Sentences with phrase «biblical idea of faith»

«Now with that out of the picture, and people getting the impression that they have a right to perfect certitude and perfect clarity and perfect order every step of the way, you've basically — I'm gonna say it strongly — you've basically destroyed the biblical idea of faith to begin with.»

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All of these people have different perspectives on life and faith and the Bible, but what they all have in common is a commitment to some idea of «biblical womanhood.»

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1939, «The idea of the resurrection of the body is a Biblical symbol in which modern minds find the greatest offence and which has long since been displaced in most modern versions of the Christian faith by the idea of the immortality of the soul.61

My goal was to playfully challenge this idea that the Bible prescribes a single lifestyle for how to be a woman of faith, and in so doing, playfully challenge our overuse of the term «biblical.»