Sentences with phrase «examples from scripture»

Christians today should be speaking to these practical issues as examples from Scripture.

I will really only be able to present a framework and then give some examples from Scripture.

Actually in Chapter 17 of the book of John, Jesus is praying to His Father and repeatedly acknowledges that the two of them are One, and are in each other — example from the scripture:» «I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Not exact matches

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

That is one example of how we have move forward from the scripture.

This reflection is enriched by readings from scripture (for example, 3 John; Luke 10:38 - 42; 15:1 - 32) and theological writers such as Henri Nouwen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

Scripture gives several examples of how He escaped physical threat from angry mobs.

People who are certain that the King James Bible is the only true Bible, for example, are kept from a growing knowledge of scripture.

This is recorded as the very words of Jesus and is a great example of how even those of you who believe you form your opinion on scripture are still very much operating from your own understanding.

Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the element of indirectness, of being one step removed from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms

I am not a politician, nor am I an economist, so I certainly don't have all the answers, but I wonder if there is anything the church and our national welfare system could learn from the example in Scripture and how God wanted the Israelites to provide for those with needs in their country.

For example --- when I have asked Calvinists to interpret the majority of the Scripture, that reeks with the implication «that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject what is being communicated to them from God» from their «no inherent ability of man to accept / believe or reject» perspective, the usual answer I get is along this line is: «Yes, God communicates with man in a style that implies that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject what is being communicated to them from Him, but God knows that man does not have that inherent ability.»

We could even go before the time of Christ and go back, for example, to Nehemiah 8, and see that when Ezra wants to teach the people the Word of God, he gathers the people, and then he and several other Levites took turns reading from Scripture and explaining what it meant.

Furthermore, there is a good balance of pertinent examples from Sacred Scripture, the Church Fathers, and magisterial documents.

I've listed this several times, but apparently Atheists seem to want the clouds to open up for them for proof of God's existence, but prophecy fulfillment is excellent proof for the divine authorship of Scripture... I could talk about prophecies regarding Israel's captivity to Babylon, Cyrus called out by name hundreds of years before his birth as the one that will rescue Israel from Babylon, the destruction of Babylon foretold, the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple foretold, the destruction of Tyre and specifically how it was to be done, how the city of Petra would be destroyed... These are just a few verifyable examples...

Such examples as these from the New Testament demonstrate the appropriateness of «creative transformation» as a norm in «process hermeneutics» guiding the uses of Scripture in process theology.

The Donatists had insisted that a cleric guilty of grave ecclesiological sin - for example, of having surrendered the Scriptures to Roman officials during the Diocletian persecution - severed himself from the Church and therefore could no longer be a source of sanctity for her.

Dawkins cites it as a particular example of why we can't draw our morality from scripture.

Citing multiple examples from Genesis to Revelation, Enns shows how the many writers of Scripture used stories, poems, letters, and accounts written in their own voice, with their own assumptions and agendas, to tell the story of God, which, in various and complex ways ultimately bears witness to Jesus Christ.

They each begin with a quote from Scripture which sets the theme of the station, the Sign of the Cross, the Our Father, a contemplation, a short prayer taken, for example, from the Divine Office or a sequence from the Mass, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be.

But there is a big difference between learning from the truths and examples that are recorded in Scripture, and thinking that the Bible was written to us today, so that we must follow it exactly.

Their life would be morally discrete from the life of other men, and there is no saying, in the absence of positive experience of an authentic kind — for there are few active examples in our scriptures, and the Buddhistic examples are legendary, --(As where the future Buddha, incarnated as a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar — having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with him.)

It is equally easy and false to take a docetic view of revelation: to suppose that the content of the scriptures, for example, is, just simply, the thoughts of God, the human writers contributing no more than a pen for God to write them down with; or to imagine that a person or a group of people or an institution can, as it were, throw a switch from time to time and become a transmitter of revelation from an external divine source: a group of bishops, for instance, when assembled in council, or a pope when defining a dogma ex cathedra.

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.

There is no better example of this than the one being in Scripture who desired to live life as he wanted, liberated from all divine control, free to pursue his own happiness as he defined it.

In the midst of such division, pastors must heed Paul's advice to Timothy: remain steady in the grounding of the holy scripture breathed from God; stand firm in the examples and teachings of those who have gone before, returning to one's foundation; create the time necessary for study and prayer.

Examples include assessing the merits of secular teaching against Scripture together and rejecting false teaching from your lives, being okay to tell your spouse to stop thinking and acting a certain way that is contrary to God's decrees, and saying «no» to seeking approval just from your spouse alone rather than giving honor to the Lord in all things.