Sentences with phrase «by biblical standards»

To publish an article that explicitly extols a lifestyle condemned by the biblical standards this country is founded on is unworthy of a national organization that purports to represent its constituents.

If we don't obey, and all we need is grace, then why even try to be moral, even by biblical standards?

Do you know of a father in the Bible who was successful by biblical standards?

If we could live perfectly by the Biblical standards we wouldn't need a Savior in the first place.

In the case of Jesus we find a person who lived by biblical standards of goodness.

Obama's a strong supporter of abortion and gay marriage which are two issues that are totally wrong by Biblical standards.

Due to his false prediction that the world would end in September 1994, he is already deemed a false prophet by Biblical standards (Deuteronomy 18:22)

Not exact matches

If Christians believe that undisciplined sex is a good thing, then they are living by a standard in conflict with biblical teaching.

This, by the way, is not according to Biblical standards or guidelines.

Some Christians do indeed welcome those ««heretical» opinions,» because, in their view, they serve to correct doctrine by its proper biblical standard.

The Christian church has not dealt seriously, according to Biblical standard, with the violence and destruction brought by the principalities and powers.

Some characteristics of biblical narrative are easily recognised as literature by modern standards.

You want to argue the USA should be liable to the universal community — that is one thing ------ but to claim that for the Christian faith is utter nonsense — and sooo not biblical — but worldly by any standard.

The cardinal's attempt to provide biblical, patristic, medieval, and canonical arguments in favor of his proposal have been seriously criticized, in the proper academic sense of the term, by responsible scholars (the standard reference here is Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, edited by Robert Dodaro, OSA [Ignatius Press]-RRB-.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

This is to say, then, that the classical prophet, although highly creative and proclaiming a new word, was debtor, and certainly conscious debtor, to a core tradition already long established.1 This is also to say that one must of necessity define the essentially prophetic quality in pre-Amos Israel by the standards of classical prophetism, and further that no history, and perhaps least of all biblical history, may be appropriated in sterile chronological fashion.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the MiddBiblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middbiblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middle Ages.

Rather than saying that Whitehead was very deficiently Christian by orthodox standards, Morris B. Cohen and Bertrand Russell complained that he was excessively Christian, or at least too Christian to be a rational philosopher.7 Whitehead, from a purely rational point of view, was, as Pascal and James before him, a defender of emotion and feeling, or in Biblical terms, a defender of the heart, the raison.