Sentences with phrase «judge over scripture»

It seems that ultimately, what this does is set humans up as judge over Scripture to determine what is «true» and what is «error.»

Not exact matches

Humility requires submitting ourselves to scripture, rather than setting ourselves as judges over it.

If I say that I am right, and everyone who agrees with me is going to heaven, and everyone who disagrees with me is going to hell, I have just placed my interpretation of Scripture above Scripture itself, and placed myself in the role of God as the judge over all humanity.

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.