Sentences with phrase «biblical stories told»

Using biblical stories told by and about Jesus as his starting point, Cox offers a series of wide - ranging reflections on everything from the ethics of in vitro fertilization to the biblical accuracy of the Left Behind novels.

«And Jacob was left alone,» the biblical story tells us.

The biblical story tells us time and time again that, important though analysis of estrangement may he, God is about reconciliation.

As the biblical story tells us, our humanity is broken, but part of that fractured nature might be «repaired» through knowledge, wisdom, and love.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The problem is not with biblical Revelation, the problem is when the Church or individuals within the Church interpret it as either a metaphysical treatise or a moral manual rather than the greatest Love Story ever told.

Sorry mark, but you have been told numerous times that actual biblical scholars agree that the prostîtute story in john is a fake.

The Covenant for holy baptism, as found in the United Methodist Book of Worship, tells the biblical story of water.

And then, after the day's reading, fling open the one of the 25 advent doors — and discover that day's Biblical ornament to hang on your very own tree — that will end up telling the grandest Gospel story, from the Beginning to Bethlehem!

The best preachers, I have observed, are those who can see stories in everyday life and can tell them in sermons, carefully linking up the contemporary story with the biblical text.

and Pete Enns with «Aha Moments: Biblical Scholars Tell Their Stories» Best Challenge: Efrem Smith with «The Privileged and The Poor»

They tell biblical stories of Jesus responding to the common people, and contemporary stories of the people in Korea, especially those who are oppressed or suffering.

There is a fascinating story here to be told - but one which would take us too far afield from this discussion - about the intricate interplay between the crises of biblical authority and Christian belief on the one hand and the rise of the novel and the growth of art history and literary criticism on the other.

Also, Noll tells a story of political allegiances to empire and then to nation that replaces a Protestant commitment to biblical Christendom.

I doubt any Evangelical theologians have first hand knowledge — or as you put it; perspective on any of the «biblical» stories told, retold and written, thousands of years ago.

But if you have the Story firmly in your head, with a good grasp of various biblical ways of telling it, what you teach by opportunity will, over time, exhibit a visible coherence that it wouldn't otherwise have.

In the process of telling both biblical and contemporary stories, Campbell constantly co-opts her into them with subtle cues.

(In this century, scholars have analyzed biblical literature to see what traces remain from the time when the stories and sayings were told before they were written.

Once we are eating biblical books whole, we'll be in a position to understand how the books come together to tell the great story of God, the defeat of sin and death, and the renewal of the world.

There were other issues too: The way the accounts of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to write a creative retelling of Resurrection Day because each of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.

Pac - Man is based on the biblical narrative, its story the same one Jesus told in a different way.

I wish now to give an account, inadequate because of necessary brevity, of what the biblical story as a whole has to tell us.

Whenever you tell a Bible story to a child in response to an urgent question, or recite a verse to yourself during a time of crisis or thankfulness — whenever you incorporate the meanings of the Biblical texts in your daily life — you are being an interpreter.

McKnight describes it as «the ongoing reworking of the biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.&rStory by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.&rstory in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.&rStory God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.»

Of course science has a different story to tell us and until someone refutes the scientific basis for the age of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public education.

Yet the biblical story repeatedly tells of the nation's turn away from God's rule to other gods or to the misguided political judgments of the kings and rulers who did not heed God's true prophets.

Religion and politics get a scathing scrutiny in a Man vs. State tale, told through allegorical fashion of the biblical Job story.

A religious broadcasters group requests that audiences be told the biblical thriller is only «inspired» and not «based» on the story of Noah's Ark..

Other biblical stories put to film include: The Ten Commandments, Ben - Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Robe, and The Prince of Egypt.

Moving belatedly into Biblical territory, Stevens» next film, «The Greatest Story Ever Told» (1965) would ultimately consume several years of his life, and pretty much ruin his filmmaking career.

Easter Story Text: A basic retelling of the Biblical Easter Story told in 10 simple stages.

The clergy team from St. Michael's have been in each Monday, telling the story of David and of Paul and how each of these biblical figures showed excellence through their faith.

Told vividly and with deceptively simple language, the story opens the door to the Biblical world through the circumstances and choices Joanna faces.

About Blog The purpose of Bethany House is to help Christians apply biblical truth in all areas of life — whether through a well - told story, a challenging devotional, or the message of an illustrated children's book.

The game tells a vaguely Biblical story about angels, demons, and Nephalem — the half - breed children of the two races.

You may recall that the biblical story teaches that when King Solomon told the women that he would solve the problem by cutting the child in half and awarding each of them half, the fake mother stood silent while the real mother relented and said «no, let her have the child», thereby demonstrating to the King who the true mother was.

In the past, they were used to beautify cathedrals and tell biblical stories.