Sentences with phrase «first biblical reference»

Here is the first biblical reference to what we recognize as a Sabbath.

Not exact matches

f The more original Biblical reference to retaliation was from the mythical character Jesus (invented by Constantine at the first council at Nicaea in 325, and modeled after his own «prophet» the Sun God, Mithra, and named Jesus Christos to combine the Celtic God Hesus and the Indian God Krishna, whose Latin name was Christos, into one God) who said «turn your other cheek» (when struck in the face).

* In the first place, while the language of religion is metaphorical, this blanket statement needs to be broken down so that we see that certain distinctive forms of speech are appropriate to certain distinctive kinds of biblical reference.

It was in 1933, the beginning of the Nazi era in Germany, that there appeared, also in Germany, the first volume of one of the most influential biblical reference works of the 20th century, the multivolume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhard Kittel.

As Gutiérez himself affirms, these emphases have been present from the first; a rereading of A Theology of Liberation will not only uncover a section titled «A Spirituality of Liberation,» but another 400 biblical references with which to wrestle.

Since the biblical authors tend to make reference to the ending, if I were going to steal Wright's metaphor, I'd prefer to characterize it as «living in the fourth act,» where you've read the first three acts and the fifth, and you have to continue where the third act leaves off, mindful that what you do must fit in with the ending specified in the fifth act.

Reference was made to Tradition, especially to the Decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909 which laid down that a special creation (peculiaris creatio) of the first man was to be held to be the literal historical sense intended by the second chapter of Genesis.

We could not have picked a «better» church to visit on our first Sunday, as the pastor was speaking that week — scratch that; he was shouting — about «biblical» gender roles, referencing stay - at - home dads as «abnormal» and it being against God's will for a wife to have a larger income than her husband.

In fact, say biblical experts, these terms and concepts were already familiar to residents of the Roman Empire who knew them as references to the authority and divinity of the emperors, beginning notably with Caesar Augustus before the dawn of the first century.