Sentences with phrase «more biblical means»

To be more biblical means the greater use of the Bible in sermons as well as in religious education, and instruction as to how to understand the Bible both in its historical setting and as the Word of God speaking to the human spirit in every age.

Not exact matches

The name: «Jesus», is very often used as a name for boys, and it is closer to being more Biblical, it means: «Yahweh (God's name) is salvation».

Historical events — a bloody Civil War — forced us to look more closely at how exactly the Bible talks not only about slavery but the biblical meaning and value of a human being.

Accompanying such developments as we have noted in the substance of Biblical prayers, an even more profound change was in process: praying, employed at first as a means of persuading a god to do man's will, grew to be used as a means of releasing through man whatever was God's will.

But it is by no means easy to see what doctrine of God's being can be more adequate to the biblical faith.

How can captivity, a great biblical theme, have any meaning today if we treat incarceration as nothing more than «serving time»?

«The result of their endeavour was the creation of a new Biblical idiom in German which followed the original meaning of the Hebrew more faithfully than any other German translation — or any translation in any other language — had ever done.»

The capacity to speak, symbolized by the physical tongue, is the primary way through which we human beings express ourselves, and nothing reveals more deeply the biblical insight into the sinfulness and brokenness of human life than our verbal means of self - expression.

It is therefore at its best more inclusively Biblical rather than evangelical only; it is directed indeed to sinful men who need to be reconciled to God but also to men who need in all things to grow up into mature manhood in the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and who are to interpret to others the meaning of Christian faith.

Perhaps the laughter of Abraham, which turned from cynical to celebratory when his son Isaac was born (the name means «He [God] laughs») would prove a more fruitful source for a biblical theology of play (Gen. 21).

Hermeneutics was more consonant with Tillich's enterprise not only because it began its career as biblical interpretation, but because it put the reader / viewer back into the work's meaning.

for the first assists us in gaining a more adequate biblical basis for interpreting the meaning of our lives and the second helps us to maintain our intellectual integrity in the face of our knowledge in other fields.

I would also explore the meanings of the Hebrew shalôm and the Greek eirēnē in an attempt to show that the pursuit of peace in the biblical perspective entails more than a spiritual or inner peace.

There are also more ancient copies being found through out the ancient world, meaning that our Bibles are becoming even more accurate You might say that any inaccuracy makes the Bible false, but Christians don't hold that translators are perfect, rather we hold that the original version give to the Biblical authors (weather that be Moses, David, John, Mark, Matthew, or Paul) were inspired by God and flawless.

Thirdly, it follows that more realistic and responsible Biblical preaching means bearing the awesome burden of interpreting Scripture for the congregation to which one preaches.

If we assume the bible is more than just bad fiction, an antagonictic Egypt could mean some biblical prophecy is about to come true.

It's one of those biblical concepts meant to be more accepted than understood.

These were by no means the only places where Greek philosophy, based on the ontology of ousia, blocked the more natural expression of biblical ideas, but they should suffice to indicate the problem.

The man who does not yet know (and that still means all of us) that we know Christ no longer according to the flesh, can learn it from critical biblical scholarship: the more radically he is shocked, the better it is both for him and for the cause.

If biblical narratives do not derive their meaning by referring to historical events or ontological realities, how can biblical theology be anything more than a symbolic or mythical construct?

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

-- and we've failed to ask the more important question — wait; what do we mean by «biblical»?

And if evolutionary theory can be accommodated by calling creation accounts myths, presumably other aspects of the biblical world need to be corrected or altered in meaning when confronted by materials from more sources of knowledge than I wish to list.

The loss of meaning to contemporary man of biblical and theological language, and the problems resulting from the accelerated process of secularization and technological advance, present special problems to contemporary preachers that make the recovery of our Lord's kind of preaching more than ever imperative.

In several cases, my biblical interpretations are strongly influenced by prescriptive considerations, more than descriptive considerations (of what their literal meaning may have been in the thought world of century one).

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