Sentences with phrase «biblical understanding»

Of course, most biblical understandings of human life suggest a relational understanding of human life.

However, we can come to a better and more biblical understanding of it.

Fortunately they are beginning to make such changes, finding them to be an inherent part of a more adequate biblical understanding.

Is the mystery of biblical understanding at the core of an invisible religious conspiracy?

The rich biblical understanding of faith, including the living faith that transforms the life of the believer, is reduced simply to trust.

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But he was given no name, which in biblical understanding signified that he still lacked his essential nature.

Our quest has been to ask God for help and to give us a good Biblical understanding of how to do and say the right thing at the right time.

What is the proper Biblical understanding of the term «Jew»?

We are unafraid to question traditional church teaching; we value contemporary thought and recent biblical understanding.

Several centuries later, a better biblical understanding actually furthered scientific advancements and achievements.

Sadly, in this day and age, when someone with proper Biblical understanding tries to educate others about matters of faith, it's called hate mongering, intolerance, bigotry, etc..

What, then, became the fate of this key element of biblical understanding when his followers attempted to incorporate the insights of Hellenistic philosophy into their worldview?

Judged by the dominant biblical understanding of divine transcendence, Otto's idea of the Holy (which Berger adopts) and Berger's sacred canopy are not transcendent at all!

Reaching back to the original biblical understanding of creation involving the increasing emergence of order out of chaos, Keller writes:

These consequences can be avoided if we revive the authentic Biblical understanding of the personal relationship between God and man.

«In the Church there is a lack of clarity about what our identity is in terms of body, soul and spirit, and also of the conventional biblical understanding of being human and how that differentiates us from animals and even machines.

[4] Reflecting upon this peculiar impasse, Joseph Ratzinger has noted that the crisis in biblical understanding feeds off and fuels a broader predicament in theological hermeneutics.

Biblical understanding assures us that Pentecost was an event that needed to be repeated.»

The more common biblical understanding of it, however, is of a day of the Lord and a final judgment whereby only the righteous will receive a place in God's eternal kingdom, though there are hints also of an ultimate cosmic redemption through Christ.5

Though he is spoken of anthropomorphically (as a being in human form) at some points in the Bible, particularly in the early «J» stories of the Old Testament, this is not the normal biblical understanding of his nature.

Speaking in response to the Scottish Episcopal Church's decision to allow gay marriages, a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland told the Belfast Telegraph: «Many people in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland will be deeply saddened at this week's developments in Scotland, which seems so obviously at variance with the traditional biblical understanding of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

A second group holds that because sexual and family patterns are not the subject of Biblical teaching, the correct Christian response is to move from the basic Biblical understanding of human existence to the formulation of an ethic for our time.

Those who have tried various churches with a variety of theological and Biblical understanding often have a very strange understanding of the Bible.

The concept of God's vision for history, and for the entire cosmos, is indispensable for a genuinely biblical understanding of revelation.

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This book will give you a solid biblical understanding with logic and Bible references in regards to your divorce and remarriage.

If this is the serious intention of the Bible reader, many of the common errors in biblical understanding will be avoided.

Does such a critical, yet faithful, approach as that outlined above imply that only the expert can arrive at an adequate Biblical understanding of the role of women in the church and family?

Jim says Is the mystery of biblical understanding at the core of an invisible religious conspiracy?

We are unafraid to question traditional church teaching; we value contemporary thought and recent biblical understanding.

What strikes me, though, is how much Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have tried to move the discussion not so much away from natural law as toward a deeper, more biblical understanding of human sexuality.

But a strong, Biblical understanding of God's grace, a grace that gives us everything for free, a grace that is not earned, not worked for, and can not be lost or destroyed, a grace that covers over all our sins, this kind of grace leads to one thing — eternal security.

However, Tiggy, that is not the biblical understanding of salvation without hell and heaven involved.

But that isn't really the biblical understanding of Satan.

«Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulness.

Nevertheless, the possibility of a coherent quantum theory based on process thought is, in principle, important for the project of recovering a comprehensive vision in which a biblical understanding of God finds an important role.

To dispute this would run directly counter to the biblical understanding of God as creator, present and active everywhere, the God of all people.

For example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understanding.

and beat them down with your incredible and oh - so enlightened Sword of Biblical Understanding!

As Jews and Christians informed by the biblical understanding of the one human family created, sustained, and judged by the one God of all, we have here attempted to contribute to such an account of the human rights project.

Walter Harrelson's little book, The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.