Sentences with phrase «covenantal relationships»

There are, indeed, gay Christian couples living in long - term, permanently intended covenantal relationships who earnestly desire the affirmation of their religious communion.

What connects these various forms of abuse is the element of coercion or nonconsent; the violation of bodily integrity and well being; and the betrayal of covenantal relationships.

Covenantal relationships are fragile.

Until that time, the relationship between Jews and Christians, viewed from either side, was one whose ultimate meaning could be located only within the overall covenantal relationship between God and his people.

The faith of the West too easily devolves into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal relationship with a just and loving God.

The stereotyped notion that gay men are promiscuous is given the lie by many who have established a lasting covenantal relationship with one other person.

But in view of the fact that God entered into a covenantal relationship with animals as well as with men, this concern seems misplaced.

In the Old Testament we do see the gradual building - up of the Revelation of Yahweh as I - am - who - am within a covenantal relationship with Israel.

Yet, in light of the prevailing world view in which it was completely permissible to manipulate, cheat, extort, and rob (especially the poor), Amos sees the Day of God as a day of judgment because the community has debased its covenantal relationship with God.

(3) I am a person who has been brought by Jesus Christ into covenantal relationship to the God of Abraham and Sarah.

(A reminder: we're not talking modern business contracts in this relationship: we're talking ancient covenantal relationship, which carries a solemnity and respect and consistency come what may.)

Hesed is often an attribute of covenant, either the Yahweh - Israel covenant or a family covenantal relationship such as husband - wife or father - son.

Even as they reflect the particularities of Israel's covenantal relationship with Yahweh, these passages bear the clear imprint of borrowed notions about God's unchallengeable sway over the whole of creation.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

In Barton's view, the U.S., like ancient Israel, is in a covenantal relationship with God.

Here, however, Job faces a contradiction between the friends» argument that a covenantal relationship is «defined by humility and passive acceptance of the misfortunes God may use to discipline him,» and God's approbation of Job for his other covenantal virtues, «including strong words and fierce resistance.»

Not exact matches

Much of this relationship reflection makes one think of covenantal concepts in salvation history.

The relationship between the search for unity in faith and the engagement in the human struggle lies through an insight as old as Isaiah 42:6 — that God's people are called to be in the world as a covenantal sign of the yet - to - come unity and fulfillment of humankind.

William J. Everett takes up the East German case in the context of a wider study of the relationship of covenantal theology to social life, with comparative analyses of India and America.

While the group «affirm that God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church», they «deny that God has designed marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous relationship».