Sentences with phrase «biblical literalists»

Needless to say, process theologians are not biblical literalists.

@Nii Translation problems primarly are an issue for biblical literalists.

@airwx - There are plenty of biblical literalists who insist that 6 days is 6 days... there was a talking snake (serpent)... Noah... Exodus... the entire ball of wax.

The reports were quickly embraced by biblical literalists who believe God created life on Earth less than 10,000 years ago.

However, I have serious problem with biblical literalists who want to teach «Intelligent Design» alongside Evolution.

Many of us find ourselves wandering around confused in the middle, wanting to believe in the Bible, not thinking of ourselves as biblical literalists, but unsure how to characterize our position.

They attempt to distance themselves from their old Biblical Literalist rhetoric.

Previously he separated himself from Biblical literalists by accepting the antiquity of life and the Darwinian principles of common descent, and here he points out that certain shared features in the DNA sequences of chimps and humans show beyond any doubt that we and chimps share a common ancestor.

Not even the strictest biblical literalists deny the bred varieties of dogs, the variation of finch beaks, and similar instances within types.

(It always makes me laugh to hear biblical literalists shut the door on experience outright in their claims that revelation has ceased.

It is what I find the most ironic of the most strident biblical literalists: by attempting to fix the bible into one single, unalterable interpretation, instead of an ongoing conversation, they are sowing the seeds for its own obsolescence.

They certainly aren; t Biblical literalists.

Like you I find biblical literalists far more dangerous than the feel good theology of Mr. Olstein.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Esther and Vashti: The Real Story,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husband.

As three years of discussion by the preparatory commission on the main theme were summarized in successive releases, many Americans discovered to their surprise that the second coming of Christ, which they supposed had been relegated to the Pentecostals and other biblical literalists, was an active concern of eminent European theologians and the keynote in their understanding of the kingdom.

So fundamentalists are not consistently biblical literalists.

Don't make the mistake of thinking those questions are prompted by some «do your own thing» new - agey attitude — as a born - again spirit - filled biblical literalist I would have asked those questions of you — and been concerned for your spiritual state if you were indeed saying what you seemed to be saying.

Biblical literalists hold that we are God's favorites.

He feeds the desires of the fundamental biblical literalists and makes a bloody fortune deceiving them and furthering their ignorance.

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Screen shot from The Sign, a documentary in which biblical literalists claim the end is coming on Sept. 23 with a specific planetary alignment.

Republicans over 65, with HS or less education from the south who are Biblical literalists = the most ignorant segment of US population.

Defined as truth by the prophet whose raising up was prophesied therein, the book became true for those who believed, in much the same way as the entire body of Christian Scripture has become true for biblical literalists.

This phrase is often misunderstood, especially by biblical literalists, as meaning the words of God, supposedly contained in the Holy Book.

Disheartened by the amount of support Griffin had received from the community, I considered showing up at the courthouse with a sign that included Exodus 22:21, «Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt» — mainly because June prides herself on being a strict biblical literalist.

For instance, his treatment of the early Pentecostals» view of Scripture follows the standard interpretation according to which the movement's adherents were biblical literalists who had little use for allegory or forms of biblical criticism.

«In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists.

I strongly encourage you to walk away from the biblical literalist teaching you have gotten ahold of.

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex... Don

The one thing I worry about is the biblical literalists, who think that the Book of Revelation is an actual prophecy that will be fulfilled.

There's a huge difference between someone who believes in God, and a biblical literalist.

Even if one is a biblical literalist, these references do not build an ironclad case for condemnation.

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

But the Biblical literalist can not admit to this contradiction.

I have a very high view of scripture, though I wouldn't consider myself a biblical literalist.

Are you claiming the biblical literalists story as a possibility here, while trying to mix the OT mythology with the science of evolution...?

Certainly the Biblical literalists do not intend all of these.

The Biblical literalist is, however, quite willing to admit that there are apparent contradictions in the Bible.

While I think this is proper and necessary, it is hardly an option for the Biblical literalist, for whom all parts of the Bible are equally true.

But the Biblical literalist can not do this, and has to insist that the words of Joshua and Elijah, Ecclesiastes and Job, are as true as anything Jesus said, and therefore presumably just as important.

The Biblical literalist will claim that he or she trusts God more than I do.

It is true enough that the pseudo science of young earthers and biblical literalists would seem to support this view.

I do not know of any Christian in our time, however much of a biblical literalist, who feels obligated to keep this command.

I agree in the sense that I am personally not a Biblical literalist.