Sentences with phrase «context biblical passages»

@Chad, «misguided Christians and atheists seizing on out of context biblical passages do nt really make a huge impression on me»

= > misguided Christians and atheists seizing on out of context biblical passages do nt really make a huge impression on me

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This section will look at the surrounding context of Genesis 6 - 8, and subsequent sections will consider other biblical passages that deal with the flood.

Reading familiar biblical passages in their context is sometimes startling.

I utterly reject Biblical inerrancy http://lotharlorraine.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/on-the-inspiration-of-the-bible-and-other-books-von-der-interpretation-der-bibel-und-anderen-buchern/ but find it interesting that this view of the afterlife is the most likely interpretation of the passages, provided one consider the Old Testament imagery in its own context.

Instinctively we take this view we have been taught and project it onto the biblical passages rather then letting Scripture speak for itself in its own context.

But in the context of Deuteronomy, the biblical passage reflects a revolutionary program of centralized and perhaps domesticated religious authority.

However, to suggest that those passages suggest homosexual relationships, is the face of numerous biblical contexts denouncing homosexuality, is impossible to deduce exegetically.

If I quote a small biblical passage, then I get accused of taking it out of context.

Drawing from the work of biblical scholars, most notably James Brownson, Matthew looks at the context, language, and historical background of these passages to conclude that the Bible does not directly address the issue of same - sex orientation or the expression of that orientation.

In fact, for fundamentalists the biblical book qua book does not really exist; rather, the Bible is an unsystematic anthology of individual verses or short passages that are unrelated to their Contexts and to the larger works in which they are embedded.

Whatever the precise date of this passage from Jeremiah's prophecies — and, as is usually the case, biblical scholars disagree — the general historical context is clear: More than a century earlier the northern kingdom of Israel had been almost entirely annihilated by the Assyrians.

@stevie 7 The biblical definition of a fool is not the English word stupid.The Bible defines fool as someone who has lied to themselves by saying there is no God.In a paraphrase of the brief, out of context passage you reference, one could say, professing themselves to be wise, they became atheists.Which one could agree is extremely stupid.