Sentences with phrase «biblical understanding when»

Not exact matches

If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years when the science was far, far in advance of anything understood about humans back in biblical times.

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..

Doing a New Testament word study on the Greek word «praus» in order to better understand what Peter means when he instructs women to have a «gentle and quiet spirit» in 1 Peter 3:3 - 4 is biblical exegesis.

It is an affirmation and not, as many conservative evangelicals have reflexively assumed, a questioning of biblical authority when the language of liberation and empowerment prove fruitful in understanding further dimensions of what salvation always meant according to the scriptural witness, even though we had not previously been pushed to see it that clearly.

So when you say my view is not Biblical, what you mean is that my view does not fit your understanding of the Bible.

The subject lacks what Benedict XVI calls «breathing room,» which is a point the theologian Matthew Levering proves he understands when, in his new book Biblical Natural Law, he urges theologians to take a more active interest in the doctrine of natural law.

Now I understand that what they are doing is trying to let scripture speak for itself, but when I respond with a larger biblical context and an explanation of it I am met with deafening silence.

When it comes to information, what is needed is not so much biblical literacy, as it is biblical understanding.

When the republic was founded, the biblical tradition and the Enlightenment» two distinct and often antagonistic understandings of the world» seemed to find a patch of common ground.

This fact helps us understand the horror of quite moderate African Christians when Euro - American churches dismiss biblical strictures against homosexuality as rooted in the Old Testament, and therefore outmoded.

In the third place, when the reader takes up the biblical understanding of God and man and begins to understand his own situation in these terms, then the question of the social relevance of the Bible is solved.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejecWHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejecwhen his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejecwhen He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

At one level every hermeneutic is exclusive in practice, as when «process hermeneutics» centers attention on the metaphysical claims of Biblical texts about the reality of God (e.g., see MEH).2 But «process hermeneutics» refuses to be reductionist in its theory of interpretation, understanding, and meaning; hence, its inclusive hospitality to «any and all disciplined methods of interpretation,» as Kelsey puts it (compare, e.g., RPIPS, especially 106 - 15).

Even when we believe the Scriptures are «infallible» or «without error,» it's terribly dangerous to think that our understanding of every biblical text is also without error.

A lot of these comments show the lack of biblical teaching and understanding of scripture in the home, of course its hard to teach biblical truth when the home is run by to men.

So just to understand this, I was told when I was a Christian if I don't believe in Jesus being the Messiah or the Virgin Birth I will be cursed and go to hell and anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus as our chosen Messiah will not enter into the kingdom of Heaven, yet Christians say biblical prophecy has been fulfilled with the state of Israel and God is watching over and blessing the Jews.

For Protestants, collective repentance is easiest when we can understand it as recovery of Biblical teaching.

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.

There are also many biblical passages which reflect this understanding, particularly when God appears to Moses as a burning bush.

completely misses the point when he charges me with reducing the Biblical understanding of human existence to man's understanding of himself, and therefore secularizing the Christian proclamation, and with reducing the redemptive act of God in Christ to the immanence of human existence and its realization in our life in time [ibid., p. 60]-RRB-.

Admittedly, there is a rhetorical problem in our contemporary setting when Christians ground their sexual morality exclusively in a biblical understanding of human embodiment.

And, when seen from this perspective, it is a very important book for our total understanding of the biblical message.

How does our understanding such friendships change when we see them in the light of biblical commands to proclaim the Gospel, to defend our faith, to bear witness to the saving power of Christ?

About Blog The Seventh - day Adventist ® Church was born out of the Millerite movement of the 1840s when thousands of Christians searched for greater understanding of biblical prophecy.

About Blog The Seventh - day Adventist ® Church was born out of the Millerite movement of the 1840s when thousands of Christians searched for greater understanding of biblical prophecy.

While the term «Christian Counseling» has been defined in multiple ways, our approach when working with Christians is to integrate a biblical understanding of human nature and growth with scientifically - based psychotherapy approaches.