Sentences with phrase «over scripture rather»

Both set the interpreter's judgment over Scripture rather than understanding it as in the service of Scripture.

Not exact matches

I love how, when folks in the Jewish community confront Scripture, they don't freak out over its conflicts and tensions, but rather engaged them — and with enthusiasm!

Rice «methodically tied Blanchard in knots over how to interpret the proslavery implications of specific texts» while «Blanchard returned repeatedly to «the broad principle of common equity and common sense» that he found in Scripture, to «the general principles of the Bible» and «the whole scope of the Bible»» rather than specifics.

Jeremy, Under the header «The Failure of the Reformation», line four, shouldn't it read «the authority of Scripture over tradition» rather than «the authority of tradition over Scripture?»

Humility requires submitting ourselves to scripture, rather than setting ourselves as judges over it.

Conversely, they condemn any theory or practice that «results in the... Church standing in judgment over Scripture, rather than vice versa.»

I tend to think that it's not women entering leadership roles that has caused the decline of the church but rather tradition and doctrine over ruling the search truth in the scriptures.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better — singleness or marriage — when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

On these and many other issues related to authority and ecclesiology, the way forward is not to smudge over deep differences that remain between the two traditions but rather to acknowledge them openly and to continue to struggle over them together in prayer and in fresh engagement with the Scriptures.

Although I fear it may degenerate into charges of flirting with heresy rather than a debate over what the scriptures actually say.