Sentences with phrase «message of scripture»

A group of Christians with a particular social, political, and economic perspective, no matter how learned or earnest they are, can never listen to the entire message of Scripture with the same degree of freshness, or find in it the same level of challenge, as a more diverse group.

How sad the message of Scripture necessary for eternal life called «the gospel» has been abandoned by GES advocates and replaced with «the saving proposition».

The overall message of that scripture is that we are to obey the laws of the land, that is, unless they tell Christians to denounce God (Acts 2).

When today's pastors and scholars see the Bible through the ancient supernatural worldview of the original writers, the message of Scripture is unfiltered and comes into focus.

This does not mean that it is the preacher's responsibility to hand down a more or less authoritative interpretation for them, but as pastor - preacher he will lead them into the experience of hearing the message of Scripture for their situations.

The fact that many of the greatest Christian theologians appear to agree with this evaluation» Aquinas, for example, argues that «the object of anger is good» (Summa Theologiae, 2.1.46.2)» has led some to conclude that they were insufficiently attuned to the obvious and contrary message of Scripture.

Both are so ignorant of God and the true message of scripture.

The history of the interpretation of this passage displays how prejudice and homophobia have distorted the message of Scripture.

But as psychologist and author Dan Allender explains, «The problem with the «focus on God alone» trope is that it is not the primary message of Scripture... It is not that we are to focus on God and thus achieve mental health, it is that God enters the fray of mental complexity and makes His home not only among us but in us.»

I can only repeat that the clear message of scripture is that we are to be vigilant and indeed already preparing for the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Few children's book writers manage to capture the message of Scripture as beautifully as Matthew.

Ben Hur's themes parallel messages of Scripture, while the setting itself parallels the actual Gospels.

Not exact matches

If you are monotheist and not Polytheist, not Idolater, make or worship partners with God... Guess you in the right Abrahamic track the True Base of Submission within all holy scriptures... (God + HolySpirit + Apostle = The scriptures of the Holy Messages all through Generations from old).

As Jacobs wrote several years ago in an essay titled «Christianity and the Future of the Book» for The New Atlantis, «There is an intimate connection between the Christian message, the Christian scriptures, and the codex.»

«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and life as when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures.»

This photo and message put to mind the many preachers I have seen who hold their huge, cross-reference, page - tabbed Bibles out in front of them and wave it around, claiming this scripture says this and that scripture says that, either taking things too literally or teaching incorrectly due to mistranslations.

Understanding scripture is not a matter of properly defining a few difficult, multi-syllabic words, as Calvinism insists, but seeing the simple message told in the heart - wrenching stories.

I think my message would echo that of Pascal: read scripture, pray, go to church, become involved with this world of faith and with people who believe, and see if things don't click into place.

A lot of people don't really have a solid grasp of scripture or complete understanding of the message it is trying to teach.

You might need to stop reading your approved - translation - of - the - Bible and only find Scripture in The Message.

Calvin, for whom Job is a vehicle for communicating the transcendence and inscrutability of God, cites some of Eliphaz's utterances as if they were Job's, assuming, as did other Jewish and Christian writers, that all Scripture delivers the same message, irrespective of the speaker.

If we manage not to lose sight of Scripture, if we remember that our relationship to Christ must take precedent, and if we recognize messages that are extraneous or contrary to Scripture for what they are, engaging with otherwise worthwhile media that has morally questionable content can be an acceptable — indeed, inescapable — part of inhabiting culture.

As I said last week, this general guide for interpreting and applying the Bible makes sense to me.It's not about discounting the historical / grammatical method in favor of forcing a Jesus message into every last page, but simply looking at Scripture through the lens of the gospel of Jesus Christ just as Christians should look at everything through the lens of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

We must believe in Angels, the ambassadors of the revelation from Allah to His apostles, and, of necessity, in the Scriptures, His messages to humanity.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

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).

The message of Our Lord and St. Paul in the Scriptures, and that of the Church's tradition throughout history, is simply this: «Let those who can take religious life take it.»

In summary we may say that, since we are products of our setting and the particular values of our community, it is this concrete experience which we must bring to Scripture and in terms of which we must understand its message.

This too was a common emphasis in the faith of Reformation churches as M. E. Osterhaven explains: «Scripture presents a unified message concerning God's grace made manifest in Jesus Christ and the Christians call to live unto him.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

But when we have reached that point where we believe that Scripture has said its last word to us and we are always sure what its message will be, when all around us major events are causing great changes in our understanding of ourselves and our world, then we may be finiiting the actual authority of Scripture in our lives.

(10) The language of dogma may be different from the language of Scripture, but the message must be the same.

With a lot of the so called Christians I have encountered, it seems that they distort scripture to fit a political agenda.I am convinced that if Jesus were walking the earth today, and came into the home of a born again, with his message of mercy, forgiveness, charity, and love, they would call him a pinko or a hippie freak, and throw him out on his backside.Constitutionally, our government can not create a state religion or interfere in the inner workings of the churches.It should work in both directions.

It is not his job to frame an argument; convince the higher clergy and rank - and - file Roman Catholics of its correctness; communicate his message well; ground the message in Scripture; or expand the message beyond a «Catholic issue.»

I found the counselors being taught to memorize the «right» scripture verse to use in replying to a question; and I found the choice of those verses severely limiting the total message even of the New Testament.

So quit relying on Jewish scriptures and Hebrew traditions to inform the CHristian church, and look to the simple message of Jesus on the only commandments that are important, and then the answer here is simple — if women are knowledgeable, capable teachers, welcome them to that role, love them for it, and keep the faith.

Moreover, while the central biblical message of new life through Christ is expressed so fully and dearly that one who runs may read and understand (which is what Reformation theology meant by the clarity and perspicuity of Scripture), there remain many secondary matters on which certainty of interpretation is hard if not impossible to come by.

The narrower usage really involves a false abstraction, since no one ever has or is entitled to have a clear certainty that Scripture is from God when that person has no inkling of its message.

God created sound and light waves, and Floyd's messages about the dangers and perils of modern society and consequences of a faithless life are consistent with Scripture.

As a result, they endlessly critique the biblical texts but rarely get around to hearing scripture's critique of us or hearing its message of grace.

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Rather than sift the Scripture according to the general principle of its applicability to salvation, wouldn't it be better to inquire of each text what was its intended message?

A cultural starting point might well demand a «hermeneutical suspicion» (i. e., a distrust of one's previous reading of Scripture, given the possibility that such a reading conceals some of the radical implications of the Biblical message for our day), but it may also assist in the renewed hermeneutical task, allowing the Biblical witness to be freshly experienced, freshly understood, and freshly applied.21

'30 That is, although specific sections of Scripture might need to be rejected, one must still take as authoritative the overall message of the Biblical text.

Those like Beegle, on the other hand, seem to have little appreciation for the doctrine of Scripture, I. e., the importance of maintaining its message to be authoritative and inspired.

In the process, the authority of Scripture has been undercut, the full Biblical message being limited by some predetermined interpretive grid.

And when taken in the context of the whole of Scripture, they provide the dialectical nuance that gives even more substance to the central message of the holy books, namely, that God is one who makes and keeps promises.

The creedal stance of evangelicals is that Scripture's purpose — its message of salvation — is accessible to all and is not limited to the clergy.