Sentences with phrase «more about scripture»

Do you want to learn more about Scripture, and the theological terms and ideas related to the Bible?

I was part of a bible study to where we learned more about scriptures and the knowledge of Christ, but also needed church for the worship and word.

Not exact matches

I am so sorry that you have been told / taught such awful things about Jesus, but whether or not you believe He is fully man and also fully God, there is more than enough proof historically and in present scripture to show that labeling Him as a mysogonist and an advocate for murder is a drastically false account of who He is and what He stood for.

I just think some Christians are lazy and don't want to read more about the totality of scripture and delve deeper into interpretation... we prefer a grade 3 reading and comprehension level in many aspects of Christianity.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

What's more, it in no way invalidates Smith's central point about Scripture's effect on us.

What I'm actually saying is that I think God is so much bigger and more incomprehensible than what we read about Him in Scripture.

BUT before that, I would recommend that you go and do a good confession... And please, learn more about your faith and the Holy Scriptures..

In fact, Jesus had more to say about the the dangers of greed, love of possessions, and the lack of compassion for the the «poor» and the «least of these» than he did about any other single subject in christian scripture.

Using the scriptures to address a misperception should be fine, but I could be more gentle about it.

If you want to learn more about what Scripture teaches about the words «save» and «grace» and «faith» and how these are related to the gospel, consider taking my course, «The Gospel According to Scripture.»

As a Baptist minister, the older I get... the more I study Scripture... the less I know about Scripture and about God... and the more I teach the simple basics: Man is a sinner in need of a Saviour and guide for both this life and the next, «Come.»

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

Over time, God has provided more revelation about Himself through the scriptures, Jesus Christ, and the witness of the Holy Spirit.

We used to sing it and jump around and wave our hands because it was a song about the passage of Scripture when David dances wildly before the Lord and his wife shames him for it but he retorts that he'll become even more undignified in his worship.

In this way, we can say that the Hebrew Scriptures are more of a revelation about man than a revelation about God.

I think the question — comes down to more what is the fruit of life based on what we believe about scripture and the way we interpret it.

And it is all in God's plan when new discoveries show that past interpretations of Scripture regarding the physical realm were incomplete or inaccurate, and He expects us to be constantly seeking to align our understanding with our discoveries, not to cling to interpretations about the physical realm that arose before more facts became available to us by the use of our God - given curiosity and intellect.

The scripture people want to misquote about not being tempted with more than you can bear in 1 Corinthians doesn't say that at all in my study of it.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

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.

We will talk more about predetermination and foreordination in the future posts about Unconditional Election and the Sovereignty of God, so I don't want to use a lot of room to discuss these issues here, except to say that Scripture, reason, and experience all seem to point pretty clearly to the fact that God expects us to make wise choices and holds us accountable for the choices and decisions we make.

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The more I think about this the more I realize: The pastor thought his strong faith and belief in the Bible scripture would prevent him from dying after he was bitten.

By redirecting our thinking about God to his absence rather than to his presence, we not only portray the true God of the Scriptures but make him more credible.

The Ekklesia Project has also produced about a dozen booklets, with more to come, on specific practices of the church, such as preparing for marriage, hymn - singing, reading scripture, evangelizing and so on.

If you want to learn more about what Scripture teaches about the words «save» and «grace» and how these are related to the gospel, consider taking my course, «The Gospel According to Scripture.»

The best translation is the one that excites you to read and think about Scripture more.

To read homosexuality into Sodom or Gibeah reveals more about the reader than it does about the scripture.

Several years ago, a protracted, solemn, and highly technical debate raged through several prominent literary journals about a new edition of Joyce's Ulysses, a debate that reminded one of nothing more than the fundamentalist - modernist debates about the historical authenticity of the Scriptures.

I can totally handle that Jesus came to offer us a different way; but, If we really believe that the Old Testament is the inspired Word of God, or even if we want to understand more about the culture that gave us these holy scriptures, what we should do is take courses in Judaism, to get a better understanding of what God was supposed to have been telling the Jews.

Read about Philip when he witnessed to the eunuch and asked him if he understood the scriptures, and Philip expounded those to him more perfectly from Isaiah.

But a more radical party is raising fundamental questions about the historically conditioned character of the Scriptures.

Here we go again — more scriptures in Hebrews about doing what is right in God's eyes!

We do not need more information about God than is available in Scripture; what we need, rather, is to grow spiritually in such a way that we have a place for that information in our lives.

If I were Roma and Mark I would be more worrried about having to answer to a Just and Holy God for the blatant disregard of His Sacred Scriptures before I'd worry about making nice with the president.

Obviously Jesus and the writers of Scripture treat some sins as more severe than others (see pp. 5 — 8 of this article), even though Eichenwald mocks anyone who thinks this as showing «that they know next to nothing about the New Testament.»

I could be a little more lenient about this but I don't want to, just to show you how empty your scripture is.

- When I practice mindfulness while reading Scripture, I am more in tune with how the Holy Spirit is speaking to me at that moment and less concerned about which theological system best explains what I've read.

Matt - I probably know more than you do about what the scriptures say.

Rather than being excited about some new insight from Scripture or idea about theology which I get to pass on to others, my writing has become more about pageviews, backlinks, ad revenue, email subscriber stats, book sales, and comment counts.

Great faith believes and is convinced and is persuaded about some of the harder and more difficult truths of Scripture, whereas little faith does not believe or is not convinced or persuaded about these truths.

I wish we all spent more time obeying the Scriptures instead of arguing about them, but sometimes, we argue about them so that we can know what they say, so that we know how to obey.

Would you mind stepping back to a more basic level and discussing how one goes about interpreting Scripture?

In a recent study» of the evangelical impact on the Victorians titled The Call to Seriousness, Ian Bradley contends that the decline of evangelicalism into narrow bigotry may be dated from about 1860 and correlated with the rise of a fascination with prophecy and a more literalistic use of the Scripture.

I myself am inclined to agree with Barr about the poverty of this postfundamentalist theology and tradition for the future of evangelicalism — though I would want my evangelical colleagues to understand clearly that I reject this tradition not to reject biblical or evangelical faith but to seek rather a more adequate conceptual framework through which to be more faithful to the Scriptures.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

I think that McLaren would say that he could help show you that the gospel is way more than just about getting saved, but is also a way of living life in the world here and now, and living this way will shift and transform how you view others, read Scripture, and interact with God.

Whereas the one you would describe as an agnostic theis would come to scripture with more than a degree of suspicion about the divninty of it's contents, written as it is by humans.

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