Sentences with phrase «biblical meaning and purpose»

Still, to answer your question about why it seems like we don't presently see extravagant spectacles like seas splitting, the lame walking, donkeys talking and axe heads floating, we need to establish the biblical meaning and purpose of miracles.

But perhaps before we can answer the question as to why, we have to establish the biblical meaning and purpose of miracles.

Not exact matches

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

At its heart would be the Christian proclamation that there is a sovereign God, incarnate in Jesus Christ and attested by the biblical revelation, and that this reality shapes the meaning and purpose of human existence.

Because of this, I used to laugh at churches with the view that women weren't created for ministry, that biblical submission meant the man was in charge and somehow had ownership of his wife, and that being a wife and a mother was a woman's sole purpose.

«Mission» means «sending,» and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God's action in human history, with the church being the primary agent of God's missionary action.