Sentences with phrase «other biblical accounts»

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The other, in my opinion, is your denial of the biblical accounts, period.

According to the biblical accounts, God sometimes administers the penalty himself and sometimes directs others to do so.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

As professional biblical scholarship stands now, few would argue that the gospel accounts are 100 % accurate, and that nothing was borrowed from other faiths and mythologies.

I have a hunch that one explanation accounts for the silence of evangelical biblical scholars more than any other: the basic fear that their findings, as they deal with the text of Scripture, will conflict with the popular understanding of what inerrancy entails.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

At first scholars had high hopes that inscriptions and other written documents from ancient times («epigraphical» sources) would confirm the biblical account and add further information.

There were other issues too: The way the accounts of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to write a creative retelling of Resurrection Day because each of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.

A Muslim response to Sacks's invitation will therefore need to begin with rereading the Qur» anic accounts of Abraham and Ishmael and other biblical figures.

And if evolutionary theory can be accommodated by calling creation accounts myths, presumably other aspects of the biblical world need to be corrected or altered in meaning when confronted by materials from more sources of knowledge than I wish to list.

Of course the Biblical account gives us the information about who is on the other end of the cord, but if we were to imagine a bit... what (or who) might be on the other end of a cord being held by a courageous, outspoken, compassionate, fierce fighter such as Rahab in today's world?

Two of these works tackle the subject of the Annunciation, when, according to Biblical accounts, the Angel Gabriel revealed to the Virgin Mary that she would bear the Son of God; one sculpture depicts the couple kneeling and the other standing, capturing perhaps two different moments or two distinctive ways of imagining the interaction.

Interestingly, a 2010 poll showed that only 10 % of Australians did not believe in evolution, suggesting that a significant portion of those Australians who accept a Biblical account of the origin of humans accept a somewhat more scientific account for the origin of other species - or that they are very confused.