Sentences with phrase «little biblical support»

The net out is that these four magic ever - after kingdoms have little biblical support.

Obviously, there are some solid doctrines to stand on, but I've seen the heresy label thrown at far too little things, especially with far too little Biblical support.

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I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

There is little doubt that there is much in the Biblical witness that supports this doctrine and that the expectation of such a final End to history has been foundational to much of Christian theology throughout the centuries.

It is ironic that the very carrot Christians yearn for (heaven) and the stick they use to get their children to follow their beliefs (hell) have little or no biblical support.