Sentences with phrase «places in scripture»

In fact, few places in Scripture speak to the Christian conversion experience through any method other than relational metaphor.

This is a little odd for us to think about, but this was a way for them to show the deepest grief possible, and we see it happen in several other places in Scripture as well.

In several places in Scripture, we have the list of who begat whom.

At several places in Scripture, the word «faith» is preceded by the article — the word «the» — as Paul uses it here in Ephesians 4:13.

We can read the accounts in 1 and 2 Chronicles and other places in Scripture which clearly show the existence of other members of the other tribes of Israel.

In other places in Scripture we see women teaching and having authority over men.

He even goes into detail on the various places in Scripture which seem to refer to only a physical gathering (e.g., «the ekklesia in Rome»), and shows how even there, the physical gathering is representative of the entire spiritual gathering.

Just look at the words used many places in scripture.

There are places in the scripture where this «logos obtaining within subjectivity» must operate to make the mind permeable to central meaning.

But I fail to see how a single verse like Luke 17:34 (which in context has little or no bearing on homosexual marriage / behavior), or even several bare verses from various places in Scripture that are often quoted on this issue, make for worthwhile conversation.

We see another glimpse of this in various places in Scripture.

Other places in Scripture tell us what these other things are.

And fourthly, although Jesus is called the «word» in four places in scripture (John 1:1,14; 1 John 1:1; Revelation 19:13), there are literally hundreds of other places where «the word of God» or equivalent simply means «that which God has said» — normally referring to that which we now have in scripture, or the gospel, or both.

I believe «The Rich Man» can give us some insight as to what we can expect as he pleads for Abraham to sent forth warning to his still living brothers not to come here... also, how he pleads for a bit of water to cool his tongue... several places in scripture speak of the torment that awaits the unbelieving... just sayin

The relevant issue here is not the few places in Scripture where homosexuality is mentioned, and efforts to explain away Romans 1 and its deeply rabbinic connection of homosexuality with idolatry inevitably fail in any case.

In the next few posts, we will look at four places in Scripture some people find helpful as they learn to converse with God.

This is a perfect example of a place in Scripture where God takes responsibility for a terrible event which occurred on His watch.

While there was a certain security to having this infallible roadmap on my nightstand, there was also a deep fear that came along with my belief that if just one thing was out of place in Scripture, if just one thing didn't resolve, the whole thing would fall apart.

Pride, anger, greed, judgmentalism, and gluttony, for example, are condemned all over the place in Scripture (way more than homosexuality), and yet most Christians are content to live in such destructive lifestyles while they point the finger at homosexuals and call down God's curses upon them.

Such a superstitious and unbiblical concept has no place in Scripture.

Yet although there are numerous calls throughout Scripture for people to believe in Jesus for eternal life (John 3:16, 36; 5:24; 6:47; etc.), there is not only place in Scripture where people are invited to hope and pray to God for regeneration.

Rather, in our preaching, our reading and our teaching we seek to find our place in the scriptures, and to find the scriptures» word for us that is not dependent upon the arbitrary lines of a Protestant or a Catholic reading.

The gospel message of modern Crusade Evangelism is simply not found in any one place in Scripture.

I can't find any place in Scripture where a person shares all five of Stegall's points when evangelizing or defining the basics of the gospel.

Not exact matches

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).

What is at stake are issues of principle — the role of revelation and Scripture in the formation of conscience — that affect matters of doctrine ranging from the place of the Methodist Quadrilateral in the formation of United Methodist identity to the place of Christ in salvation.

The word «heaven» has come to denote an exterior place (where G - d lives)... but in the Jewish culture, it is a sin to speak the «real» name of G - d, and so EVERY «name» of G - d in the scriptures is a euphemism.

The commitment to an evangelical view of Scripture seems secure, but some of the other concerns that fueled the Controversy in the first place have surfaced again» and this time, with a vengeance.

This has fostered a suspicion of Scripture that must be addressed before the encounter with the Word made flesh can take place through the Word of God in written form.

Besides, Jesus discussed hell far more than he discussed heaven, and most Christian do believe it because the bible discusses it as a real place for real people on real pages in real scripture verses.

I was forced and driven into this position in the first place when I had to become a Doctor of Holy Scripture against my will.

I think it's just pretty clear that there's a place of eternal torment laid out in scripture, and you're clearly ignoring it because it doesn't fit in your particular understanding of love or God.

edition; and when all these are consulted, the reader will see how little dependence can be placed on the most learned conjectures relative to these and the other animals mentioned in Scripture.

If people were to look up scriptures as they were originally written in the Tanakh, they would find where errors had taken place during translation.

For this reason, it is more appropriate to speak of prima scriptura» which more adequately represents historic Christian orthodoxy while preserving Scripture's normative place in doing moral theology.

Since Jesus Christ did not lie to the Apostles and His Church is still standing after 2000 years it is very simple to see who has the proper interpretation of the Bible... the Church that compiled the Bible... collecting the inspired scripture from amongst many scriptures and placing the Books in the Bible.

The Scriptures held pride of place in this matrix but in a conjunctive rather than disjunctive mode.

In one place, he writes, It is correct for us to say that Scripture does -LSB-...]

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

Scripture discusses a lot of subjects in multiple places, and seeing all the verses on, say, «gratitude» can be enlightening.

Not only are they in denominations that will not ordain them, they are in worship services where women will never be able to read scripture or preside at the table or, in some places, take the offering.

«The canonization of scripture,» he writes, «both Jewish and Christian, was no doubt complicated by all kinds of less - than - perfect human motivations, as indeed in the writing of scripture in the first place.

«Hooker's insistence on «reason» was therefore not at all a way of undervaluing scripture,» says Wright, «but rather of ensuring that the community which based itself on scripture could have an appropriate healthy life and growth, not blundering forward as it were in the dark, but moving ahead by the light of reason, itself informed by scripture and in harmony with the natural law which stemmed from the creator God in the first place.»

But even identifying these two very consequent decisions does not explain how in Lutheranism, of all places, the authority of Scripture could be so undermined and why in Lutheranism, with its strong theology of God's orders of creation and preservation, anyone could hope to get away with proposing that sexual arrangements be judged on quality not kind.

On the place of Christ in creation, Scripture gives us a clear answer — that the universe was only created for Him.

Revelation — Scripture and Tradition as interpreted by the Apostolic Succession — takes us a step further by placing the male / female relationship in a liturgical context.

Scripture backs this up as well, for there is not one place in the Bible that commands us to attend church.

They want to «stack the deck» in such a way that if you accept what they say about the accuracy, authority, and credibility of Scripture, then you will most likely also accept their interpretation and understanding of Scripture (what the witness says), if you do this, then you will also buy into the rest of their theological system that they were trying to prove in the first place.

Could it be that you have been experiencing some cognitive dissonance with being a believer and a high view of scripture whilst advocating the pointing finger where the bible here places such action in the same light as oppression.

Darryl like you i also know that without him i can do nothing i am weak but in him we are overcomers its a good place to be dependent on him he can use us when we are in that place i believe God has plans for you that is why the enemy is playing mind games i had a season of that he does nt bother me now as i fire scripture back at him.Like greater is the lord in me than he that is in the world.Sin shall not have dominion over me.In my weakness i am strong in Christ.Weakness is not an excuse to give in or give up its our opportunity to trust God and walk in his strength and power.You are a mighty man of God you tell the devil to flee in Jesus name and he will.