Sentences with phrase «biblical knowledge knows»

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Perhaps also (I like to imagine, since we don't know), the being Jacob encountered was this very avant - garde Lady, far ahead of her appointed biblical time, who initiated the wily challenger into new love / knowledge beyond the meaning of his macho name before she consented to let him go.

Brigitte, of course I don't have exhaustive knowledge of either Calvin, Luther, Melancthon or the dynamic between them; but I do know that Calvin was a lawyer and a Protestant scholastic, Luther was a biblical scholar and Melancthon was a Protestant scholastic who attempted to translate Luther's spiritual insights into dogmatic categories.

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.

There is only one point in the New Testament, as far as I know, at which the gospel is preached to those entirely lacking in knowledge of the scriptures (most of the gentiles to whom Paul preached were among the sympathizers of the synagogue, so Paul could presume what George Lindbeck calls «biblical literacy»), and that is Paul's famous address on the Areopagus.

A pretest asking students to identify various biblical books and the people and places mentioned therein, and to complete a few well - known quotations, showed how very little biblical knowledge most teenagers possess — even those who have attended church schools for years.