Sentences with phrase «obvious meaning of the passage»
Other times the obvious meaning of the passage is relativized by historical and cultural considerations.»
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The meaning of this passage has been a matter of dispute among New Testament experts, although it is quite obvious that if it does nothing more it asserts that the Apostle believed that there was some connection between the fact of death and the reality of human sin.
... Every article of human ingenuity has been employed to blunt the sharp edge of this scripture and to explain away the obvious meaning of these words, but it has been employed in vain, though nothing will ever be able to reconcile this and similar passages to the mind of the natural man (Pink, Sovereignty of God, 52).
In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.