Sentences with phrase «biblical records»

Studying historical, astronomical and biblical records, Mathews believes the event that led the Magi — Zoroastrian priests of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia — was an extremely rare planetary alignment occurring in 6 B.C., and the likes of which may never be seen again.

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.

Many more influences, doubtless, than the Biblical records reveal or our insight can recapture played thus on the enlarging conception of Yahweh.

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

This is the attempt to get behind the biblical records to their sources in oral tradition and written fragments, and thus to determine how individual passages, called pericopes, are related to each other.

The biblical records lend support to all these meanings.

Even if we consider the 2000 years of history that are recorded in the Bible, these biblical records only cover the tiniest fraction of human events that took place during these two millennia.

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.

Dialogue between these competing theological options challenges one to take a fresh look at the biblical record in the hope of uncovering new insights concerning the shape God intended human life to take.

22:35 - 40; cf. Mark 12: 28 - 31) In reality, however, he reaches ultimately back to Elijah, in whom for the first time in biblical record these two propositions find impassioned expression in a single life.

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

One may ponder why the art and practice of healing, central to the biblical record, has until recent times been peripheral to theological education and to the central concerns of the organized church.

In the words of Henry Morris, a leading «scientific creationist»: «The Biblical record, accepted in its natural and literal sense, gives the only scientific and satisfying account of the origins of things....

This study demonstrated the reliability of the Biblical record regarding the Egyptian plagues and demise of Jericho.

How about the fact that Jesus was not born at this time of the year, since there is no biblical significance at this time of the year... and Passover and Unleavened Bread is rooted in the biblical record.

If one reads the biblical record carefully, one will observe the importance of play even within the more dominant biblical discussion of God's saving activity on behalf of his people.

The Biblical record seems to indicate equal billing for evangelism and for efforts at social justice.

«23 Pinnock is suggesting that elements of the evangelical community are presently confusing Biblical truth with certain traditional interpretations of the Biblical record which they accept.

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 will be interesting to observe whether Pinnock's move from Regent College, which required its faculty to sign an «inerrancy» statement, to McMaster Divinity College, which has no such stipulation, causes Pinnock to drop the term «inerrant» for something he feels is more appropriate to the Biblical record.

First, he will refer to the total picture of Jesus which the biblical record presents; in other words, he will use the specific act or teaching in context.

But the basic truth seems to be that God's revelation is not confined to the biblical record.

Of course there is no biblical record of anything before creation, so most of us believe that this is GOD's sole creation.

One important task, then, is to see the nature, the method and the implications of God's revelation among African peoples, in the light of the biblical record of the same revelation.

Hurrians — the Horites of Biblical record — soon after 2000 B.C. established themselves midway on the Tigris, and from there spread throughout the Crescent.

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.

One of the hardest questions confronting Christians defending the biblical record is, «How could a good God commission Israel to destroy women and children when they're fighting their battles?»

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.

A Christian may be allowed to say that, if ever there were a philosophy which took seriously the kind of portrayal of God in relation to his world which we find in the biblical record, it is the philosophy of process.

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.

Is there an eschatology which can take into account both the biblical record and the deepest insights of our faith?

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.

A summary statement cites a claim by a «respected scholar, Dr. J. O. Kinnaman,» that «of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found by the archaeologists, not one has ever been discovered that contradicts or denies one word, phrase, clause or sentence of the Bible, but always confirms and verifies the facts of the Biblical record.»

mixing mythology and scripture in Genesis has long been a way the enemy has used to discredit the entire biblical record.

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.

What he selects and emphasizes from the total biblical record and how he interprets it should be guided by his knowledge of what produces the gospel experiences of reconciliation and growth.

But the biblical record itself preserves a very profound tension at this point.

This is hardly unique to the biblical record.

(Jer 32:17).3 What is narrated at the very beginning of the biblical record, God's creating of all that is, also pervades the subsequent literature down through the prophets and the Wisdom tradition.4

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.

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

Hundreds of archaeological findings are confirming the biblical record.

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.

Of course, by this definition the bulk of biblical record is emphatically prophetic in its understanding and interpretation of history.

But in reality he reached back ultimately to Elijah, in whom these two propositions find impassioned expression, for the first time in biblical record, in a single life.

Such a theology becomes biblical when the methods are used in dealing with the biblical record.