Sentences with phrase «biblical understanding actually»

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

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if you'd actually give a hearing, you'd understand why the entire field of biblical scholarship (from left to right) is giving heed to this argument.

Could it be then, that your understanding of heresy is actually «a truth elevated to an extreme where it can no longer be recognized as biblical»?

But while Lindsell obviously intends to meet these concerns, his book is actually a repristination (and often less subtle than earlier expressions) of a particular timebound formulation of biblical authority that is being seen by increasing numbers of evangelicals not only to have outlived its usefulness but to have become a positive hindrance to the understanding of the fuller and deeper significance of the Scriptures.

Fourth, laymen feel that preachers assume that laymen have a greater knowledge and understanding of biblical and theological lore and language than they actually do.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

When I read books of people writing about how they understand the task of the church (Brian McLAren, Bob Roberts, Eric Bryant, Ron Martoia, Scot McKnight, to name but a few) I find that all of them are actually propagating a return to the Biblical principles.

@Chad «I actually agree with you, as you point out, it's critically important to understand what the biblical text actually says:

I believe my biblical understanding has grown so much this year, and through the pages of Scripture the call for community — the call for belonging to the body of Christ — has been so apparent that I think anyone who actually reads the word will be challenged to no longer live their faith alone.

Failure in understanding the events stems from many people not actually understanding Biblical texts.