I was attacking a story and exposing the normal Islamic position
concerning other scriptures.
Not exact matches
The commitment to an evangelical view of
Scripture seems secure, but some of the
other concerns that fueled the Controversy in the first place have surfaced again» and this time, with a vengeance.
When the commission agreed that
Scripture provided no directive
concerning the ordination of women, the representatives from Latin America and Africa and
other conservatives interpreted this as prohibiting a change of policy, while representatives, and especially theologians, from North America, Europe and Australasia interpreted this as allowing innovation.
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and
other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy
Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters
concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?
Worse still — and more to the point of my
concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no
other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy
Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).
The James O'Kelly Christian Church, which represents an important southern heritage of the United Church of Christ, underscores
other nonhierarchical biblical Reformation
concerns by viewing the
Scriptures as «the only creed, a sufficient rule of faith and practice.»
I don't mind reading the opinions of
others, but as soon as they start claiming to have written additional
Scriptures, I get
concerned.
You have to study
scripture and take a stand on the truth and not be
concerned about what
others think.
At this point we are not
concerned with the Bible's place among
other Scriptures but simply with the point that our problems connected with the Bible are serious because they are the problems of our
Scripture.
Besides such biblical scholars with theological
concerns there is of course a very large number of
other theologians for whom the interpretation of
scripture is central.
In
other words, it is to say that we believe that implicit in the pictorial language of the
Scriptures and the historical events to which the Bible points and with which its language is
concerned, there is a basic view of the world which is grounded in reality itself.
But the radicality with which the criticism of
Scripture has been carried out in terms of modern historiographical methods, the intense
concern to find within the
Scripture that meaning and message which is of vital relevance in our situation, should warn us that the distinction of conservative and liberal is not relevant to the distinction between this approach to theology and
others.