Sentences with phrase «of biblical teaching»

Sometimes we disagree when we attempt to summarize central themes of Scripture or try to provide a comprehensive overview of biblical teaching on a particular topic, such as the family or economic justice.

Here it is assumed that the church's teaching is the responsible development of biblical teaching, but the task is not so much to check this assumption as to build on the tradition.

Your comments show that you are completely ignorant of the Biblical teachings.

Mary has a pivotal and irreducible place in the Bible, and evangelicals must reclaim this aspect of biblical teaching if we are to be faithful to the whole counsel of God.

But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.

The earlier ones already showed the relation of Scripture to theology in Pentecostal practice: such works were simple, uncritical explanations of biblical teaching for recent converts and for new but untrained ministers.

The hostility to Buddhism, for example, does not arise out of Biblical teaching about Buddhism.

At their ordination Lutheran pastors vowed to teach in accord with these writings, and the synod's own bylaws affirmed that the Scriptures and these writings (understood as an accurate exposition of biblical teaching) were the standard for the church's public doctrine.

We also affirm that tradition, rightly understood as the proper reflection of biblical teaching, is the faithful transmission of the truth of the gospel from generation to generation through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Such cowardly acts have no basis in the broader scheme of Biblical teaching and tradition.

The creationists think of themselves as staunch conservatives, engaged in a loyal defense of biblical teaching.

If someone puts ecclesiastical tradition ahead of biblical teaching, that person is rarely motivated to consider change.

The word doctrine is therefore being used in a way that is flexible enough to accommodate the variety of biblical teaching on these and other subjects as well as the factor of development in some themes as we move from the Old Testament into the New Testament.

There were some Early Church Fathers who did not think this was wise and argued against such a combining of Biblical teaching and Greek Philosophy.

Christian liberty implies that reasonable and faithful Christians will disagree about issues situated farther away from the core of biblical teaching.

Augustine believes that Volusian had arbitrarily chosen one strand of biblical teaching while ignoring others.

No Scott, you are abandoning a great deal of biblical teaching to prop up your bigotry based upon false representation of scripture.

Is it a violation of biblical teachings?

Their reading of biblical teachings about particular kinds of sexual activity often fails to account for the cultural setting and circumstances in which each book of the Bible was written.

A lot of these comments show the lack of biblical teaching and understanding of scripture in the home, of course its hard to teach biblical truth when the home is run by to men.

Frei observed that modern conservative and liberal approaches to the Bible both undermine the authority of scripture by locating the meaning of biblical teaching in some doctrine or worldview that is held to be more foundational than scripture itself.

Creeds are summaries of Biblical teaching, so in setting up Biblical teaching against creedal teaching you are creating a false dichotomy.

For Protestants, collective repentance is easiest when we can understand it as recovery of Biblical teaching.

A second group holds that because sexual and family patterns are not the subject of Biblical teaching, the correct Christian response is to move from the basic Biblical understanding of human existence to the formulation of an ethic for our time.

«Creation,» based on the book written by Darwin's great - great - grandson and entitled Annie's Box, is a secular hagiography of Darwin, which is not surprising, given that modern films have a proclivity towards themes that fly in the face of biblical teachings.

The Utah Eagle Forum claimed that the play «Dead Man Walking,» recently performed at Bingham High, contained «inappropriate use of biblical teachings.»

The case concerns a private evangelical Christian university which requires all students and faculty to sign a Community Covenant based on evangelical Christian notions of Biblical teaching and morality.

I differ in that I find in Christ a basis for critical liberation from many aspects of Biblical teaching.

Locke not only found this perspective to be philosophically problematic; he also saw it as based on a confused understanding of biblical teaching.

After relating his personal experience with homosexuals in counseling and after analyzing the contemporary movement toward gay liberation, Williams devotes successive chapters to a discussion of four social scientists» views of homosexuality, to an analysis of the Biblical teaching, and finally to a presentation of the positions of three representative theologians - Barth (traditional), Thielicke (moderating), and McNeill (accepting).

The third aspect of the biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor and oppressed is that the people of God, if they are really the people of God, are also on the side of the poor and oppressed.

The second aspect of the biblical teaching that God is on the side of the poor and oppressed is that he works in history to cast down the rich and exalt the poor.

Given some such understanding of Biblical teaching, twentieth - century Christians have genuinely regretted that the church has so long communicated the idea that sex is dirty and that its pleasures are to be avoided as much as possible.