Sentences with phrase «meaning of scripture in»

Calvin further labored to set forth the clear and genuine meaning of scripture in his biblical commentaries.

Not exact matches

Regarding scripture, to really know what it is saying, we need to realize that it is made up of several kinds of literature and that its meaning is reflected in those genres.

That is not to say we should not take the journey for ourselves; it simply means that there are maps drawn by those who have gone before — from the saints in Scripture to the Fathers of the Church.

TORAH TORAH TORAH > YHWH YHWH YHWH < HAROT HAROT HAROT you get the picture This CAN NOT be done by any man and still retain the meaning of scripture / or the text in which it is written.

We who are Evangelicals recognize the need to address the widespread misunderstanding in our community that sola scriptura (Scripture alone) means nuda scriptura (literally, Scripture unclothed; i.e., denuded of and abstracted from its churchly context).

The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.

I do think that maintaining the normativity of Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with Scripture is within the context of worship.

To all of you quoting scripture, your not supposed to read a sentence in the bible and look for meaning to understand it's meaning you need the context which is the entire bible.

CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the meaning and ends of war

You have all right to believe as you do as do I. And I do belief in the precepts of Scripture, you do not have too, and you have that right not to but it does nt mean that your veiw is right for you have a right to be wrong.

Forgetting the direction toward honesty, many Christians seem to believe that what Scripture means by «pure» and by «lovely» is merely the pleasant and the naive, the Hallmark Channel, not the reality of a world in need of redemption.

Since Latter - day Saints believe in continuing, modern revelation, that means that we follow what is in the canonized scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) AND whatever our current leaders teach.

For us that means everything outside of Scripture is at least in principle open to revision if fresh and faithful interpretation of Scripture demands it.

The term «salvation» and it cognates are notoriously slippery in Scripture, and can mean a wide variety of things.

It is, like all of Calvinism's doctrines, not explicitly taught anywhere in scripture, but extrapolated by taking a few verses or partial verses out of context and granting them a meaning never intended by the authors.

So if Vikings came and plundered my village, I would not hate all Vikings and the moment I see Vikings doing good in the name of Odin, then I would have to be mature and come to the understanding that Scripture and belief can mean something different to different people.

A study of the term in classical Greek and in the Scriptures reveals that the meaning is

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.»

So Grudem claims that any selectivity whatsoever represents an arbitrary «pick - and - choose» approach to Scripture and a threat to biblical authority, and that those who support functional gender equality in the home and church are simply bending the «plain meaning of Scripture.»

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

When you understand Scripture and theology as God meant it, you are freed to live life in relationship God, rather than under the control of religion.

Scripture functions in the worship of thousands of Protestant congregations only as a means of reinforcing what the preacher wants to say.

Second, I believe Scripture teaches that both men and women are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), which means both masculinity and femininity are - at some level - part of God's nature.

«When we take the phrase «the authority of Scripture» out of its suitcase,» Wright says, «then, we recognize that it can have Christian meaning only if we are referring to scripture's authority in a delegated or mediated sense from that which God himself possesses and that which Jesus possesses as the risen Lord and Son of God, the ImmanueScripture» out of its suitcase,» Wright says, «then, we recognize that it can have Christian meaning only if we are referring to scripture's authority in a delegated or mediated sense from that which God himself possesses and that which Jesus possesses as the risen Lord and Son of God, the Immanuescripture's authority in a delegated or mediated sense from that which God himself possesses and that which Jesus possesses as the risen Lord and Son of God, the Immanuel.»

That is, you're using the whole of Scripture and you have passages that are «proofs,» but you also have passages that are more about what it means to be made in the image of God and, also, a woman.

Yet the context of Christian worship in which a passage from another scripture is read may suggest a particular meaning or interpretation for the chosen passage.

Looking at the context of the church, I describe the ways in which the Bible is read there, legitimately, as scripture, full of existential meaning, and how that form of reading has its own rules.

But we assume that there are deeper, contingent meanings in scripture yet to be disclosed within the particular time and place of the seeker.»

But it is also a human word: the human beings who wrote it were also true authors.8 The scriptures therefore share to some extent in the nature of the incarnation: they use human things as the means for God to communicate with us humanly.

If «Scripture is to interpret Scripture» and all the other references to an «unquenchable fire» in the OT and NT are fiery judgments on the Nations / Peoples... either Israel or the Enemies of Israel... does that mean «the Lake of Fire» is to be interpreted likewise?

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»

With all due reservations, we can (with Karl Barth) be glad that the Song of Songs is in the Scripture not as a cryptogram of theological meaning, but as the love song of man and woman.

So when I am talking with someone, I will often take a little gospel of John, I prefer the ones called Living Water since they have little notes that remind me what verses are key, and what the verses mean, and in just a minute or two, can show a person from Scripture that to get eternal life, all they have to do is believe in Jesus for it.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiIn consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiin their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiin the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over hiin primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

Scripture was seen as imparting moral and spiritual lessons, and the presence of deeper meanings in the story was taken for granted.

It limits the divine nature of Scripture to some non-existent manuscripts, and restricts the accurate understanding of Scripture to a few scholarly elites who study Greek and Hebrew while shut away from the rest of the world, and then tell all of us who are out in the world, how wrong and ignorant we are about what the Bible really means.

A reading of scripture refreshed by appropriate scholarship: «Biblical scholarship is a great gift of God to the church, aiding it in its task of going ever deeper into the meaning of scripture and so being refreshed and energized for the tasks to which we are called in and for the world,» says Wright.

Mostly because as a Christian I own not one, but three different types of bibles, its not like I cant look up what those scriptures say and read the context in which is set, but also because that isnt the way that God meant his word to be used.

We are trying to grasp the meaning of love in the Christian faith in responsible relationship to the scripture, to the classical tradition, and to a contemporary scientific and rational understanding of our existence.46

Yet note that although the practice of obedience and righteousness is called for in Scripture, this in no way means that such practices result in eternal life.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

A contextual reading of scripture also means understanding and appreciating our own contexts and the way they predispose us to «highlight some things in the Bible and quietly ignore others,» Wright adds.

Although, when you mix in a religion that has scripture verses that says whole categories of people are going to hell coupled with the belief that these scripture verses come from God almighty, then you have the situation where some additional percentage of people (say y %) will also tend to be mean and nasty (who otherwise may not have been) because they think that is what God wants them to be.

«Salvation» is a term that means a myriad of things in Scripture, and statistically, less than 1 % of them refers to eternal life or justification.

It means appreciating the sense of activism and commitment evangelicalism taught me, and nurturing that hunger for Scripture instilled in me at a young age.

Honoring reason in the reading of scripture means «giving up merely arbitrary or whimsical readings of texts, and paying attention to lexical, historical considerations,» says Wright.

Honoring the authority of scripture means living in dialog with previous readings and respecting tradition, Wright says.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.