Sentences with phrase «for biblical reasons»

That being said, if you are eating grains for biblical reasons, than care should be taken to harvest, sprout, and ferment the grains in a similar way.

And by the way, how come Brian McLaren and Doug Pagitt and others in their group didn't tell Tony Jones to step down from the ministry for Biblical reasons?

I believe if someone walks away from their marriage, (except for a biblical reason) Jesus would obviously NOT be in the center.

Not exact matches

«Even without the biblical passage (1 Corinthians 11), I have so many reasons why this is right for me.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

The LDS Church's reasons for baptising for the dead is pulled from the following biblical scripture.

In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting love for eternity — and for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator God of love whom he also loved you so much that if you were the only person living on the face of this earth and planet, still he would have come and died for you and the forgiveness of your since and loving you unconditional.

Over fifty years ago, G. Ernest Wright in The Biblical Archaeology (1955, p 46) said: «It may be noted that the new Carbon 14 method of dating ancient remains has not turned out to be as free from error as had been hoped... Certain runs have produced obviously wrong results, probably for a number od reasons.

By the rabbi's reasoning, half of the protagonists of the Hebrew Bible were presented by biblical authors as candidates for transgender surgery.

I can only guess that black people embrace the religion which seemed to dehumanize them for the same reasons millions of women continue to embrace Christ though their «Biblical submission» to their husbands has resulted in great emotional and physical abuse.

That's a complicated question for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the reality that Christians themselves disagree on exactly what constitutes «biblical principles about marriage»!

And so part of the reason for exploring everything from Leviticus 18, to Proverbs 31, to Song of Solomon, to the epistles of Peter and Paul, was to show just how much this phrase — «biblical womanhood» — really entails, and to not take the hermeneutical devices with which Christians are so familiar for granted.

The presence of biblical support was not the reason for the teaching.

I want a leader who despises science, reason, logic and non biblical education and knows it is a fact the universe is 6000 years old and the Egyptians had trained dinosaurs for pets.

In central Europe it sometimes seems that the deepest reason for preserving and developing the theological tradition in the university has been that a profession exists whose chief function is the proclamation of the Biblical message.

The date was placed in late March, near the vernal equinox, only in 525 AD, for symbolic reasons rather than because of any biblical evidence.

For this reason conservative Christians maintain that if we dispense with the concept of God as a supernatural being dwelling in heaven, we are rejecting the biblical witness.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

I suspect there is a name for the reason that Schwartz remains on the fence» for her near vision and her inability to bring herself quite to denounce biblical monotheism as the cause of violence and indulge the ressentiment her subtitle reasonably leads her readers to expect.

In the biblical documents, the prophetic motif clearly dominates the apocalyptic (which is one good reason for not buying into the current trend to elide the former into the latter), which means that hope characterizes the Christian stance toward life.

The reason for this may in part he here: individual Christians must be challenged to reflect on their commitment and to work from a biblical point of view.

As for the area of creation and science, has not reason compelled us to abandon the referential meaning of the biblical texts in Genesis and forced us to treat them in a theological and even mythological way?

Yet while no excuse can be offered for the biblical ethic at this point, at least the historical and social reasons for it can be understood.

When biblical texts are the only sufficient reason for holding ethical and political views, a dubious «divine voluntarism» results.

But they need to believe that «biblical mandates» are the reason for their conviction.

They choose, for whatever reason (spiritual experience, fear, apathy) to not waiver from their interpretation and understanding of biblical texts even in the face of reason and logic.

The ranks of the secularists and the evangelicals, both of whom ignore biblical scholarship for opposite reasons, are growing.

(Incidentally, this is one of the main reasons for America's support of Israel, since Israel's control of the «biblical lands» is a first step toward the «Rapture» and the end of the world which is so much desired by these Christians!)

For this reason, contrary to what most biblical theologians probably think, their work «requires an interest in theology and an empathy with it, but not a personal faith - commitment.»

Biblical passages against ho.mose.xuality do not provide a compelling argument against gay marriage (for reasons I can not go into here).

But whatever the reason, these two fundamentally different descriptions and justifications for one's non-work on the Sabbath found their way successively into the inspired biblical texts.

For this and other reasons the best Biblical preaching going on in the churches today undertakes to interpret the Word of God as a word spoken to Israel and the Church.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

However, even independently of their bearing on the Church's interpretation of Jesus» life, death, and resurrection, these texts have been held holy for the simple reason that they give authoritative expression to the central themes of promise and hope that constitute the core of biblical faith.

«Inerrancy» has been the issue among evangelicals for three reasons - one Biblical, one theological, and one sociological.

So for biblical, theological, and practical reasons, we conclude that faith is not automatic, nor is faith a gift from God.

I have recognized as one reason for the overall superiority of the theologians of continental Europe their ability to relate their theological reflections directly to their own fresh encounter with the biblical texts.

It is for this reason that biblical humanism, unlike philosophical humanism, can affirm human worth not merely independent of but in contradistinction to earthly status.

The lack of a Biblical foundation for many of the Catholic tenets is a more likely reason for the mass exodus.

Jackson points to the preciousness of the biblical words themselves as reason for such extravagance.

There are, of course, more profound biblical and theological reasons for a canonical approach.

For this reason Wilder's warning needs to be doubly heeded, for all the rich variety that the adoption of Biblical speech models would bring to the pulpFor this reason Wilder's warning needs to be doubly heeded, for all the rich variety that the adoption of Biblical speech models would bring to the pulpfor all the rich variety that the adoption of Biblical speech models would bring to the pulpit.

Theological and biblical studies are here considered together for two reasons.

A war that was fought for economic and political reasons was led by men and women whose words and deeds were almost biblical.

Although it would be possible to defend such a view, which may be implied by some of the essays in these volumes on Biblical interpretation from a process perspective, I prefer not to do so for two reasons.

Christian theology needs to have a special treatise on revelation if for no other reason than to emphasize the indispensable biblical doctrine of the prevenience of God's promissory vision for our lives and the world.

A few years ago, in a moment of lonely desperation, I googled something having to do with «Christians against biblical inerrancy» (for some reason you were on the first or second page of search results...) because I was trying to find out if there was anyone else who was thinking about the Scriptures in a different way from what I had encountered.

For this reason, the longing for a radically new future, especially in the Biblical narratives, seems to originate in the awareness of those who feel they have been excluded and that they do not really belong (the poor, the marginalizFor this reason, the longing for a radically new future, especially in the Biblical narratives, seems to originate in the awareness of those who feel they have been excluded and that they do not really belong (the poor, the marginalizfor a radically new future, especially in the Biblical narratives, seems to originate in the awareness of those who feel they have been excluded and that they do not really belong (the poor, the marginalized.

Nevertheless, the importance of Biblical and Christian tradition for Christian theology is relativized from a process perspective for several reasons.

Is there any underlying reason for this temporal limitation, this «antiquarian» character of the Biblical mythology?