Sentences with phrase «made from scripture»

I haven't seen a good basis for this made from scripture.

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He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

Most fundamentalists Christians, from my experience, will ignore the conflict / contradiction, decide that it doesn't exist, or try to find some way to make the scripture win.

There follows from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state of cosmological physics or by....

trying to rewrite the scriptures to make yourself feel good abot sin will not save you from the fires of sheol.

If you are monotheist and not Polytheist, not Idolater, make or worship partners with God... Guess you in the right Abrahamic track the True Base of Submission within all holy scriptures... (God + HolySpirit + Apostle = The scriptures of the Holy Messages all through Generations from old).

In «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.»

The Qur «an never asks a Christian or Jew to accept it because their own scripture has become corrupt, rather they are asked to accept the Qur «an because the Qur «an claims, 1 / to confirm the teaching of the Bible, 2 / that Muhammad is foretold in the Torah and Gospel, 3 / the Qur «anic teaching makes clear what the Jews and Christians could not understand properly from their own scriptures.

There's no reason to assume that Jesus» ability to recall this story from his Jewish scriptures makes him God any more than Adam Sandler's ability to do the same thing.

Take the next giant leap, put the Holy Spirit Word of God, Sacred Scripture, down, get up and ask to walk with the Lord from the get - go, that is the beginning and allow Him to make you His own as only He can...

The scriptures say man was made from the dust of the earth.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

However, I also want to bring the Gospel of Luke to life, not just with insights and information from the cultural background of the Bible, but also by showing how Scripture makes a difference in your life.

2:101 ---- And [mention, O Muhammad], when Allah took a covenant from those who were given the Scripture, [saying], «You must make it clear to the people and not conceal it.»

Yes, there's a ready - made audience that loves the book, but will they tolerate a script that strays from Scripture?

«From this history of the Bible in early American history,» Noll writes in his concluding chapter, «the moral judgment that makes the most sense to me rests on a difference between Scripture for oneself and Scripture for others.»

When Noll speaks of Equiano's «immersion» in Scripture, he is not using that metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade of scriptural quotations and allusions.»

Rich with vulnerable stories from Ann's life, this life - changing devotional makes space for you to breathe, sit with Scripture, and reflect in ways that lets you not only freshly see your own soul and your way to the abundant life.

Never one to shy away from the hard questions, Bessey engages critically with Scripture and church practices that are often used against full equality and shares how following Jesus made a feminist out of her.

Because Paul is part of God - breathed scripture, I will wrestle with what I can learn from his wish to be away from his body, at home with Christ, made new.

Scripture quotations are indented with wider margins, making it easier to tell them from the text.

When I first began to examine the doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture, it was because I saw so much Bible - abuse in our churches and from our pulpits, that is, people, pastors, and even seminary professors using the Bible in ways that made me extremely uncomfortable.

Many women have responded by listening, and with affirmation and encouragement, jus as Sian has done with saying she longs to be critiqued, does not want to have critique held back from her for her being a woman and was appropriate in affirming the critique of the «feminist» interpretation of scripture I made as described.

From that then comes, why I would call the art of making it all seem to be non-contradictory — the scripture is the scripture's interpreter.

Texts from well - loved portions of Scripture may be selected; one may find appropriate words in some other book; or one may make them up for himself.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

None of it was making any sense to them, John says, because no one who was there that morning understood the scripture, that Jesus must rise from the dead.

Anyone who makes the assertion that scripture is clear is speaking either from ignorance or desired outcome rather than evidence.

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

Now the director, who was raised culturally Jewish, has made a full - fledged biblical epic with Noah, a $ 125 million - budget film that puts an unorthodox spin on one of the most familiar stories from Scripture.

In other words, when theologians affirm faith in the transcendent God of the scripture, they are affirming faith in the God who has acted in human history to make human beings whole and redeem them from their sins.

The problem with those holding the traditional Free Grace position is not that they confuse the «who» with the «how» but that they arrive at their view from the Scripture rather than philosophy and man - made paradigms.

What makes common sense to me is that this is coming from the same volume of scripture that has within it revelations from the past present and future from the time in which the events that were written about took place.

(Wright offers some specific suggestions for preserving a liturgically - grounded reading of scripture — including warnings against dropping certain portions of scripture from liturgical readings because they are startling or strange, as well as warnings against making sermons the focus of corporate worship — that we don't have time to discuss in detail here.)

Is your response to this subject truly with a desire to free scripture and theology from the shackles of religion including the shackles of unscriptural Calvinism, or is your true allegiance to a theology of man's making, i.e. Calvinism?

That a congregation's defining practice of worship is a response «in Jesus» name» implies study of that to which it is a response: Just how is God understood to be «present» is Jesus» ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection appearances; what understanding of God follows from this; who is Jesus; what are the sources and the warrants of these characterizations of Jesus and of God (scripture, tradition, history of doctrine); what understanding of these sources makes them not only sources but also authoritative for these understandings of God and Jesus?

New light can arise from science and help us in our understanding, but nothing from that quarter need make us forsake the Scripture principle.

Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the element of indirectness, of being one step removed from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms

Augustine said: «Such is the depth of the Scriptures that if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would still daily be making progress in discovering their treasures.»

I will make one caveat, to the degree they sully the Gospel and prevent someone like you from coming to the Lord, they are guilty and Scripture holds that they will pay a price for that.

Secondarily, would be the matter of learning and receiving the instruction from scripture, not a man - made organization, as to the roles of the priesthood of believers in the church.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

Calvin, Institutes, I.vii.5: «Enlightened by him (the Spirit), no longer do we believe that Scripture is from God on the basis of either our judgment or that of others; but, in a way that surpasses human judgment, we are made absolutely certain, just as if we beheld there the majesty (numen) of God himself, that it has come to us by the ministry of men from God's very mouth....

Scripture does speak of a group coming out of the Great Tribulation; but whether some will be from those left behind, or not, was not made clear to me in this dream - vision.

The authors often cite scripture, but, as in this case, do not make their hermeneutic explicit, seeming to apply a very literalistic method without much benefit from biblical scholarship.

---- Al - Kahf 18: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Praise be to Allah Who hath revealed the Scripture unto His slave, and hath not placed therein any crookedness, (1)(But hath made it) straight, to give warning of stern punishment from Him, and to bring unto the believers who do good works the news that theirs will be a fair reward, (2) Wherein they will abide for ever; (3) And to warn those who say: Allah hath chosen a son, (4)(A thing) whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had) their fathers, Dreadful is the word that cometh out of their mouths.