Sentences with phrase «plain sense»

Why did he not write his letters in plain sense?

The cultural and linguistic barrier between you and the original writer likely means that much of time, their original intent will will not be what seems to you to be the «plain sense of Scripture» or the «primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning».

What I mean is that, if you take 1 Timothy 2:12 in it's most plain sense, at face value, then women are not allowed to teach period; somehow you have inferred that men can learn from women when done «PRIVATELY» but not «IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.»

Everyone understands now that art is everything and nothing, that the word installation will always do if the individual bits and pieces look as if they don't deserve to be called sculptures in their own right, and that nothing of good plain sense needs to be said in support of whatever it is that we are being invited to admire.

Although the theoretical issues concerned man's relation to God, the reformers insisted this had to be settled by the «plain sense of Scripture.»

Plain sense is what the word means plainly.

might be compared with the hermeneutic of Reformation theologians, who appealed to the «plain sense» of Scripture.

The «Golden Rule» of Interpretation: «When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.»

Someone said a long time ago «if the plain sense makes the best sense, seek no other sense.»

That doesn't mean we eschew the plain sense of the words of scripture — not at all.

The practice of allegorizing the Old Testament — giving certain passages a meaning other than the plain sense — was not an invention of the Church Fathers or the Middle Ages; it was the work of the authors of the books of the New Testament.

The root meaning of allegory is that there is another sense, another meaning, besides the plain sense.

It is, say many, quite contrary to the plain sense of Scripture.

Sharon Gallagher, Aida Spencer, Letha Scanzoni and others maintain that rightly understood, the plain sense of the text has always been feminist in nature.

Again, you sometimes hear people say, «If the plain sense of the Bible makes sense, seek no other sense.»

But again, there is no such thing as the «plain sense» of the Bible, for what may seem to me to be the «plain sense» completely contradicts what someone else thinks is the «plain sense.»

At other times, what the Church teaches is either puzzling or undeveloped, but the plain sense of Scripture seems perspicuous and compelling.

They understand, among other things, what they call and take from the Reformers to be the «plain sense of scripture.»

This makes the Bible's «plain sense» «non-sense» for most readers.

But that goes against the plain sense of the biblical story, and it confirms the Marxist charge that religion is the opiate of the people.

While the best thing students can do to ready themselves for every college experience involves academic preparation, real talk about adjusting to life on campus just makes plain sense — especially when you may be a mystery wrapped inside an enigma to some folks you'll encounter there.

What is more realistic — photography, illusion, or the plain sense of things?