Sentences with phrase «how certain passages»

With all these areas, as you point out, it all depends on how certain passages are undestood.

Not exact matches

Funny how conservatives use the Bible (certain passages) to suit their needs, yet ignore other parts of it (hmm, like caring for the poor?).

I can not tell you how many times I have thought I have rightly understood the Bible, only to learn a year or so later that I was hopelessly confused about a certain text or passage.

It is practically certain that Paul wrote four letters to the Corinthians; first a letter on sexual immorality, lost to us except that a fragment may be preserved in II Corinthians 6:1 - 7:1 where the train of thought is interrupted by this passage (Read II Cor.6 and 7 without this passage and note how much more smoothly it fits together.)

Some understandings of the Old Testament, the book of Revelation and certain other passages notwithstanding, how can we possibly think God created us so that we would destroy each other, that we would degrade or enslave each other?

We could go into the question of how certain words, phrases, sentences and passages have been chosen to conform to particular ideas and how other parts have either been rejected or explained away, most famously the injunction against calling any man on Earth «father».

Jeremy Myers How do you deal with passages that state God commanded OT sacrifices and the killing of certain groups of Canaanites?

There is no point in seeking some deeper meaning behind such statements, since we know how they arose from a literalistic reading of certain passages of scripture.

Very simple document using bible passages to show how certain bible teachings can be used to welcome and accept the LGBTQ community

Coming into high school a few years ago, I could not have anticipated how valuable skills like marking up important parts of the text or re-reading certain passages...

The reporting follows the passage of HB318 during the most recent legislative session, which requires school districts and charter schools to report on and create plans for how certain funds are being used to reduce class size.

This data, ranging from the obvious things like titles purchased to the more obscure data on how long consumers read certain passages, how much time was spent interacting with different sections of books, and how much of a book was finished, can be used for very real world information gathering.