By biblical definition there has only been one perfect person on this earth, Jesus Christ, and the rest of us, including the NC minister, have sinned so we should all be thankful for God's grace and forgiveness and start looking for ways to serve our fellow human beings rather than looking for ways to hate and control them.
In fact, by denying marriage equality to gay people, Christians are compelling gay couples to sin, because their intimacy must happen outside of marriage, and is therefore,
by biblical definition, sinful.
christians are free to abide
by the biblical definition of marriage.
Not exact matches
Biblical by definition excludes the other faiths and widens the debate, such as it is.
By strict,
Biblical definition, the teachings of the Mormon religion are not, in fact, «Christian.»
A universe including the
biblical God would have to be infinite
by definition (because the
biblical God is omnipotent).
In Rhetoric and
Biblical Interpretation they recommend that the
definition of rhetoric be broadened to its fullest range in the classical tradition, namely as «the means
by which a text establishes and manages it relationship to its audience in order to achieve a particular effect.»
Your
biblical god thing is also an impossibility
by definition.
Mission Study or Missiology (as we interchangeably use the two terms) as an academic discipline is closely related to the study of (other) living religions, and the discipline itself
by definition is incomplete without its
biblical - theological, historical, and practical - ethical dimensions and foundations.
What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability
by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains,
by textbook
definition, the sum of the laws of nature.
Once the non-believer repents
by receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior then their eyes will be opened up to the excellence of God's
biblical definition of Family.
He clarifies his rather vague
definition of the field
by contrasting
biblical theology with five other modes of study: doctrinal theology, nontheological
biblical studies, history of religion, philosophical and natural theology, and «the interpretation of parts of the Bible as distinct from the longer complexes taken as wholes.»
We need not recall here the history of what led up to the declaration of Humani Generis (which is doctrinal in character, even if it does not constitute a dogmatic
definition), starting with the pronouncement of the local synod at Cologne in 1860 rejecting evolution in any form, the censure passed on the works of theologians favourable to evolution, such as M. D. Leroy (1895) and P. Zahm (1899), the decree of the
Biblical Commission in 1909, the tacit toleration of works favourable to evolution
by theologians such as Ruschkamp (1935), Messenger (1931), Perier (1938), down to Pius XII's Allocution to the Papal Academy of Sciences in 1941.
The difference between the
Biblical and non-
Biblical conceptions of myth is indeed implicitly recognized
by HBK, for it quotes Alfred Jeremias's
definition of
Biblical myth: «Myth in the narrower sense... is one of the supreme creations of the human spirit.
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?
It could be, but the problem with trying to say that all believers are apostles is that the
Biblical definition of an apostle includes being appointed directly
by Christ, and having seen the risen Lord.
Of course,
by this
definition the bulk of
biblical record is emphatically prophetic in its understanding and interpretation of history.
@stevie 7 The
biblical definition of a fool is not the English word stupid.The Bible defines fool as someone who has lied to themselves
by saying there is no God.In a paraphrase of the brief, out of context passage you reference, one could say, professing themselves to be wise, they became atheists.Which one could agree is extremely stupid.
In a letter organized
by Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, signers stated «
by all indication» Gorsuch would interpret the Constitution in accordance with America's tradition of limited government and uphold the principles of protecting the unborn, strengthening religious liberty and the
biblical definition of marriage and family.