Over the next several posts, I will summarize what I was taught in Bible college and Seminary about this doctrine, and then, just as
we did with inspiration, we will look at some of «the hard questions» about inerrancy which are often avoided or ignored in most Bible Colleges, Seminaries, and churches.
If you've got some ideas for styling it differently, I'd love to hear - I could
do with some inspiration!
To me the difference between role model and authority is that to me authority is linked with acting and obeying out of fear while a role model has
do with inspiration and working towards something that feels good.
-LSB-...] What should
you do with your inspiration photos?
Not exact matches
The roundup consists of stories
with advice, what not to
do, controversial issues, success stories, confessions, predictions,
inspiration and how to make money:
I'm very inspired by Apple and if you look at our business model — we didn't steal Apple's — we definitely have a lot of
inspiration with our «HQ Online,» which is our software that you can download and [where you can upload] your stats, and that connects to our online portal.
And she has a new book, Clay Water Brick: Finding
Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who
Do the Most
with the Least.
The
inspiration for LanguageLine Solutions came
with a 911 phone call more than 30 years ago when police officer Jeff Munks responded to a call from a man who didn't speak English.
When Jessica Jackley, founder of the micro-loan business Kiva and author of Clay Water Brick: Finding
Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who
Do The Most
With The Least, was asked to leave the TED conference due to the event organizer's no children policy, she
did the natural thing: Jackley took her complaint to Twitter:
When I find myself in an unproductive phase creatively, I look to others for the
inspiration, more specifically talking
with or reading about other creative minds and what they
do to find
inspiration.
Being a woman CEO doesn't automatically make a venture an interesting investment opportunity, but there are a lot of reasons and
inspiration for investing
with a gender lens.
In a recent interview for Knowledge@Wharton the co-founder of microlending site Kiva talked about her new book Clay Water Brick: Finding
Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who
Do the Most
with the Least and shared stories from the early days of her paradigm - shifting startup.
These shared experiences have brought me confidence,
inspiration that it can be
done, along
with a road map of the bumps and pot holes to avoid or, if not avoided, advice on how not to get derailed.
Finally, even
with the right mindset and digital tools, creative ideas for entrepreneurs still don't usually occur spontaneously, or come in a flash of
inspiration.
-LSB-...] CEO doesn't automatically make a venture an interesting investment opportunity, but there are a lot of reasons and
inspiration for investing
with a gender lens.
With the right link bait
inspiration, you'll be able to create good content (such as a nice list post), but - unlike some seem to think - this doesn't guarantee incoming links yet.
With the right link bait
inspiration, you'll be able to create good content (such as a nice list post), but - unlike some seem to think - this doesn't -LSB-...]
The talent, creativeness and
inspiration of our professional team combined
with a can -
do business ethos and vision is the foundation of our continued success, which has gained us a superb reputation in the office fit out, design and refurbishment sector and an enviable client portfolio.
Inspiration finally struck and I realized that what I truly wanted was to help others answer the questions I was struggling
with: who am I, what
do I really want, and how
do I get it?
In part two Jason talks
with Parker Conrad about the
inspiration behind Zenefits (hint: Parker's pain in
doing all the HR as Cofounder in his last company), and how the company is absolutely crushing it.
I also believe in God, and I respect the Bible as a work of
inspiration, and a source of
inspiration, but I don't believe it is necessarily historical, and I certainly don't believe its creation stories should be taken literally, since the various stories conflict
with each other.
The simplest and most obvious reason we don't see in the world's religions that is that all of them are just made up out of people's imaginations
with no
inspiration or guidance from any god because there were no such gods to inspire them.
Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine
inspiration, God
did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them
with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»
These were mass murders performed
with atheism as a central part of their ideological
inspiration, they were not mass murders
done by people who simply happened to be atheist.»
Of course our doctrine of
inspiration does not grow out of our experience
with the Bible, but from the teaching of Scripture itself But that truth
does not become actual apart from a real interaction between the text and my experience.
So... when the Holy Spirit gave
inspiration to the Apostle Paul in Roman 1:26 - 28 to write; «For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature (Lesbianism): and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men
with me working that which is unseemly (Homosexuality), and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Moving on, I've quite enjoyed what I've read of your thoughts (and His) on the «holy doctrine of the
Inspiration of Scripture» — I don't know who I'm quoting, just someone
with an air of pious church authority tone!
Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and
do as Personal Interests
with out any commitment verbal or written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade
with the Fate, Faith and destiny of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets of
Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.
So I would urge that in the labor which a Christian undertakes as part of discipleship, what is required as a motivation and
inspiration is worship: while genuine worship is itself something
done,
with as much of self as the man or woman engaging in it can manage to bring to this exercise of creaturely dependence and humble obedience.
I don't have a problem
with that, but I think to be consistent, you will have to give up inerrancy and
inspiration as traditionally defined.
While I
do not want to prejudge you
with your recent «revelations» as to what you believe describes the «two men in a bed» or «two women at the mill grinding,» I think before anyone interprets this as Jesus not judging one because of their sexual orientation, but obviously of their faith in what Jesus
did for them on the Cross, we also need to look at what the Apostle Paul wrote under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
if it's god's word, or was written
with divine
inspiration, how
do you know?
This going theory
does fit Occam's Razor quite nicely and in all honesty lines up
with how we treat other books of the Bible — we take note of the writer, their context, etc. and see
inspiration coming through that lens.
This album
does an incredible job at mixing»80s and»90s
inspiration with a new hip - hop and soul sound.
God
does not want to be «figured out» but wants to be in relationship
with us so his (or, if you will, her) love, wisdom,
inspiration, health, energy and very life can be part of us, flow through us and give us love, life, wisdom,
inspiration and energy to share
with others.
I think there are ways to argue that Paul thought that maybe he was writing inspired Scripture, BUT, I don't know if he would have agreed
with some of the modern definitions of «
inspiration = inerrancy.»
I'm honestly confused, what
does a picture of Hitchens smiling have anything to
do with him being an
inspiration or not?
If God in the past has performed miracles, called prophets, spoke face to face
with His servants, and directed His church through revelation and divine
inspiration, why can not Christians accept that He can
do it today?
You don't hear from, communicate
with, receive guidance from, gain
inspiration from, or commune
with God in those settings?
In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an
inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify
with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)
Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian
inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he
does not come in conflict
with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course
does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.
The Doctrine of the
Inspiration of Scripture
did not begin
with Christianity.
I am not sure how the use of the bible as a personal source of
inspiration has anything to
do with progressive - ness.
The fact that the Christian passion for humanity may resemble other forms of humanism which appear to owe nothing to specific Christian origin or
inspiration, and that humanists outside the Christian tradition can make a common commitment
with Christians to enlarge and enhance the human and humane,
does not mean that these individuals» differing sources of humanism are to be treated deprecatingly or indifferently; Christians will see in those sources evidence of the radical freedom and the unpredictable activity of the Logos, to which the Fourth Gospel first gave witness.
To those who have this fear: Once you realize that love, forgiveness, awe, reflection,
inspiration, deep friends, full happiness and all that stuff doesn't disappear
with the particular god you think you have, this fear of atheism will look silly — but only in retrospect.
She has been my
inspiration for soooo long and finally get to meet her tomorrow and
do a yoga class
with her!
On the whole, most pages are designed to create positive places of
inspiration, share ideas and create communities around similar interests, which is exactly what I try to
do with Deliciously Ella.
I love Christmas cake and pudding but my other half doesn't and seeing as it's just us two on Christmas day I've been looking for
inspiration to make something we'll both enjoy and I can get my Christmas pud fix on Christmas eve
with family!
Then I decided to start
with a simple bread and take my next
inspiration from there... This time, I
did good.
Taking my cue from their tips including let the season be your guide and don't overlook the the sophistication of an all green - and - white presentation,
With this
inspiration, I'm sharing a lite snow white dip accompanied by winter crudité.