Sentences with phrase «derived from scripture»

Like the Calvinist, the non-Calvinist also believes that his or her understanding of God is accurately derived from Scripture and what God has revealed about Himself on its pages and through Jesus Christ.

Franklin himself wrote afterwards that «the Convention, except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary,» yet Whitehead claims that Franklin's «remarks are clearly derived from the Scriptures» and reveal that «very likely he was operating from Christian presuppositions himself.»

Therefore the knowledge of God derived from creation is salvific and redemptive, even if this knowledge is not as explicit and as elaborated as is the knowledge derived from the Scriptures.

Not exact matches

That additional data, derived from the twin sources of Revelation (Tradition and Scripture), is impressive and enriching, and fills in for Christians the full rationale for the teaching against homosexual acts.

A great deal of the strength of the evangelical Christian's life was derived from a meditative reading of Scripture in this way.

These giants of Christian history derived their view from Holy Scripture.

Kinzer sees the priestly office of Christ as deriving from «Israel, according to the flesh,» but the Church (following Scripture) traces Christ's priesthood not to Aaron but to Melchizedek, the mysterious non-Jewish «priest of the Most High God» (Heb.

Pinnock's flexible use of the word «inerrancy» causes him to criticize certain evangelicals like Lindsell for an «overbelief about the Bible» which seeks to protect it from its own humanity.42 It compels him to criticize the position of irenic inerrantists like Daniel Fuller, who, according to Pinnock, operate in their judgment of Scripture's infallibility according to an a priori standard derived inductively from doctrinal verses (2 Tim.

We all too easily forget that the Scriptures derive from and can only be understood properly in the light of the Apostolic Faith.

Some scripture scholars say you can derive a doctrine of independent evil from the Bible, evil that somehow God can't quite handle, the Great Negation.

Although scripture derives its authority from God, in a sense it is the community that regards a text as authoritative that bestows authority upon it.

Our methodology in crafting «The Gift of Salvation» was to study the Bible together and to formulate a statement on salvation derived from and based upon the evidence of Holy Scripture alone.

In the case of Christian thinkers, to be sure, these implications have usually been obscured by the presence in their thought of another quite different understanding of reality which derives from Holy Scripture.

The Scripture does talk about happiness, but it is a happiness derived from obeying God and serving others, even when such things result in personal pain, suffering, and even death.

But that denial can not be reconciled with the declaration that the Church «does not derive her certainty about revealed truths from the Holy Scriptures alone.»

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

But he clearly doesn't mean by this that the concept of omnipotence he attributes to God is derived solely from biblical statements, for he immediately adds that «unfortunately, Scripture contains no explicit statement concerning God's omnipotence, nor does it discuss the issue in any philosophical way.»

In this way, the council avoids any narrow biblicism that would tend to derive all important truths for our lives from the pages of Scripture alone.

Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that of an intense spiritual nature with a keen imagination and a desperately sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering of the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures; (c).

The LDS Church derives these doctrines from its expanded canon of «scripture» that includes alleged modern revelations given to Joseph Smith, who claimed to be the Prophet through whom God restored true Christianity to the earth.»

The Christian movement must state the doctrines it now needs whether or not these can be derived directly from the Bible, Nevertheless, in a movement which looks back to the records of its origins for inspiration, it is important to show the connection of current teaching to the Scriptures.

They are true to say because they derive from God's revelation communicated in scripture.

You'll find that if you study many of the practices we Catholics are criticized for by non-Catholic Christians, most of those things are spelled out right there in Scripture or derived from the earliest recorded Christian traditions... be careful though, because an honest, accurate, historical study of Catholicism by non-Catholic Christians often leads to conversion that's how I ended up Catholic.

Scripture's internal unity or harmony, rather, derives from its central purpose in divine revelation of telling us about Jesus Christ.»

Most are common to the Abrahamic faiths and derive in fact from the Jewish scriptures.

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Writers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher devise a number of clever ways to extend the joke of Wedding Crashers beyond the mere hit - and - run pleasures their characters derive, from having John and Jeremy bet on quoted scripture and ceremonial music (Johan Pachelbel's Canon in D, Richard Wagner's Wedding March Processional, etc.) to having them bound together by a leave - no - crasher - behind credo with all sorts of other rider attachments that eventually leads to a cameo by fellow Frat Pack member Ferrell as Chazz, the sort of mystical patriarch of this culture of uninvited party - hopping.

Scripture can be read, interpreted, and ultimately used as a base from which to derive answers.