Sentences with phrase «by biblical hope»

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I hope you realize anything that is quoted «Spoken by Jesus» is questionable at best as in the academic world (Biblical scholars) most of what was written by anonymous scribe 200 - 300 years after the event are consider Pseudepigraphic and if nescessary I can supply historical reference.

The scene of Jesus with two grieving sisters, weeping at the grave of their brother and his friend, has offered comfort and hope unmatched by any other resource, biblical or nonbiblical.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners of Christian libraries is a wealth of scholarship on the subject.

The quotation from Romans 8 on the project's homepage — «For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God» — really is central to the biblical picture of redemption and really has been neglected in both theory and practice.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

For all the new European inhabitants of America the Christian and biblical tradition provided images and symbols with which to interpret the enormous hopes and fears aroused in them by their new situation, as I have already suggested in using the terms «paradise» and «wilderness.»

In conclusion, then, we may say that biblical inspiration is the effect of God's promise on individuals writing within the context of a community of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision of promise emanating from the Spirit of hope.

The secularizers who use empirical categories hope that by their use, biblical categories become immanent.

Now, I'm a Christian, who loves Jesus and who hopes to honor God with my life, but frankly, after hearing about 100 «God bless Americas» shouted between the two conventions, and dozens of biblical references dropped by both parties, I was just fine with seeing God's name removed from yet another piece of political propaganda.

Biblical inspiration is the effect of God's promise on individuals writing within the context of a community of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision of promise emanating from the Spirit of hope.

When a Lutheran and a Catholic each talk of faith, does each define the word by some comprehensive abstract system, or by the complex associations the word has in a great range of shared biblical texts, such as Romans 1 with its talk of faith as that by which we live, I Corinthians 13 with its association of faith with hope and love, and Hebrews 11 with its definition of faith as assurance and conviction?

By hoping for a future deliverance, biblical eschatology renders present misery only temporary, and even though distress may still remain, the prospect of an eventual solution at least makes pain more bearable.

December (Obedience): - Created to Be His Helpmeet by Debi Pearl - Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce - Quivering Daughters: Hope and Healing for the Daughters of Patriarchy by Hillary McFarland - Texts of Terror: Literary - Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible

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