Sentences with phrase «not biblical literalists»

Needless to say, process theologians are not biblical literalists.

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

Reality Check, Sounds like you're not a biblical literalist then (good).

If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an un-changeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.

He was not a Biblical literalist.

Bryan was not a biblical literalist, but he nevertheless eschewed the middle ground as much as Darrow, Larson writes.

Not exact matches

Even if one is a biblical literalist, these references do not build an ironclad case for condemnation.

But the Biblical literalist can not admit to this contradiction.

I have a very high view of scripture, though I wouldn't consider myself a biblical literalist.

Certainly the Biblical literalists do not intend all of these.

But the Biblical literalist can not do this, and has to insist that the words of Joshua and Elijah, Ecclesiastes and Job, are as true as anything Jesus said, and therefore presumably just as important.

Not even the strictest biblical literalists deny the bred varieties of dogs, the variation of finch beaks, and similar instances within types.

Disheartened by the amount of support Griffin had received from the community, I considered showing up at the courthouse with a sign that included Exodus 22:21, «Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt» — mainly because June prides herself on being a strict biblical literalist.

I do not know of any Christian in our time, however much of a biblical literalist, who feels obligated to keep this command.

Johnson says that «a creationist is not necessarily a biblical literalist, but rather anyone who believes at God creates.»

(I remind the reader that to Lewontin and myself, a «creationist» is not necessarily a biblical literalist, but rather any person who believes that God creates.)

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

Don't make the mistake of thinking those questions are prompted by some «do your own thing» new - agey attitude — as a born - again spirit - filled biblical literalist I would have asked those questions of you — and been concerned for your spiritual state if you were indeed saying what you seemed to be saying.

You can believe I have done my homework and I find the explanations offered by biblical literalists and inerrancy types to be not just ridiculous but extremely insulting.

Thank you for not making me homophobic, trans - phobic, cis - gendered - phobic, heterosexual - phobic, islamophobic, anti-semitic, biblical - literalist, fundamentalist, institutional church - phobic, pro-traditional family, anti-choice, anti-feminist, atheist - hating, heresy - spurning, doctrinaire, uptight.

Consequently, we don't care if you are a Biblical literalist.

A problem could arise with biblical literalists, but one could address that by suggesting that some fictional stories have great value in teaching some lesson or illuminating some aspect of the «human (or other sentient being) condition», and also address actual historical events in the translation of the bible — or one could be more abbrassive and ask «do you believe deaf people can't be saved» (see one of Paul's letters, and the history of the Catholic Church)-- oh, you don't — so when you said you were a literalist, you were speaking figuratively?»