Sentences with phrase «reading of scripture means»

Honoring reason in the reading of scripture means «giving up merely arbitrary or whimsical readings of texts, and paying attention to lexical, historical considerations,» says Wright.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, there is a whole long record of reading scripture for more depth / meaning.

To all of you quoting scripture, your not supposed to read a sentence in the bible and look for meaning to understand it's meaning you need the context which is the entire bible.

Yet the context of Christian worship in which a passage from another scripture is read may suggest a particular meaning or interpretation for the chosen passage.

Looking at the context of the church, I describe the ways in which the Bible is read there, legitimately, as scripture, full of existential meaning, and how that form of reading has its own rules.

Smith, and many others, have argued that reading Scripture with the «prejudice of love» means reading it with a «Christocentric hermeneutic,» that «the purpose, center, and interpretive key to scripture is Jesus ChrisScripture with the «prejudice of love» means reading it with a «Christocentric hermeneutic,» that «the purpose, center, and interpretive key to scripture is Jesus Chrisscripture is Jesus Christ.»

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

A reading of scripture refreshed by appropriate scholarship: «Biblical scholarship is a great gift of God to the church, aiding it in its task of going ever deeper into the meaning of scripture and so being refreshed and energized for the tasks to which we are called in and for the world,» says Wright.

Mostly because as a Christian I own not one, but three different types of bibles, its not like I cant look up what those scriptures say and read the context in which is set, but also because that isnt the way that God meant his word to be used.

A contextual reading of scripture also means understanding and appreciating our own contexts and the way they predispose us to «highlight some things in the Bible and quietly ignore others,» Wright adds.

Honoring the authority of scripture means living in dialog with previous readings and respecting tradition, Wright says.

Jesus referred to scripture and when those scrolls were read the people of day understood their meaning in context of their lives and culture.

Principles of interpretation (Hermeneutics) 1) Literal Principle — Scripture is to be understood in its natural, normal sense, read literally 2) Grammar Principle — Deal with what it says in the way it says it, be it using metaphor, simile, narrative, etc. 3) Historical Principle — Read the Bible in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination of the Holy Spirit — It is the job of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child of God to the meaning of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret Scripread literally 2) Grammar Principle — Deal with what it says in the way it says it, be it using metaphor, simile, narrative, etc. 3) Historical Principle — Read the Bible in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination of the Holy Spirit — It is the job of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child of God to the meaning of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret ScripRead the Bible in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination of the Holy Spirit — It is the job of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child of God to the meaning of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret Scripture

As I was reading through this section of scripture today I felt compelled to look up another opinion of what it meant to compare it to my understanding of the passage.

There is a scripture that states we must study ourselves approved... that means we must stop allowing people to read and interpert the Word of God for us....

Specifically canonical criticism is concerned with how scripture's final form was created within a believing community and how the meanings created by that final form continue to guide the reading practices of the community.

Moreover, while the central biblical message of new life through Christ is expressed so fully and dearly that one who runs may read and understand (which is what Reformation theology meant by the clarity and perspicuity of Scripture), there remain many secondary matters on which certainty of interpretation is hard if not impossible to come by.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

They are learning what it means to follow Jesus into the world, to experience true community with other believers, to read Scripture in a new light, and to serve others out of love rather than compulsion.

«There can be no question that such a thing can be counterintuitive for more traditional evangelical doctrines of Scripture,» Enns confesses, «since this is eisegesis (reading meaning into Scripture) rather thanexegesis (getting meaning from Scripture).»

From the Summa Theologjae we read «The author of Sacred Scripture is God, in whose power it is to signify his meaning, not by words only (as man also can do), but also by things in themselves» 1,1,10.

We could even go before the time of Christ and go back, for example, to Nehemiah 8, and see that when Ezra wants to teach the people the Word of God, he gathers the people, and then he and several other Levites took turns reading from Scripture and explaining what it meant.

The Qur» an: Many who want to understand Islam turn instinctively to the Qur» an to read the scriptures for themselves, They ask what the Qur» an says about Christians and Jews, the Day of Judgment, the status of women, martyrdom, the meaning of jihad and so forth.

In my Scripture reading group yesterday, we discussed Matthew 5:17 - 20 which concludes with Jesus saying that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Read Warfield and his concurrence model on the issue, read Kevin Vanhoozer (Is There a Meaning in This Text), read Nicholas Wolterstorff and his notion of deputized discourse (in Divine Discourse), read William Alston and so many others that provide conceptual frameworks for understanding the dual authorship of ScriptRead Warfield and his concurrence model on the issue, read Kevin Vanhoozer (Is There a Meaning in This Text), read Nicholas Wolterstorff and his notion of deputized discourse (in Divine Discourse), read William Alston and so many others that provide conceptual frameworks for understanding the dual authorship of Scriptread Kevin Vanhoozer (Is There a Meaning in This Text), read Nicholas Wolterstorff and his notion of deputized discourse (in Divine Discourse), read William Alston and so many others that provide conceptual frameworks for understanding the dual authorship of Scriptread Nicholas Wolterstorff and his notion of deputized discourse (in Divine Discourse), read William Alston and so many others that provide conceptual frameworks for understanding the dual authorship of Scriptread William Alston and so many others that provide conceptual frameworks for understanding the dual authorship of Scripture.

LOL nice way to stir the masses... by the way... The scripture of «Thou shalt have no other gods before me» (meaning Jehovah himself) all will see regardless if they want to read and research any of this... so lets get the crybabies going how they aren't going to study anything, and how that all who do are wrong... Sam

When reading the history of interpretation of Scripture, one is permitted to smile but not to laugh at allegory, symbolism, typology, and levels of meaning, for these were sincere efforts to hold the Scripture as Scripture while insisting that the congregation deserved some relevant word for its own situation.

Many theologians still hold to theistic evolution and seek to try and read symbolic meaning into the first 11 chapters of Genesis to reconcile scripture with their understanding of how creation did actually occur.

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

Jesus, like other first - century Jews, read his Bible creatively, seeking deeper meaning that transcended the boundaries of the words of Scripture.

Part of reading comprehension 101 is putting the scriptures into historical context to get the real meaning.

No part of reading comprehension 101 is you put the scriptures into historical context to get the true meaning of what is written.

David after forty plus years in and out of churches hearing and reading even studying and dissecting (if that matters) For me, and that is the only one I ever speak for, if it is a song, a scripture that I may recall, a line in a movie or something one might share here, its only those that breath hope, light the way, give courage, inspire, and comfort to me as an individual that have meaning.

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

Read slowly so the Holy Spirit, the Counselor and the One who teaches and reveals the meaning of the Scriptures, can speak to you.

It drives me crazy when people talk about «the plain meaning of Scripture» when most of them are not reading the Bible in its original language or cultural context.

Steve's claim that the use of the term «all scripture» to mean the whole Bible is «eisegesis» (reading into the text a meaning that isn't there) is itself eisegesis.

The truth is that Steve does not want parts of the Old Testament (and indeed even some parts of the New) to be the word of God and so he reads into scripture what he thinks it should mean!

There is no point in seeking some deeper meaning behind such statements, since we know how they arose from a literalistic reading of certain passages of scripture.

The verse has to be read within the entire context of scripture, including how Jesus lived and other things he said (notably — he who is without sin cast the first stone) to recognize that that verse is not now, nor has it ever been, interpreted to mean that Christians are under OT law upon Christ's resurrection.

At this point I found myself reflecting on the meaning of the Scripture passages as they had been read earlier in the service and invariably that meaning clashed with what emerged in the sermon.

If an anecdotal analysis of our social consciousness and spiritual formation leaves us with the realization that, as Brown says, «there are some selective lenses by means of which we read Scripture, and... those lenses need to be torn from our eyes,» (15) then how do we tear them away?

And this means we should read Scripture with the awareness that God has always been willing to stoop to bear the sin of his people and take on appearances that reflect the ugliness of their sin.

An analysis of variance demonstrated significant mean differences in egalitarianism between groups regarding reading and interpretation of religious scripture (p <.006) with the largest difference, as indicated by Tukeys HSD, between those who interpret scripture literally (least egalitarian), and those who do not read scripture at all (most egalitarian).