Sentences with phrase «know about scripture»

It motivates me to dig deeper into what I know about scripture and to try to understand Ms. Knust's POV, and to let it challenge me to widen my perspective of the issue.

You may know about Scripture, but you don't live it, your words give you away.

As a Baptist minister, the older I get... the more I study Scripture... the less I know about Scripture and about God... and the more I teach the simple basics: Man is a sinner in need of a Saviour and guide for both this life and the next, «Come.»

Not exact matches

I sugest you reread scriptures and listen to those Christ left in authoriy, because you certainly don't know what you are talking about!

I think Christians, in general, don't know jack squat about the gay lifestyle / community nor do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier by Trey.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

Even my literalist friends will say about different scriptures «Oh, well, we know not to take that literally».

So whenever people quote NT scripture to argue that women are «less than» I have to shake my head because surely they know nothing about scripture.

I do think that maintaining the normativity of Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with Scripture is within the context of worship.

But, now that the Kingdom is here you have all you need in the Holy Ghost to show you anything you want to know about what the scripture means.

For instance, you might know your scripture verses and be able to recite a creed or know the facts about doctrinal theology.

There is a scripture in the new testament that says «God is the same yesterday, today, and forever» Mormons do nt spread lies about other churchs they say is you want to know if the church is true the only person you should ask is God himself and he will answer that question for you...

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

That scripture is talking about RAPE and has NOTHING to do with the loving saved respectful relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

It seemed to me that they had not read any of the books I had read, or even knew anything about the way of reading Scripture which I had adopted.

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.

The few occasions I know about include the people asking my pastor what his interpretation of the Scriptures are.

I use it just about everyday to record prayers, scripture, and other spiritual thoughts so I KNOW it will be an awesome tool for Christians.

No, when I think about God being redeemed, I am referring specifically to how we humans have tried to use Scripture, theology, and tradition to tie God down into a box.

I knew that it had to have something to do with Scripture and theology, since that is what I enjoy writing about.

Many of us knew that the Scriptures had a lot to say about the Creation, but we began to realize that some of the key things were central texts of evangelical Christianity.»

But I also knew that knowing Scripture, and knowing theology, and knowing about grace is not really the point of it all.

So glad you know so much about Scripture, though.

As to what the Scriptures have to say about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love, as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Father.

Accordingly, on this night, after the usual period of questions and answers, Nathaniel took Jesus away from the others and asked: «Master, could you trust me to know the truth about the Scriptures?

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

I can be so judgmental about other people and such a know - it - all when it comes to Scripture.

I didn't know what I believed about any of it — God, the Church, the local church, scripture, any of it.

The only group I've seen get the same level of invective leveled at atheists online are witches and other Pagans, but that seems to only happen when there aren't any atheists milling about and the Pagans have repeatedly proven to a) know Christian theology and scripture better and b) remain calm, rational and compassionate yet resolute in their rejection of that theology.

A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or life, I will not speak.»»

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

Just as the Romans never knew which face of Janus was going to show up at any one time, this is how many people feel about God when they adopt a chronological approach to the revelation of God in Scripture.

She added that the fact Christians believe God loves them no matter what they look like should be told to non-believers also: «Now, some of the people at the conference would not identity as Christians and yet I still want to say that the reason I'm doing this is because I know from scripture, I know God really cares about you.

you on the other hand know nothing about scripture so you should probably just shut your mouth.

I think I know a little bit about how to read Scripture «in context.»

I can't yet share what I think about these texts, but one thing I know for sure: We will never understand these troubling texts of Scripture, and we will never understand God, and we will never understand ourselves, unless and until we begin with the realization that Jesus does not drown babies.

kermit4jc And maybe the guys who wrote the Jewish scriptures realized that the people knew about mythical god creatures too, and invented YHWH out of whole cloth.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

Also, scripture never says anything about the end of the world, just the end of the world as we know it.

If one lets the no - inherent - free - will interpretation of the less than 0.5 % of the Scriptures set the precedence on what the word of God says about man's free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises Scriptures set the precedence on what the word of God says about man's free will, then a person is forced to do some absurd reasoning / interpretation of the majority of scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises scriptures that imply that man has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts.

What we know about God is what is revealed in Nature, hence «Natural Revelation,» and Scripture, hence «Special Revelation.»

Those who study the bible know what those scriptures are about and you obviously do nt have a clue.

King, who calls himself «politically homeless,» says that while both parties talk about faith and invoke Scripture, he and other young evangelicals he knows sense an undercurrent of political gamesmanship in all the religious talk.

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

You don't know what that person is feeling about God in that moment, and imposing your beliefs, even if it's just quoting scripture, can cause anger, confusion and long - term spiritual baggage.

Nonbelievers need to quote scriptures to show believers how little they know about the Bible or else choose to ignore.

About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.

However, and I may get someone to scream about this, but I believe that child abusers put themselves in a very dangerous position with Jesus ---- You know the scripture, «It would be better to have a millstone tied around your neck....»

If you want to know about how to interpret scripture read the bible.

And yes, as noted above, I know Jesus made claims about the Jewish Scriptures.