Sentences with phrase «only holy scripture»

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The written Logion — Oracles, the Holy Scripture were committed to Israel's keeping and still to this day exists as the one and only Hebrew text (amidst all the different versions / translations of the Bible).

Scripture is already a theological reality identifiable with Christ, and so the «material text should not be called Holy Scripture strictly speaking, since these manuscripts are only sacred to the extent that the sacred meaning accompanies them.»

The only way I learned about God is through the Bible... those scriptures are the only TRULY holy thing on this earth.

Take the next giant leap, put the Holy Spirit Word of God, Sacred Scripture, down, get up and ask to walk with the Lord from the get - go, that is the beginning and allow Him to make you His own as only He can...

It was hardly the only part of the speech where Obama was speaking «Christianese» — employing a lexicon familiar to evangelical Christians, who put a premium on quoting Scripture and communing directly with the Holy Spirit.

There is only one place in the New Testament that uses the normal term «holy» (hieros) in connection to Scripture, and that is 2 Timothy 3:15.

There is nothing in Holy Scripture, he points out, about loving man in the mass — only about loving your neighbor as yourself.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

In his view nature was only too willing to reveal its theological secrets to minds renewed by the Holy Spirit and eyes corrected by the spectacles of scripture.

As you say not all detail is available, yet, when we are born again from a worldly secular mind, Gods Holy Spirit confirms the Truth not only of scripture but the explanations to our searchings.

This book not only deals with preliminary issues surrounding Luke and Acts such as the context of Luke and Acts in the canon of Scripture, and the unity of authorship for Luke and Acts, but also deals with numerous theological themes and issues in Luke and Acts such as salvation, the person and work of Jesus Christ, the coming of the Holy Spirit, the ongoing role of Israel and the Law, and the beginnings of the church.

A few of the scholars say that «God - breathed» not only invokes the idea of the Holy Spirit, but also that the Scripture is God's Word / breath; a concept that would have been very familiar to a Jewish mindset.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

How do we approach a Holy Scripture that not only explains events differently than we would, but that also has a very different understanding of what even counts for a reasonable explanation?

Nothing would lead us to believe that women invoked the Holy One with any less frequency or fervor than did their male counterparts, yet the scriptures record only a fraction of women's prayers in comparison with those prayed by men.

[1] He acknowledges that a truly historical approach is necessary, but while it only deals with the isolated past as past it «does not exhaust the interpretive task for someone who sees the biblical writings as a single corpus of Holy Scripture inspired by God».

Only eternity, the Good, and so also the Holy Scriptures, are of another opinion about this matter of evasions and about the much - honored clever ones.

The scripture tells us that the only unpardonable sin is to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.

Without a prophet who speaks authoritatively the will of God, only confusion can reign as people argue what God meant and uninspired men tamper with the holy scriptures!

Richard recently in Christianity Today: «Only a thinker so well grounded in the Reformation traditions could be an honest broker in bringing faithful evangelicals and believing Catholics to recognize the common source of their life together in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and the great tradition of living faith through the centuries.»

The Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs, translated by Ernest Trumpp, London, 1877, contains only four of thirty - one Rags.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

What if decisions were made, not based on what other churches or doing, not based on what the church has always done, not based on what the numerous church policies say, but instead only made after people had sought the truth of God through Scripture, the timing of God through prayer, and the leading of God through reliance on the Holy Spirit?

Fundamentalists treat Holy Scripture as the starting point of their faith tradition when in fact it is the product: it gathered its authority only after the tradition had started.

The trinity is simply not taught in the bible and is only taught by Christian groups that accepted some very bad interpretations of a handful of scriptures that just happen to mention the father, the son and the holy spirit in the same sentence.

Please let me know when your holy scripture is at least interactively consistent because obviously the idea of loving the world so much he sent his only begotten son to die is woefully inaccurate.

This means, according to Allen and Swain, that «pastors may only bind the conscience of the Christian when Holy Scripture so binds, through its clear warrant or by good and necessary inference.»

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

«Islam is wholly inconsistent with the teaching of the Word of God in Holy Scripture, which is the only rule to direct us.

Lets us look at the truth of scripture and how Grace is really only applied to the repentant sinner, one who sees their sin for what it is and knows that they have sinned against a Holy God and that the works of the Law can not save them.

It is only regarding this centrality that it is legitimate to speak of the unity of Holy Scripture.»

you are incorrect JW's have been preaching that we live in the last days... and no one not even Jesus or the angels know the day nor time only the Father... get your facts straight or even better speak to one yourself and ask... or better yet read the Holy Scriptures

I was reading that portion of Scripture the other day, David, where Jesus spoke of the only sin unforgiven being blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.

There are neglected impulses toward Christian unity latent within the conservative, and even fundamentalist, sector of American evangelicalism: a passionate concern for theological truth - telling, an unflinching allegiance to the holy scriptures, an evangelistic and missionary impulse to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all persons everywhere, an ecclesiological postulate of an invisible church known only to God.

In the beginning, mantras were drawn only from the thousands of verses in the Rig - Veda, Hinduism's oldest and holiest scripture.

It is only through the understanding provided by the Saints and Holy Fathers that the scriptures have any meaning.