Sentences with phrase «biblical people in»

One might expect that biblical people in the academy would be grounded in an alternative spiritual identity which would stimulate continuous, creative challenge to the academic ideology.

The biblical people in the academic world — at least those of the Protestant dispensation — have, I believe, nearly fallen into this latter condition.

Not exact matches

In his new book, «David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,» Malcolm Gladwell says most people get this famous Biblical yarn all wrong because they misunderstand who really has the upper hand.

But while some people may find some «biblical - values» ethical, others may not find them to be, one, in particular, being the «LGBT lifestyle» metric.

The Deep State elite, which for decades has exhibited an endless lust for other people's money and greed that is beyond biblical, is simply not going to allow every day citizens to benefit from gold holdings that have surged in value.

It's logical, unlike the biblical god that people require faith to believe in as there is no direct impact or evidence that god even exists.

In fact, they can convince the majority of the people they are right, but the truth [biblical] is not up for majority vote.

Unless there's a cross on top of the White House, Biblical arguments have NO place in laws which affect people's taxes, inheritance, and property.

The people in te land today are not the biblical egyptians but arabs who took over the land.

In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting love for eternity — and for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator God of love whom he also loved you so much that if you were the only person living on the face of this earth and planet, still he would have come and died for you and the forgiveness of your since and loving you unconditional.

Surely people need comfort, but at this critical time they need biblical truth, which was completely lacking in the story.

White is alert to «the dangers of an all - too - conceptual or reified vision of the person of Christ that is insufficiently sensitive to the biblical historical life of Jesus of Nazareth as it is portrayed in the Gospel.»

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.

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

Although biblical values and the good news about Jesus are not in question here, many ministries struggle to embody them in congregation or community in a way people understand and care about.

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.

In addition, with the overwhelming majority of people continuing to enjoy heterosexual marriage, I am not persuaded that the biblical theme of gender complementarity, which is modeled between Christ and the Church, is under threat, nor that this theme is authoritative for all relationships.

The convictionâ $» endemic among churchfolkâ $» persists that, if problems of misapprehension and misrepresentation are overcome and the gospel can be heard in its own integrity, the gospel will be found attractive by people, become popular, and, even, be a success of some sortâ $ ¦ This idea is both curious and ironical because it is bluntly contradicted in Scripture and in the experience of the continuing biblical witness in history from the event of Pentecost unto the present momentâ $ (William Stringfellow, quoted in A Keeper of the Word, p. 348).

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

And after that, I thought about the Biblical admonition: «When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.»

But I know a few evangelical and Pentecostal pastors who'd worry that one in four people in church on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early Church.

The committee boasts that it has emulated both the biblical authors and the translators of the King James Version in employing «the language and idiom of ordinary people.»

God intimately chose His people, and this foreknowing is the foundation of His predestination, so if we were to translate the Biblical meaning of foreknowledge into Romans 8:29 it would read like this, «For those whom God intimately set His affection upon beforehand, He also predestined...» And this meaning is in sync with the rest of the Bible.

christian biblical ignorance in the face of undeniable science «is» what scares the majority of «thinking» people in America and all over the world.

A lot has been changed by philosophers, scholars, and creeds, but I still accept all good people who believe in the Biblical Jesus as Christians.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

Yet even for the people in the more generous lower tax brackets, the biblical benchmark of giving 10 percent of income is a stretch.

It is all so outdated for the human race... I don't understand why so many people need such strong faith in a biblical text to carry out their lives happily and productively.

There is a final way that the Church often fails gay people, and that is by watering down the biblical vision for sexual holiness and human fulfilment in a misguided attempt to be more welcoming.

But biblical scholars are in general agreement that «Yahweh» is derived from the third - person singular of the verb «to be» (hayah), whether a qal imperfect («he is» or «he will be») or the causative hiphil imperfect («he causes to come into being, he creates»).

It affirmed the centrality of evangelism in this concept of mission, and provided an authoritative definition of evangelism: «the proclamation of the historical, biblical Christ as Saviour and Lord, with a view to persuading people to come to him personally and so be reconciled to God»

Your defense of your previous characterization of the biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah reveals a person who has flatly refused to engage in even the most basic of educational pursuits.

Our culture doesn't want to accept what is biblical, tithing especially, and actually we should be meeting daily as in Acts, not twice a week, but let me tell your living in dream world if you think people in the church are somehow serving away after they leave.

There are facts - such as fulfilled Biblical prophecies and the effects in people's lives when they follow God - that indicate that God does exist.

Buber contends that the fact that the Holy Land is also inhabited by another people (as it always has been, from biblical to modern times) should not be an obstacle but instead is a challenge to embody that divine call in the modern world.

Some people don't like the notion of a universe forming from quantum foam, but, instead, would much rather imagine a god forming the universe, which is why we have thousands of creation myths, including the two biblical ones, the one written by the Priestly Source in Genesis 1 and the older creation myth written by the Jahwist in Genesis 2, myths which borrow from older Sumerian mythology.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

«The Republicans have there «feet to the fire»), but in some parts of the country that the author doesn't like, Biblical speech peppers conversations — similar to a person from MA who wants to «pak the cah».

No rational person makes decisions based on such distorted logic in any other area of life, and decisions regarding the textual veracity of the Biblical text should not be an exception to that rule.

People should be given confidence that, even in a broken world, biblical marriage is possible.

In the times of the biblical narrative Jesus is healing lepers, raising people from the dead, controlling nature.

I can only guess that black people embrace the religion which seemed to dehumanize them for the same reasons millions of women continue to embrace Christ though their «Biblical submission» to their husbands has resulted in great emotional and physical abuse.

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.

The biblical teaching, after all, was not aimed at one or another of the various theories developed in the history of modern science but at the cosmological understandings of origins found among surrounding peoples.

In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.&raquIn the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuitybiblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.&raquin a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuityBiblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

There's no picture of biblical singlehood and little discussion of how married and single persons integrate into one larger whole in the Church.»

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Among his publications are: The Person of Christ: A Biblical and Historical Analysis of the Incarnation (Marshall Theological Library: Marshall, Morgan and Scott; Crossway, 1984); co-editor and part author with Mark Nofl, Nathan Hatch, George Marsden, and John Woodbridge, Eerdmans Handbook to Christianity in America, (Eerdmans, 1983); The Prophetic Theology of George Tyrrell (American Academy of Religion Studies in Religion, Vol.

For who, after all, are the people that march in the biblical parade?

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!