Sentences with phrase «defended from scripture»

The religious people had laws (easily defended from Scripture) about stoning those caught in adultery.

The religious people had laws (easily defended from Scripture) about not working on the Sabbath.

But as we will see in the discussion of this point, such a belief can not be defended from Scripture, reason, or experience.

Therefore, if abortion is unforgivable, then we must also argue that all forms of murder are unforgivable, and this view can not be defended from Scripture.

I don't think this can be defended from Scripture.

Although many Christians believe that Sunday morning is the «set time» for Christian worship, this can not be defended from Scripture.

Greg Boyd's view sounds shockingly similar to the view I am having great difficultly defending from Scripture.

Even if we can defend from Scripture the idea that God does sometimes send storms, it is much more difficult to defend the idea that God sends storms and natural disasters to punish wicked sinners.

Not exact matches

They are rarely used, and most people groan when you get to the genealogies of Scripture in their Bible reading, but they are often some of the passages in the Bible which help defend it from the frequent attacks that are leveled against the Bible by it's critics.

After this, we will look carefully at numerous texts from Scripture which are often used by Calvinists to defend the doctrine of Unconditional Election, and will suggest alternative explanations for these texts which fit better with their grammatical, cultural, theological, and historical contexts.

The verse that is most widely used to defend the modern practice of preaching where a person gets up on stage on Sunday morning to teach for 30 - 40 minutes from Scripture is 2 Timothy 4:2.

He does not need me or anyone else to defend him or speak on his behalf, as you can see from the Scripture below.

One recent paper read at a meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (again, by a scholar from one of Lindsell's «safe» schools) vigorously defended the inerrancy doctrine but then rushed on to the hermeneutical level to distinguish between the timebound Weltbild of Scripture which may be discarded and the eternal Weltanschauung of Scripture which must be preserved.

He acknowledges that, if the Church is to defend its scripture and tradition from maverick interpretations, there must be an authoritative voice that can speak for and to the Church, and he does not hesitate to call this voice a «magisterium.»

They published booklets defining and defending these five points from Scripture.

As the second half of the quote described, the heresy was:»... that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture.»

'' We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare that you, the above - mentioned Galileo, because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture.»

That said, I am also a Christian, who can defend my faith with irrefutable logic and exegesis from Scripture.