Theologians like to ask these sorts of
questions about Scripture, theology, and Jesus, but in the end, what it all comes down to is believing what God has done for us in Jesus Christ, even if we do not understand all the details.
That is a good
question about Scripture.
As a child, my parents took me to a Baptist worship service (my paternal grandparents were Baptists), and I didn't know it was any different at all until I asked
a question about a scripture I knew from the Book of Mormon.
Not exact matches
If you
question the free market system, and how greed is good due to the invisible hand — well there is
scripture about how you can not have two masters.
There is a
scripture in the new testament that says «God is the same yesterday, today, and forever» Mormons do nt spread lies
about other churchs they say is you want to know if the church is true the only person you should ask is God himself and he will answer that
question for you...
It will be a while before the
question is resolved
about whether these traditions were significantly different in their approach to
Scripture.
I was at a church retreat where one guy suddenly said in response to my asking a legitimate
question about how they were interpreting
scripture that Satan was in me and got the whole group to pray that Satan leave.
From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn
about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the
scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any
question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...
The same goes for a commitment to other believers, or various works of the Holy Spirit, or even having all their
questions answered
about the Trinity, the authority of
Scripture, or the origin of the universe.
I think the
question — comes down to more what is the fruit of life based on what we believe
about scripture and the way we interpret it.
What
questions does it raise in your mind —
about scripture,
about the Church,
about your own understanding of the Bible and its history?
If you have
questions about how we got the Bible or how to understand
Scripture, please leave them in the comment section below!
Accordingly, on this night, after the usual period of
questions and answers, Nathaniel took Jesus away from the others and asked: «Master, could you trust me to know the truth
about the
Scriptures?
So my
question is: Is there a distinctively process doctrine
about how and why
Scripture is related to and normative for Christian theology that would explain why it is important to attend to
Scripture in these ways?
If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with
questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know
about God,
Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.
We raise
questions about what
Scripture really teaches, what God is really like, and what it means to be the church in the world today.
How come not one liberal elite Hollywood type
questions Obama's Christianity??? Oblablah claims he's a Christian and uses
Scripture in some of his speeches... yet the usual liberals aren't upset at ALL
about his so - called beliefs.
The following
question is
about the years of silence in the Bible, not just the 400 years of silence between the Old Testament and New Testament, but also the other periods of silence that are between certain sections of
Scripture.
One of the accounts in the Hebrew
Scriptures which does a masterful job of portraying this age - old
question about the nature and character of God is the book of Jonah.
Evangelicals are beginning to understand that the real
questions about appropriating the
Scriptures are not so much matters of doctrine as they are of hermeneutics.
Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we
question in order to find its meaning and relevance,
questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper
question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching
about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views
about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring
Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.
But a more radical party is raising fundamental
questions about the historically conditioned character of the
Scriptures.
The only thing se - xist and disrespectful
about the
question is the
scripture and actions that it
questions to which Bachmann seems to adhere.
It also led to the ascendance of biblical criticism (relativizing, to a certain extent, the Holy
Scriptures), which in turn had negative influences on theology, generating a
questioning attitude
about the objectivity of established truth and the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and institutions.
Taking the role of an open - minded skeptic, Berger asks probative
questions about religion without being bound by tradition, church,
scripture, or personal experience.
What is perhaps most frustrating
about engaging in such conversations within the evangelical community in particular, however, is that differences regarding things like Calvinism and Arminianism, baptism, heaven and hell, gender roles, homosexuality, and atonement theories often disintegrate into harsh accusations in which we
question one another's commitment to
Scripture.
But at the same time this recognition of Jesus the Christ as our primary authority sets a limit to the authority of
Scripture that raises
questions about canonicity.
Years ago, when I began to seriously study
Scripture, I often had
questions about a certain Biblical passage or theological issue.
I think the reason God has allowed portions of
scripture to be «unclear» on divisive issues is that this whole Jesus following thing is not
about finding answers to every
question.
Such a non-utilitarian faith does not undertake to show that in the Christian gospel we can find the solution to all the problems of human existence any more than that we can find in the
Scriptures answers to all the
questions we raise
about the world of nature.
Landry regularly raises
questions about what difference the scriptural text makes to the hearers as a community and constantly envisions how the congregation can react corporately to the implications of the Word in
Scripture.
Jeremy, Thank you for going out on a limb and pushing the envelope when it comes to
questioning what you believe
about the
scripture and
about God.
I worry
about turning the Bible into a children's story book,
about helping the tinies to engage with
Scripture and wrestle and ask
questions, and then I can't bring myself to read
about Abraham's near - sacrifice of his son, Issac, on the mountain, no part of me could ever understand that obedience, I admit, I'd probably go to hell before I'd raise a hand to hurt my child, I don't understand it at all.
Different theologies of
scripture exist not because the Christian tradition is inherently contentious and can not reach a consensus, but because each moment, era, and epoch raises different
questions about the nature, authority, and interpretation of
scripture, and
about how
scripture relates to tradition, reason, and experience.
I'm beginning to think I will always be the sort of person who struggles to reconcile my love of
Scripture with my
questions about it.
To your
question about authority, I do think the degree to which the
scriptures informed the creeds is the key.
But actually requiring a dialogue,
question and answer, interactive discussion
about a text of
Scripture, which then leads to brainstorming
about how everybody can go out and put it into practice in tangible ways, and then actually going out and doing it, requires too much for most people.
The
Scriptures, though clear
about the most important aspects of our faith, do not always offer easy solutions for life's hardest
questions.
Jesus himself in gospel passages that I can not even count at this moment — argued and debated with people constantly
about beliefs — whether that was in
question format or conversation... but it always involved
scripture and interpretation.
Take curse words and coarse jokes, pointed
questions about the accuracy of
Scripture or the deity of Jesus, or even mindless chatter
about Jersey Shore and sports statistics.
But that
question will have to wait until we talk
about the Canonization of
Scripture later in this series.
There were
questions about the papacy and apostolic succession,
about sin and grace,
about the authority of
Scripture and tradition.
Another important
question is to ask what
scriptures is Paul writing
about.?
Inasmuch as congregations are themselves social spaces with social forms, theological schooling focused through
questions about them must attend critically to the
scripture whose use creates the social space; and it must attend to the disciplines of the human sciences that provide understanding of the social forms that make congregations moral and political realities in their own right.
Now that I have summarized what I was taught in Bible College and Seminary
about the inerrancy of
Scripture (Inerrancy 1, Inerrancy 2, Inerrancy 3, Inerrancy 4), let me turn to asking the
questions about inerrancy that I had neither the time nor the courage to ask while I was in seminary.
I can not attempt to answer most of these
questions here, but note one thing: Whatever Peter is talking
about, he is not talking
about the writing of
Scripture.
Questions about inspiration of
scriptures and how they have been transmitted are indeed valid.
In it, Enns focuses on three specific problems /
questions raised by the modern study of the Old Testament and uses those specific problems /
questions to engage in a broader conversation
about the nature of
Scripture.
If you have
questions about any of the 56
Scripture texts listed below, this book will help you understand them.
Many of them struggle under the bondage of religion, have
questions about the character of God, and desperately need help
about how to understand
Scripture in light of Jesus Christ.