Sentences with phrase «many biblical texts»

You're just refusing to answer my questions again and this time about Biblical texts — and you're a pastor!

Especially as pastors, it's easy to individually lose sight of our relationship with God b / c everyday at work, we're looking at biblical texts or looking at some lesson, or talking with someone else about God.

There are over 30 extra biblical texts that reference Jesus including entire volumes trying to dispute Jesus claims to divinity.

Wood assumes that Christianity somehow produced every racist writer who cited a Christian doctrine or biblical text.

They proof - text Biblical texts sans - context and then just put a «Christian - left» rather than a «Christian - right» spin on.

I feel like the author spends more time doing theology based upon his feelings than he does based upon the Biblical text.

It has about as much to do with the Biblical texts as Humpty Dumpty.

The second principle is that biblical texts are theologically conditioned.

It finds a ready home in the biblical text that curiously» even in its most archaic past» chose not to consign all the righteous to the underworld.

There is a proper way to understand the Biblical text, and the rules for doing so are really no different from reading and comprehending any written doc.ument.

Almost all the stories surrounding Jesus (if he did exist, some scholars say their is no proof of a historical Jesus) were borrowed from earlier myths and used word for word... as well as the rampant literary corruption and forgeries of Biblical Texts... It is also impossible for God to exist in the Christian version or form they created.

The doctrines that I espouse are those supported by the Biblical text.

They turned from the authority of the church as interpreter of Scripture to the biblical texts themselves.

While the report acknowledges that no single «Christian'tax policy can be pieced together from biblical texts, the report argues that some clear directions do emerge, some of which may be controversial.

It was never originally written in Latin, only translated... the first translation by St. Jerome — the Vulgate which was a translation of a group of biblical texts known as the Vetus Latina.

This is not at all a fair or even representation of the Biblical text TGM, and I don't think emotive put downs of this sort do much to advance constructive debate on the subject!

Scientists may ultimately tell us how and when everything happened in ways not articulated in the biblical text, but science will never be able to tell us why.

Gary, Sabio seems to have missed the point that when your interpretation of the biblical text conflicts with the institutional Church's official interpretation, you go with your conscience rather than the sheeple of God majority.

How come testimony and doc - umentation is valid in our court systems today but not when we apply it to the biblical text?

In this work he commented one by one on all his writings, giving details about the date and circumstances of the work, noting places where he had changed his mind, pointing out passages where he got things wrong, for example where he had cited a biblical text from memory and not gotten it correct.

This new version is, in my view, much stronger, appealing both to Biblical texts and SBC precedents.

Is there a place for historical criticism in Islam, the kind of criticism Western scholars started applying to the biblical text in the l8thcentury?

The Protestant Reformation was not a reinterpretation of the Biblical texts, rather, it was a return to proper Biblical teaching after the Council of Nicea in 325 created the hellish religion of Roman Catholicism.

It is all so outdated for the human race... I don't understand why so many people need such strong faith in a biblical text to carry out their lives happily and productively.

If experience is more important than doctrine, and no doctrine is immune to revision» both of which are conclusions of Olson's postconservatives» how do we know that our fresh readings are not derived as much from our experience as from the biblical text?

His point seems to be that since any interpretation of the Bible must be communicated with words, the same interpretative problems that pertain to the biblical text must inevitably reappear at the level of the magisterial utterances.

The fact that the pope, or a council, can address contemporary situations and issues directly, and tell us how the biblical teachings apply to them, is another reason why we can expect the utterances of the contemporary magisterium to resolve disagreements more effectively than the biblical texts themselves.

And all of these others have also based their views on careful exegesis of the biblical text, in its grammatical, cultural, historical contexts.

Sameth has based his arguments on his left - of - center sex ideology, and not at all on a credible historical reading of the biblical text in context.

That said, I am no scholar of history or biblical texts.

No rational person makes decisions based on such distorted logic in any other area of life, and decisions regarding the textual veracity of the Biblical text should not be an exception to that rule.

The pastor's statement to the young woman is, unfortunately, indicative of a widespread ignorance of biblical texts dealing both directly and indirectly with the subject of suicide.

The biblical hermeneutic of Christian Zionism distorts biblical texts by reading them out of their canonical and historical context, making them seem more like such fictional works as the «Left Behind» series than the whole Word of God.

Does Piper's response not «reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts» and rely on a bit of «technical ingenuity»?

In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

Indeed, visions of Mary's virtue have been amplified though the centuries, far beyond what we find in the biblical text.

But talk about such biblical texts and about the end of the world is no longer the sole property of late - night radio preachers and shouting Bible - pounders.

It has been suggested that this anachronism in the biblical text is akin to importing semitrailers into the medieval period.

Womanist biblical interpretation enriches every person and every community's understanding of the biblical text.

The Lectionary loves to take biblical texts that share some things in common and then watch as worlds collide once differences come to light.

But if we can stop arguing about inerrancy, we can return instead to what has true value, which is actually discussing the biblical text itself.

This is certainly a problem for those who treat the biblical text as sacred, regard the biblical heroes as models, and suppose that everything said about God is true.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

That is why we can all read the same biblical text and reach opposite conclusions.

Theology in the Reformation tradition has explored other alternatives, as in the «Andover theory» which views biblical texts such as 2 Peter 3:19 «20 and 4:6 and Christ's descent to the dead referenced in the Apostles» Creed as warranting belief in the Hound of Heaven pursuing the last and the least.

Without sources other than the biblical texts themselves, there are no absolutely certain criteria for establishing historicity.

It is not an interactive discussion of a biblical text for the instruction and edification of other believers.

But this is to misread the biblical texts in order to make them serve other than their intended purposes.

Both Lincoln and King knew how to invoke prophetic biblical texts and ancient moral injunctions and join them to calls to action.

American virtuosos like Lincoln and King knew how to invoke prophetic biblical texts and ancient moral injunctions and join them to calls to action.