The pastor's statement to the young woman is, unfortunately, indicative of a widespread ignorance
of biblical texts dealing both directly and indirectly with the subject of suicide.
The definition «you» provided of being Christian is not quoted
in Biblical text.
But historical criticism can not do everything that needs to be done
on biblical texts.
The book examines the significance of each of these five words, and also considers numerous
biblical texts about each.
It is thorough without becoming overly technical, and it keeps its main purpose of
reading biblical texts at the forefront.
You also now have some Biblical interpretation skills that you can apply to
other Biblical texts — those that are your favorites or those that have proven difficult to understand.
I find it weird that the different words that were used in the
original biblical texts were all translated to that one word; hell.
These are some of the
major biblical texts that led me to change my mind about the purpose of hell and the final end of the wicked.
I hope to write more on this topic in the future so that the
pertinent biblical texts can receive a fuller treatment and better explanation than what I have provided here.
In the first place, one can note that in the history - of religions school, the model of evolution was applied to the analysis
of biblical texts.
Over the past twenty years or so, I have read, written, and taught a lot about the cultural and historical backgrounds of
various Biblical texts.
And it is the Scriptures that I am concerned with — not
biblical texts as records of discrete historical times, but rather the Bible as a coherent unit, brought together under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and fitted in God's providence for leading Christians to the contemplation of the Triune God as revealed in the text, the Church, and the world.
A typical Calvinistic defense seems to consist of stating the Calvinistic beliefs, quoting numerous Calvinistic authors, and referencing several
biblical texts which seem to support the Calvinistic perspectives.
Is the proper legacy of the historical - critical method a continued concern for intentionality in
biblical texts not so much in precanonical but rather in final scriptural form?
So today I am pleased to announce that next week, June 4 - 10, I'll be devoting a series of blog posts to discussing an egalitarian view of gender — including
relevant biblical texts and practical applications.
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Biblical texts do not deal with homosexuality as a psycho - sexual orientation determined at birth or developed as a relationship between consenting adults.
The Second Vatican Council called for a common
biblical text for each language group, preferably one produced in ecumenical cooperation.
Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending
by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?
Still, Mack's book is helpful in alerting the preacher to the structures of argument at work in
many biblical texts and to the social situations that produced them.
Christians who desire to be orthodox rely upon the testimony of Scripture, and,
when biblical texts are ambiguous or appear to be in conflict, upon the «rule of faith» as expressed in the Great Tradition of the worshiping community, the teaching of the Fathers, and conciliar definitions.
First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling
over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.
The real perversion is not same sex orientation, it is the corruption of the
ancient biblical texts turning them into the bigoted versions we have today.
I am really struggling writing some of these posts because it is so unnatural to
approach biblical texts with a goal to argue against a theological presupposition which is (mis) using the texts to defend their views.
They choose, for whatever reason (spiritual experience, fear, apathy) to not waiver from their interpretation and understanding of
biblical texts even in the face of reason and logic.
But talk about
such biblical texts and about the end of the world is no longer the sole property of late - night radio preachers and shouting Bible - pounders.
The study contains stunning images, thought - provoking questions, and most importantly, missional insights into
key biblical texts.
Theology in the Reformation tradition has explored other alternatives, as in the «Andover theory» which
views biblical texts such as 2 Peter 3:19 «20 and 4:6 and Christ's descent to the dead referenced in the Apostles» Creed as warranting belief in the Hound of Heaven pursuing the last and the least.
This material norm for the
way Biblical texts play a role in theology can be stated either in process categories («creative transformation») or in Biblical terms (creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification).8 To elaborate this norm fully would be to spell out a systematic theology.
but all of the others who
quote biblical text annoy the sh & * out of me shut the f up and just state your opinion, we do nt need a lecture!