Sentences with phrase «gospel meaning of scripture»

Not exact matches

Certainly Equiano became an eloquent critic of slavery; nevertheless, for him, Noll writes, biblical religion meant «the nearly total application of Scripture to the liberating effect of the Christian gospel for the individual person.»

So when I am talking with someone, I will often take a little gospel of John, I prefer the ones called Living Water since they have little notes that remind me what verses are key, and what the verses mean, and in just a minute or two, can show a person from Scripture that to get eternal life, all they have to do is believe in Jesus for it.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

And fourthly, although Jesus is called the «word» in four places in scripture (John 1:1,14; 1 John 1:1; Revelation 19:13), there are literally hundreds of other places where «the word of God» or equivalent simply means «that which God has said» — normally referring to that which we now have in scripture, or the gospel, or both.

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

The gospel of the cross is indeed the hidden and not so hidden meaning of all the Scriptures, but this gospel can not be extracted from Scripture as something apart from or independent of its context.

The liberals seem to them to be subverting the gospel, while the liberals view the fundamentalists as retarding the advance of knowledge and obscuring a wealth of meaning in the Scriptures.

There were other issues too: The way the accounts of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to write a creative retelling of Resurrection Day because each of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.

Here's how I understand the meanings of those terms: Scripture: writing, usually pertaining to religion The Bible: anthology of specifically Christian - oriented religious scripture The Word of God: 1) words actually spoken or written by God 2) God's spirit, consciousness, creative will and / or «being» («Logos,» as used in the Gospel of John) God - inspired: 1) resulting from a consideration of God 2) resulting from a personal experiencScripture: writing, usually pertaining to religion The Bible: anthology of specifically Christian - oriented religious scripture The Word of God: 1) words actually spoken or written by God 2) God's spirit, consciousness, creative will and / or «being» («Logos,» as used in the Gospel of John) God - inspired: 1) resulting from a consideration of God 2) resulting from a personal experiencscripture The Word of God: 1) words actually spoken or written by God 2) God's spirit, consciousness, creative will and / or «being» («Logos,» as used in the Gospel of John) God - inspired: 1) resulting from a consideration of God 2) resulting from a personal experience of God.

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

The gospels of Thomas and Mary challenge us to reflect on what it means for a text to be scripture.

Its governing premise is a lurid funhouse mirror of the gospels: Everything we think we know about Mary through Scripture is wrong, which means that everything that we think we know and that we believe about Christ is also wrong.

«No one knew the full meaning of God's promise to Abraham that «in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed» (Gen 12:3) until Paul wrote, «And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, «All the nations shall be blessed in you»» (Gal 3:8).

«This does not mean trying to detect Christ in every piece of scripture or forcing every verse in the Bible to somehow be directly about the gospel,» Smith is quick to note.