Sentences with phrase «biblical passages in»

«I love gay people, but the Bible forces me to condemn them» is a poor excuse that attempts to avoid accountability by wrapping a very particular and narrow interpretation of a few biblical passages in a cloak of divinely inspired respectability.

Since when has a single interpretation of the biblical passages in question here been deemed the only one faithful Christians can have?

And in reality, most of us already proclaim a lack of canonicity of certain Biblical passages in the way we treat them.

Reading familiar biblical passages in their context is sometimes startling.

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.

Not exact matches

And today many are convinced on the basis of various passages in the biblical book of Genesis that all nations will be judged in accordance with how they treat Israel.

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.

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.

But actions have consequences, and if they are going to contribute to an organization that is actively working to get discriminatory legislation passed, they should expect the group being discriminated against — and anyone else that opposes discrimination, whether gilded in biblical passages or not — to respond accordingly.

These passages suggest that the biblical solution to injustice — racial or otherwise — is not just to pray that people have a change of heart but for people to take responsibility for the societies they have built — or in our case, inherited.

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

In this work he commented one by one on all his writings, giving details about the date and circumstances of the work, noting places where he had changed his mind, pointing out passages where he got things wrong, for example where he had cited a biblical text from memory and not gotten it correct.

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

Many Bloomington gays are hoping Blair and other speakers invited to the Gay Awareness Conference will engage in dialogue with ministers and laypersons, both heterosexual and homosexual, in efforts to deal with biblical passages, theological viewpoints, worship, and ethical concerns.

This provocative view is expressed in many biblical passages where God is cited as the direct cause of evil (Ex.

I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.

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

In this post we look at the various biblical passages.

Of course, these biblical passages have in mind, in particular, the transmission of a religious tradition: the story of God's care for his people.

He carried her in, sat her before them, read the passage from James, and said, «I invoke you as my elders to carry out your biblical duty to my family.»

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

Early on in my lectionary study and preaching I learned to take the assigned limits of the biblical passages as suggestive rather than prescriptive.

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....

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

The first surprise in this passage from Deuteronomy is that the biblical lawgiver par excellence is also the prototypical prophet.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

So the virtues of humility and resignation are rejected as despicable, and every effort is made to show that they have nothing to do with Christianity — in spite of all the biblical passages to the contrary.

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.

«In particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquIn particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquin Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquin decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.»

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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 justification for the doctrine is sometimes found in Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2 and Isaiah 6:3, but none of these passages speak of a God who is eternally three in one.

A wise interpreter would set this verse aside as too vague and unclear on this particular issue and seek Biblical truth on this subject in the clear passages throughout the Bible that teach that God does not hold children to account for the sins of their parents!

Biblical passages illustrate, with startling clarity in Job and the Psalms, that the earth's creatures owe their existence to God.

Might you be the same observer who was proved to be in total ignorance as to Biblical passages just a day ago?

Billions of Christians would reject that piece of Biblical law just as billions of Muslims are able to see the 50 peace - promoting passages of the Qur «an for every 1 violent one as indicative of their religious duties in life being peaceful ones.

Salem Kirban was a biblical - prophecy guru who flourished in the 1970s — think of a minor - league Hal Lindsey — who produced a Bible in which every passage of Scripture relating to the end times was highlighted, magnified, commented on, and surrounded by illustrations.

Using your Biblical software tools, locate other passages in the Bible, where the individual is present.

I utterly reject Biblical inerrancy http://lotharlorraine.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/on-the-inspiration-of-the-bible-and-other-books-von-der-interpretation-der-bibel-und-anderen-buchern/ but find it interesting that this view of the afterlife is the most likely interpretation of the passages, provided one consider the Old Testament imagery in its own context.

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

Such immersion in the biblical world and its language leads to much richer interpretation than either quoting proof texts or picking and choosing passages we like.

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.

Within the frame work of the general biblical knowledge, students were given systematic training in the exegesis of the biblical passages after the manner of «the Great Interpreter», Theodore of Mopsuestia, whose sober, literal textual interpretations were always the Nestorian model.

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

Instinctively we take this view we have been taught and project it onto the biblical passages rather then letting Scripture speak for itself in its own context.

But a few of the students did, in one case with attention to Hobbes's and Locke's butchering of particular Biblical passages.

The Biblical source of this image is Paul's word in the eschatological passage of I Corinthians 15.

Those who advocate for «biblical equality» often overlook those passages in which women are clearly regarded by the writers of Scripture as less than equal.]