Sentences with phrase «on pages of scripture»

The church that God blesses is one that dances to heaven's tune as recorded on the pages of Scripture.

Logos means «word» but when used of Scripture, it refers to all of the written Word of God, all of the Bible, in it's entirety, as it is written down with pen and ink on the pages of Scripture.

Not exact matches

You're a literalist and stop at the basic reading of words on a page... you refuse to go deeper into the connotations of many a scripture because it ruins your basic reading of the passage.

You looked forward to the part of your day where you were able to pour over the pages of Scripture that filled you in on this new relationship.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Maine cites the anachronistic Tower of Babel» on his first page» because he wishes to make clear that he understands this, and that his text does not carry Scripture's water in a different bucket.

I think that every Bible should have a big «STOP» sign on the first page along with that passage of scripture letting the reader (or potential reader) know that this book is not for everybody, but only for those that have been enabled by God to read and understand it.

For example, his nine pages describing play, based in a theological reflection on creation, are perceptive and honest to both Scripture and the play experience.56 Quoting the Westminster Catechism of 1647, he speaks of «man's chief end» being «to glorify God and enjoy him forever.»

Today we move on to Chapter 3 — «The Old Testament and Theological Diversity» — which addresses some of the tension, ambiguity, and diversity found within the pages of Scripture.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

Like the Calvinist, the non-Calvinist also believes that his or her understanding of God is accurately derived from Scripture and what God has revealed about Himself on its pages and through Jesus Christ.

Overall we are on the same page, but as we present a different understanding (though not a new understanding of scripture — just hidden in the presupositions built up over time), sometimes it takes a while to get through all those years of presupositions till we see what the other has been showing from scripture.

I have decided to return to the original purpose of this website, and focus my writing on the inexhaustible content found within the pages of Scripture.

Instead, I learned it through the careful and prayerful study of Scripture as I seek God's face and listen to His whispering through the words of God on the written page and the Word of God in Jesus Christ.

Watch debates between Andrew Wilson, Brian McLaren and Steve Chalke on how we should interpret scripture today, and read articles (at the bottom of the page) by all three for Premier Christianity.

On one page, he apparently didn't like the number of prepositions in a verse from Matthew that started, «For as in the days that were before the flood...» He cut out the word «as,» changing the scripture to «For in the days that were before the flood...»

If you do want to join a group of like - minded people and learn about Scripture, church, and following Jesus is a refreshing and life - giving way, pick one of the discipleship levels on this page.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

A few years ago, in a moment of lonely desperation, I googled something having to do with «Christians against biblical inerrancy» (for some reason you were on the first or second page of search results...) because I was trying to find out if there was anyone else who was thinking about the Scriptures in a different way from what I had encountered.

Watch debates between Andrew Wilson, Brian McLaren and Steve Chalke on how we should interpret scripture today, and read articles (at the bottom of the page) by...

«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

The whole history of the Church confirms the sentiment taught expressly in many passages of Scripture, and by implication, on every page of the New Testament, that the great agency appointed and employed of God in the work of instructing and saving men, is the living rninistry of Christianity.1

It's already up The entire year can be found by clicking on «scripture writing» in the little menu on the very top right of this page, up above the picture of my books I'll try to drop a direct link here when I'm at my computer next (on phone now).

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