Sentences with phrase «of biblical record»

Of course, by this definition the bulk of biblical record is emphatically prophetic in its understanding and interpretation of history.

(Jer 32:17).3 What is narrated at the very beginning of the biblical record, God's creating of all that is, also pervades the subsequent literature down through the prophets and the Wisdom tradition.4

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.»

Hurrians — the Horites of Biblical record — soon after 2000 B.C. established themselves midway on the Tigris, and from there spread throughout the Crescent.

One important task, then, is to see the nature, the method and the implications of God's revelation among African peoples, in the light of the biblical record of the same revelation.

«23 Pinnock is suggesting that elements of the evangelical community are presently confusing Biblical truth with certain traditional interpretations of the Biblical record which they accept.

This study demonstrated the reliability of the Biblical record regarding the Egyptian plagues and demise of Jericho.

Different parts of the biblical record take on relevance and importance as the church faces different situations.

Not exact matches

The morals you claim to be biblical are merely the morals of the time, recorded in the bible.

You can't counter with any evidence the obvious biblical evidence recorded by REAL people describing ACTUAL events of the time.

Actually, because of the Bible's untarnished record of accuracy when it comes to Biblical prophecy, I'm confident that this is ultimately how things will play out.

Then he went on to say that the fossil record is consistent with Creationism because a Biblical year could be several millions of years.

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

Dialogue between these competing theological options challenges one to take a fresh look at the biblical record in the hope of uncovering new insights concerning the shape God intended human life to take.

After twenty - five years, the translators wish again to record their debt to Eliza Hall Kendrick, formerly Professor of Biblical History at Wellesley College, for her criticism and her help in the attempt to avoid «translation English.»

We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations of every variety to influence the shaping of human history.

To test the theory that the biblical account may have depicted actual events, the researchers studied maps of the region, archaeological records and satellite measurements to find a topographical feature where such an event might have been possible.

Therefore it was also natural that the kerygma as we find it in the New Testament should not only be couched in biblical terms but also that these terms require for their proper understanding an awareness of the whole Old Testament witness and record.

One may ponder why the art and practice of healing, central to the biblical record, has until recent times been peripheral to theological education and to the central concerns of the organized church.

God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.

In the words of Henry Morris, a leading «scientific creationist»: «The Biblical record, accepted in its natural and literal sense, gives the only scientific and satisfying account of the origins of things....

I was saying that all the historical accounts of Jesus (which you rightly pointed out are only the biblical accounts) have the miraculous interwoven from the earliest records.

«Every single human being who walks on the face of the earth has a lense that they view the world through... Since Evolution / Atheism denies the existence of God and the biblical account of creation, they have to make sense of the fossil record and geologic formations somehow.»

Even if we consider the 2000 years of history that are recorded in the Bible, these biblical records only cover the tiniest fraction of human events that took place during these two millennia.

In other words, even though we have roughly 2000 years of biblical history in Scripture, these records only cover some of the events of some of the people who lived in a tiny, remote, relatively insignificant corner of the world.

How about the fact that Jesus was not born at this time of the year, since there is no biblical significance at this time of the year... and Passover and Unleavened Bread is rooted in the biblical record.

A sixth dimension, closely related to the first, third, and fourth dimensions, is grounding the theological position historically, showing the new features to be authentic developments of the Holy - Spirit - inspired trajectory of the human spirit that is recorded in the biblical tradition.

If one reads the biblical record carefully, one will observe the importance of play even within the more dominant biblical discussion of God's saving activity on behalf of his people.

Well, this argument states that while the Bible accurately records the thoughts, actions, and ideas of the various Biblical authors and the people to whom the various books were written, these thoughts, actions, and ideas may not actually be the thoughts, actions, and ideas that God endorses, nor the thoughts, ideas, and actions that we are to copy.

The real work, from the Biblical point of view, is the late - recorded, the unrecorded, the anonymous work.

The importance of recognizing the authority of multiple Biblical witnesses must be maintained if interpreters are to avoid twisting the Biblical record to support outside aims.37 Paul Holmer is correct in warning against evangelicals treating the Scripture as if it were a literary and metaphysical and casual gloss on a literal and systematic structure that it otherwise hides.

First, he will refer to the total picture of Jesus which the biblical record presents; in other words, he will use the specific act or teaching in context.

Let me say for the record that I do not believe that there are any biblical grounds for women being elders or teaching pastors of a church.

Even to record such conclusions of biblical scholars may contribute to the wintry chill that reaches many corners of the texts, God simply keeps asking creatures questions that admit of no easy answer.

It is necessary that we think of the Bible as a record of the mighty acts of God, and it may well be understood as a drama, the five acts being Creation, Covenant, Christ, Church, Consummation (See my Biblical theology and Christian Education [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956]-RRB-.

Of course there is no biblical record of anything before creation, so most of us believe that this is GOD's sole creatioOf course there is no biblical record of anything before creation, so most of us believe that this is GOD's sole creatioof anything before creation, so most of us believe that this is GOD's sole creatioof us believe that this is GOD's sole creation.

There is zero supporting evidence for the abiogenesis myth («life from non-life» foundation of atheism), but mountains of evidence for Jewish (Biblical) history, including written records by multiple authors, confirmed people, places, events, timelines, fulfilled prophesies, Israel scattered, Israel restored etc..

«22 The wars, as recorded, were so diverse that it is questionable whether the kind of pattern or design that von Rad discerns ever existed even in the minds of biblical writers, much less in the actual events.23 In particular, von Rad's insistence that holy war was always defensive can not be supported.24

This evaluation of the Gospel records has become clearer and more widely held during the last century or more, a period which has witnessed the development of biblical study on a scale more intensive than ever before, and using the valuable tools of historical and literary criticism.

The record of this disclosure of a special revelation is found in the biblical account.

Secular history as well as biblical history, records the life and death of Jesus Christ.

By analyzing the use of biblical citations in the four most recent election cycles, Berlinerblau manages an historical analysis that is fresh enough to be present in most readers» minds yet has a sufficient track record to provide useful data.

In the course of many centuries the biblical record has left us with an impressive compendium of historical testimony to God's dealings with Israel, expressed in terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theology.

One of the hardest questions confronting Christians defending the biblical record is, «How could a good God commission Israel to destroy women and children when they're fighting their battles?»

A Christian may be allowed to say that, if ever there were a philosophy which took seriously the kind of portrayal of God in relation to his world which we find in the biblical record, it is the philosophy of process.

When Evangelicals claim adultery as biblical grounds for divorce, they not only put words into Jesus's mouth that the Gospels do not record him as actually saying, but they mutilate the essence of the uniqueness of the Christian witness to marriage.

A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely human, but as Involving both God and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then currenOf God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then currenof the understanding of the world then currenof the world then current.

Is there an eschatology which can take into account both the biblical record and the deepest insights of our faith?

It must operate open - eyed in the midst of the problem of hermeneutics, or principles of interpretation, as these are propounded by the biblical record.

But whether the «nature of things» be grounded in God, or whether God be the primordial exemplification of «the nature of things» with respect to an independent, abstract «category of the ultimate,» it is the case that both the biblical record and process - relational thought recognize a pervasive movement toward greater richness of experience as a generic feature of reality.