However, the instructions 1 Timothy 2:8 — «I want men EVERYWHERE to pray, lifting up holy
hands without anger or disputing» (emphasis mine) is taken as a sort of suggestion that need not be directly enforced in the modern church.
Just as I've never heard a sermon against Cretans, I've also never heard a sermon on 1 Timothy 2:8, in which Paul tells Timothy, «I want men everywhere to pray, lifting holy
hands without anger or disputing» that included a universal dictum that all men everywhere must raise their hands whenever they pray.
8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy
hands without anger or disputing.
Not exact matches
But when my questions evolved into the kind
without easy answers, Dad refused to respond with empty platitudes or weak apologetics, and instead simply took my
hand, walked with me through all the pain and
anger and fear that accompanies religious doubt, and said, «I don't know, Rachel.
Whether she's staring the camera out, battling against fierce winds for a silent movie - ish set - piece, or jumping on an enemy's car in a rare show of
anger, Vega brooks no doubt in her immersion, nor in her ability to sell every mood - swing
without forcing her
hand.