Sentences with phrase «not biblical literacy»

I think what we should be asking people about is not biblical literacy or biblical trivia, but biblical love, or better yet, love literacy.

Not exact matches

Another problem is that when people calk for biblical literacy and then see pain and problems in the lives of others, they either think that a Bible verse will help the other person, OR that the other person wouldn't be having these problems if they had just known the Bible better.

I almost didn't put this item in the list because I am about as uneasy with the concept of a «biblical worldview» as I am with the concept of «biblical literacy.»

The problem is not a lack of biblical literacy; the problem is a lack of biblical living and loving, and to be honest, you don't need to know much about the Bible in order to live and love like Jesus.

If you hire a pastor who has the spiritual gifts of mercy, or service, his sermons will probably not be full of Bible knowledge and theology facts, nor will he place a heavy emphasis on biblical literacy.

It is not uncommon to hear the pastors who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church today to also preach against LGBTQ people.

Jesus certain didn't argue against Biblical literacy.

When it comes to information, what is needed is not so much biblical literacy, as it is biblical understanding.

Those questions are somewhat of a caricature of the real biblical literacy tests, but they're not too far off.

I wouldn't even consider that now, of course, (as it would be an unintended mockery) but I still think Biblical literacy is good for literary purposes in general and critical for anyone who claims to base their lives on the book.

For example, I am not sure that knowing Bible facts is the same thing as biblical literacy.

Look, the call for biblical literacy is not actually about biblical literacy.

A lack of biblical literacy is not the problem; a lack of biblical living is.

It all depends, really, on how a person defines «biblically illiterate,» and I am not convinced that the traditional definitions and tests we use to determine biblical literacy are all that correct.

They see people not living very biblically, and not really having a biblical worldview, and so they think that if they can raise the level of biblical literacy, this will raise the level of biblical living as well.

My tuppence worth: I totally agree that Biblical literacy / illiteracy is not the issue so much as Biblical application (which as Jeremy points out sometimes happens without any Biblical knowledge anyway).

That could be why so many politicians have drawn on it, even in modern Britain where it is not wise to rely on your audience's biblical literacy.