"Biblical teaching" refers to the principles, stories, and lessons found within the Bible, the holy book of Christianity. It encompasses the guidance and instructions provided by God, as recorded by various authors in the Bible. These teachings are considered important for understanding and living one's faith according to Christian beliefs.
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Sometimes we disagree when we attempt to summarize central themes of Scripture or try to provide a comprehensive overview
of biblical teaching on a particular topic, such as the family or economic justice.
I don't have time to make all these corrections in this article here, so let me just provide the basic
biblical teaching on confession and forgiveness.
What if one day we come to regard
biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?
A classical Christian school
emphasizes biblical teachings and incorporates a teaching model consisting of three parts: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Here it is assumed that the church's teaching is the responsible development
of biblical teaching, but the task is not so much to check this assumption as to build on the tradition.
The use of tobacco and illegal drugs (and, in some cases, certain prescription drugs) is prohibited, and members must follow «
biblical teaching on the use of alcohol».
The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations
from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.
But that kind of clarification of my understanding of
biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.
Biblical teaching reflects this straightforward good / evil stance: «Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good», writes Paul in Romans 12:21.
The church for a very long time apparently did not interpret
biblical teaching as an edict for one - man, one - woman marriage.
It can be well demonstrated that, as far as Jewish
biblical teaching goes, idolatry is proscribed only for Jews.
Bottom line, let's look at the Bible in context (i.e. Jesus is God, same God who says turn the other cheek told the Israelites to kill every man, woman, and child in Canaan) and let's use common sense while always trying to
follow Biblical teachings.
To take a fairly obvious example, the lines «Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, / nor take the hand of evildoers» (Job 8:20) sound like pretty
good biblical teaching — which they would be, in other contexts and properly qualified.
Preying on their fears and utilizing totalitarian dogma, the Sons of Jacob
distort Biblical teachings in order to explain why the world faces an infertility crisis, pinning it on modern sexuality.
Half - way houses, therefore, must be deemed faulty when they approve women ruling men in secular affairs (because Scripture nowhere forbids it and sometimes exemplifies it) but not in the church or home (because Scripture requires male leadership in both), or when they approve women ruling in today's church (because Paul's restriction on this seems to be culturally determined) but not in the family (
because biblical teaching on this seems to be transcultural and timeless).
As a university with Christian values, Cairn's online master's programs incorporate
Biblical teachings into the fabric of education.
We're also great at encouraging godly unions by celebrating and supporting a couple's journey to marriage, all while providing
sound biblical teaching on relationships.
Mary has a pivotal and irreducible place in the Bible, and evangelicals must reclaim this aspect of
biblical teaching if we are to be faithful to the whole counsel of God.
I'm impressed by the ability of some of these so - called Christian leaders» attempts to rationalize their support for Obama and / or his positions
despite Biblical teachings.
Christians have always agreed that the Scriptures are foundational, but whence comes the authority to
distill biblical teachings, form specific guidelines for practice and belief, and adjudicate disputes about the interpretation of Scripture?
If corporate worship is replaced by personal worship; if
corporate Biblical teaching is replaced by regular personal Bible reading, mediation, and God - craving; and, if church fellowship is replaced by fellowship in general, I believe that one's faith can be strengthened by a stepping away from church — especially stepping away from a spiritually abusive church.
The bible is then viewed through the lens of these creeds causing certain interpretations to be favored and
other biblical teachings to be minimized or ignored.
The atheists misinterpret
basic Biblical teachings and make the same lame objections to Faith that have been long since dealt with — seriously atheists, nothing you are coming up with is different that what Jean Meslier came up with in 1729 — stop raising the same tired objections as if they were Earth - shattering criticisms of Christianity.
Abuse of any kind anywhere by anyone will never cease to exist unless every person on earth educates himself with the
wholesome Biblical teaching authentically.
Those that
systematize biblical teaching are usually influenced both by the ways this has been done in the tradition and by what seems credible today.
the depths of God's Word are clearly present with line by line, verse by verse, sequential Bible teaching / preaching ~ it forces the teacher / preacher to study harder & it is a wonderful joy to receive
such Biblical teaching!
I don't go around doing word searches in places where I disagree with the Bible while refraining from doing word searches
where biblical teachings are convenient to me.