Sentences with phrase «biblical authors themselves read»

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!

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The author insists on a literal reading of the biblical accounts that would seem to support his quasi-Unitarian Christology while skipping over passages that contradict his views.

On the contrary, every time a biblical author sketches the eschaton, humans are on earth using various kinds of cultural goods, cooking meals, living in houses, walking on roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so on.

Thoughts of a responsible gun owner and follower of Christ: After a quick read of this acticle, the author's biblical based quotes and interpretations seem true.

Since the biblical authors tend to make reference to the ending, if I were going to steal Wright's metaphor, I'd prefer to characterize it as «living in the fourth act,» where you've read the first three acts and the fifth, and you have to continue where the third act leaves off, mindful that what you do must fit in with the ending specified in the fifth act.

Written in informed engagement with current debates over the possibility of knowledge and truth, this small book will reward careful reading also by those who may dispute the author's interpretation of biblical texts.

Also, I assume you can't read very well, because you're a christian, but the author is a biblical scholar and a pastor, unlike you, and she said nowhere in the article that she is a gay or a lesbian.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

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