Sentences with phrase «by biblical literalists»

The reports were quickly embraced by biblical literalists who believe God created life on Earth less than 10,000 years ago.

You can believe I have done my homework and I find the explanations offered by biblical literalists and inerrancy types to be not just ridiculous but extremely insulting.

This phrase is often misunderstood, especially by biblical literalists, as meaning the words of God, supposedly contained in the Holy Book.

Not exact matches

It is what I find the most ironic of the most strident biblical literalists: by attempting to fix the bible into one single, unalterable interpretation, instead of an ongoing conversation, they are sowing the seeds for its own obsolescence.

Disheartened by the amount of support Griffin had received from the community, I considered showing up at the courthouse with a sign that included Exodus 22:21, «Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt» — mainly because June prides herself on being a strict biblical literalist.

When the Church fathers were formulating their Christology they were constrained by the fact that they were Biblical literalists.

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

Don't make the mistake of thinking those questions are prompted by some «do your own thing» new - agey attitude — as a born - again spirit - filled biblical literalist I would have asked those questions of you — and been concerned for your spiritual state if you were indeed saying what you seemed to be saying.

Previously he separated himself from Biblical literalists by accepting the antiquity of life and the Darwinian principles of common descent, and here he points out that certain shared features in the DNA sequences of chimps and humans show beyond any doubt that we and chimps share a common ancestor.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»