Sentences with phrase «more than scripture»

But the religious differences turned on more than Scripture.

Furthermore, oral cultures should also be included — the Word more than Scripture.

It seems to me that those who express a negative attitude towards attending a «church» base it on emotions and feelings more than scripture.

God, they thought, had to do more than the Scriptures revealed, in order to even out the injustices of this world.

Not exact matches

If the Scripture text seems to say more than one thing, fine, but the lectionary cycles every three years and you'll get another chance later.

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.

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

Finally I quoted the scripture only which was very self explanatory on it's own and it too was deleted more than once.

Done well, the public reading of scripture is more than just Bible reading.

The question is whether those who would condemn homosexual acts should be able to force their views of Scripture on those who disagree any more than those who affirm gay relationships should be able to force their view of Scripture on those opposed.

Brian, I want you to know that there are more self - professed «experts» on scripture than we can count.

These words though come from someone much more educated than those who created your so - called scripture.

Besides, Jesus discussed hell far more than he discussed heaven, and most Christian do believe it because the bible discusses it as a real place for real people on real pages in real scripture verses.

During the 2008 campaign he spoke of God and cited Scripture with more eloquence and ease than McCain.

But I suspect Smith is giving up a bit more than he intends in the admission that the Church was never without Scripture.

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.

Believers who read these stories aren't going to be swayed by such things any more than you will by the quoting of Scripture (since you've already said that you believe it to be a book of made up stories).

Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

Who would be more «qualified» to read scripture than a biblical scholar like John Dominic Crossan, a major player in the Jesus Seminar?

Is Fred Phelps, who has seized on a few hateful scriptures, more or less a Christian than Rob Bell, who no longer believes in an eternal hell?

I challenge all christians to show me even one scripture from the very bible that claim to obey and follow where God at anytime condemns a man for having more than one wife.

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

Vilifying hard working Christians for their success is in itself unchristian — particularly when many pay more than 25 % of their production in taxes — as is using the scripture to advance one's personal agenda.

If you want to say that two men or two women is an abomination then you might want to read some more of that scripture and you would find puting two seeds in the same hole, working on sundays, wearing cloths with more than one color and lots of other dumb things are mentioned in a list why do you all foucus on just one part of that list it has lots of abominations that we all do every day

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.

Jim, what you say gives insight into how challenging the matter of correctly interpreting Scripture is; but it is even more complex than that.

Yet, looked at through the initially disorienting but ultimately corrective lens of Scripture itself, what is more pure and lovely than the Cross?

There's no reason to assume that Jesus» ability to recall this story from his Jewish scriptures makes him God any more than Adam Sandler's ability to do the same thing.

I read the scriptures; I've read the Bible from cover to cover and many parts more times than I can remember.

So for all your faith, prayer, and scripture study you don't actually have any more of a clue how the universe was created than anyone else.

These were more fair - minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

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.

Nevertheless, biblical prosperity (far more accurate term than «prosperity gospel») is with merit and present in the Scripture.

As a Christian, I read the scriptures everyday and probably know a lot more than you.

It sounds interesting and I would be curious to see what prompted your change and how you now view some of the passages in Scripture dealing with election with a more of «missional» focus rather than one of individualized salvation.

With your rabid claims of inerrancy I would think you would handle the scriptures with more respect than that.

You do, of course realize that it is just as irrelevant, or more so than the Scriptures you disregard from the other side of the argument.

It is not as if those who specialize in Scripture are more guilty than those of us who work in theology, ethics or liturgy.

Such behavior does more to refute Scripture than any logical argument against inerrancy ever could.

by the way, before you stupidly claim that the scripture is taken out of context, know that jesus was quoted more than once on this subject in the bible.

The idea that we will spend eternity in heaven comes more from pagan religion than from Scripture, and has only been prominent in the church for the past 500 years or so.

But here's the thing that tripped me up more than any other: I don't see this Scripture fulfilled.

These personal experiences gave him unique eyes to see where Christianity in the West was beholden more to a tradition of Western thought than to the Scripture or to the Christian tradition.

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

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

Note that it is not certain that there were six denials, but if we believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, there had to have been more than three for it is nearly impossible to get all the references to fit into only three denials.

Forasteros» review of «Real Marriage» for Relevant «The model of marriage, family and maturity the Driscolls build is more a reinvigorated idealization of the nuclear family than something that arises from the Scriptures.

The results in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that the faith to which people were called was often more the objective belief that the scriptures were completely true than the deeply personal assurance of God's forgiveness of their sins and the resulting freedom.

It was way too long to be posted on our blog and consisted of little more than numerous quotations from Scripture.

Some people say God never gives you more than you can handle but I have yet to find that anywhere in scripture.