Sentences with phrase «biblical authority does»

But a common commitment to biblical authority does not preclude major disagreement.

Not exact matches

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

This is one I've done a good deal of study on, as I did a brief article for it as part of our going through 1 Corinthians 15 in AiG's biblical authority devotional series.

It asserts that women have shaped biblical religion and have the authority to do so.

Put most simply, the issue is this: how do evangelicals translate their understanding of Biblical authority from theory into practice?

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

On what basis do they accept this extreme version of biblical authority?

One who does this may simply have no interest in biblical authority.

Ellingsen notes that numerous ecumenical breakthroughs resulted from the Second Vatican Council, but mutual respect does not always bridge the gap between the mainline churches with their primary commitment to contextual theology, and fundamentalists as well as evangelicals with their prevailing commitment to biblical authority.

So apparently, based on the biblical authority, God [i] does [/ i] have a name.

Conversely, the worship of mainline white American denominations looks increasingly exceptional, as do these groups» customary approaches to biblical authority.

Though most African and Asian churches have a high view of biblical origins and authority, this does not prevent a creative and even radical application of biblical texts to contemporary debates and dilemmas.

Besides the biblical and legal grounds for reporting suspected abuse to the civil authorities, there are also practical reasons to do so.

To do that we need some label that distinguishes us from Protestants who abandon biblical authority, neglect evangelism and fail to affirm historic Christian doctrines.

«No one who pretended to any sort of theology or religious reflection at all wanted to go counter to the «real» applicative meaning of biblical texts, once it had been determined what it was, even if one did not believe them on their own authority,» he remarked.

Nor does this rule out biblical authority; but it does mean that the «minister who is obedient to Scripture and represents its authority does so as one who is interpreting the mind of the community - before - God».

The conference suggested on a number of grounds the answer is «no» --(a significant portion of the world's charismatic population doesn't worship Jesus, or fall within «orthodoxy» i.e. deny the trinity etc.; the focus of charismatic worship is not Christ, but the «Holy Spirit» where this «Holy Spirit» may not even be biblical; the charismatic movement is «experiential» which posses no biblical authority, etc)

I fully believe that biblical authority is the basis for all that we do, that without retaining the complete gospel as presented in the scriptures, we are failing those and are as Jesus says of the Pharisees «twice the son of ghenna».

Thus, any human attempt to claim that the Spirit has chosen to give only men the «gift of leadership» and women the «gift of nurturing» is a human construct that seeks to bind the work of the Spirit in the world for the benefit of those who establish such strict categories and try to enforce them through claiming some biblical authority to do so — as men have for millennia now.

After reading your responses to my post, «When a Theology Just Doesn't Feel Right,» I felt it appropriate to address the topic of biblical authority, as our discussion often drifted in that direction.

Furthermore, it would be helpful to show that the existing concern for evangelism and church growth could not be pursued apart from the issues raised by the wider social setting without doing damage to the biblical understanding of mission This also had to be done from the text itself, and not from any intrinsic authority given by the congregation to the preacher.

He also does have some of the coolest lines in the entire story arc calling out Tony Stark as the biblical Judas for betraying all his friends to the authority's.