Sentences with phrase «readings of scripture now»

Public readings of scripture now tend to deemphasise sound - scripture readings in worship tend to be almost mechanistic and without passion or drama.

Not exact matches

Now, as you talk of UV light and water and oxygen (and yes, this is not my field of science), but I do care to read other hypothesis given forth to explain things, before jumping to believe what a religious scripture or actually its Church wants me to believe.

Now here is the difference, Judas planned all this ahead, Peter did not (read the Scriptures) and we can tell he repented later in the book of Acts, when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he became a more solid, mature man of God that produced the fruits of the Spirit.

When you read scripture the unbeleivers were constantly trying to trap Jesus with these kinds of senerios and they never could then and wont now.

I have thought about this way of reading Scripture for a few years now, and while I like that it upholds the accuracy and truthfulness of Scripture, I just can not accept it as a right way to read Scripture.

I will explain this idea in more detail in later posts, but for now, what are your initial thoughts, ideas, concerns, or objections to such a way of reading Scripture?

I think I have a different way of reading Scripture now, a vastly different ecclesiology, and a few other changes.

I think that McLaren would say that he could help show you that the gospel is way more than just about getting saved, but is also a way of living life in the world here and now, and living this way will shift and transform how you view others, read Scripture, and interact with God.

Even now where groups meet outside of the Eastern area, where Father Divine appears before them in person, his messages are read from The New Day, very much as scripture is read in other religious groups.8

Suffice for now is to say this: it is my opinion that 1) Scripture is clear that God's wrath and holiness demanded a sin payment, 2) as I read your articles you seem to be trying to use every logical, illustrative, and theological trick to convince yourself it's not true, but it's like you're losing the argument with yourself, 3) I really enjoyed that you broadened the truth of salvation through Jesus past justification (which many fundamentals focus on) to include redemption, sanctification, covenant marriage, adoption, etc..

So it is our job now to read Scripture as a way of informing our future directions and goals as we attempt to be Jesus in the world.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

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.

The Bible has been around for hundreds of years, many other religious stores selll The Daily Bread, Scripture read and various other forms of religious readings and now that it is on the internet, you think the church can fold?