Sentences with phrase «point of the passage»

And that is the whole point of the passage.

The main point of the passage of the resolution was to strongly iterate the fact that the leading professional association for teacher educators had no ability to see how the CAEP organization was to achieve its goal of a single, unified educator accreditation organization.

The entire point of this passage is that as long as one thinks anything may really be more valuable than fellowship with Jesus in his kingdom, one can not learn from him.

From the standpoint of our own concerns, the crucial point of this passage is its assertion that the Great Ultimate is a vibratory movement, wherein movement itself has a limit in which it is transformed to tranquillity which returns to the origin of assertive movement again.

The relevant point of this passage is that the content of the direct objectification of some remote occasion must be adjusted to the objectifications of the mediating entities.

Fortunately, the major point of the passage does not vary with these cultural details: the Corinthians should not so readily disregard customary liturgical dress, if indeed, as they claimed, they «maintain the traditions» gotten from Paul.

Subtitled Line of Demarcation, the show is presented as a body of work that explores what a catalogue entry by Giulio Carlo Argan on a 1967 exhibition by the artist called: «the critical point of passage from the state of the object to the state of the image and the contrary.»

The Yard also served as an important point of passage, home, and workplace for countless veterans as they served our country.

A chiastic literary structure can be viewed as a sort of sandwich, with repetitive parallel elements at the beginning and end as the pieces of bread, similar repetitive elements within those, representing the condiments, and the meat — the main point of the passage — in the middle.

But the point of that passage is that everything belongs to God in the first place.

Ironically, complementarians (who believe hierarchal relationships between men and women should be preserved) agree with the hermeneutical premise of those who would discount the New Testament household codes as irrelevant, for they both assume that the point of these passages is to secure the Greco - Roman household structure as divinely instituted and holy, when in reality, their purpose is to point to humility, not hierarchy, as the primary Christian ethic.

I, (and many biblical scholars and fellow Christians), would argue the point of these passages is not that patriarchy is the best foundation for marriage, but rather that the humility and service of Jesus Christ is the best example for marriage... and any relationship.

??? The point of the passage is that Woman was made from the flesh of Man, making them equal; of the same flesh.

So the theme of the «great surprise,» far from a rhetorical device as Stendahl terms it (7:794), is in fact the point of the passage: the righteous are commended precisely because they acted humanely without knowledge of Jesus» presence and therefore without the calculating attitude Matthew attributes to the Pharisees.

The point of the passage is not to see how to minister to other sinners, but to see yourself as a sinner.

And though Jesus and Simon reveal two different ways of approaching this sinful woman, showing us how to minister to sinful people is not the main point of the passage.

The point of the passage that you chose to use as the basis for your opinion is motivation for prayer, not location.

That puzzled guessing is understandable, because the point of the passage never has been to tell us the difference between who is acceptable to God and who is unacceptable.

The point of the passage is not the outcome, like how a bus can kill you, but the part we need to heed (get out of the way of the bus).

Despite how this passage is sometimes used in sermons and books as an attempt to get the rich to give more money to the church, the point of this passage actually lies elsewhere.

the point of that passage is not «never judge» but «judge with the same measure you want to be judged.»

Sometimes there's debate about the significance and point of the passage, and at other times people agree pretty quickly on the point.

We need to understand the religious significance of the miracle accounts to their original audience so that we do not lose sight of the point of these passages.

About this time, I also learned that it was quite possible to interpret Genesis 1 and 2 metaphorically without compromising the point of the passage — that God created the universe.

If you overly show a less important scene and extend it to several pages, you might lose your readers» interest as they ask themselves what the point of the passage is and where the story went.

Nowhere does this pilgrimage impression feel stronger than once you arrive in Aguas Calientes, a small village that feels like nothing more than a point of passage for tourists heading to Machu Picchu, a few kilometres up the mountain.

Purchased by the Museum in 2011 with funds from the Phyllis Cannon Wattis Endowment for 20th Century Art, BENT TO A STRAIGHT AND NARROW AT A POINT OF PASSAGE (1976) is an important addition to the UMFA's permanent collection of contemporary art and represents a canonical moment in art history.