Sentences with phrase «out of scripture as»

These doomsdayers should all be sterilized so they can't reproduce.The brainwashing starts at an early age, passed down from generation to generation.It is programed into childrens psych and nurtured throught childhood.If the Bible is correct - noone will know the day or hour this will happen, It also says you can not add or take out of the scripture as well.It is totally laughable when you hear these nuts running around going against what their own textbook says.This (should) be a huge lesson for these zealots to keep their mouth shut, and stop trying to shove their doctorine down peoples throats - It's why most normal sane people laugh and think what a bunch of BS.

I see it as having been twited out of Scripture as a control measure.

Not exact matches

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

But even the most orthodox of Jews will admit that GeHenna (named after the dump outside Jerusalem that existed in the Valley of Hinnom and whilch was considered the most unclean of places, where the «fires never went out» and the «worm never died»... a reference seen in Isaiah...) was an idea adapted from Babylonian theology (taken from Zoasterism), not an idea originally developed in the Tanach (thus you will find references to «the world to come» and «tikkun Olam» only in the Talmud, not in the Tanach... which for Jews is not a problem since our view of «scripture» is not the same as a Christians).

But as a vocal feminist and a Christian, the fact that those advocating for egalitarian and feminist interpretations of gender and scripture are becoming prominent once more — crossing out of academia and into popular discussion — is amazing.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

The scriptures point out that only a few of us should seek to be pastors as we will be judged by a higher standard.

Nevertheless, the recognition of the similarity of the problematic, coming as it does out of that which both communities accept as Sacred Scripture — the Hebrew Bible — can lead to a new mutuality.

It seems many of the the atheists can only hash out the usual slogans (delusional, fairy tales, Santa Claus ect) and select quotations from scripture (The bad parts... yes the bad parts are there too) As a skeptic myself I'm not impressed.

I guess you could argue that Jesus is God, God authored the scriptures, the scriptures make out men as a class to be liars... But it's not worth arguing because it's not the point of the cartoon.

By pointing out the error as illustrated by Scripture it is an act of love and not hate.

I say that simply to point out that so far, as I attempt to adjust my thinking regarding the authority of Scripture, I have not found a universal command for all people everywhere throughout time.

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

«Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]... until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.»

«Jhn 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.»

«When we take the phrase «the authority of Scripture» out of its suitcase,» Wright says, «then, we recognize that it can have Christian meaning only if we are referring to scripture's authority in a delegated or mediated sense from that which God himself possesses and that which Jesus possesses as the risen Lord and Son of God, the ImmanueScripture» out of its suitcase,» Wright says, «then, we recognize that it can have Christian meaning only if we are referring to scripture's authority in a delegated or mediated sense from that which God himself possesses and that which Jesus possesses as the risen Lord and Son of God, the Immanuescripture's authority in a delegated or mediated sense from that which God himself possesses and that which Jesus possesses as the risen Lord and Son of God, the Immanuel.»

Similarly, when it comes to biblical interpretation within evangelicalism, I've experienced a sort of «flattening - out» of Scripture in which the words of David carry the same weight as the words of Paul, which carry the same weight as the words of Christ.

Wonderful teacher... get out your Bible and start reading... this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing leading millions to an eternity in hell... the prosperity gospel he teaches is contrary to the teachings of Christ... Christ talked about abundance in life but he was speaking of spiritual abundance not material things... Scripture and Christ said in this life you will have trouble... Christ suffered in this life as did each of his Apostles... open your eyes before it is too late for you.

As a group, they might want to also go out and put into practice what they have learned in Scripture to meet the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of others in the community.

The «Galileo affair» itself is notoriously complicated — as Brooke brings out — and Galileo's condemnation by Pope Urban VIII was in the main a reaction against his statements on the use of Scripture, more than his advocacy of Copernican astronomy.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.

Ministers are mostly male and shut women out of the ministery or even from Biblical instruction as though they are inadequate teachers, unable to merely regurgitate what scriptures say to participants as the men do; 5.

This is what a comprehensive contextual reading of Scripture leads to, instead of having to balance apparently contradictory texts against each other when they are plucked out as «proof texts.»

And to be fair, I'd like to point out that while I believe the blood moon as described in Scripture is accurate as a sign of the times, but I don't necessarily hold to what Hagee believes.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

Far from cherry - picking, this is how Scripture is SUPPOSED to be read: IN context, NOT taking the line «this generation shall not pass» OUT of the context in which He was speaking, which is what you are doing, and, as noted, is a common error.

The Evangelist Matthew explains that Jesus was sent to Egypt to fulfill the Scripture as well: «Out of Egypt I have called my son.»

Just as you rightfully point out that the early Church didn't have NT scriptures, maybe they didn't have the idea of a «relationship with Jesus» either.

Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures [Old and New Testament] were given as believe in neither God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His apostle [Muhammad] have forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith [Islam], until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.

Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the element of indirectness, of being one step removed from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, I have a position on the role of faith and works which seems to make the most sense out of most of the troubling and difficult passages of Scripture.

We must stay as close as possible to the text and reason it out guided by other text of scripture according to what is written and not according to some random explanation of men.

There does seem to be some sort of gathering for prayer here and there in Scripture, but as you point out, I don't think they looked like our prayer meetings today.

The bible can say anything when you take one sentence out of a scripture and use it as you will.

Its amusing that so many «christians» will bash someone over the head with a bible to point out their supposed «sins» as contained within holy scripture and yet ignore one of its greatest commandments: render unto NO ONE evil for evil.

We read scripture searching for attributes and end up interpreting things out of context often as we search for data points to or against our hypothesis of God.

An evangelist, then, is someone who both understands the call of the gospel as found in Scripture and lives it out in their own life as a way to invite other people to believe in Jesus and live out the gospel as well.

I guess Tarver ran out of arguments for his religion as all he's left with is quoting scripture (as if that does anything but give him a warm fuzzy feeling that he's right all along).

As to the working out of salvation, the holy Scripture teaches that sin is the corruption of man.

As a former prisoner, I can identify with these men in prison and so I write about the plan of salvation and applications to scriptures for their lives, either in prison or for when they get out.

the same God that all our founding fathers made sure, would be made clear was the God of the bible as per the scripture that is embolded on the liberty bell and through out our nations capital.

Last, and paradoxically, the word «inerrancy» undermines its apologetic intent by reflecting a defensiveness toward Scripture that is out of keeping with the gospel's own boldly proclaimed confidence.52 For these reasons, Hubbard has become increasingly uncomfortable with the use of the term «inerrancy» to describe his basic commitment to Scripture's infallibility, though he has no basic argument with those like Pinnock who use the term as qualified and understood Biblically.

On one page, he apparently didn't like the number of prepositions in a verse from Matthew that started, «For as in the days that were before the flood...» He cut out the word «as,» changing the scripture to «For in the days that were before the flood...»

Servant King started as an evangelical effort to live out scripture's vision of the church.

This made use of the marriage symbolism of the Scriptures and patristic period to provide, as Podles puts it, an «imaginative playing «out of [a] privileged relationship with God.»

But then on the other hand how on earth can one expect to find an essential consciousness of sin (and after all that is what Christianity wants) in a life which is so retarded by triviality, by a chattering imitation of «the others,» that one hardly can call it sin, that it is too spiritless to be so called, and fit only, as the Scripture says, to be «spewed out»?

I am well acquainted with Dave's view (as I used to hold it myself), but my study of Scripture led me out of those views and into what I currently believe.

You non-believers always pick out what you perceive as negative or discriminate of His scriptures.