We will want to reflect
on Scripture in a systematic way, but this will not be done in isolation from personal and social factors.
This is what most people do, including myself, but we still all come to differing
views on Scripture.
The Protestant emphasis
on Scripture as a sole and sufficient guide for faith has made us deficient in drawing on other traditions of the church.
My point in these pages has been that, so far as I can tell, my church and its
teaching on Scripture have been the primary influences in my approach to theology.
Everything every believer thinks, says or
writes on Scripture is their «interpretation of the truth of Scripture»; that's the nature of the beast that is man.
If you were invited to speak to
others on the scripture, with which portions would you be qualified or most comfortable?
Rather than
act on scripture I don't understand, I leave it be, maybe the truth the scripture has will be revealed to me, maybe it won't.
Now it's not just liberal clergy (who have never been too
keen on Scripture anyway) but an increasing number of «evangelicals» who are changing their view.
While this is an interesting
take on this scripture, it is a bit naive to assume that atheism is young system of belief.
As such I am well versed
on scripture as it pertains to areas of interest to me.
Sometimes you need to put down all the
books on Scripture and Theology and just read a good story.
My point is this: It is intellectually dishonest to say Christians make moral judgment calls based
on Scripture alone.
The leader gave a high - quality message based
on Scripture which was better than most sermons I have heard in churches.
LCC and the LCMS participate in regular dialogue with the young North American Lutheran Church, with the three church bodies issuing a joint
statement on Scripture in 2016.
We are committed to a sexual ethic
founded on Scripture, and individuals whose lifestyles do not align, are not affirmed as leaders.
This vision of doxological theology is at odds with the standard fourfold division of seminary education in the West, which keeps «Bible,» «church history,» «theology» and «practical ministry» cordoned off from one another, For the Orthodox, theology is simply commentary upon the saints» commentary
on scripture for the sake of the church's worship.
Bailey spent forty years living and teaching in the Middle East, and while much has changed there since the days of Jesus and Paul, there is much that has not changed as well, and these forty years of first - hand experience provide Bailey with a unique
perspective on the Scriptures which every reader and teacher of Scripture can benefit from.
He understood himself to be renewing the Reformers»
emphasis on scripture alone, but he was more rigorous than they in excluding philosophical support.
Even to
look on the Scripture with the reverence of a true believer constitutes, for devout Muslims, an act of worship to God.
Understanding the time in which something was written, the cultural background, how a contemporary of the writer would have understood the writing, and even understanding the meaning of the words in the language in which they were written can shed a lot of
light on Scripture.
The students began as strangers, but their work in
reflecting on Scripture and in sharing what they discovered with each other created something more than themselves: a friendship between themselves, and beyond themselves, with God.
As I said, earlier «classic Muslim
position on scripture which looks down on other scriptures as corrupt and theirs as pure and wonderful.»
Also, in the Protestant Evangelical world we put a great degree of
authority on Scripture and, therefore, those who abuse often distort Scripture in order to gain access, control, and silence over victims and their families.
If there's a priesthood of believers and everyone is supposed to rely
on scripture only, and ultimately on his or her own interpretation of scripture only, then there's a real danger that the passions and pressures of the day, as well as the prevailing popular culture, will find their way into the hearts and minds of those who continue to think of themselves as serious believers.
Wesley's comments
on the Scripture often reflect the classical doctrines of the inspiration of the Scriptures and a view of them as the «oracles of God» directly.