Sentences with phrase «biblical arguments against»

During this time period, only a few Quakers made biblical arguments against slavery.

You still might not agree with it, but at least you will have an accurate representation of what is taught, and the opportunity to bring a biblical argument against it.

Not exact matches

Arguments based on biblical criticism are not decisive for or against belief in the virginal conception.

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

A few misleading accusations against the Bible» on slavery or women's rights, for example» are enough to cause modern conservatives to abandon Biblical arguments altogether.

Biblical passages against ho.mose.xuality do not provide a compelling argument against gay marriage (for reasons I can not go into here).

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

I posted this a week ago to my personal blog and intended to cross-post it here without too much delay, but I've just realized that I never got around to it.There's a particularly bad argument against those who accept the biblical prohibitions against same - sex sexual acts, and I think I've....

Those opposed to woman suffrage often used religious arguments to warn that expanding women's rights, including the vote, violated Biblical teachings and went against «God's Plan» (women belong in the home, not in the public sphere).

It examines in detail the arguments of certain religious leaders against homosexuality: the faulty logic, the quotation of scriptures out of their historical context, the convenient interpretation of biblical quotes, the power of charismatic preachers.