Sentences with phrase «on biblical issues»

You're confused, Demuth.The idea that «everyone is a child of God «has no Biblical basis whatsoever; who told you otherwise?Only those born again in Christ via the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit are children of God in the Bilical sense.If you are going to comment on biblical issues at least get your theology straight; otherwise you sound just as silly as the other God - haters on this blog.

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I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

Loki, his «church» was quite literally FOUNDED on the principle that Southern slavery was Biblical and just; further, that «church» has NEVER issued a binding, formal apology for its support of slavery, racial etiquette, and Jim Crow; in fact, they were their most ardent supporters.

Many Christians rightly contest their claim that this is the biblical view of divine power, for the Bible has no monolithic view on most all theological issues.

Actually, I would be very glad to have someone in the US with whom I could co-operate on this issue (and also other biblical issues).

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic philosophers of religion, writing from a variety of theological and communal points of view» Roman Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence of early trinitarian teaching).

Combining the beauty of what he calls the «true gospel» with a biblical orthodoxy that will inescapably mark Christians as «strange,» Moore holds forth on the charged issues defining the 21st century.

Though we long for the Bible to weigh in on these issues and give us biblical perspectives or answers, we dare not impose such an obligation on the text.

You said in one of your blogs that you're teetering on some core Biblical issues.

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

SBC conservatives have much history on their side when they argue for a robust Baptist confessionalism, but they depart from the historic Baptist pattern when they restrict their doctrinal concern to the single issue of biblical inerrancy.

A wise interpreter would set this verse aside as too vague and unclear on this particular issue and seek Biblical truth on this subject in the clear passages throughout the Bible that teach that God does not hold children to account for the sins of their parents!

American studies, biblical literature and Reinhold Niebuhr's social ethics focus on careerism, are issues consuming attention on American campuses, especially at predominantly women's colleges.

For analyses of the biblical interpretation on both sides, see Willard M. Swartley, Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. biblical interpretation on both sides, see Willard M. Swartley, Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. Biblical Interpretation (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983), pp. 152 - 191; Robert K. Johnston, Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. Biblical Authority in Practice (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979), PP. 48 - 76.

Among the biblical authors, there is no debate on the issue.

His early work concentrated on linguistic issues, applying sophisticated notions of semantics to biblical Hebrew and the operations that biblical scholars perform, often naively, on the text.

The writings of Harold Lindsell, Francis Schaefer, Bernard Ramm, Carl Henry, Clark Pinnock, Dick France, James Packer and others present a range of contradictory theological formulations on such issues as the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and the Christian's response to homosexuality.

That evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they are addressing suggests the problematic nature of their present understanding of theological interpretation.

That is, how can evangelicals maintain their theoretical paradigm of Biblical authority while subscribing to contradictory positions on a variety of significant theological issues?

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

Evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they address — the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and most recently the Christian's response to homosexuality.

It might be the case on a particular issue, as the topic of women in the church is currently indicating, that traditionalists are the ones who have misinterpreted the Biblical posture.

Since Harold Lindsell assumed the position of editor late in the sixties, Christianity Today has moved away from the mere elucidation of socially related Biblical principles, as Henry thought was right, to an ongoing commitment to social critique and specific commentary on a wide range of social and political issues.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey — award - winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as «lucid, compelling, and beautifully written» (Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth)-- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

The issue at stake, which Ratzinger has picked up on, is not one of defending or attacking biblical historicity but rather a more fundamental one.

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

Three books on biblical scholarship and equality that changed my mind and resulted in repentence about the «issue» of women:

There is much more that could be said, but this is perhaps enough to provide a sufficient theological and biblical foundation for making up one's mind on the issue.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

And there's a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing «biblical values» to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform.

Members want the pastor to take a stand on moral issues as long as the position taken claims to be biblical and conforms to their moral values and commitments.3

We have a clear biblical mandate to share the good news, and I worry that my friends won't even consider Christianity because of our perceived views on a few issues.

Only when we see global South Christianity on its own terms — as opposed to asking how it can contribute to our own debates — can we see how the emerging churches are formulating their own responses to social and religious questions, and how these issues are often viewed through a biblical lens.

Lentz was asked about his views on tattoos in a recent interview with World Religion News and responded with the importance that Biblical interpretation plays in the issue.

The fact that Nicene views prevailed, and have been defended over and over again by great theologians and biblical scholars down the centuries, only confirms the conclusion that the Nicene Fathers correctly discerned the meaning of Scripture on the vital issue of the nature of Christ.

She does not decide whether scriptural testimony should be taken seriously on the basis of the most recent issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review.

Not only does Robert Chisholm explain the biblical text in a way that makes sense and reveals the cultural, historical, and grammatical contexts of Judges and Ruth, he also deals with modern questions that the text address, such as the issues of female leadership, the consequences of spiritual compromise, and the often bewildering actions of God in relation to His people on earth.

Expository preaching on Biblical texts gave way to topical preaching on «living» issues.

If biblical model of marriage is polygamy then I support it - that system kept women in families instead of loitering on the streets unprotected (there are more women than men and divorce has created further demographic issue of single women).

This is, of course, the issue addressed on a more personal level in Rabbi Harold Kushner's highly popular When Bad Things Happen to Good People, reassessing a conflict at least as ancient as the biblical Book of Job.

The church clings to its condemnation of any homosexual activity, justifying itself by means of dubious Biblical warrants of a sort it would be ashamed to use on other issues.

The Bible is a storehouse of proof texts into which the believer may dip when seeking «biblical warrant» for his or her own views on current issues.

Most Christian theologies have defined Mormonism a «cult» in more the sense of the former - tenets of Mormon theology differ widely from Orthodox Christianity when it comes to key issues like Biblical authority, the trinity, divinity and claims of Christ, total depravity, redemption and salvation... on and on.

The paid - time religious broadcasters claimed to represent the biblical position on political issues, but the biblical basis of their policies was seen to be rather suspect.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

Insistence on biblical science is just a first step toward renewing the church generally: «This will have a ripple effect as the church wakes up to biblical authority on any number of other issues.»

And on the two main collective moral issues of our day — the civil rights movement that seeks democratic improvements for our black minority, and opposition to the terrible and mistaken war in Vietnam — the thoroughly ecumenical cooperation among the three biblical faiths gives one a reassuring confidence that unpolemical attitudes are not in contrast to moral commitments.

Other times, they are just the one who people look to for all the answers on biblical and theological issues.

Employees must adhere to all «biblical absolutes,» Gorz said, but on issues where the Bible is not clear, Moody leaves it to employees» conscience.