Sentences with phrase «biblical teaching if»

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.

Not exact matches

If you hold to the biblical teachings in scripture, you will indeed hold to this teaching as well.

If there are any faults with it, the most glaring is that Ms. Evans does not explain what her year of living «biblical» taught her.

I was 21 or 22 when I began questioning what I'd been taught about what constituted «biblical» politics, «biblical» marriage, and «biblical» womanhood, and wondering if it was wise, or even possible, to reduce the Bible into an adjective.

And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic philosophers of religion, writing from a variety of theological and communal points of view» Roman Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence of early trinitarian teaching).

If Christians believe that undisciplined sex is a good thing, then they are living by a standard in conflict with biblical teaching.

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?

And if you say you are a practicing and believing Christian and your pastor is «in it to win it», then you need to hit a trail out of that church and find one that teaches AND practices biblical truth.

If someone puts ecclesiastical tradition ahead of biblical teaching, that person is rarely motivated to consider change.

I think the church would be better served if it taught on Biblical leadership.

I wonder if the intelligent design folks would fight for all creation stories to be taught alongside the biblical one?

If I am asked to identify more precisely what biblical scholarship and Reformation traditions have taught us on this subject, I quote one of the eminent theologians of the first part of this century, who wrote:

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

Then after giving unconditional election a second and more Biblical look, I went through the musing s about how it could be true if all unbelievers go to eternal hellfire torment, and then I got hit with the realization that the New Testament teaches eternal torment for Satan and his followers, which I heartily endorse, but It teaches destruction for unbelievers.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

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.

Today that same qualification, if the church teaches biblical truths about homosexuality, is a detriment to one's candidacy in many areas of our country.

Or, if you don't want to get tapes, just tune your radio to a station with lots of biblical preaching on it, especially if the most of the sermons are verse by verse teaching of the Word of God.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.

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

One of these issues has been put to me in words like these: «Altogether too much teaching about prayer, particularly in circles that are highly orthodox and consider themselves also highly biblical, amounts to telling us that we must cringe before, imperial majesty, as if we were in the presence of an oriental despot.

I read this article by charisma magazine which i thought was well written which is pro Women preaching http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/16851-why-i-defend-women-preachers This debate is an on going one John Piper who i respect as a bible preacher believes that scripture is clear women shouldnt have authority over men or teach in the church some go as far as saying women shouldnt preach in sunday school if the classes are mixed.Personally i think times are changing and i say that because i have a women manager she has authority over me and other men so if we follow the biblical example i shouldnt allow myself to be in that situation which is just crazy thinking.

If the church is suposly founded on the «rock» why % 90 of it's teachings is based on myths, non biblical based??..

The third aspect of the biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor and oppressed is that the people of God, if they are really the people of God, are also on the side of the poor and oppressed.

But if we do mean it, then we must teach and live, in a world full of injustice and starvation, the important biblical doctrine that God and his faithful people are on the side of the poor and oppressed.

If you have been caught in error in the past, or if you are afraid of being caught in error in the future, you can mature and protect yourself from false teachers by taking time and making effort to study good biblical teaching and listen to good biblical teacherIf you have been caught in error in the past, or if you are afraid of being caught in error in the future, you can mature and protect yourself from false teachers by taking time and making effort to study good biblical teaching and listen to good biblical teacherif you are afraid of being caught in error in the future, you can mature and protect yourself from false teachers by taking time and making effort to study good biblical teaching and listen to good biblical teachers.

If properly approached, less preaching and teaching may actually result in a substantial increase in biblical literacy.

Yet if we preach and teach less, won't this lead to a rise is the biblical illiteracy of most Christians, which is already at epidemic proportions today?

Yes... if taught the biblical ideal about using «measure» on themself (as it is presented)-- and what responsibility truly means (or as the church calls it — repentance).

She needs to mold her thinking to be in line with Biblical teachings, if in fact she is a pastor.

And if so, how do you go about correcting theological error in a community that is already so wounded and vulnerable because they have grown up battered by «biblical» teaching?

So if you are getting good things but are contrary to gentiles biblical teaching and you are a gentile of course you may be serving in the Synagogue of Satan and learning the deep secret of Satan.

If biblical knowledge is the main objective and it is taught that it can only come from the pulpit then church attendance may well be policed in some cases.

But if you want my opinion, this is contrary to Biblical teaching.

It's written by a Christian pastor and his wife, so I'd say it's definitely best to read if you're also Christian and / or related to biblical teachings, but I think a lot of the ideas + principles are applicable across the board.

Brindabella Christian College was reportedly concerned it may not be able to teach biblical views on marriage and family if the Marriage Act was changed.

But, if you do conclude that AGW is occurring, this opinion is absolutely consistent with Biblical teachings — and your not following the «Green Dragon».