Sentences with phrase «everything in scripture»

But not everything in scripture is meant to teach us a moral lesson, says Sinkinson.

I am convinced that everything in Scripture is meant to be there and to have value.

Everything in scripture has never been disproven, and only comes more and more to truth as time passes on.

Everything in the Scriptures is to be related to him.

We can not and need not reinterpret everything in the Scriptures to agree with Jesus, which is what would be required if we claimed the Christ as our principle of interpretation.

Islam was also built on Jewish and Christian teachings, but it was more of an attempt by Arabs to regain their heritage from Europeans, who had pretty much taken control of all of religious history, even though everything in the Scriptures had happened in Arab lands.

Not exact matches

The letter, as Brad Stone reports in The Everything Store, has «become the equivalent of holy scripture inside Amazon,» evidence that Amazon emerged almost fully formed in Bezos's imagination.

Here is another: Romans 15:4, «For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.»

You don't want to try to understand the scriptures, and if you did, then you would know how wrong you are But, its more fun to twist things in your mind, so you can co = meback with your old and worn out «fouls» on everything.

For us that means everything outside of Scripture is at least in principle open to revision if fresh and faithful interpretation of Scripture demands it.

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

I have always taught that until we know, believe, and obey everything God has told us in Scripture, we shouldn't expect to hear «more.»

I would have guessed that you «do not hold to the belief that everything in the bible is inspired,» which would then allow you to subject the scripture to some other standard, like reason, and dismiss those passages that didn't meet that standard.

As I said last week, this general guide for interpreting and applying the Bible makes sense to me.It's not about discounting the historical / grammatical method in favor of forcing a Jesus message into every last page, but simply looking at Scripture through the lens of the gospel of Jesus Christ just as Christians should look at everything through the lens of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

If you agree with a person's view of Scripture, and you agree with their rules of interpreting Scripture, you will also agree with them in almost everything relating to their theology.

I have argued that 2 Timothy 3:16 applies to «All Scripture,» not just the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, and that it has nothing to do with how Scripture was written, but has everything to do with how God speaks to us through Scripture to make it profitable, meaningful, and inspiring in our lives.

The Scriptures reflect some twelve centuries and more of deepening and enlarging spiritual experience and insight, in the written record of which nothing is without significance, and everything is illumined by its genetic relationships.

If you're going to hang your doctrinal hat on Enoch's experience alone, ignoring everything else in scripture you're going to wind up in error.

In class, we were taught to use books for exegetical papers, diagrammatical analysis, word studies, and everything else related to learning these languages and using them to study Scripture.

The other words that go down with greater credibility are words to live by for every duty / circumstance of life (perhaps not a direct quote from scripture but)... do EVERYTHING as if for the Lord... (not to be used in a stab of guilt for a believer), just acknowledging, if you would follow a god..

From there, Andy goes through other key passages and texts in Scripture, proving that grace is the foundation of everything God does and says.

The good news in Scripture is that God has done everything that needs doing as far as your eternal life is concerned.

It has been the tradition through history in Orthodox missions to translate the worship and Scriptures into the local language right away (as opposed to Western missions, which kept everything in Latin).

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

I found Christ in everything in the Church, so it is very odd that the woman at the beginning of the article did not hear about Jesus??! At Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the Apostles.

Everything you have cited above is supported by scripture found in the Old Testament with the exemption of women teaching men.

But recently, I have undertaken the practice of questioning absolutely everything the church does in light of Scripture and effectiveness.

He has a take on angels, Satan, and demons which I have never heard before, and which seems to fit the biblical text in a way that, if true, would cause me to read much of Scripture in a whole different way, and which would cause me to view life, and governments, and cities, and politics, and animals, and plants and pretty much everything in a whole new way also.

I am afraid that I have not thought everything through well enough, or that I have misunderstood some central truth in Scripture, or that I did not grasp the right theological proposition in the right way, or that I am wrong about how faith works, or that I am wrong about the consequences of results of faith, or... or... or... or...

And to the assembled disciples he says,» «These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you — that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled,» Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, «Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer»» (Luke 24:44 - 46).

[1] Just as they stripped down, so we too, are told in Scripture to not give the devil a foothold, or a handle in our lives (Ephesians 4:27), and to take off or throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles (Heb 12:1).

This same attitude is described by Paul to the Church of Rome of the function of the Scriptures: «For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.»

If you can get past that, this book will challenge everything you think you know about the violence in Scripture, the role of the church in the world, and how you view your enemies.

Raised a Protestant, despite all my thrashing and twisting I eventually couldn't help but believe that the apostolic succession, through Peter as the designated leader and primus inter pares, is in some logical or theological sense prior to everything else — including even Scripture, whose formation was guided and completed by the apostles and their successors, themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit.

As with everything Boyd writes, this book challenges your thinking and causes you to see certain Scriptures in a new light.

«For neo-scholasticism, everything found its place in the «system», but Ratzinger was instinctively aware that truth is more than any system of thought could encompass -LSB-...] His methodology is to take as his starting point contemporary developments in society and culture, then he listens to the solutions offered my his fellow theologians before returning to a critical examination of Scripture and Tradition for pointers to a solution.

The Bible begins and ends with the creative work of God, and everything in history and in Scripture reveals that God creates and re-creates.

so the Canon of scripture depicting the written word, which is in essence Jesus, must be AT LEAST perfectly Sufficient for everything we need, if not entirely Perfect.

Heb 7:2 And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace; Error # 2 - Abraham in this scripture gave a (specifically stated) 10th part of all (that is everything) he had.

As a result, we sometimes (I am speaking of me here) get so wrapped up in Scripture study, that we neglect the more important things in life, such as family, the poor and needy in our community, serving others in love, taking care of orphans and widows, and pretty much everything else that Jesus focused on in His ministry.

Not everything found in Scripture is found in Tradition, and everything in Tradition is not explicitly found in Scripture.

«And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself... He said to them, «This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.»»

«There is a great gulf fixed between those who want to prove the historicity of everything reported in the Bible in order to demonstrate that the Bible is «true after all, and those who, committed to living under the authority of scripture, remain open to what scripture itself actually teaches and emphasizes,» he says.

I firmly believe everything written about Him in the Scriptures.

«Scripture tells us that everything that exists does not exist by chance but is willed by God and part of his plan, at the centre of which is the invitation to partake, in Christ, in the divine life.»

When you embark upon this process, you'll notice that once you are able to discard everything you think you know about church, and begin the adventure of reimagining church (step 1), your life begins to spiral upward in some new and interesting ways (step 2), which then causes you to both seek more from Scripture (step 1) but also desire to run from risk and return to what is safe and known (step 3).

Every day they reminded us to forget everything we thought we knew about church and christianity, and think about how to present scripture without these biases, so that the church and christianity could find its own path in new cultures and peoples.

If you look back over church history you see that every new move of God (keep in mind I am not advocating that everything Bell says is from God) will invariably be persecuted by those who refuse to consider that their particular brand of Scripture needs a second, if not third look.

They argued that since Jesus was God, He knew everything, even from birth, and so didn't have to learn from His parents, from reading Scripture, or from anybody at the Temple in Jerusalem.

For, as with everything else in the Hebrew Scriptures, such thinking has an extra dimension, the omni - relevant fact of God.