Sentences with phrase «biblical passages like»

Yeah, I can't agree with all of what you say, but I don't know what to do with Biblical passages like this.

The fact is, most of the defenses of American slavery were written by clergy who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.

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....

Not exact matches

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..

Theologians and biblical scholars have customarily approached such passages under the rubrics of «Salvation History,» «Drama of Redemption,» and the like.

Some of our best biblical scholars have enabled us to read passages like Luke 21 without having to take them seriously.

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.

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.

So we can affirm the truth of passages like Psalm 143:2, that before God there is no one who is righteous, without having to add to this core biblical idea the unbiblical concept of total inability.

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's encouraging then to come to a passage like Luke 7:18 - 23, where we see one of the greatest men in Biblical history experience a moment of doubt.

We just have gay stereotypes and we base our beliefs on a few biblical passages, ignoring passages about things that people in the church really struggle with, like food and other addictions.

I would like to note this — about the biblical passages.

Observations the industrialist made about how he practiced respect for persons sounded like the Corinthian passage; and the discussion participants listening to these remarks thought they were listening to a paraphrase of the biblical text.

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.»

Capes flapping, they flowed like a wind - tossed river in the shadow of Storm King Mountain, where they listened to biblical passages about» terrible happenings» as storm clouds scudded from the north.