Sentences with phrase «biblical word»

For the kids at home, this shabby assertion that biblical words equates truth is how we get circular arguments.

But for insiders there was no distance between biblical words and current events.

Hence, to answer the question of what the Bible says, there is no great advantage in deciding just which biblical words do, and which do not, refer specifically to homosexuality.

Sure, there is a lot of agreement, but on key Biblical words like justification, faith, heaven, eternal life, hell, Son of Man, Christ, and numerous other such terms, there is no universal consensus on how these words are to be understood in the Greek text.

Key biblical words such as «psyche,» «heart,» «repentance,» and «nous,» will have to be looked at as if we are seeing them for the first time.

I later found out that that azal is a ancient biblical word meaning to flee.

«28 It is in the creation of humanity itself, and not in God's subsequent blessing on the covenant of marriage, that Williams finds the definitive Biblical word regarding homosexuality.

It is a rare biblical word too, and so to adequately answer the question, we would need to see how the word is used in the Bible too.

It is not at all clear how to apply the unequivocal Biblical words to a modern economy.

It is the type of Christian who would rather talk about doctrine, theology, and the meanings of various biblical words and passages without ever actually doing anything.

In other, more biblical words, is there a Word from the Lord today?

It is precisely Miranda's kind of one - sided, reductionist approach that offers comfortable North Americans a plausible excuse for ignoring the radical biblical Word that seeking justice for the poor is inseparable from — even though it is not identical with — knowing Jahweh.

But if «resurrection» is substituted as a better biblical word, we must be careful not to assume a resuscitation of these same bodies in which our spirits now are housed.

The biblical word says the government shall rest on his shoulders, which means that the love, respect and kindness the bible breathes i life should always serve as inspiration for our laws, Which indeed it does in every major democracy.

He screams all night and especially when I pray the biblical word over him.

The biblical words for what I have just described are confession (admit, agree) and repent (turn from sin and turn toward obedience).

The current attack on the ecumenical churches by critics within and without who are committed to bourgeois values indicates that the Biblical word does have some power in the church.

To call for a reform in the worship of God, however, implies that the churches» standing before God is flawed seriously enough to require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.»

Antoinette, I understand the biblical words «judge» and «church» quite differently than you, as well as the role of the pastor.

We need not be surprised, therefore, that the biblical words of death and resurrection occur quite readily to the pastor in thinking about the care of souls.

Person is not a biblical word.

The biblical word for that is shalom — the way things ought to be.

In any event, the biblical words that are translated «miracle» in most of our English versions mean «sign» (semeion), manifestation of divine energy (dunamis), and that which surprises us and makes us wonder (terrha).

The biblical words are used to point to the deepest reality in the experience of man.

The Protestant Reformation is often perceived as having pitted the biblical Word of God against ecclesiastical tradition.

However, they are not divinely revealed and they, too, along with all other confessions, creeds, and statements of faith, must be subject to the correction of the biblical Word.

Liberation theologies see this context — especially in its political makeup — as providing the foundation on which the truth of the biblical Word can build, but all too often in practice this means that the political context yields the agenda for theology and that prevailing political ideologies determine how that agenda will be followed.

So people are often shocked to learn that the biblical word «gospel» (Gk., euangelion) means way more than what a person need to believe to receive eternal life.

Systems of understanding are legitimate and proper only to the extent that they arise from the biblical Word and are themselves disciplined by it.

Similarly, the biblical word for «salvation» (Gk., sōteria) has very little to do with going to heaven when you die.

They will claim the biblical word for themselves, in the experience of hoping and believing in the Gospel, of trusting in one's own conscience, even in the face of opposition....

The biblical word for helper, when cross-referenced, is most often used to describe God as man's helper.

The biblical word on the relation of the community of faith to hunger and poverty is clear and unambiguous.

Yetser, the Biblical word for «imagery,» is identical, in fact, with the Talmudic word for the evil and good urges.

I agree that a lot of these so - called Christian groups use and abuse some Biblical words and phrases.

The reason I say that is that he can not have ANY conversation where he does not stop lecturing of the virtues of catholicism or boring me to death with the meaning of «biblical words».

Augustine of the early Christian era, having been schooled in Greek philosophy struggled with translating the Biblical word «prohorizo».

Jackson points to the preciousness of the biblical words themselves as reason for such extravagance.

It opens the way for reconciliation, one of the most important and beautiful of all biblical words.18 Theologians have often preferred to speak of «justification,» and it is a precise, courtroom word.

We prepare for this prayer when the priest greets us with the ancient and biblical words: «The Lord be with you.»

Revival is not strictly a biblical word, but Old Testament history demonstrates not steady progress among God's people, but times of spiritual decline often leading to people crying to God, followed by seasons of God's merciful intervention and fresh spiritual awakening.

The biblical words required no symbolization.

As we shall see later, it is too much to expect that the biblical word of revelation will itself bring this sense of mystery along with it, as though we were encountering it there for the first time.