Sentences with phrase «biblical record as»

A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely human, but as Involving both God and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then current.

We may interpret the biblical record as God seeking to further this aim first with all mankind, then with his chosen people Israel, then with the faithful remnant, finally with that individual person willing to embody in his own life the meaning, hopes, and mission God has entrusted to Israel.

Not exact matches

As for the biblical record itself — scripturally it is very diverse and does not contain all the same message... we'd love to believe it does... but any average reader can pick out the diversity.

Therefore it was also natural that the kerygma as we find it in the New Testament should not only be couched in biblical terms but also that these terms require for their proper understanding an awareness of the whole Old Testament witness and record.

Different parts of the biblical record take on relevance and importance as the church faces different situations.

God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.

Whether such an analysis as the one I have offered harbingers the direction an evangelical consensus will take depends ultimately on its faithfulness to the Biblical record.

The importance of recognizing the authority of multiple Biblical witnesses must be maintained if interpreters are to avoid twisting the Biblical record to support outside aims.37 Paul Holmer is correct in warning against evangelicals treating the Scripture as if it were a literary and metaphysical and casual gloss on a literal and systematic structure that it otherwise hides.

It is necessary that we think of the Bible as a record of the mighty acts of God, and it may well be understood as a drama, the five acts being Creation, Covenant, Christ, Church, Consummation (See my Biblical theology and Christian Education [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956]-RRB-.

«22 The wars, as recorded, were so diverse that it is questionable whether the kind of pattern or design that von Rad discerns ever existed even in the minds of biblical writers, much less in the actual events.23 In particular, von Rad's insistence that holy war was always defensive can not be supported.24

Secular history as well as biblical history, records the life and death of Jesus Christ.

In the course of many centuries the biblical record has left us with an impressive compendium of historical testimony to God's dealings with Israel, expressed in terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theology.

When Evangelicals claim adultery as biblical grounds for divorce, they not only put words into Jesus's mouth that the Gospels do not record him as actually saying, but they mutilate the essence of the uniqueness of the Christian witness to marriage.

If you're questioning the word «supposed», I'm simply expressing that Biblical record is not accepted as inherently accurate.

It must operate open - eyed in the midst of the problem of hermeneutics, or principles of interpretation, as these are propounded by the biblical record.

Which I did, and you replied with, «If you're questioning the word «supposed», I'm simply expressing that Biblical record is not accepted as inherently accurate.

But whether the «nature of things» be grounded in God, or whether God be the primordial exemplification of «the nature of things» with respect to an independent, abstract «category of the ultimate,» it is the case that both the biblical record and process - relational thought recognize a pervasive movement toward greater richness of experience as a generic feature of reality.

As has been indicated, the biblical scholars as a result of their studies still differ not only as to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of JesuAs has been indicated, the biblical scholars as a result of their studies still differ not only as to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of Jesuas a result of their studies still differ not only as to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of Jesuas to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of Jesus.

«These Biblical records can be and are used as are other ancient documents in archeological work.

2) They should find a qualified counsellor who understands their religious beliefs and work through it toward a biblical and spiritual restoration as defined in the text of the Bible in the letters to the Corinthian church, the church in Rome, or the recorded teachings of Jesus in the Gospels.

Whitehead was no biblical scholar, but he noted, in the same context as the quotation I have just given from him, that «we do not possess a systematic detailed record of the life of Christ.»

Here, as elsewhere behind the Biblical record, is visible the ancient background of the animistic ages, whose haunting ways of thinking persisted long after their specific forms had gone.

Superstar (Decca Records), etc., as well as of Peanuts cartoons and political cartoons, newspaper satire, and, occasionally, of short pieces of fiction and poetry on biblical themes.

As far as the Biblical record, sometimes God does give us some details about why He judged, other times He does noAs far as the Biblical record, sometimes God does give us some details about why He judged, other times He does noas the Biblical record, sometimes God does give us some details about why He judged, other times He does not.

The biblical writers neither condemn nor commend those whom they record as having taken their own lives.

So, as the Biblical records present the picture, Yahweh, whether in his proper person or by deputy in an angelic representative, traveled with his nomadic devotees, and of his abiding presence the Ark was the visible symbol and vehicle.

There is no Biblical record of the angels ever visiting Gomorrah, but it met the same fate as Sodom, didn't it?

So far as the biblical record recounts, the Apostle spent more time at Corinth - eighteen months «than anywhere else, except at Ephesus.

And it is the Scriptures that I am concerned with — not biblical texts as records of discrete historical times, but rather the Bible as a coherent unit, brought together under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and fitted in God's providence for leading Christians to the contemplation of the Triune God as revealed in the text, the Church, and the world.

Muentzer argued that the Bible is only the historical record of those who had this» spiritual consciousness» and that any post - Biblical man can have the same experience as Biblical man.

With dates «corrected», he maintains that the biblical evidence now fits the archaeological record, and that we can recognise the historical reality of hitherto legendary figures such as Saul, David and Joseph.

is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»

Jacob's instructions to his sons, recorded in the Biblical book of Genesis, are often cited as the first example of this tradition.