Sentences with phrase «match with scripture»

Not exact matches

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

When my tradition doesn't match up with what I find in Scripture, I fear that I'm settling.

Teachers of biblical studies can match these examples of mangled scripture with our own private stashes of things discovered in exams and papers.

When a passage of Scripture does not match up with Jesus of the Gospels, Jesus trumps what we read in other passages.

But it doesn't match up with what is in that particular piece of scripture.

Most Relevant to Recent Conversations: Daniel Kirk with «On Trusting the Bible» «Ironically, the conservative rejection of Neo-Orthodoxy in the name of a «high» view of scripture, at least in the case of Barth, ends up as a rejection of the Bible we actually have in favor of a man - made construct that does not match up with it.»

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.