Sentences with phrase «known through the scriptures»

Christian spirituality is based on the teaching of Jesus, as known through the Scriptures, and interpreted by the Christian tradition, generally through the authority of the churches.

Not exact matches

They usually are experienced and well - versed in scripture (surveys show they know the bible better than believers) but they have opened their eyes wide enough to see through it all.

We are the chosen because God speaks through out prophet, No, scripture says that God stopped doing that therefore we are the chosen because we know scripture better, the ONLY way God speaks.

But we've tested the spirits enough times to know that it is very often the case that God has, in fact, been speaking to us through Scripture.

They knew of this dealing through what we call the Old Testament scriptures and through the continuing Jewish traditions of their time.

Mary helps us to know her Son Praying the Rosary - a Journey through Scripture and Art by Denis McBride CSsR, Redemptorist Publications, 136pp, # 12.81

«mysticism» and instead embraces the doctrine of the Reformed tradition and its emphasis on knowing God through Scripture alone.

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

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.

Preachers must be aware of the diversity of persons in their congregation, yet try to speak so that the Spirit, through scripture, addresses many hearts in ways that will be fitting to each, as different as these hearers are known to be from one another.

He knows that Scripture receives its full meaning only through the preacher's actual interpretation, by which faith is awakened.

Indeed, he believes that when the Catholic Church formally responded to the teaching of the Reformation at the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s (known as the Counter-Reformation), it denied the most important truth that scripture gives us: that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Most Christians I know haven't even read the Bible all the way through, and I can out - quote them with their own scriptures.

But when it comes back, just try to remember what you KNOW to be true from Scripture, that Jesus loves you, forgives you, died for you, and will never let you go because you have eternal life through Him.

A true pastor - teacher is one who knows the primary way of feeding and caring for his flock is through faithful and systematic teaching of Scripture, while at the same time, the teaching of Scripture is not an end in itself which is solely an academic pursuit, but is for the purpose of loving and caring for other people.

[2 Timothy 3:15 - 17] ``... from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

And the Scriptures have that authority because through them we know Jesus who is our Lord.

As matters stand, we can best come to know this orientation through the study of the holy scriptures.

As I look back over my life, becoming a Christian is nothing compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Jesus on a day to day basis, sitting at His feet to learn from Him, and letting Him speak to me by His Spirit and through Scripture.

Timothy Drew, better known as Noble Drew, Ali, a Negro, Founder of The Moorish Science Temple of America, was the medium through whom a new Holy Koran was revealed to serve as the scripture for the group.

Moreover, he repeatedly affirms that the God of our world and us creatures today can not be known at all through any metaphysical proof and only partially through science, Scripture, religion, and personal experience.

@del mar, «You'll not find «man can not know God except as revealed through scripture» anywhere in scripture.»

If you do not know Christ (He is in scripture from Genesis through Revelation, if you cared to look), except for the usual few well - known and - worn quotes out of context, why are you writing about Him?

Knowing you are saved is a feeling that only a really close relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ can provide (through prayer, spending time in scripture, and fasting).

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

2 Timothy 3:15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

For Christians that word comes to us preeminently in Christ, as he is known through the canonical Scriptures and the teaching of the Church.

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love him..

The principles of the science of theology are given in the articles of the Creed and in Sacred Scripture and they are known by us through faith, not through philosophical reasoning: you can not, by unaided reason, conclude that the doctrine of the Trinity is true, for example.

Since that time, my theology has undergone some significant changes, and I no longer hold to most of what I say in this sermon, especially the parts near the end where I talk about childlike faith growing through the study of Scripture.

Too many Christians know of Jews only through the «Old Testament» and christological interpretations of the Hebrew Scriptures.

No, I think as I preach and teach through those scriptures as they come up, they will not want to be part of the local body because they will not like that teaching at all.

Its governing premise is a lurid funhouse mirror of the gospels: Everything we think we know about Mary through Scripture is wrong, which means that everything that we think we know and that we believe about Christ is also wrong.

Instead, let us humbly admit that we know nothing, and return to sitting at the feet of our Master while He reveals Himself to our spirits and through the pages of Scripture.

In the process of digging through the pages of Scripture for an understanding of how the death of Jesus saves the world from sin, I discovered a God I never knew existed, as well as some truths about Scripture, sin, and humanity that I never would have found in any other way.

So again, when we talk about discipleship and the unbeliever, we can see that no matter what a person believes or doesn't believe about God, Jesus, sin, Scripture, and a whole host of other Christian teachings, there is always room for us to talk with a person about what they believe (or don't believe) and hopefully bring them to a place that is somewhat closer to the truth revealed through Jesus Christ and in the Scriptures.

And when we see from Scripture that sin is not some sort of substance (either physical or spiritual) that needs to be «washed away» like dirt (I am not saying this is what Boyd believes... I don't know what he believes on this), but that sin is closely related to violence, it is then that we begin to see how Jesus defeated sin (and violence, and satan) through His life, crucifixion, and resurrection.

text in Scripture and want to know what it means, we too quickly turn to what others have written about this passage, thereby short - circuiting anything that God might have wanted to teach us through the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus may also know when it is God who speaks to him through scripture - and when it is the devil who is whispering to him in scriptural words.

The Mahayana scriptures have been preserved chiefly in the Sanskrit, although some Mahayana books, while possibly originally in Sanskrit, are known to us only through Tibetan or Chinese translations.

No matter what you're going through, there is a solution in the Scriptures.