Hi Bob... You sited a lot
of scripture from the old testament... Thankfully, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to take all that away so that we don't have to live by old testament laws.
It could be through a group's study of a passage
of Scripture from which the text was to be selected.
As for the rest, to you apply the verse
of Scripture from the Word of God where it says «For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God unto salvation..»
I sometimes hear, from conservative Christians like myself, how disappointing it is that people can not tell the facts
of scripture from the fantasies of The Da Vinci Code.
If I had to choose between a Bible expert who could recite large chunks
of Scripture from the Greek and Hebrew yet who did not show love toward his neighbor, and someone who barely knew anything about Scripture but who did show love to his neighbor, I will choose the second person every day of the week.
Its just the teaching
of scripture from the Word of God.
This is a weekly 30 - minute study
of Scripture from a non-religious perspective.
Some proponents of the old orthodoxy (such as Gordon Clark and Carl Henry) favor a metaphysical - deductive over an empirical - inductive approach, seeking to deduce the concrete meanings
of Scripture from first principles given in Scripture.
Scripture understands this — in fact, it is a profound theme
of scripture from the beginning, when God dresses Adam and Eve in animal skins before they leave Eden, to the end, when we're all going to be wearing white robes in the new Jerusalem.
Statism is roundly condemned throughout the entire cannon
of the Scripture from Babel to the Beast and should be avoided by Christians.
(Wright offers some specific suggestions for preserving a liturgically - grounded reading of scripture — including warnings against dropping certain portions
of scripture from liturgical readings because they are startling or strange, as well as warnings against making sermons the focus of corporate worship — that we don't have time to discuss in detail here.)
If I failed to accept the inspiration and INERRANCY
of scripture from the outset, I will trip many times along the way even if it was already a 40 years Christian walk.
It's called REThinker, and it looks at issues in our culture and in areas
of scripture from a Strategic Christian perspective.
When I hear these sorts of arguments for observing Passover and other Jewish feasts, alarm bells begin to sound, and a whole host
of Scriptures from the New Testament begin the «Hora» (the Jewish circle dance) inside my head.
Anyone who claims that the Earth is but 6000 Years Old never has believe the truth
of the Scriptures from God, not have they acquainted God, they have believed mistranslations and lies from the devil.
In other words, it may be necessary to reformulate our interpretation
of the Scriptures from the hylomorphic concepts to more expansive, evolutionary concepts, in order to correspond better to our fundamental experience of a changing man in a changing reality.
Do you think the literal translation
of scriptures from Jewish, to Greek, to Latin, to the Kings English survived.
Not exact matches
He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible
scripture that spoke
of a «day
of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away
from our source
of our strength.»
John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out
of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage
from Jewish
Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence
of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»
Each section
of David and Goliath begins with a passage
from Scripture attesting to the ennobling power
of weakness or the illusory boon
of strength.
The other keynote address, that
of Professor Chung, invoked — with its gongs, drums, and appeals to read
Scripture from the perspective
of birds, trees, and mountains — a very different spirit.
These are
scriptures I pulled
from my own research into the validation
of my own spirituality.
Starting
from a certain interpretation
of Scripture, patristic tradition, and magisterial documents, some recent commentaries have hinted that it is time to propose an updated version
of Familiaris consortio.
To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts
of jihadi groups to a string
of references
from Islamic
scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.
The movement's website features personal stories
of women who are usually the only head coverers in their churches, as well as arguments
from scripture to support the practice.
But even the most orthodox
of Jews will admit that GeHenna (named after the dump outside Jerusalem that existed in the Valley
of Hinnom and whilch was considered the most unclean
of places, where the «fires never went out» and the «worm never died»... a reference seen in Isaiah...) was an idea adapted
from Babylonian theology (taken
from Zoasterism), not an idea originally developed in the Tanach (thus you will find references to «the world to come» and «tikkun Olam» only in the Talmud, not in the Tanach... which for Jews is not a problem since our view
of «
scripture» is not the same as a Christians).
I thought that when anyone speaks
from the pulpit, and speaks truth, even if they be such a Pharisee, they should be obeyed regardless
of what they do, for the words they are quoting are true, because they are quoting
scripture.
Webster argues against Kavanagh's prioritization
of liturgy, saying that the chief evil
of fundamentalism is not, contra Kavanagh, that «
scripture has been severed
from its liturgical context, but that it has been severed
from its Trinitarian context.»
What is at stake are issues
of principle — the role
of revelation and
Scripture in the formation
of conscience — that affect matters
of doctrine ranging
from the place
of the Methodist Quadrilateral in the formation
of United Methodist identity to the place
of Christ in salvation.
My aim is to take
scriptures at their most obvious, and I am not bending or breaking a single thing
from any passage in Genesis (most
of this is based on Rabbinic interpretations).
So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought
of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics
from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have
of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or
scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.
Hebrews outlines a version
of the atonement that exists nowhere else in NT
scripture — namely
from Jesus» own teachings.
Don't take it
from me; consider that working hard shows up in
Scriptures several times, like in Ephesians 6 and throughout the book
of Proverbs.
That is not to say we should not take the journey for ourselves; it simply means that there are maps drawn by those who have gone before —
from the saints in
Scripture to the Fathers
of the Church.
And I have a Sacred Theology Doctorate
from the University
of Baptist
Scripture.
While Jewish Christians often erred in the direction
of legalism, Gentile Christians often erred in the direction
of philosophical speculations which sundered Christianity
from its historical roots» (God's Festivals in
Scripture and The Catholic theologian Augustine lived A.D. 354 - 430.
The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations
from biblical teaching, but they never used
Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus
of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down
from patristic times.
Please read the portions
of Scriptures which come
from the Old Testament,
of our Holy Bible, and see what they tell you...» Who has believed our report?
Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come
from the
scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.
They were the Jewish ruling class, their positions obtained
from being scribes and keepers
of the
Scriptures.
That is one example
of how we have move forward
from the
scripture.
Among his companions
from the
scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power
of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts»
of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts»
of Daniel (7); «the sons
of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).
Origen is
from the early church, a time very close to the life
of Jesus», and he interpreted the same
scriptures we are now debating.
There follows
from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic
of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source
of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks
of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history
of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state
of cosmological physics or by....
We who are Evangelicals recognize the need to address the widespread misunderstanding in our community that sola scriptura (
Scripture alone) means nuda scriptura (literally,
Scripture unclothed; i.e., denuded
of and abstracted
from its churchly context).
trying to rewrite the
scriptures to make yourself feel good abot sin will not save you
from the fires
of sheol.
The isolation
of Scripture study
from the believing community
of faith (nuda scriptura) disregards the Holy Spirit's work in guiding the witness
of the people
of God to scriptural truths, and leaves the interpretation
of that truth vulnerable to unfettered subjectivism.
If you are monotheist and not Polytheist, not Idolater, make or worship partners with God... Guess you in the right Abrahamic track the True Base
of Submission within all holy
scriptures... (God + HolySpirit + Apostle = The
scriptures of the Holy Messages all through Generations
from old).
I like to give you one more
Scripture referance
from Revelations, the last book
of the Bible, Jesus Himself speaking:: «I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and End,» says the Lord, «who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty... Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.
In «With Her» Milosz speaks
of hearing a passage
from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday
from the Book
of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation
of the living.»