Sentences with phrase «much about scripture»

So glad you know so much about Scripture, though.

Not exact matches

Edwards is passionate about IHOP and about an intimate understanding of Scripture — so much so that her priority remains to lead people into worship there, even when opportunities to tour continually come beckoning.

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.

I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

But this seems to go against much of what Scripture says about «testing the spirits» (1 John 4:1), and ignores warnings about how false prophets come in sheep's clothing (Matt 7:15).

Teachings about the Trinity, the Incarnation, and so forth that have not only been grounded in large portions of Scripture but have also been accepted by the vast majority of Christians in history — those we can pretty much give our lives to.

Somehow the parts of Scripture that really do have something to say about how we use our resources pretty much get bypassed because most of our available resources are consumed by the property - staff - programs triad.

Have you ever had someone discredit what you say about Scripture because you don't have as much education as they do?

He demonstrates that Scripture, (including Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Proverbs, Hosea, and the gospel accounts of Jesus» friendships, for example) has much to say about play.

I am not writing any of this to argue with anyone about philosophy, Scripture or anything else, nor will I conjecture as to why this topic agitates you so much.

The truth is, how we «pick and choose» from Scripture often says as much about us as it says about the Bible.

Since Scripture never speaks explicitly of the Trinity, the thinking went, Christians should not presume to be able to say too much about it.

These manuscripts were representative of a much larger body of material which has since grown so extensively that today it includes about 70 papyri (portions written on papyrus), about 230 uncials (manuscripts with rounded letters), about 2,500 minuscules (manuscripts with small letters), and about 1,700 lectionaries (portions of Scripture arranged for worship).

I will argue that my experience with Scripture will certainly come to include theoretical knowledge about Scripture but that this only becomes relevant in the fight of my concrete experience with the truth of Scripture, much of which can never be fully articulated.

Regarding the eternal state of people who do not believe in Jesus for eternal life, I do think there is some sort of eternal separation from God, though I am not sure Scripture says much about it.

Nature has just as much beauty, order, love, and wonder as it does death, blood, suffering, and murder, and Scripture has hundreds of dark and disturbing passages which seems to paint a different picture of God than we read about in the Gospels or in 1 John 4:8.

Evangelicals are beginning to understand that the real questions about appropriating the Scriptures are not so much matters of doctrine as they are of hermeneutics.

Finally, we can learn much about Barth (and, of course, other great Christian thinkers) by watching how he interprets scripture; work at this task is still underdeveloped.

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

I bet if you took all those people who want to beat the US over the head with scripture don't know much about it.

Likewise, the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s changes to its policy took place over a much longer time than Azumah names, involved persons holding many positions left undescribed, and came about not because the denomination chose to ignore the Scriptures but because over time, many of us became convinced that there are theologically and historically faithful ways of reading the Scriptures that find space for contemporary understandings of homosexuality.

Only eternity, the Good, and so also the Holy Scriptures, are of another opinion about this matter of evasions and about the much - honored clever ones.

I want so much to lead him to a correct understanding of scripture — not that God loves us all and overlooks our sin so we're all OK and don't need to worry about it, but rather that He loves us enough to lead us away from our sin.

With how much it is talked about in our pulpits and written about in out books, one would think that warning against false teachers is a popular topic in Scripture.

I am not certain that this idea is exactly found in Scripture, but regardless of what the original founders thought about the pursuit of happiness, and whether or not it is actually taught in Scripture, the pursuit today is not so much happiness, but pleasure or personal fulfillment, even when such things come at the expense of others.

But when we recognize (as we saw in the post yesterday about the definition of baptism) that «baptism» means «immersion into» or «identification with» some of the tricky passages in Scripture become much more clear.

So this: «Finally, for this God, much of the Jewish scriptures (which are all God's word) are actually about foreshadowing Jesus.

Finally, for this God, much of the Jewish scriptures (which are all God's word) are actually about foreshadowing Jesus.

All I was saying was that IF you think it is a sin, we should still love and accept LGBT people, just as we love and accept people who lie, eat too much, drink too much, are lazy, are proud, etc, all of which are clearly sins (and are talked about in Scripture way more than homosexuality).

M.D That is why it is important to have his guidance in understanding for yourself the more we walk in the truth of Gods word the more he reveals to us.That is a key to understanding the scriptures its not about how much we know about it but how much we walk in it.Then the word becomes living and real and people should see Jesus in us.brentnz

The Gospel of Jesus is much more than a few Scripture verses or a few ideas about God; it is a way of being in the world and living our everyday lives.

In the course of this exhortation, much is said about «the word of God» and about the «understanding of the Scriptures.»

All you are doing Spoc aka Bob is showing how much you don't know about reading comprehension 101 because when the scriptures are put into historical context, nowhere does it condemn the saved loving long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

But actually requiring a dialogue, question and answer, interactive discussion about a text of Scripture, which then leads to brainstorming about how everybody can go out and put it into practice in tangible ways, and then actually going out and doing it, requires too much for most people.

The end result is that we can agree with much of what science says about the formation of the Grand Canyon while at the same time, seeing that such views are supported and defended by Scripture.

What I find puzzling is the obsession with consensual and faithful gay relationships when Scripture says much more about divorce and remarriage (every single sex act with a second spouse is ALWAYS adultery unless someone is unfaithful and that the only moral choice is reconciliation with your first spouse or lifetime celibacy — 1 Cor 7:10 - 11), charging interest on a loan, our moral obligation toward the poor and other things most conservative Christians ignore.

I believe that by looking at what the authors of Scripture say about Scripture, we can arrive a much better position — one where we maintain the accuracy and authority of Scripture, but in such a way that Scripture is not set up as a sacred idol.

But now I see, those scriptures so often used to exclude... they were usually spoken to the religious elite, not the «sinners» everyone seems to panic about so much.

The fact that there are pessimistic and apocalyptic «minded Catholics does not prove anything about dispensationalism, but says much of the dangers of straying from the norms of Scripture, Tradition, and authoritative teaching.

Scripture even teaches irony, as when God sarcastically addresses Jonah, who is complaining about the collapse of his bean vine: «Should I not spare Nineveh, this great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?»

@Tea Partier... hmmm, when I walk into the average nursing home in this «Great Christian Nation» of ours, I have to ask how much you and your Tea Party friends care about the elderly... I am amazed at how little conservatives, Evangelicals and the latest version Tea Party members care so little for the living except their own tribe in the so - called «light» of their scriptures...

Finally, just because the gospels do not give much detail about the crucifixion does not discount the rest of Scripture.

What Genesis 4:8 teaches us about God, ourselves, Scripture, history, politics, economics, and pretty much everything else in life.

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

Karlstadt had in fact said just this about scripture more than two years previously but no one had bothered because it was said by a rather myopic officious academic whom nobody cared much about, and who never managed to project his message widely.

Church is the people — this much we know from scripture — God cares about us — not some system or some institution — He sent his son for us... not to redeem a building or a «way of doing things».

Many appear to be much concerned about it, but nothing is more evident, both in reason, and in the holy Scripture, than that religion is ever a matter between God and individuals; and therefore no man or men can impose any religious test without invading the essential prerogatives of our Lord Jesus Christ....

Much of her recent work has focused on sharing the stories and experiences of intersex people and examining what Scripture has to say about people who do not fit into rigid, binary gender categories.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

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