Sentences with phrase «one's view of scripture»

Clearly, even those of us with a high view of Scripture don't take everything literally.

And the other question I have is... Can I still hold to my conservative views of scriptures and have the same respect I give to others be returned in like manner?

And since you have different views of scripture (which I also got right), you will derive separate ethics.

Are you so insecure in your belief that you need to destroy any thought that doesn't fit your narrow view of scripture?

I do not have to pretend to have the same view of scripture to be able to confront those who would use it to harm.

I believe that in time, this will become the prominent view of Scripture.

That's for getting a broad view of Scripture.

Yes, these are both possible views of Scripture.

How does this affect your overall view of Scripture and how it should be interpreted regarding gender and sexuality?

As a believer you seem content with referring to the bible as authoritative with saying you have a high view of scripture.

That low view of Scripture reduced it to a sourcebook for the enlightened.

The commitment to an evangelical view of Scripture seems secure, but some of the other concerns that fueled the Controversy in the first place have surfaced again» and this time, with a vengeance.

«Seems like you take the Jeffersonian view of scripture — that is, the Bible is true if you first take all the miraculous stuff out of it.»

While evangelicals often adopt a narrow, literalist view of Scripture that borders on bibliolatry, I've spoken with mainliners who admit that they are embarrassingly illiterate when it comes to the Bible.

Some understanding of the place of scripture in other faith communities can help Christians be more aware of their particular view of scripture.

They view God as capable of supernatural intervention in our lives; hence, they have no difficulty affirming the miracles described in the Bible and they hold to a fairly literal view of scripture.

(And using a badly distorted view of scripture at that) And your attacks are laced with arrogant condescension.

Now certainly, Jesus is not really saying anything here about inspiration, but He is saying that the Jewish people had an incorrect view of Scripture.

But having migrated from one side of the secular / religious divide to the other, I can say for certain that trends can be reversed; even the orneriest, least receptive nones can be reached — and all without sacrificing a rigorous, orthodox view of Scripture.

4, Is it possible for a community to be composed of people of all kinds of levels of faith and even of no faith at all, or for those who hold a vastly differing views of scripture to keep fellowship?

Its presence there, however mistakenly justified, serves as a continuing corrective particularly to ascetic Christian tendencies, and to an otherworldly view of Scripture and biblical faith in general.

Could it be that you have been experiencing some cognitive dissonance with being a believer and a high view of scripture whilst advocating the pointing finger where the bible here places such action in the same light as oppression.

But perfectly expressing the sacramental view of scripture is what is said after the lectionary reading in the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer: «Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.»

«The Bible Made Impossible» shows how the traditional view of Scripture is can not provide the accurate and authoritative truth which it promised.

This is digusting... Not only does it miss the entire point of the sacrificial system — that it was an object lesson to the Jewish people, and a foreshadowing of the ultimate sacrifice to come that the Messiah would make for all sins once and for all, but it is a childish, disrespectful, and SHAMEFUL view of scripture.

The problem with these elders are a narrow minded view of scripture, but the issue is in their stubborness, not in the scriptures.

Seeing such divergence as evidence against Christianity is based upon the Protestant - Islamic view of scripture (and in any case the gap is gradually closing).

This topic can really shake the ground underneath the feet of some of our Christian brothers and sisters that have a little more ossified view of the scriptures.

My own personal view of Scripture is that God intended the Bible to contain two - sided (or even multidimensional) truth so that no one could ever master it completely.

In practical terms then what you would describe as a gnostic theist would be one who would, say have an ineerant view of scripture.

Liz, I am moving more and more toward the descriptive view of Scripture rather than prescriptive.

(It's a nuance, but this position holds even with an inerrant view of scripture and in different epistemological contexts.)

To say that there is something central and something peripheral in the Bible is, of course, to state a liberal view of Scripture which elicits contempt from some evangelicals.

Once we set Jesus in the context of a larger scriptural story, however, and come to grips with his sense of what exactly the new the new covenant would mean and how it would both fulfill and transform the old one... we discover a much richer, and more narratival, sense of «fulfillment,» which generates that subtle and powerful view of scripture we find in the early church.»

The modern view of Scripture originated in an age of industrial revolution when corporations were becoming more important than family (the husband, for the first time, left the home and joined Corporate America, building cars instead of families), and productivity was more important than relationships.

For instance, his treatment of the early Pentecostals» view of Scripture follows the standard interpretation according to which the movement's adherents were biblical literalists who had little use for allegory or forms of biblical criticism.

Even Christians who hold different views of scripture disagree on this subject, but that does not make it bigotry.

He's entitled to that opinion, of course, but I do wish he would stop accusing Christians who don't interpret Genesis 1 as a literal, scientific text as having a «low view of Scripture» when his piece reveals that his own literalism is as selective as the next guy's.

In the conservative view of Scripture, however, there is no paradox; written words become unequivocally the Word of God — even without the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.