Sentences with phrase «much biblical based»

I had been attending Liberty University but with tuition costs and I did not feel that I was getting as much biblical based teaching I needed I decided to look at other options.

Not exact matches

I would be much more worried about telling them that my love for them is based on the Biblical God's love for humanity.

Organized religions like Catholicism, Mormonism, Lutherism... pretty much anything ending in ISM follow many man made policies and traditions that have no basis on Biblical truth.

That it also provides a basis for criticizing scholarly assumptions that undercut acceptance of much in the biblical stories would also register positively with him.

And even though I continued to search for a more traditionally orthodox basis for my political commitments, I drew much inspiration and solace from the witness of Christian people of more liberal theological convictions who modeled for me a courageous commitment to the biblical vision of justice and peace.

The pattern here is much like that of those who appeal to the prophetic principle as the Biblical basis for criticizing the Bible.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

Too much theologizing is based merely upon the pale reflection of itself which it sees in philosophy, and needs a more thorough grounding in biblical studies.

But the biblical basis for such a view does not even stand up to an honest biblical analysis, much less a societal one.

Amid all the enthusiasm for sources of biblical wisdom from the early Church, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation era, it must be admitted that the knowledge base for the study of the Bible is quantitatively much greater today.

Practitioners of Biblical marriage counseling usually receive much of the same training as practitioners of secular marriage counseling, though they often base their therapeutic techniques in Christian teachings.