Sentences with phrase «only biblical author»

Moses is the only biblical author to write any commands about the tithe.

Paul was not the only Biblical author to speak of such power.

Not exact matches

Refutation: Jesus and the biblical authors only had copies, and they seemed to have believed that the Bible was inerrant (Matt 4:4; John 10:35).

In describing the six wings adorning each of the four biblical beasts representing the authors of the Gospels in Purgatorio XXIX, Dante assures us that their wings were six in number (Ezekiel's cherubic creatures had only four [1:6]-RRB-, that is, as many as are found in John's description of the same creatures (Revelation 4:8).

The author sees the nature of the ordained ministry in terms of functions, or what the minister actually does, by examining the biblical bases and the historical development of ministry, and concludes that the church can only function with competent professional leadership.

Of course, the fact that all biblical evidence of God's transcendence occurs only within history does not seem to bother the authors.

A statement written by a spokesperson for LifeWay said: «LifeWay only carries resources in our stores by authors who hold to the biblical view of marriage.

I am quite conservative myself, but think of the inspiration of God as something closer to the whisperings of God, which He does not only upon biblical authors, but upon many others as well.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

Biblical authors knew nothing of Buddhism, and we can only speculate as to how they might have responded to it.