Sentences with phrase «many biblical passages»

I am a spiritually oriented person myself but I am sick to death of seeing religion dragged into politics, Biblical passages used like football cheers to encourage the destruction of the opposition, etc..

I spent a lot of time ostracized by fellow churchgoers because I dared question meanings and interpretations of biblical passages.

«Even without the biblical passage (1 Corinthians 11), I have so many reasons why this is right for me.

Take any dozen of these people and put them in separate rooms with a biblical passage to interpret for themselves and you'll get twelve different answers.

Reflecting on key biblical passages, the Pope began by wondering what it meant to Adam, walking in the garden, to discover that he was alone as an embodied self.

But actions have consequences, and if they are going to contribute to an organization that is actively working to get discriminatory legislation passed, they should expect the group being discriminated against — and anyone else that opposes discrimination, whether gilded in biblical passages or not — to respond accordingly.

I would constantly bring to the forefront that significantly small percentage of biblical passages (the majority within the framework of Levitical Law) that speak about slavery, selling of daughters, and God commanding the destruction of various tribes.

This biblical passage enshrines in law the retaliatory instinct of anyone whose close relative has been injured.

It was a fun scene that incorporated both humor and thrilling moments, but it was also easy to embrace the obvious visual cues that suggest what many biblical passages describe as a war of the spirit.

But as you mentioned with # 2 and # 4, there are biblical passages that offer support for loving, redemptive, discipline and for controlled anger against sin.

For every instance of having God «nailed down'there's a biblical passage which would seem to portray a contrary element in His character.

Many Bloomington gays are hoping Blair and other speakers invited to the Gay Awareness Conference will engage in dialogue with ministers and laypersons, both heterosexual and homosexual, in efforts to deal with biblical passages, theological viewpoints, worship, and ethical concerns.

This provocative view is expressed in many biblical passages where God is cited as the direct cause of evil (Ex.

I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.

The Christian needs to re-write the Bible and change the Biblical passage to make sure gay rights are included in the Bible.

This section will look at the surrounding context of Genesis 6 - 8, and subsequent sections will consider other biblical passages that deal with the flood.

In this post we look at the various biblical passages.

Of course, these biblical passages have in mind, in particular, the transmission of a religious tradition: the story of God's care for his people.

Clinton cited the Scripture Mark 6:30 - 44 - where Jesus instructs his disciples to organize their followers into groups and to feed them with five loaves of bread and two fish - as the central biblical passage of her speech.

Reading familiar biblical passages in their context is sometimes startling.

So today, if a teacher begins to argue from Scripture that Jesus was either not fully divine or fully human, we'll rehearse the biblical passages and the traditional interpretations of those passages that have stood the test of time.

Early on in my lectionary study and preaching I learned to take the assigned limits of the biblical passages as suggestive rather than prescriptive.

So I am always delighted when I come across a biblical passage like that in Isaiah 25:6 - 9 where the prophet says: «On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of fat things....

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

I have yet to meet anyone who claims to have been convinced that what the Bible says is true, or who claims to have been convinced about the correctness of a particular interpretation of any Biblical passage by someone who wanted to argue those points.

Our biblical passage suggests that such ambition is universal.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

Surely it is with this understanding of Jesus» call that we are to read such difficult biblical passages as Colossians 3:22, which bids slaves be obedient to their masters, as though they were obeying Christ himself.

There are biblical passages that seem to invite the hope that all will be saved.

So the virtues of humility and resignation are rejected as despicable, and every effort is made to show that they have nothing to do with Christianity — in spite of all the biblical passages to the contrary.

By leaving out this important information and by failing to seriously explore those biblical passages that, at least at first glance, don't seem to support his thesis, Bell has left his readers ill - equipped to deal with challenges from those who don't agree with these ideas.

Since the mere recitation of Biblical passages does not suffice, these professionals require guidance as to how to move from text to sermon.

The striking biblical passage that concludes the page devoted to St. Fidelis in The One - Year Book of Saints is Luke 22: 31 — 32: «Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have you, to sift you like wheat, but I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail.

He argues that same - sex relations were condemned primarily because they undermined patriarchal gender roles, meaning that Christians should acknowledge a significant cultural component to biblical passages about same - sex behavior.

He left us some great biblical passages to tell us how to enjoy it according to His plan (Proverbs, Song of Solomon, I Corinthians 7 anyone?).

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.

The Biblical passage, found in Rom.

Now it is true that certain Biblical passages were used to support this view, but this was largely because the doctrine was read into them, an easy temptation to fall into at any time.

My first question has to do with Altizer's interpretations of Biblical passages and of traditional Christian doctrines.

The longest biblical passage on male - male sex is Romans 1:26 - 27: «Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another.»

Biblical passages illustrate, with startling clarity in Job and the Psalms, that the earth's creatures owe their existence to God.

Might you be the same observer who was proved to be in total ignorance as to Biblical passages just a day ago?

The discovery at a shrine to Ba'al confirms that biblical passages about the triumph of Judaism over pagan worship are historically true.2 Kings 10:27...

On billboards quoting anti-homosexual biblical passage, New York Times, March 9, 2000.

@Alan, what YOU forgot to mention when posting that biblical passage was that it was taken from the OLD TESTAMENT.

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

He does so by abstracting principles out of the specific laws of Leviticus and then associating those abstractions with other biblical passages.

It is probable that during the exile, he wrote his treatise Ad Fortunatum, a collection of Biblical passages with commentary on martyrdom.

It also has a lot of people talking about the meaning of the biblical passage about submission that appears in the fifth chatper of Ephesians.

Biblical passages against ho.mose.xuality do not provide a compelling argument against gay marriage (for reasons I can not go into here).