Sentences with phrase «on scripture as»

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.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

To support his slurs, Eichenwald first tries to undermine reliance on Scripture as a supreme authority for moral discernment and then to show how Christians, oblivious to the problems with biblical inspiration, ignore its clear teaching.

We will meditate on scripture as a way of settling down before we do business.

As such I am well versed on scripture as it pertains to areas of interest to me.

Not exact matches

This being said, when gay and lesbians want to promote their views as normal or that would be permissible for a priest or bishop to be a practising homosexual, I disagree based on the clear statements of Scripture.

In one response you have referred to me as silly, accused me of being unable to reconcile my beliefs to scripture, accused me of stalling, rambling on and on, (love the irony in this one... grin), likened me to a tween, insinuated I do not know or rightly divide scripture, referred to me as sensitive, and implied my post was immature.

Heck, even David on occasion has scolled me for using ONLY scripture as proof for an argument we would be having.

Their interpretations are based on the Torah (including those Leviticus passages) and they consider all thing in their interpretation — not just 2 scriptures as «evidence».

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

Now the pressures of the sexual revolution are tempting the Church to loosen her claim on the bodily act that Scripture consistently treats as most deeply implicated in spiritual things — sex.

And since some 40 % of scripture regarding alcohol has a positive view on drinking it, then i don't see a problem here (as opposed to the 10 % that is against drinking and the 50 % that is neutral).

Just as we look back on Christians who used Scripture to justify slavery and male supremacy as misinformed, history will once again show that conservative Christians inappropriately applied Scripture to shame and degrade gays and lesbians.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

«For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was RAISED on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the twelve.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

Besides, Jesus discussed hell far more than he discussed heaven, and most Christian do believe it because the bible discusses it as a real place for real people on real pages in real scripture verses.

Ever since the call for prophethood first came to Muhammad, the son of «Abdallah» approaching the age of fortieth on the month of Ramadan, it is related the Angel Gabriel came to Muhammad and he slept in solitude on Mount Hira and said, «Recite» what Muslims known as the first four verses of the ninety - sixth chapters of the Muslim scripture, known as the Qur «an.

The scripture dealing with Judas having been better off not being born, simply relates to the shame he will feel in due time when he is resurrected on earth to find earth's billions acknowledging him as the betrayer of the world's saviour, yikes!!

In 1 Corinthians 15:3 - 8 it says «For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.

New Testament Fulfillment: «When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.

As Evangelicals and Catholics we are agreed on what we have said together in the statement «The Gift of Salvation» and on what we have been able to say together in the present statement on Scripture and tradition.

While Greene's project is an ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.

CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the meaning and ends of war

In the Jewish scripture, a form of indentured servitude is recognized and strictly controlled with set time limits on such service (seven years) as a method of discharging bankruptcy.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

I find it really unfortunate that so many on this site feel the need to resort to portraying the Scriptures as primitive, something no modern, intellectual being would embrace.

The Jesus approached scripture with a mythological imagination that relied as much on intuition as logic.

«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and life as when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures.»

On the level of authority, the Scripture is set over against reason and tradition (understood both ecclesiastically and as the cumulative and collected wisdom of personal experience).

Facebook page, and even after these people read my dream on my FB page which includes the Scriptures that explained my dream to me, they mocked me, called me names, questioned my mental health and said I saw something demonic (as if Satan would tell me, «Repent NOW.

Everything in scripture has never been disproven, and only comes more and more to truth as time passes on.

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

I think we all like to claim that our theology alone is based on Scripture, etc, when in reality, there is a whole host of other influences that get poured into our theology as well.

Romans 9:22 - 24 — And right on queue, you quote biblical scripture as if this somehow bolsters the points you make.

For him, as for Pietists generally, the focus was on the personal appropriation of the good news rather than on the supernatural status of the scriptures through which we have access to it.

I've been doing some thinking and reading on all of this, and hope it continues to fit with Scripture as I read and study more.

But as time went on, Wright says, «reason» became known as an entirely separate source of information, «which could be played off against scripture and / or tradition.»

If you end up at unbelief it is you who will cast off salvation / JESUS as Esau did (He cast off his inheritance) The «work» of a Christian begins with Faith to recieve Christ, maintaining faith (done by allowing the santification process, walking on all the warnings of the scriptures of things to avoid and things to add to faith).

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

There are obviously very intentional actions of Jesus that are described in Scripture, but much of what we hear that He said and did comes as a reaction to the things that were going on around Him.

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

Even if you can't see it as clearly in scripture as I do, I hope you can at least be open to the possibility that people who thought they were saved, may find out on that day that they really weren't because they didn't listen to Jesus» and Paul's warnings.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

It seems as if people are always in debate over scripture due to relying on their own understanding to comprehend it.

He knows the Vatican II documents on Scripture and the liturgy; he obviously continues to study and to refresh his insights with additional research into the Mass and its theology as laid out in the Catechism.

It's my term for the texts that function like scripture in American public life, the voices to which we are forever returning as we reflect together on what America is all about.

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.