellent source to see how someone can abandon these and still hold on to their faith.»

Again, Jeremy's words: ««if you have ever had concerns about «going down the slippery slope» by giving up the belief in the inspiration or inerrancy of Scripture, this book is an excellent source to see how someone can abandon these and still hold on to their faith.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Even though, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, most people who call themselves religious tend to adhere to only those bits and pieces from scripture that appeal to them, by according undue respect for ancient religious beliefs in general, we nonetheless are suggesting that they are on par with conclusions that have been drawn from centuries of rational empirical investigation.

Though religion comes muted in True Grit, the film clearly aligns Mattie's thirst for justice with her belief in God, something underscored by Mattie's quoting of scripture but also by Carter Burwell's music, which borrows heavily from the traditional American hymn «Leaning On The Everlasting Arms.»

An introduction to Christian theology as a coherent system of beliefs founded on the sovereignty of God and the infallibility of Scripture.

Christian family therapy usually draws on the wisdom of the Biblical scriptures to help repair family relationships in a manner consistent with Christian religious beliefs and teachings.

As some previous research has measured religiosity on a one - dimensional level, such as church attendance (e.g., Kunz & Albrecht, 1977; Wallin, 1957; Wilson & Musick, 1996), the current research employs a multidimensional assessment of religiosity, including intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest, as well as church attendance, and the degree to which respondents endorse the belief system presented in the scripture of their faith.