Sentences with phrase «believe holy scripture»

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But I believe that we are to not give in to our every urge, and to do our best to live by the laws governing society and those laid out for us in Holy Scripture.

Please read the portions of Scriptures which come from the Old Testament, of our Holy Bible, and see what they tell you...» Who has believed our report?

Catholics, in turn, teach that the Magisterium exercised by the successors of the apostles — which they believe is intended by Christ, is guided by the Holy Spirit, and is in clear continuity with the orthodox tradition — enables the Church to explicate the truth of Holy Scripture obediently and accurately.

The isolation of Scripture study from the believing community of faith (nuda scriptura) disregards the Holy Spirit's work in guiding the witness of the people of God to scriptural truths, and leaves the interpretation of that truth vulnerable to unfettered subjectivism.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

There is no holy scriptures for no believing in god.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to life that is the power of the holy spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz

Ultimately I believe Russell was the first to start the preterist «movement» and even though ge book is thick and filled w / scripture references, he has written a clever ruse, and without the Holy Spirit guiding us, we can fall for it too.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

If you believe John 3:16, if you love G - d with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself... then you can call yourself a believer according to Holy Scriptures.

I can totally handle that Jesus came to offer us a different way; but, If we really believe that the Old Testament is the inspired Word of God, or even if we want to understand more about the culture that gave us these holy scriptures, what we should do is take courses in Judaism, to get a better understanding of what God was supposed to have been telling the Jews.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We bBelieve in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believebelieve.

Do you believe he was arrogant enough to think that he was writing «holy scripture», as he wrote that letter?

Holy Scripture does not present us with details about what happens to those who die in Christ» whether, as most Evangelicals believe, they enter immediately into the fullness of God's glory or, as Catholics believe, ordinarily undergo a period of further preparation.

Nothing would lead us to believe that women invoked the Holy One with any less frequency or fervor than did their male counterparts, yet the scriptures record only a fraction of women's prayers in comparison with those prayed by men.

Baptists believe that every person has the right to interpret scripture for himself or herself, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

We have some different viewpoints to be sure, different canons of scripture even, but I've always given you the benefit of the doubt that you actually believed the positions you espoused, but this is over top demonization on a scale that I've never seen from someone claiming to be a christian before, not even from the most holier - than - thou fundamentalist.

If we believe that the Holy Spirit has helped guide Christians of the past to know and understand the truth of Scripture, then doctrinal statements can help us in our own understanding and interpretation of Scripture.

I believe that if a person, or a group of people, want to follow Jesus into their community, and look to the Scriptures for guidance, and trust the Holy Spirit to lead them, then they will be the church.

Here's the Lutheran «party line»... and I happen to believe it because it seems to fit with Holy Scripture:

Richard recently in Christianity Today: «Only a thinker so well grounded in the Reformation traditions could be an honest broker in bringing faithful evangelicals and believing Catholics to recognize the common source of their life together in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and the great tradition of living faith through the centuries.»

Raised a Protestant, despite all my thrashing and twisting I eventually couldn't help but believe that the apostolic succession, through Peter as the designated leader and primus inter pares, is in some logical or theological sense prior to everything else — including even Scripture, whose formation was guided and completed by the apostles and their successors, themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit.

«We believe the Holy Bible is the Divinely - inspired Word of God and we will continue to uphold and preach that which is found in scripture.»

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Otherwise, the Bible becomes the prisoner of what was once believed to be scientifically true: «In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

'' We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare that you, the above - mentioned Galileo, because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture.»

If we believe the word of God is living and active, we can trust that when we spend time in Scripture individually, the Holy Spirit will speak to us — not just to drop wisdom nuggets but to help us become more Christ - like as we learn to follow Him.

Nevertheless, for all of God's elect, they may sufficiently understand those things which are necessary to be believed for salvation, the Holy Spirit assisting them, from the Scriptures, without relying on any pretended infallible human interpreters.

and also, googling information on the internet is not the same as finding it in the Scripture, though their is alot of good information giving knowledge on the Bible, it is not to be replaced with going to God's Word for truth, i still cant believe you are claiming to be a christian and you also claim that the Bible is not a Holy instrument of God, and that Paul speaks things that arent absolute truth, this is nonsense to any child of God.

I believe in God as a Christian and I first honor to Christ is to spread the Holy Scriptures as Christ said we should know them!

And they refuse correction because they believe they are right, with God and the Holy Scriptures on their side.

Philosopher when you theorise that God created sin that path will take you to a place of unbelief and a mistrust in God as it is a place of doubt and unbelief if you see God as evil.That is one path everyone is free to take.The scriptures say that without faith it is impossible to please God.The other path is that we believe that the bible is true that God is holy and righteous and sin does not dwell him.Ultimately if we believe and trust him then we shall be saved.What does your theory offer is there hope or is there eternal life in your belief the answer is no because unless we believe in Jesus we shall not be saved and eternity is a long time if you are wrong.brentnz

I believe the one of the primary ways the Holy Spirit speaks to us is through Scripture.

«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

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This is a most excellent, quick study to get the serious seeker started toward self evaluation of what they believe and why from the Holy Scripture.

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