Sentences with phrase «many scriptural references»

If you read the article a little closer you will see that the scriptural reference used comes from the Bible's New Testament, where Paul having a discussion regarding the resurrection, asks why would followers of Christ at his time perform baptisms for dead if there were to be no resurrection.

I think that more research is in order really understand the scriptural reference.

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See Crossan's complete list of scriptural references at http://www.faithfutures.org/Jesus/Crossan1.rtf

Those tomatoes and eggs could just as well be scriptural references.

There are several scriptural references that impute God had provided commands, decrees and instructions pre-Moses.

Following the Lord's instruction in Matthew 6:6 — «When you pray, go into your room, close the door... Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you» — Clara reveals she has created her own private «war room» — a transformed closet, with prayers and scriptural references posted all over the walls — where she has spent many hours, invoking the name of Jesus and asking for His guidance and support.

If the candidates where to respond to these questions with scriptural references, they could point out a few flaws in the questioning while stating their beliefs and thereby come away looking better than before.

A note on the Scriptural references: Because this paper deals with our understanding of Scripture and challenges the traditionally held position and doctrines, I have made an effort to give biblical references where appropriate.

The remarkably few Scriptural references to «homosexuality» deal rather with homosexual acts, not with homosexual orientation.

The only scriptural reference to spiritalis / πυευμaτίκος is however in 1 Corinthians 10:3 where Paul refers to «spiritual food».

Just as metaphors about shepherds and mustard seeds require some mental agility in a post-agrarian society, Scriptural references to «the least among us» and «feeding the hungry» fail to resonate when we live in suburban cocoons.

I was reading the thread here, and happened to notice as the other posters began to dismantle your arguments with their strongly supported assertions, you, as most often «believers» tend to do, began to get less and less specific, and... began to skate past their points, while bringing in more and more «fluffy» scriptural references.

Because they took for granted that all scriptural references to Jesus were true, they had to come up with one doctrine of his nature that was in harmony with all these different passages.

In a rather exhaustive eighty - page subject index for the Institutes, one finds Calvin writing about divine love only in four paragraphs.52 In four columns of citations concerning «Christ,» only a single one involves love, God's loving act in Christ.53 And at no point in his extensive scriptural references did Calvin even deal at all with 1 John 4:8, 16.

Like the early Christians, they use Scriptural references to help others discern what the Bible really teaches.

For a better understanding of the above scriptural references we invite you to read the articles «Can Christianity or Any Other Religion Save You?»

Your scriptural references are just that, references, not reasons.

Thanks for the scriptural reference.

[RM] Do you think the lingering of pessimistic attitudes toward mental health can be linked to a lack of (or an ignorance about) scriptural reference to the subject?

She has taken many Scriptural references out of context, and does not seem to understand the Biblical narrative as a whole.

For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.

Scriptural references to these sexual practices, both before and after Leviticus, show God's displeasure with them whether or not any ceremony or idolatry is involved.Response # 2: Despite the UFMCC's contention that the word for abomination (toevah) is usually associated with idolatry, it in fact appears in Proverbs 6:16 - 19 in connection with sins having nothing to do with idolatry or pagan ceremony: There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable [an abomination or toevah] to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.Idolatry plays no part in these scriptures; clearly, then, toevah is not limited to idolatrous practices.Response # 3: If the practices in Leviticus 18 and 20 are condemned only because of their association with idolatry, then it logically follows they would be permissible if they were committed apart from idolatry.

Mark has no such scriptural reference; myrrhed wine» was given as a humane measure to dull the pain of one crucified.

It contrasts the reformed view with the arminian view point by point and demonstrates through Scriptural reference why each is supported or not.

Not exact matches

Later, William Tyndale (c.1492 - 1536), because he translated the Bible from Greek into English («in order to combat corruption in the English church and extend Scriptural knowledge to the common people», Microsoft Reference Library 2005), was subject to being hunted down and was finally caught.

He spoke of consecration and hallowing, of a new birth of freedom and of a nation under God, but all without explicit reference to Divine agency or scriptural text.

For example, he rightly points out that Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was said» instead of his usual expression, «have you not read» or «as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.

Summarizing Lewis, (and referencing Scriptural passages such as 1 Corinthians 4:5, 2 Corinthians 10:18, Romans 2:29, John 5:44, and 1 Peter 1:7), Wesley writes that «pondering this future glory... has implications for how we think about our lives now.

In the West, Romans 7:2 is scarcely a well - known scriptural text, certainly not a reference that enthusiastic evangelists wave on placards at sports stadiums.

For instance, with reference to the issue broached above of the certainty of scriptural assertions — their character as «privileged information» — that certainty is derived from the ultimacy of the One who is their presumed origin.

Maybe you could clarify: by «historically» are you taking about the practice of the religion in a perticular time period, or are you references scriptural accounts directly?

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middle Ages.

Even the Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous edict made no reference to any theological point, not least because his Shiite creed gives no credence to the story of scriptural interpolation upon which Rushdie's offending book was based.