Sentences with phrase «biblical sense»

Many of our found!ng fathers were deist, who, while they often mentioned «God», did not mean it in the + radi + ion @l Biblical sense.

What is now needed is to understand dominion in the full Biblical sense.

The powerful biblical sense of divine - human relations founded on contractual obligation thus dissolves in a bath of private feeling.

Newly ordained pastor that he is, Edmund is surely using «world» in its fullest biblical sense; worldliness leads only to disaster.

This is the paradoxical homology that the category of the world of the text establishes between revelation in the broad sense of poetic discourse and in the specifically biblical sense.

Anne, it so happens, got to know the musician way back when, in a very biblical sense of the world.

Catholics are not CHristians (in a Biblical sense that is) because they place the Pope as the Speaker for Christ on earth.

I read the tome «The Stand» and could not escape it that this man was a true Christian (non religious) in the biblical sense and it was one of the reasons I became the same in 1972.

Not one of my Athiest friends care one bit if a cross is erected, to them it's almost a piece of art (just not in the biblical sense).

Morgan Guyton at Red Letter Christians with «Why Gender Hierarchy Makes No Biblical Sense to Me» «Servant leaders who emulate Jesus can never impose their will on others by force.

NOTE: I am in no way «condoning» pedophilia or serial killers, or saying that they are automatons with no choice, but I do tend to think of them as very very sick individuals more so than «evil» in the biblical sense.

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.

We may not speak of an Oriental theology if only because the Orient knows nothing of God in either the Greek or the Biblical sense.

Why bring up morals in a biblical sense anyways?

But this process must continue through the actual «hearing,» in the biblical sense, of God's word.

If the encounter I had is described in the Bible as love, then the largest majority of Christians on earth, have no idea what love even is, in a Biblical sense.

Hell, in the Biblical sense, is simply the common grave of mankind, where all activity has ceased.

Jared Wilson is concerned about what he believes is a loss of a biblical sense of authority in families; we expect complementarians to be concerned about this; but this quotation is not biblical nor can it lead to the kind of love we find taught by the gospel itself.»

All ideas are not equal — at least in a biblical sense.

It had to in order to combine the Greek sense of perfection with the Biblical sense of a living, personal God.

The biblical sense of honor does not imply self - denial, stooping low and compromising your own beliefs, values and ideas for the sake of winning another brother or sister.

Anon: I don't look at it that way... not in this situation... in the biblical sense, yes but all this man is doing is giving the victims a memorial and if that happens to be in the form of a cross, so be it... at least he is not paying tribute to the monster who took their lives.

Insofar as a cosmology was able to articulate the biblical sense of divine sovereign power, it seemed destined to minimize any creaturely contribution to creation and to transform providence into determinism.

But in the Biblical sense, it means «not duplicitous».

Concerning the survival of the human personality after death, whether in the Platonic sense of the immortality of the soul or the biblical sense of the resurrection of the body, Hartshorne is at times agnostic and at others quite skeptical.

(We are speaking here of the formal theology of revelation and not of the concrete life of faith in which, at least to some degree, the theme of promise remained alive, though not always in the biblical sense.)

If you can show me how the teaching of these groups are good in any biblical sense I would love to be instructed.

They suggest that we use our biblical sense of what matters most.

When I hear that what I hear is an allegiance with Christ in the biblical sense.

Listening to this answer to Anderson was the best I have heard in explaining the biblical sense of this issue.

@Russ In the Biblical sense, «abomination» means ritually unclean.

There is a experiential type of knowing which I think isn't far from what we call «knowing in the biblical sense.»

When speaking of the term «redeem» in the Biblical sense, we must remember that this term suggests returning something (or someone) to its (or his / her) original state of ownership or freedom.

We would probably do best to avoid calling anyone «heretic», since almost everyone understands that term to mean a person who is teaching false doctrine / theology, rather than the Biblical sense of someone who is causing divisions within the body of Christ.

American Catholics, as well as Protestants, may now work for wages; but they have long since ceased being hirelings in a biblical sense

Neither the individualist ontology nor the collectivist one expresses the Biblical sense of the solidarity of individuals who participate in one another.

But faith in the biblical sense is something quite different from the religious attitude as such.

Revelation, at least in the biblical sense, can be experienced only if justice prevails.

Those are not beliefs — not in the biblical sense of the term «belief» — or if they are a form of belief they are disconnected from any relevance to you and I. None of these «so called» beliefs affect much of what you do with your life — knowing about a virgin birth won't give you the tools to be a better parent — these «beliefs» do not function like that — they are more suppositions about the character of God.

It is justice in a biblical sense, which is more than retributive, more than giving everybody what they deserve (or «to each his due,» as the classical conception of justice has it).

As such, she does not accept that Jesus is the Messiah the Son of God in any Biblical sense of the word and according to John 20:31, she does not have the life that Jesus came to give.