Sentences with phrase «plain word of»

You can compromise the word all you want to but the plain word of God is what you will be judged not «another gospel».

Since many people seem to believe that they or their group's teaching is based on inerrant Scripture and they are teaching «the plain word of Scripture», how is it that the teachings of various people and groups vary so widely?

But to ascribe them to «scapegoating» sure seems to ignore the plain words of the text!

Once I accept the plain words of Scripture in context, the fact of ordinary days, no death before sin, the Bible's genealogies, etc., all make it clear that I can not accept millions or billions of years of history.

To argue that the end spoken of in either Old or New Testament is still to happen at some near or far off time is to do violence to the plain words of the text.

It's not just the plain words of one clause.

A use restriction under a lease can be considered in determining the value of land for tax assessment purposes — the plain wording of the relevant provisions, read in light of their purpose and context, grants discretion to consider the use restriction in establishing value.

Such a confinement would be contrary to the plain wording of both Pt 44.3 (2)(b) and Pt 44.3 (6).

The Divisional Court held that the plain wording of section 42 leaves the decision as to the rate to be applied in each instance to the municipality to decide by by - law.

«the interpretation of s. 42 (4), implicitly adopted by the OMB, is unreasonable on the face of the plain wording of s. 42....

According to the plain wording of s. 44 (1), the circumstances that must be considered in determining the reasonably applicable standard of repair includes the character and location of the roadway.

It has been considered by some, who had espoused a strict interpretation based on the plain wording of section 3 of the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000, that the statutory duty of good faith in franchising is restricted to parties, i.e., signatories, to the franchise agreement.

The motion judge's interpretation was available based on the plain wording of the clause.

The plain wording of the relevant provisions, read in light of their purpose and context, does grant discretion to consider the use restriction in establishing value.

It was found the plain wording of ss.

[Franklin citation omitted] Rather, courts «focus on the plain wording of the clause, which necessarily contains the best evidence of Congress» preemptive intent.»

Not exact matches

The Warwickshire police recently produced a new mission statement; to the police chief's dismay, the resulting 1,200 - word screed gained the attention of the media and was nominated for the Golden Bull Award «for excellence in gobbledygook» from the Plain English Campaign, a group that helps organizations to provide clear communications.

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

In other words, an investor smart enough to put $ 10,000 in some plain vanilla index fund at the start of 2013 likely had about $ 13,000 by the year's close, and that's not counting dividends (or subtracting brokerage or mutual fund fees).

Last month, Billy Macklowe didn't mince words when he described the grim reality of Manhattan retail: «I think retail is fucked, plain and simple,» he said.

The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world.

They think God inspired His word's out of context in Acts 7:47 - 48 and Acts 17:24 when God said as plain as day that He DOES NOT LIVE / DWELL IN CRAFTED TEMPLES but Satan finds it extremely easy to fool people that wants to buy their way into heaven instead of obeying His Son as required in John 3:36.

It's a word many of us use most of the time — we're too busy, so busy, very busy, or just plain busy.

Indeed, the founding father once remarked «How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words» — an invocation that Justice Scalia reprised in his indignant King v. Burwell dissent.

For as Martin Luther once said «Unless I am convinced from scripture and plain reason, my conscience is held captive by the Word of God.»

As for the standard of interpersonal relationship you suggest, I would offer in reply the idea that if one is incapable of making one's meaning reasonably plain without taking the steps you recommend then perhaps one should either spend a good deal more time reflecting prior to committing one's words to print or, failing that, consider a full withdrawal from the grind of blogging.

There are unquestionably parts of the Bible where the real meaning intended by the author is not the plain literal sense of the words, and where an unintelligent insistence upon the literal sense stands in the way of a true understanding.

I would write spoken word poetry about healing and miracles, about prophets and plainsong, about how good it feels to repent, about open doors and wide tables, about plain wooden chairs in opulent palaces, about dry bones rising up in the valley of death to live again, about singing in the streets and the orderliness of stockinette stitch in hand knits.

Read the first words of chapter 6 and understand the plain meaning.

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David Bentley Hart's reflections on the «ingenious ways» in which Christians over the centuries have sought to get around «the plain meaning of Christ's words» about wealth as an impediment to entering the kingdom of God brought to mind the old story of Angus the Scotsman.

The true state of the case is made plain when we trace the strange and fascinating change of meaning that took place in the word «holy» as in successive ages it was applied to things divine.

The five points of Calvinism... TULIP) than you do to the plain teaching of the words of inspired scripture?

Reflecting on his experience of attending seminary after first gaining considerable experience in the parish, one older participant wondered if maybe we're doing it backwards»; in other words, perhaps schools ought somehow to require practical experience before — or at the beginning of — formal education (such an arrangement would, of course, run counter to essentially all currently respected educational theories) For himself, he said, the practical application of what was being taught in seminary was plain in light of his experience of parish ministry.

We can not build a universal application from such a text through a «plain reading» of the words.

There is only one way to interpret literature, that is to base our interpretation on the context and the plain meaning of the words that the author chose to convey his thoughts to the reader.

The words of Christ in Matthew make it plain that Christ knew that God loves His enemies, and even blesses them by sending them rain and sun even though they do not «deserve» His love and blessings.

Though this text does not use the words «choose» or «elect,» it is plain to see why it is a favorite verse for those who want to defend the Calvinistic understanding of Unconditional Election.

The problem with the word justification is that it conjures up for us all the wranglings, disunity, bitterness, rejection and plain murder of the reformation.

Until you accept the sound words of our Savior, and His very plain teachings that conform you to godliness, in this earth, and in this lifetime, you will continue to be deprived of the Truth!

But the very minute that you are willing to let God rewrite your books, if He would want to, is the moment that He would have all of your heart, and that He would open your eyes to see all of His very plain words!

As but a solitary Being living upon the Celestial Plain of Terrestrialnesses» Omnivorants, I must follow the Lord's, Christ Jesus» words He is said to have spoken and put into the Scriptures of the «New» Testament, making the «Old» Testament null and void and unfollowable in these Post Modern Times.

The immediate answer is quite plain: because the Christian Church believes the Bible to be the Word of God, — just as the Mohammedan is persuaded that the Koran, and the Hindu that the Bhagavadgita is the Word of God; and because Christians are the most proficient propagandists, the Bible is the most widely disseminated Book.

This movement of being against the poor and sick is just plain evil, there really isn't a better word for it.

This new plain rhetoric of the Gospel was what it was only because it was prompted by a new direct speech or word of God himself to men.

Martin, you don't believe the plain teaching of scripture, you yank scripture out of context and apply your own meaning, you add to the scripture and you fail to rightly divide the word of truth.

«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» (Dr. David L. Cooper)

Only confusion will result if we do not make plain which of these meanings will be given to this word in the following discussion.

There is other evidence besides the plain meaning of these words that this is a sincere feeling.

In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.