Sentences with phrase «forbidden by scripture»
The references to eunuchs in Isa 56:3 - 5 and Acts 8:27 - 39 refer to persons who were physically castrated against their will, not to persons who willingly removed their marks of masculinity, much less actively engaged in sexual relations forbidden by Scripture.
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We know that certain relationships (incestuous ones) were forbidden by scripture.
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People who murder their own children in order to enable their promiscuous lifestyle are not being led to do that by the Holy Spirit, regardless if what they are doing is not explicitly forbidden in the Scriptures.
It is forbidden for a Muslim to invoke Him by a name or an adjective that is not mentioned in His Scripture or by His Apostle.
Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.
Martin Luther had similar thoughts: «Nor can a Christian believer be forced beyond sacred Scriptures,... unless some new and proved revelation should be added; for we are forbidden by divine law to believe except what is proved either through the divine Scriptures or through Manifest revelation.»
In Genesis 3, the woman usurped authority over her husband and took the lead in the Fall, and is now forbidden to do so in the local church by teaching Scriptures to men.
The texts flowed, The Persons related by Consanguinity and Affinity who are Forbidden to marry by Scripture (1522), The Estate of Marriage (1522), An Exhortation to the Knights of the Teutonic Order that they lay aside False Chastity and assume True Wedlock (1523), That Parents should neither compel nor hinder the Marriage of their Children and That Children should not become engaged without their Parents» Consent (1524).