Sentences with phrase «others about scripture»

Though I find them helpful to be in communication with others about Scripture.

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Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

In fact, Jesus had more to say about the the dangers of greed, love of possessions, and the lack of compassion for the the «poor» and the «least of these» than he did about any other single subject in christian scripture.

There is a scripture in the new testament that says «God is the same yesterday, today, and forever» Mormons do nt spread lies about other churchs they say is you want to know if the church is true the only person you should ask is God himself and he will answer that question for you...

The intention behind the law simply is: caring about others as you care about yourself — this is pleasing an idea to God — Creator of the creation — and basically the scriptures only want us to deal with this delicate balance of «treating others» kindly.

In class, we had discussions about election and predestination, open theism, inerrancy and inspiration of Scripture, millennialism, tribulationalism, dispensationalism, infra -, supra -, and sublapsarianism and many other «very important» subjects that you discuss every day over dinner.

I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

Pretending to be this other person, he calls me a liar, twists the truth and scripture and implies that because I told people about his behavior I'm not being forgiving.

The same goes for a commitment to other believers, or various works of the Holy Spirit, or even having all their questions answered about the Trinity, the authority of Scripture, or the origin of the universe.

Pleanty of Scriptures about money and love for it... the other side of the coin explains LACK of money sucks too.

I use it just about everyday to record prayers, scripture, and other spiritual thoughts so I KNOW it will be an awesome tool for Christians.

Viseral you could argue that Jesus did speak about homosexuality and bestiality as its in the word and scripture is the inspired word of God Jesus is God As God he inspired that word so he did speak it.or spoke it through others?

Teaching, on the other hand, is an interactive discussion with a group of believers about specific texts of Scripture, which are explained and applied within the group.

It is the intentional, yet not coerced, effort to read or think about, to read and think about, some significant incident in God's way with men as reported in Scripture or in some other piece of writing.

Accordingly, on this night, after the usual period of questions and answers, Nathaniel took Jesus away from the others and asked: «Master, could you trust me to know the truth about the Scriptures?

@Scot That you found other scripture that contradicts the passages I cited just goes to show that the Bible is such a gargantuan collection of contradictions and adsurdities that it can be used to bolster just about any argument.

Scripture study, in other words, actually brings about new and surprising kinds of reasoning that would not occur apart from the engagement with sScripture study, in other words, actually brings about new and surprising kinds of reasoning that would not occur apart from the engagement with scripturescripture.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

I can be so judgmental about other people and such a know - it - all when it comes to Scripture.

I think one reason God left it vague in Scripture is to increase our desire to tell others about Jesus.

The only group I've seen get the same level of invective leveled at atheists online are witches and other Pagans, but that seems to only happen when there aren't any atheists milling about and the Pagans have repeatedly proven to a) know Christian theology and scripture better and b) remain calm, rational and compassionate yet resolute in their rejection of that theology.

A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or life, I will not speak.»»

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

(and other passages of Scripture we'd rather not talk about) 5.

you on the other hand know nothing about scripture so you should probably just shut your mouth.

I value and respect the views of people like yourself, and numerous others, who hold to the various «Less than inerrant» views about Scripture.

And what about other scriptures from other faiths?

On both sites, I am always open to input from other students of Scripture about how to translate Greek and Hebrew, or how best to explain a particular word or phrase.

The following question is about the years of silence in the Bible, not just the 400 years of silence between the Old Testament and New Testament, but also the other periods of silence that are between certain sections of Scripture.

Lately I have been encouraged to read the scriptures without infusing my own thoughts, or what I've heard others say, or teach about the bible.

King, who calls himself «politically homeless,» says that while both parties talk about faith and invoke Scripture, he and other young evangelicals he knows sense an undercurrent of political gamesmanship in all the religious talk.

It went from me noticing bout the dreams about the next days scripture, to dreams involving other people too, things outside my own person.

There are all sorts of people who are either evasive about, or downright dismissive of, the authority of God in scripture, but who continue to affirm the resurrection of Jesus and all sorts of other things that do not fit with human reason.

It is no secret that our Savior, Paul, Peter, and scores of others in scripture taught about sin, and righteousness.

Scripture is full of instructions about the duty we have as Christians to judge others.

About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.

Obviously Jesus and the writers of Scripture treat some sins as more severe than others (see pp. 5 — 8 of this article), even though Eichenwald mocks anyone who thinks this as showing «that they know next to nothing about the New Testament.»

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

If this turns out to be the case (that he has a skewed view of Jesus), then I want to ask him if, in his lifelong quest for truth, he has ever read about Jesus from Scripture, rather than just hearing about Jesus from others.

Finally, we can learn much about Barth (and, of course, other great Christian thinkers) by watching how he interprets scripture; work at this task is still underdeveloped.

On the other hand, just about every article I read in defense of PSA has frequent references to Scripture.

Jeremy i agree with what you have written many of the traditions in the church have come from pagan beliefs.I thought some of the comments were judgemental of others especially towards those who are pagan.There response was respectful we can learn alot about having a good attitude towards others and responding to others kindly.I think using scripture in a legalistic way is no different than what the pharisees did to Jesus in his day and he disarmed them by rebuking them saying you without sin cast the first stone.regards brentnz

Rather than being excited about some new insight from Scripture or idea about theology which I get to pass on to others, my writing has become more about pageviews, backlinks, ad revenue, email subscriber stats, book sales, and comment counts.

But I am hopeful, because the experience of leaving that job opened my eyes and mind to a whole new way of viewing people, thinking about theology, reading Scripture, interacting with others, and ultimately, living life.

They also picked and chose a small subset of the texts about Jesus to make into their canonical Bible, rejecting a great deal of other scripture.

This kingdom is about letting your enemies join in, and what The Message edition of the book of James (2:8) calls «the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: «Love others as you love yourself.

I think that McLaren would say that he could help show you that the gospel is way more than just about getting saved, but is also a way of living life in the world here and now, and living this way will shift and transform how you view others, read Scripture, and interact with God.

I first sensed the ambiguity of the Bible regarding war and peace as a child, listening to my father and mother quote scripture to each other in their ongoing debate about this issue.

Can you come up with any other major activities of God in history (as we read about in Scripture), which do not fall under one of the six areas?

Those two dreams about were within like 3 weeks max of each other and within a month or two of like 7 other experiences like that involving the revelation of scripture?