Sentences with phrase «biblical accounts as»

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The Case for Christ, as you're probably aware, is based on the true story of Lee Strobel, a Chicago journalist who set out to disprove the biblical account of Jesus and ended up doing the total opposite.

The Biblical accounts are not some late, great stuff, as many like to spout off to say and thus dismiss the whole thing.

It could also mean developing new competencies, such as pastoral counseling, a biblical language, or mastering the accounting principles or computer software used in managing the church's financial affairs.

Secondly as stated further up the thread, the biblical account of creation was to show the authority of God to an ancient people.

(2) Evolution has often been taught with the implication that it was a rejection of the biblical creation account, by ignoring or dismissing the creation stories as prescientific myths surpassed by superior modern versions.

As Barack Obama continues to widen his lead in the polls, conservative evangelicals seem to have rediscovered an affinity for biblical accounts of the Babylonian Captivity.

While it is true that the biblical view of creation sanctifies time and nature as created by God — and therefore good — it does not follow that the creation accounts as such are to be understood chronologically or as natural history.

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

Placker presents an appreciative summary of Hans Frei's understanding of biblical narrative as neither moral teachings nor historical accounts, but rather as primarily narrative.

A wise interpreter would set this verse aside as too vague and unclear on this particular issue and seek Biblical truth on this subject in the clear passages throughout the Bible that teach that God does not hold children to account for the sins of their parents!

One image he used was that of Elijah, conceived of by Israel as the father of the prophetic movement, and whose life in the biblical accounts was surrounded by enormous miraculous power.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

As professional biblical scholarship stands now, few would argue that the gospel accounts are 100 % accurate, and that nothing was borrowed from other faiths and mythologies.

The christmas myth as told by western culture, is a jumble of faith, popular culture, earlier festivals, and it is held at a time of year that is clearly not in line with biblical accounts of the birth of Jesus.

Yet Gerstenberger writes as if all «biblical accounts of atonement situations» are the same and can be blended together to produce a single meaning, and that this meaning is fully captured in the word «atonement.»

I have a hunch that one explanation accounts for the silence of evangelical biblical scholars more than any other: the basic fear that their findings, as they deal with the text of Scripture, will conflict with the popular understanding of what inerrancy entails.

I regard it as historically probable that something happened on that first Easter, something not too unlike the Biblical resurrection accounts.

It has affected how man understands the origin of life (including his own) on this planet, and Christianity has had to contend with, account for, and reconcile its implications with the biblical narrative of creation and purpose as stemming from God.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Denny Burk, @DennyBurk, keeps up a regularly updated blog and twitter account, while also working as an associate professor of biblical studies at Boyce College.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

As regards the biblical account, we must refer to what was said in the second part of this essay.

The Church's pronouncements contain fundamentally nothing more than a repetition of the biblical account, and as regards content and degree of certainty, have no intention of going beyond the biblical text.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

Working through the biblical account step by step, Ellul reads the text carefully, finding hints of how God works through people, those who are faithful, as well as those who are not.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

After showing how this has happened in various «myths,» Girard turns to some biblical accounts to show how the skapegoating mechanism is revealed in Scripture as well, but in a way that turns the mechanism upside down and reveals what is truly going on behind the scenes.

So, in the biblical account the tower of Babel was destroyed by God as judgement about them and then confusing them with giving them different languages so they didn't understand each there for making it impossible to work together to build another tower.

And he took this to mean that the biblical account of the Israelite conquest of Jericho was, as some suspected already a legend.

A short and often overlooked biblical account sometimes referred to as «the widow's offering» reminds us what is required of us individually.

When the historian reconstructs the history of an event reported in the Bible, like the reign of David or the career of Paul, he brings together as many sources of information as possible: biblical accounts, archeological data, nonbiblical reports.

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

Neither Alt nor Albright was prepared to take the biblical account of Israel's origins and early history entirely at face value, yet both saw it as a rich source of historical information.

Propagate the natural reading of the account from a version true to the Hebrew (such as nkjv): godly men marrying women for their beauty producing a generation of ungodly «men of renown;» and lead people to scholarly sites where they can see what the Hebrew says and compare the Biblical basis for the various interpretations, such as Who Were The Nephilim, Genesis.6 & Numbers 13 A Fresh Look, by Bodie Hodge at Answers in Genesis.

The setting itself gives the tone for this authoritative teaching: while Luke's account of the sermon takes place on the plain, Matthew has Jesus up a mountain, thus evoking the biblical notion of mountain as a place of divine revelation, and Mount Sinai in particular as the place where God's will for his people Israel was revealed.

Such a reduction is in fact attempted by what is known today as «creationism,» or especially «scientific creationism,» which presents the biblical accounts of cosmic origins and God's activity as though they were alternative scientific and objectively historical accounts rivaling those of secular science and history.

I wish now to give an account, inadequate because of necessary brevity, of what the biblical story as a whole has to tell us.

Rembrandt's maturation serves as a parable of our own posture toward such biblical accounts.

If we hold fast to the biblical witness that God does care for us, individually as well as corporately, what must we infer about God and the world that would account for the fact that petitionary prayer sometimes seems futile?

As he says, careful Bible scholars have taken that into account in interpreting the biblical text: viz,»... Scripture itself was given to humans in their particular historical and sociocultural contexts.»

The Catholic Church hasn't officially defined how the Biblical Account was made manifest in our world (heck, as soon as it tried, science would probably change how humans evolved, so its kind of hard to reconcile Theology with a moving target).

The height of the Tower of Babel is still up in the air, but considering Ham's commitment to staying as true as possible to the biblical account, it will be tall enough to warrant divine intervention.

As far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he liveAs far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he liveas evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he lived.

He volunteered to Darrow — it was not wormed out of him, as the play suggests — that the «days» in the biblical account of creation were not twenty - four hour days; he cited Genesis 2:4, in which the word «generations» seems to be used as a substitute for «days.»

Although there are some Christians, such as the Creationists in the USA, who insist on the literal accuracy of the biblical account of creation, the majority of Christians would now see the stories as mythological.

Of course the Biblical account gives us the information about who is on the other end of the cord, but if we were to imagine a bit... what (or who) might be on the other end of a cord being held by a courageous, outspoken, compassionate, fierce fighter such as Rahab in today's world?

As Christianity Today editor Mark Galli has argued, evangelicals arrived at their current stand on life issues through a combination of factors, including biblical interpretation, moral accounting and political calculus.

It's amazing how many people take the first part where «one day with the Lord is as a thousand years» as a scale so they can «interpret» prophecy and Biblical accounts such as the creation to fit their world view without any consideration for the second part where «and a thousand years is as one day».

Angle will be making stops in two early and important 2012 primary states this month for viewings of a Christian movie entitled «The Genesis Code,» which is described by the producers as a film that «reconciles the Biblical account of Genesis with the scientific account of the origins of the universe.»