Sentences with phrase «of biblical references»

That is prevailing message of Marriage 101, a faith - based, self - help book laced with lots of biblical references and personal anecdotes.

Now, I'm a Christian, who loves Jesus and who hopes to honor God with my life, but frankly, after hearing about 100 «God bless Americas» shouted between the two conventions, and dozens of biblical references dropped by both parties, I was just fine with seeing God's name removed from yet another piece of political propaganda.

All that is decided by that exercise is the number of biblical references.

The following are some of the biblical references where the Minjok is refereed to a positive and ultimate reality in the Reign of God:

* 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.

Not exact matches

The title's not - so subtle biblical reference is a hint at Stursberg's view of the Ceeb as the place that business common sense forgot, and the book serves largely as a catalogued defence of his belief that audience numbers, not an ambiguous cultural mandate, would define the network's success.

I hope you realize anything that is quoted «Spoken by Jesus» is questionable at best as in the academic world (Biblical scholars) most of what was written by anonymous scribe 200 - 300 years after the event are consider Pseudepigraphic and if nescessary I can supply historical reference.

Because of a court case in Louisiana that expressly forbid Biblical Creationism being taught in school science classes, the wording changed and the authors removed references to catastrophism, a world - wide flood, a recent inception of the earth or life, the concept of kinds, or any concepts from Genesis.

Any pre-Jesus reference to resurrection were mythical figures and the comparisons to the Biblical account of Jesus» resurrection are minimal and would need to be stretched quite far in order to apply.

As far as I know, there is only one obscure reference outside of biblical literature, and even that one is a subject of much debate.

There are MANY (snuck in another all caps... grin) great references which totally destroy the «answer» men's claims of biblical inerrancy, but I'll just give you one for now.

They reference «Green Mile» throughout, though one of his strongest biblical references is in «The Shawshank Redemption.»

Patrick was immersed in the language and thought of Scripture, and Moore provides alongside the text the biblical references, as well as unobtrusive footnotes explaining historical obscurities.

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

While Biblical Judaism has many references to God's love (abounding in mercy), it is not the primary trait stressed in the practice of Judaism today.

-- there is no «price» (again American Christian reference, not biblical); «his agents»: if you mean the Holy Spirit and / or Christ then since those are God then it's just the worship of God because you DESIRE to worship Him not as if there was anything any of us could offer that would be reciprocal for Christ's sacrifice.

Many of the slides in the 43 page presentation use a Christian justification for war, displaying pictures of saints like Saint Augustine and using biblical references.

That last biblical reference also loomed large in another 2011 White House meeting between Obama and a group of religious leaders.

This verse is not a botanical reference to the size of every seed known to man, but rather a comparison of the mustard seed to the other seeds a gardener would typically sow in his garden in the biblical world at the time of Christ.

Theology in the Reformation tradition has explored other alternatives, as in the «Andover theory» which views biblical texts such as 2 Peter 3:19 «20 and 4:6 and Christ's descent to the dead referenced in the Apostles» Creed as warranting belief in the Hound of Heaven pursuing the last and the least.

An IDF spokesman explained that most Israelis would recognize «Pillar of Cloud» as a biblical reference.

The story makes innumerable references to the Bible, from the opening parody of biblical language in the description of Astor, to the parody of Pilate's questioning of Christ in the lawyer's interview with a mute Bartleby, to the seriously meant quotation from Job.

When I tell friends and coworkers that I have seen biblical references in Unforgiven and elements of God's grace in Catch Me if You Can, I get some strange looks.

and a glorious example of how easy it is to contrive a message using Biblical references.

Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to homosexuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)

I'm also not that knowledgeable with the contents of the bible (yet) but I'm a fighter and I have a lot of determination so eventually I will be able to reference certain biblical facts or even bible verses to relate to a persons struggles.

Biblical reference — In Matthew 9:1 - 8, Jesus heals a paralytic and forgives his sins after seeing the faith of his friends.

Nearly all biblical references to «sin» are merely examples of this.

Several pastors and authors say King displays a sophisticated grasp of theology in his books, and his stories are stuffed with biblical references and story lines taken straight from the Bible.

It is a myth, however, to suppose that this process, either in science or in biblical study, proceeds merely according to external laws without reference to the inner fife of the interpreter!

One article (by Martin McNamara) examines some of the biblical evidence for process thought, while another (by Joseph Bracken) deals with Hartshorne's interpretation of the God - world relationship and assesses that relationship with particular reference to the doctrine of the Trinity.

It was in 1933, the beginning of the Nazi era in Germany, that there appeared, also in Germany, the first volume of one of the most influential biblical reference works of the 20th century, the multivolume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhard Kittel.

It is instructive in this regard that the actual biblical noun for love, «ahavah (as in the Song of Songs), appears only twice in the Psalter, both times in Psalm 109, and both times in reference to man's relation to man, not God.

Biblical references of the Household of God is dual, one referring to the spiritual; and the other referring to the comprehensive political economy of God for the whole people of God.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

ok... I think there was 1 question in there that was a Biblical reference... so why should evangelicals score 100 %??? I feel sorry for all the venemous people that are so full of hate... try to grow up a little and open your mind and let God in so He can heal all of those hurts so you can let go of the hate and poison in your hearts!!

Explain in your own words what quantum fluctuations are, with reference to certain operators, and then explain how that leads specifically to the biblical version of genesis.

The great seal of the United States bears two Latin mottos, E pluribus unum and Novus ordo saeclorum (new order of the ages), though even the Virgilian reference of the latter should not blind us to the biblical level of meaning that it also carries.

Brandon Stosuy, writing for Pitchfork, argues that «there are Biblical references, and references to mythology, but most of it is squarely about Stevens and his family.»

Set in a not - too - distant future kingdom called Gilboa (the location where the real King Saul died), nearly every element of the story is a reference to biblical themes, stories and characters.

We were afraid to speak of religious things or to make biblical references, lest we sound moralistic or preachy.

book of Enoch to the well - known Biblical character, or when it quotes Jesus» reference to the mustard seed as the smallest of all seeds.

A note on the Scriptural references: Because this paper deals with our understanding of Scripture and challenges the traditionally held position and doctrines, I have made an effort to give biblical references where appropriate.

The «past finding out» is clearly a biblical or liturgical reference that indicates that Fanny is attributing the mystery of memory to God.

As Gutiérez himself affirms, these emphases have been present from the first; a rereading of A Theology of Liberation will not only uncover a section titled «A Spirituality of Liberation,» but another 400 biblical references with which to wrestle.

I recognize the sin of sloth in us all that prevents us from looking up references, and I am still eager for readers to feel directly the impact of the biblical ambiguity.

Reference was made to Tradition, especially to the Decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909 which laid down that a special creation (peculiaris creatio) of the first man was to be held to be the literal historical sense intended by the second chapter of Genesis.

J.I. Packer probably is a good representation of the historic view: «Reference to a second blessing has to be read into the [biblical] text; it can not be read out of it.»

Biblical scholars could avoid the hermeneutical question for so long precisely because the scholar, having projected his interest onto the text, could regain it only vicariously through the «objective» restatement of what lay in the text, without any reference to himself or his community.

The only thing that would put us in «good standing» with the ex-gay and similar folk would be to admit we are gay and always will be («reparative» therapy doesn't work and denial ends in repression taking the form of promiscuity), and most of us aren't called to celibacy (in the only Biblical sense of the term, as Jesus makes reference to and Paul discusses at length).