Sentences with phrase «relying on scripture»

Christianity has historically been a verbal religion, relying on scripture, liturgy, and theology as means of teaching and survival.

'' I believe relying on scripture to refute or affirm homosexuality is a dead end street.

Noll writes, «the foundational profession of Reformation Protestantism to rely on Scripture before — or even apart from — other authorities faded as Protestant self - identification strengthened.»

The other possibility was to give up natural law and rely on Scripture alone, trusting the grace of God to hold the wayward mind steady in the effort to understand it.

Not exact matches

For this reason, all attempts at discernment and teaching must rely on prayerful attentiveness to the guidance of the Spirit in the study of Scripture.

The Jesus approached scripture with a mythological imagination that relied as much on intuition as logic.

But in a effort to forgive and recognize an opportunity to gain strength and rely on Christ, we prayed and studied scripture and continued to attend church without confronting it or addressing behaviors.

It seems as if people are always in debate over scripture due to relying on their own understanding to comprehend it.

Reflecting on all these disputes, Dr Stephen Holmes of St Andrews University concludes that «a fundamentalist attitude to scripture relies on the fixity of the printed text.»

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

So quit relying on Jewish scriptures and Hebrew traditions to inform the CHristian church, and look to the simple message of Jesus on the only commandments that are important, and then the answer here is simple — if women are knowledgeable, capable teachers, welcome them to that role, love them for it, and keep the faith.

Hi Blake, I don't think the verse is referring to our understanding of the Bible or theology, or that we shouldn't rely on our ability to think or make judgments at all about Scripture.

Subsequently, the Scriptures and tradition become the constraining informational sources on which members of the Church rely in order to situate themselves in the presence of the promising mystery that gave new life to the disciples after the death of Jesus.

And yet, as Noll describes, during the same time period, the Great Awakening led many to rely more intensely on Scripture.

In the midst of his work to combat institutional racism within the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. relied heavily on principles taught in Scripture.

For those of us who are very certain that we understand what Holy Scripture says on this topic (and on the curiously attendant topic of homosexuality) must we not also rely on our hero Augustine's understanding of how we ought to handle our interpretations of Holy Scripture?

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

This situation — that the parts of the Bible actually relied on vary from reader to reader — reflects the fact that the Bible functions as Scripture as it is brought to bear on the actual faith and life of the readers.

This inability to listen is equally surprising on the part of intelligent people committed to the principles of sound, scientific exegesis and on the part of believers who profess to rely on the revelation in Holy Scripture.

'» [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.

Even anti-experiential theologians rely on the faith that God is revealed through scripture, creed, tradition, reason, story, history, or language — a faith which (after the empiricists have left the room) will be justified only in that it is trusted, where «trusted» usually means experienced in a way that is convincing.

The translators who created the Septuagint (Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures) mistranslated this as parthenos (Greek for virgin), and the Gospel writers mistakenly relied on the Greek wording.

My Catholic readers will love this, but I think Protestants sometimes live in denial about the fact that we don't rely exclusively on Scripture to arrive at moral conclusions.

Nevertheless, for all of God's elect, they may sufficiently understand those things which are necessary to be believed for salvation, the Holy Spirit assisting them, from the Scriptures, without relying on any pretended infallible human interpreters.

Furthermore, while Scripture tells us not to rely solely on our experiences, it cautions Christians against ignoring experience altogether.

All scripture is man - made tribal mythology relying on «blind (emphasis on * blind *) faith» to cause sheep to believe in supernatural beings.

If there are early Christian apologists who were making that argument, they could have come up with something quite better — like just studying the scriptures (not just reading — studying) and realize they didn't have to rely on nonprovable arguments.

We rely on Priests to intercede for us because Christ told them to... right there in Scripture.

This is the Jesus of Scripture, so let us dive into His Word to discover who He is, and not rely on our own understanding.

It has its own sacred scriptures (e.g., the Constitution), its inviolable laws (just as Orthodox Jews venerate and rely on halakha, liberal Jews venerate and rely on American law), and even a Devil who causes all evil (socioeconomic forces).

It can be called «the method of Abraham» 9 because Abraham had no scripture or priesthood to rely on and instead he relied on his own direct and personal discernment of God's will.

Harold Camping is not common - sense — you must rely on his unique interpretations of the Scriptures, which he uniquely developed.