Sentences with phrase «on scriptural basis»

I agree with the model in principle only, it is totally based on traditional church model and not on scriptural basis, not all churches fall into that category and even if they do we as Christians need to change the way we have our religious eyes.

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The scriptural case that homosexuality is a sinful abomination to God is based on bad translation and faulty exegesis.

The more I study the Bible, the less confident I am in saying that my theology is based on scriptural exegesis.

The new genre would contain autobiographical fiction closely based on the Scriptural narratives and faithful to first - century history.

George Kennedy's comment in New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism can be applied to Lincoln and King: «In religious discourse... the premises of argument are usually based on a scriptural authority or personal intuition, enunciated in sacred language.»

Based on the Scriptural authority of James 5:14 - 15, it sought to emphasize that the sacrament is for the sick and not exclusively the dying.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

The collect form, based on some scriptural prayers (see Acts 4:24 - 30), dates back to fifth - century Roman texts.

Change for the sake of change is never good, but change that is effected based on scriptural content would be powerful.

This is a cogent advocacy of marriage equality based on scriptural principles.

Of course, you are ignoring the fact that 1) it is supposedly based on Jesus» birth but scriptural estimates place his birth between 6BC and 4AD, and 2) the whole BC / AD system wasn't devised until around 500 AD, and 3) counting a calendar as evidence of an event is ridiculous (unless you also believe in Thor [thursday], Woden [Wednesday], and Freya [Friday]-RRB-

Provided the foundation of the aetiology is correctly and fully made use of and provided care is taken to determine what is affirmed on its basis, it is possible to consider that what is actually asserted in the scriptural accounts may be understood to be the outcome of historical aetiology of that kind, such as would be possible at least with the assistance of God's Spirit.

Come on now, with your love of quoting scripture I was sure that your scriptural basis for all these ideas would just take minutes to post.

Morality plays, based on scriptural themes and dramatized for the illiterate masses of the Middle Ages the struggle of good with evil, embodied in the various characters virtues such as innocence, beauty, kindness, and patriotism in their triumph over vices such as sloth, ugliness, gluttony, lying, and cheating.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

I am sorry i do nt mean any harm, i just found it kinda of weird that you did nt believe in god but you follow up on the comment with scriptural basis.

I, too, find myself convinced of the importance of developing a theology of hope based on the scriptural drama which runs from creation to consummation, telling of God's purpose to bring his Kingdom to pass in cosmos and in human history.

The so - called scriptural basis for saying gay people aren't ok is mostly based on a very few readings taken out - of context with added interpretations that aren't in the text at all.

The previous May the Institute's Chairman HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammmad of Jordan welcomed the World Economic Forum C - 100 meeting by stating that dialogue based upon moderate religious «orthodoxy» and the scriptural «love thy neighbour» was necessary to win over the Arab Muslim man - on - the - street.

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

If we have learned anything from the dispensationalists» repeated warning of an imminent return of Christ that somehow never seems to occur, it is the folly of basing Christian doctrine on current events instead of clear scriptural teaching.

The Diet at Worms was essentially a call for Luther to recant, and his defiant refusal based on scriptural authority evoked a papal excommunication followed by a staged kidnapping by his friends to place him in protective custody at Wartburg Castle.

The more I studied, the more convinced I became that we Christians had applied a different standard to the homosexuality texts than we had to other Scriptural texts, and that condemning Christ - centered relationships solely based on gender was actually inconsistent with biblical teaching.

We may contrast this rigorism with Nathaniel Ward's dictum as the self - appointed spokesman for the most rigid of the English — the Bay Puritans — that while Scriptural injunctions make it impossible for the State «to give an Affirmative Toleration to any false Religion, or Opinion whatsoever» on the basis of concession as a right, yet it «must connive in some Cases.

But the «rootedness» of the historic churches is offset by a sorry record concerning faithfulness to an honest scriptural exegesis based on the original intent of the biblical writer or writers in question.