Sentences with phrase «biblical authors»

Can not this also be true of biblical authors?

Of course, most theologians were accustomed to criticizing particular positions adopted by Biblical authors.

Let me put it another way: Most biblical authors assume that their readers have already received eternal life by faith.

I have never completely caught the disease... I try to give biblical authors the same freedom and flexibility I want readers to give me.

So how can God inspire biblical authors to write that He commanded Israel to do things that He did not actually command them to do?

Archeological evidence and literary analysis have helped us understand what biblical authors were saying in the context of their times, giving us a clearer picture of their developing religious insights.

Paul was not the only Biblical author to speak of such power.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

Biblical authors did not demean the body by contrasting it with the mind or soul.

Of course, for Biblical authors also human sexuality is one of the areas of life that should be in the service of God, and, to be sure, our failure to respond to this call is sinful.

Other than Matthew and Luke, no other biblical author mentions the virgin birth.

In fact, I believe that these translations are more inspired than are the original manuscripts penned by Moses, Matthew, John, Paul, and any other Biblical author.

Moreover, if the patriarchal system in the Old Testament is understood as ordained by God to reflect his self - revelation, what of an absolute monarchy, or perhaps a theocracy, which Biblical authors similarly considered to be God - ordained?

We speak of «the doctrine of the atonement,» «the doctrine of Christ,» or «the doctrine of God,» and what we have in mind is the collective testimony from the various biblical authors as to what should be believed about the atonement, about Christ, and about God.

Most biblical authors assume that their readers want to know how to obey God and follow Jesus better.

Discernment, I am arguing, is how we have always read the Bible; in fact, it is how biblical authors themselves read the Bible they had!

And, I would go on to argue, if biblical authors wrote in a culture with an attitude different to historical reporting from ours, then they wrote as the products of such a culture.

There is, of course, no question but that many biblical authors were impressed by the great power of God to control what happens.

I am quite conservative myself, but think of the inspiration of God as something closer to the whisperings of God, which He does not only upon biblical authors, but upon many others as well.

When Biblical authors wanted to refer to the whole Bible, all of it's parts and all of it's books and all of it's chapters and verses — all the teachings written down and recorded in the Bible — they used the Greek word logos.

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

Biblical authors knew nothing of Buddhism, and we can only speculate as to how they might have responded to it.

Most biblical authors viewed the world from the perspective of the oppressed.

These sorts of examples are found all over the place in the Bible, and the consistent message and expectation of biblical authors is that anyone and everyone can hear and understand the Gospel, and having heard, believe in Jesus for eternal life.

Moses is the only biblical author to write any commands about the tithe.

Well, this argument states that while the Bible accurately records the thoughts, actions, and ideas of the various Biblical authors and the people to whom the various books were written, these thoughts, actions, and ideas may not actually be the thoughts, actions, and ideas that God endorses, nor the thoughts, ideas, and actions that we are to copy.

If not, what do you make of the dozens of references to Hell by both Jesus and other biblical authors?

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.

From the perspective of most biblical authors, a person has his or her identity in relation to, not independent from, other people, the earth, fellow creatures, and God.

Obviously both Jesus and Satan and the biblical authors who made up this story did not know that the earth was round.

Obviously, the biblical authors thought the earth was flat.

Yes, maybe the Biblical authors lied about camels.

The committee boasts that it has emulated both the biblical authors and the translators of the King James Version in employing «the language and idiom of ordinary people.»

It states, «The biblical authors simply transplanted the nomadic standards of their time into the distant past.

Refutation: Jesus and the biblical authors only had copies, and they seemed to have believed that the Bible was inerrant (Matt 4:4; John 10:35).

The biblical authors simply transplanted the nomadic standards of their time into the distant past.

We all imagine the past to the best of our knowledge, the biblical authors included.

By «Word of God» we mean truths about God and from God that were grasped and recorded by the Biblical authors.

All of these things were going to happen no matter what, but God took the blame for all of them by inspiring the biblical authors to write what they did about Him.

It is not uncommon for the Biblical authors to speak of being «born into» something in just this way.