Sentences with phrase «biblical passage»

This Biblical passage has always meant a great deal to me, and as I've been delighted to find out via blog comments and emails, it turns out it means a great deal to a lot of other gapingvoid readers, as well.

Using the checkerboard motif that appears throughout his work, Nahusenay probes the Biblical passage, which illustrates the drunken gambling and revelry that took place underneath the cross during the Crucifixion.

The Racine HOPE schools derive their names from the Biblical passage John 14:6 in which Jesus calls himself «the Way» and «the Truth.»

Reading researcher Keith Stanovich dubbed this structural advantage in language and knowledge the «Matthew Effect,» from the biblical passage in the Gospel of Matthew about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

This Biblical passage from the Gospel of Luke conveys a belief that I and many of my African American family and friends hold dear... We are acutely aware of what others have given up to pave the way and contribute to our successes.

Ignore the Biblical passage quoted in Terrence Malick's impressionistic, nearly dialogue - free indulgence «To the Wonder.»

Getting around the problem, Yadin searched for the footprints of David and Solomon further afield, tapping a biblical passage from 1 Kings:

To all those candidates — Dominican or not — who may aspire to run for public office, I would like to dedicate to them that biblical passage I used to start this column: «Cursed is the one who trusts in man» (Jeremiah 17:5)... «Let God be true, and every man a liar.»

The Archbishop highlighted a Biblical passage from the Gospel of John - «the light shone in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it».

Literalistic interpretation of the biblical passage, «You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect» (Matt.

There is no Biblical passage that confirms the fact that Jesus redeems things.

She quoted Scalia as saying that «we are fools for Christ's sake,» and apparently didn't recognize that Scalia was citing a biblical passage (1 Cor.

It is the medium that explains a biblical passage to thousands upon thousands of people.

Far too frequently an appeal is made to some biblical passage or series of passages, or to ancient Christian thinkers, as if this would readily settle whatever question is under discussion.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

What troubles me is this: When discussing how to apply the Bible both personally and in public policy, nine times out of ten, the words of Jesus are trumped by some other biblical passage or are discounted as impractical.

«You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free» was his favorite biblical passage.

If I quote a small biblical passage, then I get accused of taking it out of context.

As with preaching, so with Scripture, a biblical passage is as much a communal act as the expression of a single author.

Because we disagree on the proper method of baptism, the role of women in the church or the proper interpretation of a certain Biblical passage does not make one of us correct and the other a «false teacher».

Second, the author / speaker of the biblical passage is as much a receiver of God's Word as its conveyer.

They want to honor women on Mother's Day, so they turn to the biblical passage most associated with femininity, the one that culminates with what may be the most cross-stitched Bible verse of all time: «Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.»

For we have already pointed out that the biblical passage is late, and, though we can not date it within a couple of centuries, it is probably not earlier than Plato and may easily be as late as Zeno.

I am not the one claiming perfect clarity in a biblical passage for which there is abundant disagreement.

Same biblical passage, same sin.

Years ago, when I began to seriously study Scripture, I often had questions about a certain Biblical passage or theological issue.

The continuity between the image of the Bible in the painting and the image of the French novel thus lies in its emphasis on the Christ - figure — even more apparent when one considers the subject of the biblical passage depicted in the painting.

It deals with proper techniques of oral interpretation for a biblical passage.

But in the context of Deuteronomy, the biblical passage reflects a revolutionary program of centralized and perhaps domesticated religious authority.

If anyone were to read the whole of Lewis's writings with an eye only to discover what biblical passage he most often cites, one would find, I suspect, that it would be «he that loseth his life shall save it.»

Several generations of students at Duke Divinity School have heard James «Mickey» Efird use those carnivalesque words to conclude debates over the meaning of a biblical passage.

I cited a biblical passage as evidence, that the Christian god does indeed desire everyone believe in Him.

It also has a lot of people talking about the meaning of the biblical passage about submission that appears in the fifth chatper of Ephesians.

@Alan, what YOU forgot to mention when posting that biblical passage was that it was taken from the OLD TESTAMENT.

On billboards quoting anti-homosexual biblical passage, New York Times, March 9, 2000.

The longest biblical passage on male - male sex is Romans 1:26 - 27: «Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another.»

The Biblical passage, found in Rom.

The striking biblical passage that concludes the page devoted to St. Fidelis in The One - Year Book of Saints is Luke 22: 31 — 32: «Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have you, to sift you like wheat, but I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail.

Our biblical passage suggests that such ambition is universal.

I have yet to meet anyone who claims to have been convinced that what the Bible says is true, or who claims to have been convinced about the correctness of a particular interpretation of any Biblical passage by someone who wanted to argue those points.

So I am always delighted when I come across a biblical passage like that in Isaiah 25:6 - 9 where the prophet says: «On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of fat things....

Clinton cited the Scripture Mark 6:30 - 44 - where Jesus instructs his disciples to organize their followers into groups and to feed them with five loaves of bread and two fish - as the central biblical passage of her speech.

The Christian needs to re-write the Bible and change the Biblical passage to make sure gay rights are included in the Bible.

For every instance of having God «nailed down'there's a biblical passage which would seem to portray a contrary element in His character.

This biblical passage enshrines in law the retaliatory instinct of anyone whose close relative has been injured.

Take any dozen of these people and put them in separate rooms with a biblical passage to interpret for themselves and you'll get twelve different answers.

«Even without the biblical passage (1 Corinthians 11), I have so many reasons why this is right for me.

I am a spiritually oriented person myself but I am sick to death of seeing religion dragged into politics, Biblical passages used like football cheers to encourage the destruction of the opposition, etc..

I spent a lot of time ostracized by fellow churchgoers because I dared question meanings and interpretations of biblical passages.

Reflecting on key biblical passages, the Pope began by wondering what it meant to Adam, walking in the garden, to discover that he was alone as an embodied self.