Sentences with phrase «biblical injunction»

Because of biblical injunctions against usury, no loans — including home mortgages — would be given for longer than seven years.

Though the male - female duality in Genesis is foundational, Thielicke believes that the specific Biblical injunctions against homosexuality have enough interpretive problems associated with them to give the pastoral counselor «a certain freedom to rethink the subject.

Even in the writing of a book one can not escape these everpresent biblical injunctions.

I can not support blue laws on the basis of some supposed biblical injunction against working on Sunday, for there is no such injunction.

Imagine my delight and my surprise when I discovered that there is not one biblical injunction anywhere in any of the sixty - six books of Holy Scripture that prohibits working on Sunday — not one.

Biblical injunctions like «let him without sin cast the first stone» and «there go I but for the grace of god» rush to mind.

A devout Christian, Ramsey cites biblical injunctions against debt in advising his listeners to pay off their debts and remain debt free.

President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that «it is the biblical injunction to serve the least of these that keeps me going and keeps me from being overwhelmed,» in address to a prayer breakfast in Washington.

The Wesleyans did not see the biblical injunctions against the ministry of women as providing a norm and pattern for all time.

Let us not forget that the biblical injunction to be watchful is not first of all to be directed to external opponents and temptations, but to those inner dangers and possibilities of degeneration within us.

While recognizing the reality of death, we may return finally to Winthrop's biblical injunction:

He correctly understands the Biblical injunction to humanity to «have dominion» over the earth as «stewardship,» not dominance.

Anita Bryant notwithstanding, there is no biblical injunction that all of us are to live in family.

Tracing the roots of this false reality principle to the Hebrew Bible itself, Roszak, among others, considered the heart of the ecological crisis to be the biblical injunction to conquer and subdue the earth and have dominion over it.

The Gospel forms a community that, following the biblical injunction to die in order to live, extinguishes itself so as to spread its message into the secular world.

There is «an enormous emphasis on personal accountability» and obedience to biblical injunctions.

Biblical injunctions to defend the poor are plentiful, but there are also injunctions against the destruction of nature per se.

I guess I should clarify — I am sexually attracted only to men, but since I was saved in college over ten years ago, I have obeyed the biblical injunction to all single people to remain celibate.

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

Following the biblical injunction, we have felt that we have dominion over all other creatures and indeed that the whole created universe exists simply to serve our own needs.

The billboard contrasted that with the biblical injunction to raise up a child in God's way.

Taking the Bible seriously means reading it with discernment and living it out responsibly, and no biblical injunction concerning women is immune.

The biblical injunction to «set your minds on things above, not on earthly things» is tied to the hidden nature of the Christian self.

Even people who claim to be Christians and know about the biblical injunction?

There is no Biblical injunction that the legislature has to shut down shop on the 17th of June,» he said.

As a result, he continues to lend truism to the biblical injunction that (Proverbs 17:10) «A rebuke is more effective with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool»

In Victorian times, such individuals even considered anaesthesia during childbirth to be the end of civilisation as they knew it because of a biblical injunction that women ought to give birth in pain.

And before anyone jumps to any conclusions, consider the biblical injunction to judge not lest ye be judged.

Not quite as willing as St. Matthew to rely on the charitable instinct, Ladd modifies the biblical injunction by asking for government intervention to make sure the good deed happens.