Sentences with phrase «required by scripture»

Bob, the difference is that Jews are required by scripture to do it.

Then why is the supposed assembly required by scripture the opposite; dull, uninteresting, sometimes downright off putting.

Not exact matches

There are nonessential (adiaphora) issues that are neither required nor prohibited by scripture.

The Church should stop inducing guilt by encouraging people to read the Bible and instead provide people with the education required to understand the Scriptures.

And this exclusion is required not only by the decision of God as recorded in the Scriptures, but also and to a greater degree, by the fact that the Christian can never consider violence the ultima ratio.

If it is so easy to ignore a major and substantial religious practice repeatedly uplifted, enshrined and required by the Torah and by all the scripture that follows, why is it so hard to let go of two verses that have substantially less biblical mention and support and no contemporary justification?

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

Jewett believes his methods and conclusions are «not only consistent with, but required by, a wholehearted commitment to the infallibility of Scripture, rightly interpreted.

Bonhoeffer's popular book Life Together deals with the practical relations of the church's life in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclaming.

I hope you don't find it insulting when I say that as is your arguments often require us to accept without any reason that the way you understand some verses is correct yet you can dismiss any verse you chose by saying that their understanding is a «misapplication», perhaps supplying a reasonable approach to how one goes about interpreting Scripture in general could clear up that problem.

By requiring a document to contain what the Apostles taught, therefore, the Church was not simply glorifying the Founding Fathers but exercising its responsibility to provide some sort of assurance that the Scripture contains authentic writings.

Reading the Bible as Scripture requires allowing ourselves to be apprehended by what the writers have to say.

Also by many other verses the Koran literally requires Muslims to fight against Jews and Christians (people of the scripture).

Fallen by David Maine St. Martin's, 256, $ 23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin's, 240 pages, $ 21.95 Scripture may call for exegesis, but literature requires interpretation.

Such concerns were held to be required by a proper reading of the Scriptures.