Sentences with phrase «like reading of scripture»

As for the «novel» - like reading of scripture, I'd add that the issue of genre is important.

Not exact matches

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

I posted those Scriptures for you, because I believe if you read them, not shuning away, like the time you said that someone gave you the «Gospel of John», and you «couldn't read it», because it said Jesus Christ is God's Son.

Bind, the «discovery» was back in 2007... But I do like your selective reading and need to take one story, wed it to a single verse, and declare the inerrancy of scripture.

Read it especially if you wonder how feminism can be reconciled with the Bible, or if you suspect that those of us who call ourselves Christian Feminists are just picking and choosing the bits of Scripture that we like best.

Or the times when I go through the motions — caring for the poor, showing hospitality, fellowshipping with believers, praying, reading Scripture, trying to live like Jesus — to find that there is redemption in the motions themselves, that taking a step of faith does not necessarily require a desire to move.

The fact is, most of the defenses of American slavery were written by clergy who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.

Mostly because as a Christian I own not one, but three different types of bibles, its not like I cant look up what those scriptures say and read the context in which is set, but also because that isnt the way that God meant his word to be used.

If you read the studies of the likes of Crossan and Ludemann, you will see that their methods are based on authoritative educations and due diligence to the scriptures.

I'm not a theologian, but would like to direct you all to Exodus 3: 14 - 15 and Luke 11:2, unless you are reading a different Bible than me, I don't see Harold, Tao, Brahma or Allah in either of these scriptures.

And since the Bible is God's story, concerned primarily with who God is, we will find that over time, as we read, live, and breathe in the story of Scripture, we will become ever more like God as revealed in Jesus Christ.

The next thing to say is that, as the believer, theologian, and preacher that I am, I read Scripture in the way followed before me by Chrysostom (regularly), Augustine (fitfully), and all Western professional exegetes since Colet, Luther, and Calvin that is, I approach the books as human documents produced by people of like passions with myself.

I have a way of reading Scripture that allows everything to look like Jesus.

I have thought about this way of reading Scripture for a few years now, and while I like that it upholds the accuracy and truthfulness of Scripture, I just can not accept it as a right way to read Scripture.

Christians of all ages and churches have encountered in their reading of Scriptures socially appointed, institutionally recognized priests, prophets and apostles, but also extraordinary, «natural» or «charismatic» leaders — non-Levitical priests, prophets without human appointment and apostles chosen like Paul.

Most of us know what it's like to read a section of scripture and find ourselves thinking, I wish that bit wasn't there.

We been given in the Whole heavenly scriptures including Quran stories that when are read or recited they are supposed to inspire us from it's wisdom of the old, reading those stories is like feeding our senses for knowing which becomes to be known as man's common senses.

Clark Pinnock, in a perceptive paper entitled «The Inerrancy Debate Among the Evangelicals,» warns that men like Francis Schaeffer and Harold Lindsell «tend to confuse the high view of Scripture with their own interpretation of it, so that unless one agrees with their reading of the text he may be described as an unsound evangelical or no evangelical at all.

I found Christ in everything in the Church, so it is very odd that the woman at the beginning of the article did not hear about Jesus??! At Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the Apostles.

T they would read a passage from Scripture, just like Jesus did, but then, instead of explain it, they would just start quoting other teachers.

Greek is a valuable tool for reading and studying Scripture, and as I write books and Bible Commentaries, I would like to be able to maintain my knowledge of Greek (I would like to maintain my Hebrew also, but that's another story).

Sometimes people accuse me of cherry - picking verses from the Bible, but other times people say that we just have to accept what the Old Testament says about God, even if we don't like it (Again, I believe I am doing this, but I just have a way of reading Scripture that differs from the way the proponents of a violent God read Scripture).

thank you for pointing out, what reading the scriptures from the viewpoint of the cross could look like.

If our reading, studying, and teaching of Scripture is not leading us to look, act, and love more like Jesus, then we are not properly understanding or reading the Scriptures and should probably just put them away for a while until we learn to love others more like Jesus.

Ironically, there are complementarian churches that forbid women from reading Scripture aloud in church, even Scripture like Miriam's song, Deborah's song, the reflections of the Shulamite girl in Song of Songs, the Prayer of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1 - 10, and, of course, the Magnificat — all of which reflect the thoughts and ideas of women.

Jesus, like other first - century Jews, read his Bible creatively, seeking deeper meaning that transcended the boundaries of the words of Scripture.

The list of biblical personages who fasted reads like a «Who's Who» of scriptures: Moses the lawgiver, David the king, Elijah the prophet, Esther the queen, Daniel the seer, Anna the prophetess, Paul the apostle, Jesus Christ the incarnate Son.

Suffice for now is to say this: it is my opinion that 1) Scripture is clear that God's wrath and holiness demanded a sin payment, 2) as I read your articles you seem to be trying to use every logical, illustrative, and theological trick to convince yourself it's not true, but it's like you're losing the argument with yourself, 3) I really enjoyed that you broadened the truth of salvation through Jesus past justification (which many fundamentals focus on) to include redemption, sanctification, covenant marriage, adoption, etc..

It appears that He, like many other Rabbis of His day, began His teaching by reading a text of Scripture, and would then explain the Scripture while taking questions and objections from others who were present.

It is like the story of a monk who was reading Scripture, when all of a sudden, he slammed the book shut, walked briskly out of the monastery with the Bible under his arm and took it to the nearest bookseller, where he sold it.

Prayer, Scripture reading, and the like became the ways I drew near to Jesus rather than the grace - filled resources to help me awaken to and appreciate what was already true of me IN Christ.

None of this sounds like any God we read about in Scripture.