Sentences with phrase «position on scripture»

Which is a generically classic Muslim position on scripture which looks down on other scriptures as corrupt and theirs as pure and wonderful.

As I said, earlier «classic Muslim position on scripture which looks down on other scriptures as corrupt and theirs as pure and wonderful.»

I continue to hold to an inerrantist position on Scripture, and argue that the violent portrayals of God in Scripture accurately reveal the heart of man instead of the heart of God.

Not exact matches

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

Scripture is not clear on the eternal position of Judas, who the Bible declares to have shown remorse and confessed that he had sinned (Matt 27:3).

This is an example of cherry - picking — using Christian (or other religious) scripture and teachings to justify one's position on a given issue.

«In particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.»

Church assemblies do indeed take positions on many public issues, frequently invoking Scripture as a defense for their viewpoint.

As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, I have a position on the role of faith and works which seems to make the most sense out of most of the troubling and difficult passages of Scripture.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

They've taken a position based on some scripture or laws.

The Christian community can be wrong in its interpretation of Scripture, as the church's former position on slavery indicates.

A note on the Scriptural references: Because this paper deals with our understanding of Scripture and challenges the traditionally held position and doctrines, I have made an effort to give biblical references where appropriate.

Bonhoeffer argues for these and other positions below on the basis of a natural - life motif intermingled with Scripture proof.

We have some different viewpoints to be sure, different canons of scripture even, but I've always given you the benefit of the doubt that you actually believed the positions you espoused, but this is over top demonization on a scale that I've never seen from someone claiming to be a christian before, not even from the most holier - than - thou fundamentalist.

First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its effects in human life.

Once I really faced the issue, I found myself in a position slightly A side of the A / B fence but have migrated from that position as I've studied the issue in Scripture and mediated on the theology of the issue.

Personally, when I am giving my opinion on the interpretation of scripture, I actively choose not to preface it with, «the Lord told me» or «the Holy Spirit has guided me to this position after much prayer», etc..

Regardless of one's position on the theological issues here, it's plain to see that if the members of the Southern Baptist Convention intend to hold to their exclusivist position consistently and condemn as dangerous all who seek to harmonize scripture with the human conscience, then it's time for them to confront their own theological accommodations and declare the unconverted child as hopeless as the unconverted adult.

Scot McKnight himself changed his position on women and teaching when he realized that his favorite Bible professor, the one from whom he'd learned the most about interpreting and applying scripture, was a woman.

Why should we apply the teachings of Scripture to our positions on state - sponsored abortion but not to state - sponsored war?

'» [1] The Greatest Work of God It seems fair to summarise St Thomas» view by saying that he relied on the direct testimony of two scources, the Scriptures and the Church Fathers, rather than on the arguments of human logic, and since he found no evidence for the Scotist position in either source, he did not entertain it.

Yes women who have the gift of Teaching via God the Holy Spirit can teach but they can not take on the clearly defined «Office» Position of Pastor as defined in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1:6, The Scripture is the first and final authority on what God has spoken, not the rhetorical babble of heretics who don't follow the word of God.

In particular, evangelical leaders need to covenant together to avoid and publicly condemn name - calling, slanderous stereotyping, inaccurate, one - sided depictions of another's position, distortion of facts and an unwillingness to test one's views against others on the basis of Scripture.

I'm not aiming to spend much time arguing against complementarianism, but rather showing that egalitarianism is a tenable position for Christians, based on scripture, reason, tradition, etc..

I highly respect you, and appreciate your willingness to give the academic missions world a chance to see Ralph Winter's position on God's foreknowledge and the authority of Scripture.

For one thing, I would never base my position on just one passage of Scripture — even though it appears in all three of the synoptic Gospels.

In building his case for why we can still believe the Bible, Blomberg effectively positions himself between liberal scholars who refuse to acknowledge the firm textual base on which the scriptures stand and ultraconservatives who insist on a rigidly literal reading of the Bible (often in the King James only) in the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genres.

I don't know what else to say but that she has gone off the deep end on this one, the way that she presents her position in this article as being supported by history, and scripture is almost offensive.

On the relative authority of the Church and the Scriptures, Mr. Liben may be surprised to learn that my position is simply that of the Reformers, and, apparently, that of Mr. Liben himself.

In this article, an effort is done to show that women were attributed highest position in Hindu scriptures and their role as a mother and wife is very crucial in nurturing the inherited values passed on to us since time immemorial.