Sentences with phrase «biblical events»

The fact that you, as a scientist, have seen more evidence for biblical events than for evolution is laughable.

The significant biblical event is always the event as faith sees, remembers, tells, and celebrates it.

Archaeological discoveries made public in 2015 have given us new information about biblical events and people.

Again, theologians who are persuaded of their usefulness in conveying theological meaning to the contemporary mind may have gone so far as to claim emergent evolution to be a theological symbol by which biblical events of history as well as subsequent doctrinal formulations may be explicated.

Moreover, the particular coherence of this story made «figural» interpretation possible: some events in the biblical stories, as well as some nonbiblical events, prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

These lessons explore Judaism through some of the major ancient Biblical events such as the founding of the covenant, the destruction of Soloman's Temple and the beginning of the Diaspora, through to more contemporary issues relating to stereotyping and antisemitism.

He's a phenomenal writer that plays to our base - fears, which in America happen to be largely rooted in biblical events.

The reason most cant find a clear history of people from biblical events is because the characters were taken from Kemet writings.

Most controversial were the Sacred Dramas, a series of plays depicting biblical events, which were met with hostility from the literary elite and strict religionists alike.

Yourgrau insists that we should not «pass over in silence» such disturbing biblical events, but he seems unaware that Jews are required to recall the slaughter of the first - born Egypt in fear and awe each weekday morning.

In the text of Sacred Scripture, Christian writers found something similar to this dramatic format, where biblical events involving divine activity were often scripted in dialogical form.

Yes, I agree with Greg that the biblical accounts say these things, but I would say that Greg's explanation of these difficult biblical events still turns God into a monster - releasing monster like Zeus.

In this substantial but accessible book, Crossan, an expert on the historical Jesus, urges readers to note the history and cultural background against which biblical events occurred and proposes viewing the nonviolent Jesus movement — and not some apocalyptic bloodbath — as Christian centrality.

Such a problem would lead us to suggest that the only consistent alternatives would be either a radical, a historical translation as mentioned above, or — if the historical framework of biblical thought were to be retained — a systematic theology where the bridge between the centuries of biblical events and our own time was found in the actual history of the church as still ongoing history of God's people.

But there are also duplicate stories of the flood; of the selection of Saul as king, of the choice of David as his successor, and many other Biblical events.

Biblical Archaeology discoveries made in 2013 have given us new information about biblical events and people.

The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

A lot of Christians cringe when I suggest God is not controlling every event here on earth but when you look at the biblical events, they were always foretold.

Not surprisingly, the biblical event of the Transfiguration is central to Eastern conceptions of the liturgy.

So far we have confined our investigation to biblical events and images, elaborated in the colonial experience, and how they came to provide a structure of mythic meaning for the great founding events of the republic.

The historicity / accuracy of Biblical events has long been an open subject inside theological traditions embedded in the major religions and has not been considered blasphemy for more than a century among this scholastic cohort.

The reason why religion was relevant for the Israelites was that they saw the biblical events actually happening in their world.

The other is the unrest erupting in me concerning all the «insight» I so surely have concerning the real and deeper meaning of Scripture and Biblical events and their application to my own daily life.

But stories about Jesus and other biblical events have only one dimension of power.

The Assyrians produced a detailed, elaborate record of this biblical event.

Even where they are not direct quotations, they refer to biblical events or teachings, or they name the names of God, or — as on a carefully but amateurishly hand - painted message planted on a roadside in Prattville, Alabama — they just say READ THE BIBLE.

I, on the other hand, can sit for hours with my nose in a pile of books, chasing down insights into various Greek words, information about the historical background of a biblical event, and ideas about how to understand a particular text.

And whatever we may ultimately judge to be the historical nature and structure of the biblical event, we must reckon with Israel's reading of it if we are to understand historical Israel.

These and other questions can, of course, be answered only according to one's own interpretation of the biblical interpretation of the biblical event, that is, according to one's own position vis - a-vis the life of faith.

That's Star Wars, not Trek... Ashamed I am of this you see.Anyway, wasn't John Huston the Voice in more than one old film about biblical events?

This lesson draws on the Biblical events of the last week of Jesus» life.

What at first glance seems to be a portrait of an evidently refined woman — the aesthetic of her clothes, room, and bed is impeccably streamlined and minimal — enjoying a private moment becomes complicated by the orientation of the photo: displayed vertically, her pose mirrors that of Christ on the crucifix, suggesting a feminist gloss on the biblical event.