When Muhammad received revelation, it sounds more like demon possession than anything I see
in the biblical scriptures, in fact, Muhammad was suicidal, and thought he was demon possessed, but His wife convinced him otherwise.
«Do not be afraid» is stated
in the Biblical Scriptures 365 times, one for each day of the year.
Not exact matches
If you hold to the
biblical teachings
in scripture, you will indeed hold to this teaching as well.
Arvn Huac, free will
scriptures are
in the Bible except
in Biblical times the two words were joined.
The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from
biblical teaching, but they never used
Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied
in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.
Patrick was immersed
in the language and thought of
Scripture, and Moore provides alongside the text the
biblical references, as well as unobtrusive footnotes explaining historical obscurities.
Who would be more «qualified» to read
scripture than a
biblical scholar like John Dominic Crossan, a major player
in the Jesus Seminar?
The convictionâ $» endemic among churchfolkâ $» persists that, if problems of misapprehension and misrepresentation are overcome and the gospel can be heard
in its own integrity, the gospel will be found attractive by people, become popular, and, even, be a success of some sortâ $ ¦ This idea is both curious and ironical because it is bluntly contradicted
in Scripture and
in the experience of the continuing
biblical witness
in history from the event of Pentecost unto the present momentâ $ (William Stringfellow, quoted
in A Keeper of the Word, p. 348).
In addition to those 225
Biblical manuscripts there was recovered three Apocryphal
Scriptures: «Tobit», «Ben Sira» (also known as «Sirach» or «Ecclesiasticus»), and «Baruch 6 ′ (also known as «Letter of Jeremiah»).
The idea embodied
in this
scripture is why Mormons don't accept the exra -
Biblical creeds and some of the mainstream orthodoxy of today.
There is a sense
in which the intention of early
biblical criticism was an effort to restore a «
biblical theology»
in which the
Scriptures were freed from their dogmatic imprisonment.
Its presence there, however mistakenly justified, serves as a continuing corrective particularly to ascetic Christian tendencies, and to an otherworldly view of
Scripture and
biblical faith
in general.
Even patriarchy's deepest plots have not wholly» silenced women
in the
biblical tradition, nor does our knowledge of these infamous «proceedings» have to cancel other values of
Scripture for us.
Nevertheless,
biblical prosperity (far more accurate term than «prosperity gospel») is with merit and present
in the
Scripture.
@Chad «pretty clear when you look at all 3 issues and the
scripture associated with them, which ones are solidly grounded
in biblical theology and which ones are distortions.
That is prudent thinking being that they too had that fight for their civil rights where Whites cited
Biblical Scriptures also to prevent them from obtaining their rights but
in the end they Got Them!
What
Biblical basis do you have to refute the plainly worded verses contained
in Scripture that homosexuality is a sin?
5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to
biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans
in Acts 17, who «examined the
Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus
in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.
It's refreshing to read through Bessey's spiritual and theological narrative peppered with thoughtful and insightful reflections on interpreting Paul's
biblical stance on women, and a beautiful litany of women
in scripture and world history whom God has equipped and used to further God's purposes
in the world.
In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.&raqu
In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of
biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity
biblical texts,» resulting
in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.&raqu
in a «threat to
Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity
Biblical authority as the clarity of
Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»
Other projects include an exploration of motherhood
in messianic genealogies
in «Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation
in Ruth»
in Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest:
Biblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fo
Biblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew
Scriptures»
in the African diasporic
biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fo
biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fortress).
And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for
in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of
Scripture, while honoring the best
in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.
So Grudem claims that any selectivity whatsoever represents an arbitrary «pick - and - choose» approach to
Scripture and a threat to
biblical authority, and that those who support functional gender equality
in the home and church are simply bending the «plain meaning of
Scripture.»
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I chose this particular book because I think it provides the most accessible and personal introduction to the
biblical and historical arguments
in support of same - sex relationships, and because Matthew is a theologically conservative Christian who affirms the authority of
Scripture and who is also gay.
I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the
biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations
in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness»
in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.
This accounts for the ecclesiastical opposition to Charles Darwin's work on evolution and to the arguments of critical
Biblical scholars, which implied that not all statements
in scripture were factually correct.
Similarly, when it comes to
biblical interpretation within evangelicalism, I've experienced a sort of «flattening - out» of
Scripture in which the words of David carry the same weight as the words of Paul, which carry the same weight as the words of Christ.
Secondly, selective use of other
scriptures is
in tune with the Christian principle of selective use of
Biblical texts.
From the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the
biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted
in increased availability of
Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and change.
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.»
«
In particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raqu
In particular, those who saw
in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raqu
in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident
in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raqu
in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss
biblical truths.»
The very arrangement of the
biblical books
in the Hebrew canon of scripture presupposes this definition of prophetism.1 Between the first division of the Law and the third division of the Writings, the central category of the Prophets embraces not only the books of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi (all together termed «Latter Prophets») but also the historical writings of Joshua, Judges, and the books of Samuel and Kings («Former Prophets») In this way the Hebrew Bible formally and appropriately acknowledges that prophetism is more than the prophet and his work, that it is also a way of looking at, understanding, and interpreting histor
in the Hebrew canon of
scripture presupposes this definition of prophetism.1 Between the first division of the Law and the third division of the Writings, the central category of the Prophets embraces not only the books of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi (all together termed «Latter Prophets») but also the historical writings of Joshua, Judges, and the books of Samuel and Kings («Former Prophets»)
In this way the Hebrew Bible formally and appropriately acknowledges that prophetism is more than the prophet and his work, that it is also a way of looking at, understanding, and interpreting histor
In this way the Hebrew Bible formally and appropriately acknowledges that prophetism is more than the prophet and his work, that it is also a way of looking at, understanding, and interpreting history.
Of course, process theology can not fulfil this responsibility without interpreting
Scripture, and the separation of process theology
in recent decades from the close involvement
in Biblical scholarship of the earlier Chicago school has led to critical weaknesses which are only now being addressed.1 Nevertheless, for process theology the appropriate relationship to the Bible can not be exhausted by hermeneutic.
Three: If process hermeneutics is important to process theology
in order to make clear its rootage
in Scripture, is process hermeneutics able to provide any guidance to what is normative
in Biblical texts?
For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary
in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract
in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other
biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have
Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»
Scripture is the primary source and guideline «as the constitutive witness to
biblical wellsprings of our faith,» but tradition, experience and reason also function as sources and guidelines, and
in practice «theological reflection may find its point of departure»
in any of them.
A reading of
scripture refreshed by appropriate scholarship: «
Biblical scholarship is a great gift of God to the church, aiding it
in its task of going ever deeper into the meaning of
scripture and so being refreshed and energized for the tasks to which we are called
in and for the world,» says Wright.
As a result of
biblical research we now realize that the
Scriptures speak of God's eternity
in terms of time, not timelessness.
Choosing as his subject the
biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the
Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (
in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.
I am going to DEMAND that you specify WHICH
scripture I have perverted even though I have provided ZERO scriptural claims to back up my claims of
biblical support for my view
in the first place.
Calvinists believe that their understanding of the
biblical text is the only proper understanding, and if people disagree, it is because they don't want to submit to God's revelation of Himself
in Scripture.
Another staggering mishandling of
Scripture occurs when Piper claims that the household codes of the New Testament, wherein the
biblical writers urge wives to submit to their husbands and husbands to love their wives, are unique to the Bible and that «there's nothing like it
in any culture
in the world.»
I have faithfully tried to present an objective, factual picture of unfolding
Biblical thought, but it will doubtless be evident that the central ideas of
Scripture,
in whatever changing categories they may be phrased, seem to me the hope of man's individual and social life.
'» (90) The prevailing attitude, he shows, is heavily influenced by the Platonic concept of an evil material world and a perfect immaterial soul, as well as a misunderstanding of
Scripture in which heaven, (as a kind of final resting place for the soul), is emphasized over the clear
biblical picture of a new heaven and new earth for which believers will be physically resurrected.
It is clear then why the question of
biblical authority is so important to evangelicals: belief
in the infallibility of the
Scriptures is the pillar which supports our theology - without it the edifice would surely crumble.
Having studied
biblical theology
in graduate school (part of the time under a conservative Rabbi) and currently studying theology at the Pontificia Universita Gregorian
in Rome as a seminarian, I regard Meir Soloveichik's
biblical theology as unrepresentative of what the Hebrew
Scriptures teach.
Though there are numerous avenues that one might take
in seeking to provide a non-Calvinistic perspective on
Scripture, the route I have chosen is to emphasize the
biblical teaching on «faith alone» and contrast it with what is often taught
in Calvinism.
Upon re-examining the
biblical narratives
in the light of these insights I find new ways of interpreting them which involve no immoral
Scripture - twisting.
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.
Salem Kirban was a
biblical - prophecy guru who flourished
in the 1970s — think of a minor - league Hal Lindsey — who produced a Bible
in which every passage of
Scripture relating to the end times was highlighted, magnified, commented on, and surrounded by illustrations.