Sentences with phrase «farther than scripture»

And we need to look no farther than Scripture to know that God can use teenagers to lead people, whole nations even, at critical times in history.

Not exact matches

There may be further indication in Scripture than I am aware of, but this much I have gleaned.

Besides, Jesus discussed hell far more than he discussed heaven, and most Christian do believe it because the bible discusses it as a real place for real people on real pages in real scripture verses.

Nevertheless, biblical prosperity (far more accurate term than «prosperity gospel») is with merit and present in the Scripture.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

Scripture, then, offers us something far better than mere infallibility or inerrancy.

Far more interesting, to me, than scripture's historicity (or lack thereof) is the way we interact with scripture devotionally, and what our continued attachment to this story can teach us.

2) Archaeological Evidence for the trustworthiness of Scripture: We have by far more manuscript evidence of the Scriptures than for any other book of antiquity BY Ffar more manuscript evidence of the Scriptures than for any other book of antiquity BY FARFAR.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

However, if it wants to point to scripture in which God explicitly endorses the murder of children then one need look no further than the story of Passover, or my personal favorite exemplifying the pettiness of the lord, 2Kings 2:23 - 24.

Further, freethinkers often have a better knowledge of Christian scripture and apologetics than many believers.

We must further note that the phrase «on the third day» is qualified by the words «according to the scriptures», which thus specifically direct our attention back to the Old Testament, rather than to any apostolic tradition about an empty grave.

It may be far more important than that, for this text is meant not only to be beautiful, like a museum object, but to inspire a renewed love of scripture.

Here, perhaps due more than to any other single factor, to the doctrine set forth in their scriptures, of the «Gathering of the Saints,» they tended to draw together into a compact social body, building their own communities as they did at Kirtland, Ohio; in Jackson County, Missouri; at Far West, Missouri; at Nauvoo, Illinois; and finally in Utah.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

Preachers who choose to absent themselves from this discourse risk being genuinely sectarian: so out of touch as to miss an entire language in which their parishioners are far more conversant than with their own sacred scripture.

There is far more to be a good christain than quoting scripture.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

However, after less than a year of study of early Christian teachings about the Scriptures from the primary Church Fathers (far less than one to two hours a week of study) I can totally answer the whole issue of God commanding the death of the Caananites, etc..

The Gnostic gospels were indeed «scripture» far more so than the present form of the so called «Holy Bible».

«10 Bonhoeffer goes so far as to say that what happened to Israel is more important than what God intends for me today.11 The Scripture has prime importance for the church as well as for pastoral work.

Balthasar was far more concerned to base his theology upon Scripture and Tradition than was Rahner, and he was aware that the Gospels contain many passages where Our Lord himself implies not only that all may not necessarily be saved but that many won't be.

Hence it is no surprise to find in the Hebrew Scriptures far greater diversity of literature than in the Christian Scriptures.

But he took the opportunity to tell people the correct way to study theology, which was not so far from the advice he had given Spalatin in regard to reading Scripture more than twenty years before.

Rather than «bring down the church», technology is as you say a means to spread the good news to the farthest corner of the globe and into homes where previously the scriptures were banned.

«Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face» (Hillary Clinton)... «confronting climate change» is «a duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures» (John Kerry)... «Climate change is so much more consequential than ISIS ever was» (Leading Democrat consultant)... «we are not very far» from the point where climate change should be declared an international public health emergency» (UN's Christiana Figueres)...