Sentences with phrase «certain passages of»

Several recent cases brought by celebrities have effectively created a new privacy law in the U.K. And recently, the House of Lords upheld a landmark ruling barring the friend of a well - known folk singer from publishing certain passages of a tell - all book about the celebrity.»

That's not to say it's without merit, as certain passages of the film are quite good, but it's serviceable at best, and at worst, it minimizes the cultural importance of Apple and its founder (in the spirit of full disclosure, I am a mostly happy Apple customer who is currently writing this review on a MacBook Pro).

He argued that in the U. S. there are over 500 churches and sects which differ over certain passages of the - Bible.

This idea, that the Passion of Jesus fulfilled the Scripture, had already become determinative for the earliest communities and had prompted them, even before there was any story of Jesus» Passion, to read certain passages of the Old Testament as accounts of his suffering and death: e.g., Ps.

The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.

There are certain passages of the Bible that, for whatever reason, have been snagged by the vast religious bumper sticker industry and abbreviated into pithy little statements of fact with...

It's a belief that is promulgated by those who interpret certain passages of a group of texts collected into various versions of the «Bible.»

There is no point in seeking some deeper meaning behind such statements, since we know how they arose from a literalistic reading of certain passages of scripture.

What I said I now believe is that people are fallible and they can sometimes be mistaken when trying to figure out what certain passages of the Bible mean.

Moreover, all the literary genres of the Bible, not just certain passages of special theological import, are media for this «revelation.

Specifically, I want to provide Calvinists and non-Calvinists with a perspective on certain passages of Scripture which will hopefully allow people to see that there are viable alternatives to Calvinism and it's theological opposite, Arminianism.

SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin State Patrol was dispatched Friday to find a Democratic state senator who fled the Capitol to delay the near - certain passage of a bill to end a half - century of collective...

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Funny how conservatives use the Bible (certain passages) to suit their needs, yet ignore other parts of it (hmm, like caring for the poor?).

In considering passage Whitehead assumes that a structure of events «provides the framework of the externality of nature within which objects are located» (PNK 80) and that «space and time are abstractions expressive of certain qualities of the structure» (PNK 80).

One can, for example, base the argument for the equality of the sexes on certain Qur «anic passages.

So alien to our manner of speech are certain passages that when the bowels, for example, are employed to express love (Song of Solomon 5:4.)

What the relevant passages require of us is that certain functions be fulfilled (capably, of course).

On the basis of certain passages attributed to Paul, a theological proposition of the doctrine was elaborated by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury in the twelfth century.

In one of its more famous passages, the Talmud records a debate about the mundane (but important) issue of whether a certain oven can be used to cook kosher food.

Have you noticed that those who use the term almost always follow its use by their «interpretation» of what Scripture (usually certain specific passages, which result in certain specific doctrines) says?

Obviously these passages are not to be taken as mandatory laws but as descriptions of an institution connected with a certain culture, whose significance alone concerns us.

In the light of such a critical function of theology in relation to the generalizations of metaphysics, metaphysical «principles,» «laws,» and «categories» do not appear as (transcendental) conditions of any possible experience, but as that of real experience.35 In a certain sense, Whitehead found a way to initialize a theological project without developing it; and he grounded it in the imperfection of all metaphysical systems in relation to actual events that have the power to reconstruct categories in the passage of the events.

Jesus probably foresaw his own death; but I think it is almost certain that the passages in the Gospels which speak of this, and which in some instances go on to say that he prophesied his resurrection, have been written up and embroidered in the light of what actually happened at Easter.

A few passages of Scripture (seven at the most) object to certain types of same - sex expressions or acts.

some of the passages omit certain words not in agreement with the agenda others are not listed that again would explain the truth and she sounds like she is a authority but it is nothing more than propaganda and a either mislead Christian which I doubt or another example of subterfuge

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

But the encyclical's generalizations and «isolated passages» could too easily furnish partisans with cudgels with which to censure certain books and theologians, to say nothing of any number of merely half - baked ideas that were not mentioned in the encyclical itself.

If the passage calls its audience to choose or reject certain actions, as, for example, Paul warned the Galatian males to reject circumcision, it is an example of deliberative rhetoric.

His descriptions of the talmudic passages wherein certain people are explicitly condemned to hell are certainly consistent with what C. S. Lewis calls the maledictory Psalms that, for example, bless those who dash out the brains of Babylonian babies (Psalm 9).

It is practically certain that Paul wrote four letters to the Corinthians; first a letter on sexual immorality, lost to us except that a fragment may be preserved in II Corinthians 6:1 - 7:1 where the train of thought is interrupted by this passage (Read II Cor.6 and 7 without this passage and note how much more smoothly it fits together.)

(In the desert context of these passages, inhospitality to a stranger meant certain death.)

He prefaced each rape with a Bible study, in which after a review of a certain passage and discussion he would then begin to rape the victim.

My Point?????? ppl who believe stuff just because it's in the bible are morons and ppl who selectively pick only certain passages out of the bible to justify their prejudices are manipulators on a power trip.

If it be argued that certain passages contain mistranslations of hypothetical Semitic documents which are more comprehensible than the text we possess, it must be answered that we do not know that such documents existed and that exegesis of non-existent documents is hardly the task of the New Testament scholar.

Brunner appeals explicitly to the prologue of John and to certain sayings of Paul, but surely one who is as emphatic as he in rejecting the authority of Scriptural teachings as such does not mean to say that we accept the doctrine of creation because of the presence of these passages in the New Testament.

Unfortunately, Mollenkott then turns to a discussion of women in Scripture and says, «So when I see a few passages that seem to come down on certain members of the human race or seem to humiliate or reject them, I am going to be very slow to say that the vast majority of passages (which say the opposite) are wrong.

Before World War II, college was an expected rite of passage for persons of certain classes, such as professionals.

Actually, one could argue from other passages that Knox had a certain penchant for expressing a lack or an absence, in terms of something «not being left».

And in reality, most of us already proclaim a lack of canonicity of certain Biblical passages in the way we treat them.

«What would happen if we read the Bible and, instead of highlighting certain passages, we took it all for what it is — truth.»

«I was saddened by that reaction and started thinking: What would happen if we read the Bible and, instead of highlighting certain passages, we took it all for what it is — truth.»

I was saddened by that reaction and started thinking: What would happen if we read the Bible and, instead of highlighting certain passages, we took it all for what it is - truth.

Her main point seemed to be that regardless of our understanding of the differences between OT and NT, we all tend to over emphasize certain passages and under emphasize others.

The fact is that every one of the passages whose supposed «plain reading» limits women from certain roles has been demonstrated to have significant cultural, contextual, and even syntactical complexity which makes such a «plain reading» highly suspect.

Happily, today those who are not blinded by uncriticized religious prejudice (including misuse of certain biblical passages) or conventional ideas of proper sexual behavior (as if morals were a matter of counting noses or following some social pattern without question) are ready to accept the fact of the homosexual orientation, and many religious groups are now prepared to adopt this positive attitude.

Some understandings of the Old Testament, the book of Revelation and certain other passages notwithstanding, how can we possibly think God created us so that we would destroy each other, that we would degrade or enslave each other?

I would not want to put too much weight on the passage, but it does not seem certain to me that Mark 1:38 is not making the sort of casual allusion to the pre-existence which we have noted in Paul.

Defending Balthasar against Scanlon, he cited the passages from the Pope's Crossing the Threshold of Hope mentioned above and referred also to his own book, Death on a Friday Afternoon, in which he had argued from several New Testament texts that although we can not be certain, we may indeed hope and pray for the salvation of all.

Because we disagree on the proper method of baptism, the role of women in the church or the proper interpretation of a certain Biblical passage does not make one of us correct and the other a «false teacher».

The early church found in this passage a clear and certain prophecy of the vicarious suffering of the Christ.