Sentences with phrase «in biblical inspiration»

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The biblical word says the government shall rest on his shoulders, which means that the love, respect and kindness the bible breathes i life should always serve as inspiration for our laws, Which indeed it does in every major democracy.

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

Later, in the mid-1800s, a group of Protestant scholars based in Geneva developed the theory of «plenary verbal inspiration» declaring that every word of the biblical text (the Protestant Old Testament was translated from the Masoretic text) was the very word that God intended it to be.

On the question of biblical authority in Reformation theology much has been written but especial note should be taken on A. Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969); Kenneth Kantzer, «Calvin and the Holy Scripture,» in Inspiration and Interpretation, ed.

For example, in 1923 Mullins, the champion of «soul liberty,» outlined various basic Christian beliefs (e.g., biblical inspiration, the miracles of Christ, his vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, literal ascension, and final return) and declared before the SBC: «We believe that adherence to the above truths and facts is a necessary condition of service for teachers in our Baptist schools.»

The writings of Harold Lindsell, Francis Schaefer, Bernard Ramm, Carl Henry, Clark Pinnock, Dick France, James Packer and others present a range of contradictory theological formulations on such issues as the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and the Christian's response to homosexuality.

Evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they address — the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and most recently the Christian's response to homosexuality.

In conclusion, then, we may say that biblical inspiration is the effect of God's promise on individuals writing within the context of a community of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision of promise emanating from the Spirit of hope.

The heat generated by this topic is witness to the fact that we are, in Pinnock's words, «close to the heart of the conception of religious authority in our evangelical confession, which «limits the ground of religious authority to the Bible.3» There is a «deep relationship between origin and authority» that can not be ignored.4 Thus discussion concerning the implications of inspiration is of interest to all evangelicals who seek to be Biblical Christians.

In other words, though the Doctrine of Inspiration is logical, it does not seem to be biblical.

For the main story, we took inspiration from biblical epics like Ben - Hur and The Ten Commandments, not because Aloy is religious in any specific way, but because we realized that there were parallels between what we wanted to do and some of those epic heroes.

For the main story, we took inspiration from biblical epics like Ben - Hur and The Ten Commandments, not because Aloy is religious in any specific way, but because we realized that there were parallels between what we wanted to do and some of those epic heroes.

Smith draws inspiration from the history of decorative objects and the tradition of biblical storytelling through the form of stained glass in architecture.

Her abiding inspiration lies in the architecture and landscape of Italy, as well as London's buildings and the biblical Babel Tower.