Sentences with phrase «of biblical statements»

Biblica 75 [1994]: 240 Jacob Kremer, «By far most exegetes hold firmly to the reliability of the biblical statements concerning the empty tomb» Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Stanley E. Porter, Gnilka, Hoo.ker Raymund Schwager Paula Frederickson Pinchas Lapide Geza Vermes And on, and on, and on.

Kind of reminds me of the biblical statement about salt: salt of the earth... where, like a handshake bond is given, salt was exchanged as a method of commerce, way back when.

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Nevertheless, the paper is essentially guided by the language of the 1985 Vatican statement in which «Christians are asked to understand the religious ties [of Jews to the land of Israel] that have deep biblical roots.

Ronnie Floyd, the President of the Southern Baptist Convention, said in a statement: «I deeply believe in biblical and traditional marriage.

One has only to compare these lines with the statements of St. Paul regarding the destiny of the Jews to see that the biblical thought has been drastically reduced in a way that is decidedly prejudicial.

The pastor's statement to the young woman is, unfortunately, indicative of a widespread ignorance of biblical texts dealing both directly and indirectly with the subject of suicide.

Seems like taking a statement out of context, and a seemingly skewed understanding of biblical salvation, whether intentional or not.

To rush biblical statements into this arena, as though they were of the same order as Charles Darwin's Origin of Species or Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb, or as though scientific conclusions could be drawn from them, is to be very confused about what it is the Genesis materials are teaching.

The biblical story confines itself to the simple statement that Abraham heard the call of God.

This accounts for the ecclesiastical opposition to Charles Darwin's work on evolution and to the arguments of critical Biblical scholars, which implied that not all statements in scripture were factually correct.

His stirring opening statement invoked a repeating Biblical pattern of creation, death, and resurrection to new creation to suggest that Protestantism is not a diseased form that needs to be restored to its original health, but the historically - necessary senescence of something bound to die and rise again as some new and unforeseen synthesis.

Lawrence, several of the Pope's statements aren't biblical.

These comments appeared to me to be a bit pejorative as there was no attempt at biblical refutation or even explanation of the context of your statements.

It's ironic — those who champion nondiscrimination, in the name of nondiscrimination, are creating rules that push out those who «discriminate» based on biblical belief statements.

* In the first place, while the language of religion is metaphorical, this blanket statement needs to be broken down so that we see that certain distinctive forms of speech are appropriate to certain distinctive kinds of biblical reference.

David felt his statement was true saying «I was talking about the grand sweep of the biblical writers» attempts to describe God».

The structure of the report, combined with these explicit statements, indicates clearly that what is called for is biblical hermeneutics.

Both statements are relevant, but we should not conclude too soon that it was all a corruption of the biblical outlook.

Does it not follow from this statement that biblical love (agape) refers to the presence and power of God himself.

In that role the statement is likely to be read more in terms of its main drift toward biblical theology than in terms of the slight affirmation it accords other theological programs.

Now this variety of usage in the biblical talk of God (and modern scholarship has shown that the biblical statements can not all be neatly fitted together into a systematic whole, in the way some earlier Christian thinkers assumed that to be possible) makes it clear that the Bible is not wedded to any particular form of words concerning God.

«Mr. Graham's calling is not to pass judgment, but to proclaim the biblical truth that Jesus is the only way to heaven (Jn 14:6), allowing every individual and group to fall along that plumb line...» «He further stressed that salvation is the work of Almighty God, and that only He knows what is in each human heart,» the statement said.

There are some simple things that can be said about the place within a biblical book where we find a statement, and its relationship to other parts of the book and to the rest of the Bible.

However, they are not divinely revealed and they, too, along with all other confessions, creeds, and statements of faith, must be subject to the correction of the biblical Word.

The ending statement: «keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the end» is indicative of the lack of Biblical knowledge of the writer.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Political Theology and Ethics (Fortress, 1984), and Walter Harrelson, who in The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980) embraced the Universal Declaration as a modern statement of biblical values.

In a mission statement written in 1983, CWM did attempt to set out a biblical basis of what it understood to be holistic mission.

The latter statement, especially, is really based on a deistic view of an absentee God who must «come into» a world which on any Christian, biblical, and theistic view God can never have left.

Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.

This is a complex and not easily definable issue and anyone with «easy» answers in my view is not admitting the fallen and terrible condition of mankind in general and that as much as we would attempt to make categorical statements as to «all war is wrong» or «war is the right soultion» we are making statements that just cant stand up to either biblical exegesis or the reality of the world we live in.

Isaiah 24 offers one of the most eloquent statements of this biblical vision that is found particularly in the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Although Biblical «infallibility» thus seems the better of the two options, as even Pinnock's most recent statements imply, the term is not without its problems within and outside the evangelical community.59 Given the history of controversy over inspiration, to say that Scripture is «infallible» seems to many evangelicals a watered - down statement, one sidestepping Biblical truth.

Thus, all interpretations of given texts can be productively correlated with wider Biblical attitudes, statements, themes, and descriptions If husbands are to duplicate Jesus» attitude toward leadership (Eph.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

«question: A number of people are reacting to this statement in the book — «the church, in its contemporary, institutional form, has neither a biblical nor a historical right to exist.»

(We are not discussing etymology of a term, but what the Biblical writers intended with their statements) You suggest that they couldn't condemn it because it wasn't within the realm of their experience.

«Love Wins» is a statement based on a biblical (O.T and N.T) understanding of who God is.

A statement written by a spokesperson for LifeWay said: «LifeWay only carries resources in our stores by authors who hold to the biblical view of marriage.

Let us begin with a brief statement of what is meant by the State, followed by a look at the biblical foundations for Christian decision.

For example, there are those who have tried existential and personalistic categories; those who have applied linguistic analysis to biblical statements; those who have advocated the dehellenization of traditional formulations; those who have experimented with political and social categories of the secular city; those who believe in the relevance of pragmatic philosophy or Whiteheadian process philosophy, and so on.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

The clearest example of how little biblical criticism has been value - free is provided by Morton Smith in a statement which is exceptional only for its candor, not its convictions.

«The foundation of our business has been, and will continue to be strong values, and honoring the Lord in a manner consistent with biblical principles,» a statement on the Hobby Lobby website reads, adding that one outgrowth of that is the store is closed on Sundays to give its employees a day of rest.

A fifth and final statement in elaboration of the idea of realistic and responsible Biblical preaching concerns the matter of language.

Contemporary preaching is full of dramatic and piquant turnings of the text, irresponsible arbitrariness in strained if ever so personable interpretations of biblical figures, events, and statements.

Niebuhr introduces his own constructive discussion with several statements which are not only a correct report of the biblical - theological situation in our time, but also provide material for our effort to say something useful about the theme of this lecture: what are the requirements for preaching which are suggested by this search for a proper theological method?

A summary statement cites a claim by a «respected scholar, Dr. J. O. Kinnaman,» that «of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found by the archaeologists, not one has ever been discovered that contradicts or denies one word, phrase, clause or sentence of the Bible, but always confirms and verifies the facts of the Biblical record.»

For a statement of this view see Russell Clinchy, Charity, Biblical and Political (The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1951), in a series entitled In Brief, Vol.

We are told that Bruce Reichenbach is an example of such a FWT in that he «says that he rests his belief in the omnipotence of God solely on the fact that this doctrine is implied by various biblical statements» (ER 50).