Sentences with phrase «old question which»

We are back again at the old question which the Reformers asked of the Church of Rome, and which has cropped up again and again in the discussions within the Protestant church.

Not exact matches

Several experts questioned whether the practice is in keeping with the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which prohibits bias against people 40 or older in hiring or employment.

A recent infographic from WordStream asks the not so age old question: Facebook vs. Google, which is more valuable?

Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.

Some of you questioned god's morality based on some verses in OT, which described disturbing happenings in the old, BC history.

Quite apart from the proof this ought to offer the Republicans that even the pro-abortion chorus recognizes which way the wind is blowing, we are still left with the question of why liberals seem suddenly to recognize the need for new justifications — especially since they got such mileage from their old ones.

It differed from the old in that the «above» in question was now that «Spirit» which is the subject of the total historical process undergoing transformation in and through it.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world.

Thereby a theological chasm is once again arising between the Christian and the Jew that is perhaps as great or even greater than it has been in the past, a chasm leading the Christian to question his knowledge of Yahweh, and to recognize that the Scripture which he knows as Old Testament is not the Scripture which is known to the Jew.

Both are real and baffling questions to which the reincarnation teaching claims to supply a simple answer: New souls are simply old souls in new bodies.

The tradition in question here was a matter of the distinction between clean and unclean, which is prominent both in the Old Testament and in the oral law.

Unfortunately, my Baptist pastor father used to answer issues regarding the Bible I thought were questionable with the old «you're questioning the Bible, therefore God» to which I would reply «no, I'm questioning your interpretation of the Bible».

This is one of the oldest questions in the world, far older of course than the Old Testament book of Job, which makes some attempt to deal with it.

The very extent to which these new emphases are merely the reversed image of the old ones raises questions.

This is why, at one point in the book, I grant the Gnostics of old the validity of their questions, though I go on to revile the answers at which they arrived.

That kind of blows apart the old «sheep and shepherd» story that most Christians believe without question and which most pastors love to toss out at their «stupid sheep» languishing in the pews.

Edwin Scott Gaustad in his Historical Atlas of Religion in America (Harper & Row, 1962) takes us back to that time, citing a March 1957 Bureau of the Census survey in which persons 14 years of age and older were questioned about their religious preference.

And indeed the question which was raised of old and is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz, what being is, is just the question, what is substance?

One of the accounts in the Hebrew Scriptures which does a masterful job of portraying this age - old question about the nature and character of God is the book of Jonah.

The Serial podcast (which is not affiliated with Undisclosed) opened up new questions about the 16 - year - old murder case and how police handled the investigation, but it will be covering an entirely new case when it comes back for the second season.

It's hilarious watching the same people bicker back and forth and nobody ever presents anything of substance, just the same old tired responses to the simplest overarching questions, which shows no intellectual capacity whatsoever.

Near the close of the book, Barr again seems to despair of his subject and calls for works in the «Christian doctrine of the Old Testament,» since «traditional Old Testament theology... has often tried to solve questions which, properly speaking, can not be solved within the horizon of the Hebrew Bible itself and within the boundaries of its resources» (this last is a very valid point).

At a conference in California this past summer, I had the opportunity to discuss these questions publicly with an old friend, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, OP, the archbishop of Vienna and principal editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (a labor for which the universal Church owes him a great debt of gratitude).

The film — which tells the story of a girl who claims to have visited heaven after nearly dying — brings back up a question most of us don't often consider unless we're reading the Old Testament: Should we expect miracles to happen more often?

Another question can be asked, which has to do with what is commonly called «personal immortality,» This is a Greek conception, hardly mentioned in the Old Testament and only indirectly mentioned in the New Testament.

We've already discussed Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world, and Chapter 3 --- «The Old Testament and Theological Diversity» — which addresses some of the tension, ambiguity, and diversity found within the pages of Scripture.

So perhaps Ms. Peeters» film can tell us some things about us as well — it does not hesitate, after all, to move its camera from the harassing men onto the various soft - porn advertisements that also haunt the streets of Brussels, and ask the old - fashioned feminist question, one which Ms. Brown's magazine actively mocked and undermined, «How can we be respected when images like this are displayed and circulated?»

This is the question with which the Messianic promises of the Old Testament are concerned.

To take Mark's presentation of Jesus» teaching as normative, or final — as on the older «Marcan hypothesis» — is simply out of the question, and sets before the Christian religion, as we have seen, a problem which nineteen centuries have now demonstrated to be insoluble.

It's hilarious watching the same people bicker back and forth and nobody ever presents anything of substance, just the same old tired responses to the simplest overarching question, which shows no intellectual capability whatsoever.

In all of this there is not a single item which is not at home within Judaism, just as there is no single remark of Jesus which can not with some degree of closeness be paralleled in the Old Testament or in other Jewish literature, but taken as a whole Jesus» teaching, without any question, represents a highly distinctive and original apprehension of reality.

So many questions, but we don't get to choose the word of the year (The runner - up is «nostalgia» which also seems just about as old as time itself, but at least it's entered sort of a boom season, so that makes a little more sense).

The period which spawns a Great Awakening is a time when the realities of life in society have deviated so far from their moral and religious understandings that the authority of the old institutions are questioned.

There's one park nearby which is kind of the «hippie» park, and that's where I find the moms who are more prone to talk to me and not just ask how old he is, what potty training issues we've had, or other «parent shield» questions that allow us to chat without ever actually talking.

«The question which was raised of old and is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz. what being is, is just the question, what is substance?

Plus or minus a few hundred thousand years which may change slightly over time as we improve the ability to measure, there is only one generally accepted answer to the question, «how old is the earth?»

Other than these, are there other books you have read which deal with the difficult question of the God of the Old Testament behaving in ways which seems contrary to the God revealed in Jesus Christ?

In seeking a solution to the problem of divine violence in the Old Testament, I was quite hesitant to accept any view which called into question the traditional understandings of the inspiration or inerrancy of Scripture.

I love the old line of reasoning which says if you ever question you were never a true person of faith to begin with.

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»

just thinking, I responded to Bob's questions in the same manner he responded to my post above (under mandarax) Did he not «dodge it Issue» of Jesus Christ, going to Old Testament which can not be explained and understood properly without knowing the New Testament and Person who represent it?

Regarding the age of the earth which you are claiming the bible says is 6000 - 9000 years old: Question: how much time elapsed from verse 1 to verse 2?

The question is, why are the hate filled tenants of the Koran no longer valid but the passages in the Bible are (which is older by thousands of years)?

But it is not primarily a question of what their authors knew and wrote down, but of older traditional material which they incorporated in their books.

Second, we used boneless skinless chicken thighs which I believe is the answer to the age old question «how do I keep my chicken juicy on the grill?»

«It's the age old question of which industry you're in and pricing,» a senior capital markets adviser said on the basis of anonymity.

If the deal does go ahead the Portuguese manager will likely install the 20 - year - old as his third choice striker behind Diego Costa and Radamel Falcao, which would then raise question marks over Loic Remy's future at the club.

The player has since return to selection for Jose Mourinho, however the United boss has questioned the player's attitude and football intelligence, as per Sky Sports, with the Red Devils manager also making comments about Shaw, who is on # 70,000 - a-week at Old Trafford according to the Daily Star, after United's recent 4 - 1 win over Burton, in which the left - back came on a substitute.

With his ongoing snub, which included a failure to make the squad for the EFL Cup final, it has been a difficult season for him at Old Trafford and one that has seemingly made him question his future at the club.

The age old question for Kobe Bryant has been which Kobe does he love more: No. 8 or No. 24?