Sentences with phrase «biblical references»

All that is decided by that exercise is the number of biblical references.

Sure our leaders and politicians promote the ideas of «freedom» and «justice,» and they even sprinkle their speeches with biblical references.

When I challenged his claim he subsequently (and still presently) refused to provide even the most basic biblical reference for his claim.

The practice lets him convey things the faithful love to hear, while also letting them feel that they enjoy a privileged relation to him by virtue of sharing biblical reference points.

You claim to love us, but all I can read from these comments are cold, Biblical references devoid of love.

There is an ongoing cultural debate over Biblical references to the human power over nature.

There are a lot of biblical references in Blue Exorcist; after the controversy surrounding Neon Genesis Evangelion, were you at all hesitant to include these references?

Where as (following the suffrage and civil rights movements) they have taken Biblical references regarding women and slavery and rightly applied cultural context to them, they have not done the same regarding gays and lesbians.

We were afraid to speak of religious things or to make biblical references, lest we sound moralistic or preachy.

Our hero, Moises (get the not - so - subtle Biblical reference there?)

They search for vague biblical references to support their own guilty feelings towards masturbation.

That last biblical reference also loomed large in another 2011 White House meeting between Obama and a group of religious leaders.

When I tell friends and coworkers that I have seen biblical references in Unforgiven and elements of God's grace in Catch Me if You Can, I get some strange looks.

Observant evangelical Christians heard biblical references.

In her body of work, the artist converts Christian biblical references into secularized, spiritual inquiries of universal experiences that we share as human beings.

If not, clearly, CNN is not allowing straight biblical references on this blog.

You forgot Domino's Pizza and Panera Bread (many of the franchisees have incorporated biblical references into their holding company names).

There are plenty of medical texts from Ancient Greece, Egypt and China discussing its medical applications, and ther e are even Biblical references to garlic.

In the second room, we pass from biblical references to folklore, where we meet a series of floating images in soft pencil from Maher's Night Garden series.

In an example of the straight - line thinking that is characteristic of economic biblicism, clergy in one city purchased a newspaper advertisement that began by citing biblical references about the obligation to love one's neighbor (Lev.

There are few biblical references to homosexuality.

When flesh and body are seen as holistic references to human beings it becomes obvious that many biblical references are unabashedly sexual in a positive way.

Now they are using it (and some pretty questionable biblical references at that) to join in the discriminiation against gays.

Chick - fil - a espouses to Christian beliefs which doesn't discriminate against Gays, but sees the Gay activity as sinful per multiple Biblical references.

They reference «Green Mile» throughout, though one of his strongest biblical references is in «The Shawshank Redemption.»

Any earlier Biblical reference to camels would therefore be considered an anachronism, or a chronological misplacing.

In my opinion the greatest understanding of these mystical Biblical references (second coming, thief in the night etc) can be found in the Bahai writing.

For instance, slave owners in the American South regularly cited the positive biblical references to slavery to support the ownership of slaves.

The fact that King's books are filled with Biblical references only increases the likelihood that Americans would catapult him to the bestseller lists.

Now, I'm a Christian, who loves Jesus and who hopes to honor God with my life, but frankly, after hearing about 100 «God bless Americas» shouted between the two conventions, and dozens of biblical references dropped by both parties, I was just fine with seeing God's name removed from yet another piece of political propaganda.

Givin Biblical references in adventure movies, like the Ark of the Covenenant or the spear of destiny, I'm surprised no one has thought of incorporating seeds from said tree in a story line.

The author forgot to mention the numerous Biblical references where Jesus referred to himself as the bridegroom and the Church as his bride.

The myth of America as «God's new Israel» was a part of the national self - image quite apart from formal theological considerations or specific biblical references.

So be blasted little topher and PROVIDE US WITH THE EXACT BIBLICAL REFERENCE THAT USES TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE AND IT»S DEFINITION IN IT!

what's that old biblical reference to casting stones?

Here is the first biblical reference to what we recognize as a Sabbath.

This year, the HCSB Study Bible was released with other B&H biblical reference and academic products (commentaries, Bible dictionaries, Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionary), and the HCSB Study Bible Online was launched.

There are many extra biblical references to Jesus, not all of them are accurate or true.

The highly technical nature of Universal Algebra, «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World,» and Principia Mathematica makes it unlikely that they contain biblical references.

It would be interesting, for example, to see biblical references heralded in interviews about crushing defeat.

Tony Blair referenced it in his Clause IV leader's speech in 1995 — «I am my brother's keeper, I will not walk by on the other side» — more or less his last biblical reference before he stopped «doing God» in public.