The online clinical mental health counseling education program is influence
by Scripture as the foundation for understanding psychology and social sciences.
Yes arguing for homosexuality is at best a slippery slope, because the only parameters you can use to justify it could as well exist in other relationships which are likewise
condemned by scripture.
This is not to say that this way of doing church is wrong, it just means that it isn't
required by Scripture.
This formulation makes sense, but I find myself
compelled by Scripture, reason and experience to disagree with much of what constitutes traditional doctrine.
As members became comfortable with a format of reflection
guided by Scripture and prayer and the needs of members, they took turns leading the group.
Couples counseling, family counseling, child counseling, depression therapy — every aspect of life improvement can be
fueled by scripture.
It is insisted that they still appreciate intelligent, mature, strong women, but that their place has been
assigned by scripture and that has to be observed.
Is our whole thinking
governed by Scripture, or do we come with our reason and pick and choose out of Scripture what we want, and reject the rest?
This may take forms as diverse as charismatic interpretation (although internally
criticized by the scripture itself) and highly sophisticated scientific criticism.
She knew there were other moves she could make, fully
supported by Scripture and tradition, that would render her position more acceptable to conservatives.
We discussed other potential relationships that would fit into that category, and as you pointed out, they are all
condemned by scripture.
The author finds himself
compelled by Scripture, reason and experience to disagree with much of what constitutes traditional doctrine.
This conclusion is supported
by the Scriptures in a passage that has often been ignored or forgotten by academic theology.
If the Church feels herself
bound by Scripture and tradition in these other areas, it seems inconsistent for Catholics to proclaim a «moral revolution» on the issue of capital punishment.
This guy claims to have been inspired
by the scriptures of his choosing, but how that does that differ from anyone else drawing upon their personal revelations of what God is to them.
These lesser authorities, however, are only authoritative to the extent that their teaching can be
corroborated by Scripture.
for example, polygamy is written about in the earlier days of the old testament to show how people were living then, but it was not condoned and
encouraged by scripture.
Revisiting late medieval biblical interpretation, we may consider the delicacy of the hermeneutic circle
formed by Scripture and tradition, appreciating the fragility of a synthesis that refuses to impose on ancient consensus a linear, hierarchical path to truth.
While our understanding of God might begin with the scripture and be well
informed by the scripture, it does not end with the scripture.
The references to eunuchs in Isa 56:3 - 5 and Acts 8:27 - 39 refer to persons who were physically castrated against their will, not to persons who willingly removed their marks of masculinity, much less actively engaged in sexual relations
forbidden by Scripture.
While exerting one's autonomy and taking of innocent life in abortion is clearly wrong and
disallowed by Scripture, so is being vitriolic and hating others on the other side of an issue.
To me, the right stories are in the Word of God — Jesus — as
revealed by Scripture, by the community, and by the Holy Spirit — and He is a story of life and love and hope for us all, for all the Boths and the Ands and the Neithers and the Eithers.
And because the theology of Johnny Cash was so
shaped by the Scriptures, due to Cash's daily and lifelong reading of the bible, I think it's fitting to note here at the end that Johnny Cash's theology, being a biblical theology, will also be difficult to pin down and put into a box.»
He came to accept the orthodox Christian perspective not because he was
convinced by scripture, tradition or reason, but by experience.