Sentences with phrase «biblical terms»

Even in biblical terms, knowledge too shall pass.

It is not an ordinary biblical term for sexual intercourse, which is usually described as a man «going in» to a woman or «lying with» her.

What would it mean to view the catastrophe in genuinely biblical terms?

People often throw around Biblical terms like «redeemed» without fully considering their meaning.

Screwtape also recognizes the importance of opening up and allowing, to use biblical terms, the Spirit to descend upon one:

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

And many Pentecostal and Jesus groups see the present in biblical terms as the end of times just before Jesus is to return.

For the minister to fill his sermons with Biblical terms and phrases assuming they have meaning is to err tragically.

The use of different kinds of principles, the colonial and postcolonial strategies, the adoption of Indian terms and concepts for the extremely different Biblical terms etc. created more changes in translation approaches in the present day context.

Early in his teaching career, Calvin himself had tried to dispense with non «biblical terms such as homoousious and Trinitas in favor of the unadulterated words of the inspired text.

She is Adam's helper, which in biblical terms means she is a strong ally, someone who can rescue him from death.

In reclaiming this important biblical term, «hospitality,» and linking it with the content that it must have when it is associated with that Name, you have (in my view) correctly interpreted for our context the meaning of «apostolicity.»

On the strictest biblical terms there must be something in common between the words we use to speak about God's being and about our being, otherwise it is impossible to see how language about God the Father, and God the Son can be meaningful at all.

The central value for utilitarian individualism was a term that could also be used to obscure the gap between the utilitarian and the biblical traditions, since it is a central biblical term as well.

The Pauline biblical terms «principalities and powers» identify the dynamic spiritual forces of good and evil that operate in social institutions, structures, and practices.

These terms of the imperial judiciary suddenly became biblical terms.

They use Biblical terms a lot.

Walter Brueggemann challenges the commentators who call the terribly destructive Hurricane Katrina a storm of biblical destruction and suggests some categories that give it some genuinely biblical terms.

The history of the human city may be read in biblical terms as a movement from Rameses to the New Jerusalem.

Thomas Paine hated Christianity (The Age of Reason) Thomas Jefferson rejected the divinity of Jesus (Jefferson Bible) George Washington preferred the terms «Grand Architect» and «Providence,» rather than biblical terms, suggesting that he was a deist.

In biblical terms, we may define horror as the presentiment that the forces of chaos have escaped their appointed bounds and a good God no longer exercises mastery.

This is NOT a biblical term, and it is unclear at best, and extremely confusing and misleading at worst.)

Who, in biblical terms, has a right to be under that tent?

To properly understand the Gospel, we need to understand the biblical terms related to the gospel.

This does not affect the fact that whereas metaphysical terms can be literal, Biblical terms are typically analogical.)

Arius agreed to all of the biblical titles and expressions used of Christ's divinity because each one could be interpreted in such a way as to ascribe to him a diminished divinity (which, in biblical terms, could not be a divinity at all).

Disqualified is the biblical term for that.

In biblical terms this means: Call no man your father, for you are all brothers.

Now, it is true that the biblical term for mercy or compassion, rahamim, derives from rehem, womb.

In other words, witness ought not to be triumphalistic — or, to use a biblical term, it should never be boastful.

And if one answers these or similar questions negatively, without then concluding that the entire stream of religious experience and thought that originated in Israel's exodus from the world of the gods was one gigantic mistake, then another question obtrudes: How can the experience of the mythological matrix be understood in biblical terms, but in such a way that its claim to truth is not entirely negated?

From this point of view original sin might more accurately be described as social sin or, in biblical terms, the sin of the world.

God comes up often, but almost never in biblical terms; «God,» we remember, was generic for deists and theists, philosophers and believers alike.

It is, of course, not a biblical term.

It is seldom noticed (at least in discussions of the City of God) that the Latin terms for justice and justification come from the same Latin root (lost in English when the biblical term «justice» is translated as «righteousness»).

Christianity is not a biblical term.

A number of the biblical terms might well be perceived as condescending, insulting, exclusive, and so on — some of them because they're meant to be.

It reads as follows: ab — ba — abc — cba — abc; bc — cb — bcd — dcb — bcd; or in Biblical terms: «In the — the in — in the beginning — beginning the in — in the beginning, etc..»

Though that theological system gets its name from this verse, don't think that just because it uses a biblical term, it is therefore completely biblical.

Anyway, I do understand that your view of God, the gospel, and Jesus is popular, but I think you are confusing and conflating all sorts of passages and biblical terms.