Sentences with phrase «of biblical passages»

This prospect raises at least two important theological questions in addition to the interpretation of biblical passages referring to the end of the world.

Perhaps the intuitive sense of spiritual people moved swiftly to a valid application of the biblical passage to contemporary life.

Right about now, a whole string of biblical passages are dancing through your head.

Your interpretation of biblical passages is amazing... and equally extreme.

I think there is an interpretive middle ground on this and many other issues: to figure out the real point of biblical passages, understood in context.

It also has a lot of people talking about the meaning of the biblical passage about submission that appears in the fifth chatper of Ephesians.

This is a tricky one because many of the biblical passages associated with silence have been used for centuries to suppress women's voices and to keep women from assuming leadership positions in the church and society.

Early on in my lectionary study and preaching I learned to take the assigned limits of the biblical passages as suggestive rather than prescriptive.

It is probable that during the exile, he wrote his treatise Ad Fortunatum, a collection of Biblical passages with commentary on martyrdom.

Crusades, slavery, the oppression of races and genders, executions, inquisitions, wars, genocidal murder, and innumerable atrocities have been validated and justified by perpetrators with the use of Biblical passage.

I would constantly bring to the forefront that significantly small percentage of biblical passages (the majority within the framework of Levitical Law) that speak about slavery, selling of daughters, and God commanding the destruction of various tribes.

Yet students who have done directed studies with me have identified not only the several specific examples of suicide representative of the broad categories of Émile Durkheim in his book Suicide but also a large number of biblical passages that speak to the church's response to the issue, even when suicide per se is not the topic of discussion.

I have yet to meet anyone who claims to have been convinced that what the Bible says is true, or who claims to have been convinced about the correctness of a particular interpretation of any Biblical passage by someone who wanted to argue those points.

The fact is, most of the defenses of American slavery were written by clergy who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.

«Churches across the country will be hearing the Lazarus story if they follow the lectionary, said the Rev Adam Phillips, referring to the list of biblical passages arranged in the calendar year many churches follow.

Now, I am certainly aware of the biblical passages that condemn sodomy.

The continuity between the image of the Bible in the painting and the image of the French novel thus lies in its emphasis on the Christ - figure — even more apparent when one considers the subject of the biblical passage depicted in the painting.

Second, the author / speaker of the biblical passage is as much a receiver of God's Word as its conveyer.

Those who will not fall to the second death are obviously those who have trusted in Jesus who give the gift of eternal life based upon belief in Him as scores of biblical passages point out.

Oh I am — but I also know my view of biblical passages relating to the law need to be tempered with Jewish viewpoints (this is their whole faith)-- and I admit also that what I was taught in bible school and church (es) was quite different than what Judaism is saying on those same passages.

Many congregations have tried to avoid this practice: gender neutral translations of Biblical passages have been made available: and denominational publishing houses have developed policies about the language used in their publications.

Levenson leads us through some deft readings of biblical passages - the first clear articulation of resurrection, in Daniel 12, the revival episode in 2 Kings 4, and the vision of the valley of dry bones blossoming into life in Ezekiel 37 - to prove that resurrection is hardly a foreign idea.

Since when has a single interpretation of the biblical passages in question here been deemed the only one faithful Christians can have?

Several generations of students at Duke Divinity School have heard James «Mickey» Efird use those carnivalesque words to conclude debates over the meaning of a biblical passage.

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

My first question has to do with Altizer's interpretations of Biblical passages and of traditional Christian doctrines.

This is partly because it involves such questions as the interpretation of biblical passages that, on their face, condemn homosexuality as a sin.

You and Topher Monkey would make a great team, tap dancing your way through the «context» of biblical passages.

As I was looking through some of the biblical passages analyzed in the book, I was surprised by how verses generally deemed culturally specific often appeared in close proximity to verses generally deemed trans - cultural.

The example you have given is clearly a fundamentalist interpretation of Biblical passages.

Empirical data and the fact that God is the author of science has absolutely nothing to do with the interpretation of the biblical passages the author references.

Stories that address the theme or explore possibilities within the broadest possible interpretation of the Biblical passage.