Sentences with phrase «doctrine over scripture»

I would not fault a person for believing there is more to the human condition than biology while having the ability to see the inherent corruption and hypocrisy present in organized religion in it's adherence to doctrine over scripture and political motivations.

Not exact matches

The Doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture was actually an idea that was carried over from Judaism, with some slight modifications.

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

Over the years, as I have tried to discern where this mentality comes from, I always end up at the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture.

One line of Scripture repeated over and over does not make it a sound doctrine.

These churches lack full communion with the Catholic Church because they do not accept the doctrine of the papal primacy, which, according to the Catholic reading of the scriptures, the successor of Peter objectively has and exercises over the whole church.

Over the next several posts, I want to explain the history of the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture, the passages that are used to defend it, and provide a slightly modified and nuanced approach to the process by which I think God might have superintended the writing of Scripture.

I tend to think that it's not women entering leadership roles that has caused the decline of the church but rather tradition and doctrine over ruling the search truth in the scriptures.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness» 2 Timothy 3:16 KJV It is indisputable that God prohibited all women from teaching — «I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man».

This is no different than some young people going to college and leaving their brains at the door and swallowing evolutionary theory and purposely rejecting the obvious of what creation clearly shows except this is leaving your brain at the door of theology school and accepting man's opinion over what is clearly stated in the holy scriptures, and then teaching others false doctrine.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.