Sentences with phrase «by scriptural»

The existentialist view may seem to be supported by scriptural texts such as, «No one has ever seen God» (John 1:18) and «Now we are seeing a dim refection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face.

For Christians, the story is heightened by the knowledge that Ruth and Boaz are the ancestors of Christ's foster - father, Joseph, by scriptural revelation and of His mother, Mary, by tradition.

They were those particular acts either prohibited by scriptural texts or contrary to natural law — acts done with the wrong person, in the wrong way or for the wrong purpose.

Some of my friends from Islam get upset when I say I'm offended by their scriptural verses about killing, enslaving, or force conversion of all the people of the book (Jews and Christians) & general religious intolerance displayed.

It is buttressed by the Scriptural corollary of Biblical inspiration.

When I present anything that challenges their doctrine, they do not react by Scriptural argumentation, but by sending me books by Kim Riddlebarger, Finnis Dakes, etc..

Just as the triune God is not to be addressed using names such as Zeus, Apollo, and Athena, so all Christian speech must be disciplined by the scriptural witness to the unique God of Israel, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Conceptual growth is growth in certain abilities and capacities to discern and respond to God and is disciplined by scriptural narratives.

Not exact matches

Even though we are not trying to reconcile scriptural prophecies with the message of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, the principle outlined in Acts 17 by the Bereans gives us hope that God can lead us through the discernment process in our information - saturated world.

Always remember: «By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record.»

«Creatio ex nihilo,» which is embraced wholeheartedly, if somewhat brainlessly, by most evangelicals, has no scriptural basis.

The new mendicant orders that had already begun to develop by the middle of the thirteenth century were challenged by many in the Church who argued that there was no scriptural warrant for creating these orders.

History provides the moral judgment, and we do not have to be theologians engaged in scriptural debates to point people to the judgment rendered by history... Elaine

At his sentencing today, Scott Roeder - the man who killed Kansas abortion provider George Tiller last year - gave a long, scriptural - laden defense of the slaying, arguing that he was protecting unborn children and obeying a higher law by killing the doctor.

You turned a scriptural account for love and unity in the Church (yes the body of Christ) by Thom into a guilt trip / scare tactic.

On the subject of scriptural pedigree: what time - frame do you have in mind when you claim «There is a huge gap between what Christ may have said and what was written down by people who claimed to know what he said or what he told the Apostles?»

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

Since Jesus atoned for our sins by carrying love for enemy to the ultimate degree, a refusal to follow his example at this point not only involves a denial of scriptural authority; it also constitutes a questionable doctrine of the atonement.

I knew you would be silenced by the logic of my system and the irrefutable evidence of my many Scriptural proofs.

For each of the five points, they provide a theological explanation for the point, and then «prove» it by citing numerous pages of Scriptural proof - texts, without ever attempting an explanation of any of those texts.

In a modest eighty - seven pages (followed by Appendices on liturgical colours, vestments, objects used in worship, and the use of Latin in the liturgy), Rev. Peter Stravinskas covers every detail of the Mass from the Entrance to the Concluding Rites with facts and explanations, often surprising, about the Scriptural origins and contemporary celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy.

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

Furthermore, Christian religious practice follows the scriptural view by reliving past events of the Old Testament and commemorating the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary in the Mass..

And again, while there is a lot of freedom and liberty here, we are talking about keeping it Scriptural, and so I have found that by far, the best thing I can do is use Scripture.

Scriptural Reasoning is a movement that holds that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

In place of a scripture - based argument, even combining the scriptural affirmations with the scenarios propagated by various stripes of unbelievers should paint an unmistakable picture of what happened.

Though the various aspects and human developments of this grace - given event may be described in the scriptural terms of faith, hope and love, the event itself in its entirety can also be defined with St. Paul simply as «faith», and it may then be said that we are justified by faith and by faith alone.

If by «strongest» you mean the argument from whose clutches those bound by it find it most difficult to escape, it is not a scriptural argument at all.

With God's eternity as the Fullness of Time, it is possible now to bring back to our awareness the scriptural teaching, ignored by traditional theology, that the whole world is going to be redeemed.

I do nt usually argue with fellow believers, but in this case I would point out that there is no scriptural evidence that Adam changed physically as a result of the fall (by adding genitalia)

and as for there gossiping...... It is NOT scriptural God hasn't told anyone to do it or to listen to it...... which is usually followed by them saying... ah we all do it....

By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

Brightman seems to recognize that this is a stretch for him, for when he asks of himself the same question after his correspondence with Hartshorne has ceased, Brightman expresses epistemological diffidence, counterbalanced only by a peculiar attitude of Scriptural faith:

Awe by itself does not tell the scriptural story — as Pascal added, «It is a remarkable thing that no canonical author ever used nature to prove the existence of God» 6 — but it provides a compass that orients us toward God as creator.

You want to demonstrate «your» truth by signs and works that you have been part of and experienced but show no scriptural support or choose to apply scripture as your own private interpretation!

It is how scriptural holiness first takes root in the soul through faith alone by grace alone.

But experiencing the self - revealing God is not simply a matter of looking at the scriptural and doctrinal boundaries laboriously established by the Church and its traditions.

Throughout the history of the church, risky anthropomorphisms in Christian discourse were excused by appeal to the accommodated, analogical, symbolic or poetic form of the scriptural revelation.

Misleading Uses Of Scripture Th is impression is reinforced by some diocesan schemes designed for use by small discussion groups in parishes, which encourage debate about scriptural passages without any doctrinal framework or guidance.

Other scriptural books, the Rigveda for example, from closer to the same time period, and also written by dark skinned people, also use the language that you are reading on your terms.

This latter practice followed the teaching of the Vatican II constitution Dei Verbum that the Word of God is the «soul of Sacred Theology» (DV, 24), and includes familiarising seminarians with the «four senses» method of scriptural interpretation proposed by Henri de Lubac and developed in Brussels.

I got the impression that the scholarship behind the Scriptural introductions is excessively influenced by historico - critical attitudes, whilst making the claim to be going beyond such.

The scriptural paradox, not acknowledged well in this post, but stated well by Ireneus, is «the glory of God is a man (fully) alive, and the glory of man is a vision of God.»

Consider James Talmage, a very important Mormon figure who said, «The sectarian dogma of justification by faith alone has exercised an influence for evil,» (Articles, p. 432), and «Hence the justice of the scriptural doctrine that salvation comes to the individual only through obedience,» (Articles, p. 81).

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

I think the important thing is to teach people the difference between what's scriptural, what's «required» by God, and what is just tradition.

And speaking of «scriptural,» the Bible itself is a document not untainted by human hands.

By their interpretation of scripture, women can not be pastors, and professors who do not ascribe to scriptural inerrancy can not teach in seminaries.

In this section I intend to illustrate the christological hermeneutic by showing how it bears on scriptural exposition My aim is not to give an exegesis of the texts in question but simply to show the kind of approach I would use in discovering the meaning of Scripture.

This is the scriptural view as noted by Johannes Metz: