Sentences with phrase «piece of scripture»

But it doesn't match up with what is in that particular piece of scripture.

We've put together our two favourite pieces of scripture that we believe can help you with your Christian dating journey.

And what you did in your post is something that I've seen many other Christians do, you take a little piece of the scripture here, and a little bit there and you sew them together so that the word of God supports what YOU want it to say.

Couple of applicable pieces of scripture on the inappropriateness of labeling someone «not a Christian» who claims faith in Jesus Christ and especially who does not show specific violations of the requirements of such faith:

heidi's wonderful piece of scripture says it all really, doesn't it?!

Also Catholics love to take that small piece of scripture and take it out of context.

It is not difficult to imagine a catechism for children teaching them the biblical narrative and helping them construct a sense of the whole that goes beyond the bits and pieces of scripture which they typically are taught.

It is finally a relief to know that reading one more book, contemplating one more pithy saying, meditating on one more piece of scripture, doing one more good deed — none of these is going to make the difference.

... and will use anything we can get our hands on to justify them: little pieces of scripture, history, guilt, tradition, privilege, money, politics,...

It also makes sense to hold every piece of Scripture to the whole of Scripture, and interpret every single passage according to the Spirit of the passage's context, the book in which it is found, and of the entire Bible.

If this is done daily, one may be able to arrange once a week a rather longer period of time when one can follow pretty much the full round of petition - intercession, confession (with a brief look at oneself), thanksgiving, praise — and then, at another time, find opportunity for a careful, prayerful reading of a piece of Scripture with five or ten minutes of meditative thought about it.

You just lifted «a piece of scripture (1 Corinthians 13:6) out of the Holy Bible to try and prove a point».

Dear Martus, the trouble with lifting a piece of scripture out of the Holy Bible to try and prove a point is unacceptable and at best deceptive, that is how the Christians in South Africa justified apartheid using Genesis ch 9 v 25 when Noah cursed his son Ham and his descendants.

Its made reciting a piece of scripture over and over, that has no musical meter or rhyme, over top of a chord progression pass as a song.

But as we all (hopefully) know, faith bears fruits and you tell a tree by the fruit it bears; one is justified not works and not faith alone (yes, I am just stating these pieces of Scripture out of context, but I always encourage rereading them in context before accepting that a biblical quote supports my argument).

You reference one of those «awesome» (awful) pieces of scripture that goes totally against the humanistic (secular / religioius) common sense, and I think only makes our sense if we separate esoteric (salvational) issues form social gospel and social justice.

JB... from what I gather, you are not a believer because you don't undertsand scripture except to pick and choose a piece of scripture and base it on what fits your need.

Funny how the piece of scripture you cite can be understood mean the exact opposite of your claim, depending on who you call «spiritual.»

Whether it be a piece of scripture, or a story, or whatnot... sometimes I don't have an idea of what I want to share.

and «You need a nice vintage sign with a piece of scripture painted on it on THIS wall.»

Instead, he takes apart a piece of scripture and reassembles it — reconfigures it — in order to probe questions that go beyond one religion.