Sentences with phrase «biblical basis of»

fishon, I don't take passages about «sexual immorality» that way and don't mind at all them being read or preached, but my experience is that preachers name homosexuality specifically and teach things that not only are (in my opinion) and poor interpretation of the Bible, but also things that could have no Biblical basis of support.

The biblical basis of a Christian's sexual ethic can never be abrogated.

The paid - time religious broadcasters claimed to represent the biblical position on political issues, but the biblical basis of their policies was seen to be rather suspect.

The committee felt that fundamental thinking was needed not only on the Biblical basis of missions but also in their practical application.

The three preceding chapters have attempted to outline the biblical basis of Christian ethics.

In a mission statement written in 1983, CWM did attempt to set out a biblical basis of what it understood to be holistic mission.

Not exact matches

It continues, «I believe it is vitally important that we cast our ballots for candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles and support the nation of Israel.

Furthermore, to base one's ID position on a non-literal reading of Genesis, incorporating the central tenet of special creation by the biblical deity, is, in fact, an exercise in bible - based reasoning.

And today many are convinced on the basis of various passages in the biblical book of Genesis that all nations will be judged in accordance with how they treat Israel.

LinCA: Dismissing the biblical and historical evidence based on your ignorance of it doesn't work.

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.

For if the words of the prophets are not given a «spiritual» sense, there is no biblical and theological basis for the confession that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ.

To the Jews, the «eye for an eye» passage had become a license for personal vengeance, a basis for a vendetta, sort of a biblical permission to have a grudge or to strike back.

The point of the bible based discussion is because the bible thumpers have been able to successfully shape public policy based on their biblical interpretation.

Some Christians find «too little difficulty validating the Jewish right to the land of Israel on the basis of biblical promises» and others «err in the other direction.»

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

Such cowardly acts have no basis in the broader scheme of Biblical teaching and tradition.

The lawyer continued: «He argued that Mrs Davis's position is based on the Biblical view of same - sex marriage as a sin; when challenged, he provided quotations from the Bible supporting his view.»

And all of these others have also based their views on careful exegesis of the biblical text, in its grammatical, cultural, historical contexts.

I am persuaded that nothing short of a thoroughly biblical faith can provide the theoretical base and the staying power necessary to endure the discouragements and the agony of the impending struggle for justice.

Sameth has based his arguments on his left - of - center sex ideology, and not at all on a credible historical reading of the biblical text in context.

No rational person makes decisions based on such distorted logic in any other area of life, and decisions regarding the textual veracity of the Biblical text should not be an exception to that rule.

A free download of their PDF book on the Biblical basis (or lack thereof) of an eternal hell of conscious torment.

Nevertheless, the possibility of a coherent quantum theory based on process thought is, in principle, important for the project of recovering a comprehensive vision in which a biblical understanding of God finds an important role.

And, Jeremy, would you please look at topic of commonly - heard ideas that may or may not have biblical basis — one mentioned in these comments — is that God chooses the time of our death.

Director of new «Noah» movie calls it «The LEAST biblical film ever made» then uses F word referring to those wanting Bible - based [films]

We find no rational biblical or theological basis to condemn or deny the rights of any person based on sexual orientation.

After attempting to find a Biblical base for a kenotic doctrine of Incarnation, he turns and finds a philosophical base for it in the metaphysics of Hegel.

Instead, Greenberg came to a new understanding based on the biblical concept of covenant and the rabbinic concept of hester panim» God's hiding His face.

The basis of Biblical ideas of substitution — one bearing the sin and penalty of all — was corporate personality, where in deepest earnest the sin of one was regarded as being the sin of all, the punishment due to one as being due to all, and the sacrifice of one, as in the case of Jephthah's daughter, as being offered by all.

Apparently many theologians and biblical scholars fumble with or skirt around the truth as if the message of life were a proposition or a premise based on a certain quantity of historical information or a qualitative formula.

Science became a «force of evil» only after the evidence clearly showed that many of the biblical stories didn't have any basis in history after all.

It's ironic — those who champion nondiscrimination, in the name of nondiscrimination, are creating rules that push out those who «discriminate» based on biblical belief statements.

Even though Dr. Spencer laid a strong biblical foundation for the role of women in ministry based on the New Testament, I still lived with the fear of once again being silenced by the church.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

Answers In Genesis, which built and operates the religious - themed attraction, plans to build a full - scale wooden replica of Noah's Ark based on biblical descriptions.

Often there is healing in these people as beautifully illustrated in Thornton Wilder's one act play, The Angel That Troubled the Waters, based on the biblical story of John 5:1 - 4.

If the doctrine itself is not explicit in the Bible, and if its implications are not admitted in the Bible, it is hard to see how the doctrine can be defended on the basis of Biblical revelation.

Based on biblical stories and passages, the series aims to introduce a new audience to a new type of biblical art.

You are free to express your biblical bigotry, I am free to shame you for basing your beliefs on a bigoted outdated collection of religious fables.

Christmas, Easter... all others have no Biblical basis for celebrating, and as practiced today, are a travesty of the principles Jesus lived by and taught.

Proclaiming that a certain belief is wrong or that a certain activity is sinful, based on biblical principles, is increasingly being included in the definition of hate speech.»

[It should be noted here that complementarian notions of manhood and womanhood tend to be based on culturally — influenced stereotypes, many of which project idealized notions of the post-industrial revolution nuclear family onto biblical texts rather than taking those texts on their own terms — a topic we've discussed at length in the past and will continued to discuss in the future.]

You claim that I my view about sexual relationships is «based upon a gross perversion of honest biblical exegesis.»

For prayers based on specific biblical texts and events, this pattern of interconnections also fosters a theocentric hermeneutic which resists any supersessionism.

As a Protestant, I could see the exegetical basis for the former, with the dogma developing as the result of debates over biblical texts.

Later, in the mid-1800s, a group of Protestant scholars based in Geneva developed the theory of «plenary verbal inspiration» declaring that every word of the biblical text (the Protestant Old Testament was translated from the Masoretic text) was the very word that God intended it to be.

The biblical hope is not based on human ability to sort out the problems of the world and order its future, but it is based on God's future, a future which God is bringing about in Jesus Christ.

Note that throughout Biblical history God always imputed righteousness unto man on the basis of Faith, that is Belief in Him, whoever he / she was / is.