Sentences with phrase «revealed through scripture»

Pope Benedict in his address to the English and Welsh bishops said recently, «It is the truth revealed through Scripture and Tradition and articulated by the Church's Magisterium that sets us free.

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.

@del mar, «You'll not find «man can not know God except as revealed through scripture» anywhere in scripture.»

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But we can strengthen our faith in His unchanging character through reading and trusting what He has revealed about Himself in Scripture.

Salvation by God's grace alone through faith in Christ alone as revealed in Scripture alone is unlike any other belief or world view.

Islam calls mankind to believe in all His scriptures which have been revealed through the apostles — such as Abraham's Books, Moses» Bible, Jesus» Gospel, and Muhammad's Qur» an.

Allah rejects the disbelievers, those who are polytheists, who do not believe in Angels, or in the apostles, or in the scriptures, or in the Last Day — and He invites them all to believe in Islam through logical thought and acceptance of the evidence revealed to men.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture, that males and females share dominion, leadership and authority in accomplishing the purposes for which they were created as individuals.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture and nature, that males are to hold authority over women the whole of their life.

Like the Calvinist, the non-Calvinist also believes that his or her understanding of God is accurately derived from Scripture and what God has revealed about Himself on its pages and through Jesus Christ.

We also need to remember that God reveals himself both through scripture and creation.

Then God reveals himself through the apostles which leads to the canonization of Scripture.

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the name of the Triune God, revealed to us by the incarnate Word Himself and the Holy Spirit, through Holy Tradition and Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the first seven Ecumenical Councils.

Here Ogden places his second principle that «the sole norm for every legitimate theological assertion is the revealed word of God declared in Jesus Christ, expressed in Holy Scripture, and made concretely present in the proclamation of the church through its word and sacraments.»

After all, to believe this fact, we must also believe that there is a God, that He loves us, that He has revealed Himself to us in Scripture and through Jesus, that the Bible is correct in what it says about all these things, that Jesus truly is able to offer us eternal life, and on and on it goes.

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character andScripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character andscripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

Timothy Drew, better known as Noble Drew, Ali, a Negro, Founder of The Moorish Science Temple of America, was the medium through whom a new Holy Koran was revealed to serve as the scripture for the group.

As is confirmed in Surah XVI, 89, all human problems can be solved through the Qur» an, either directly or indirectly: «And We reveal the Scripture unto thee as an exposition of all things.»

Paganism, at least, believes in a natural law, and it is an easy jump from there, says C. S. Lewis, to teach people the divine law as recorded in Scripture and revealed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

God continues to create new life through Jesus Christ wherever Scripture and sacrament reveal the truth about God's intention for the world to the people of God.

Now in the days of old God revealed himself through his creation, prophets and the scripture.

From the Swedish viewpoint, the proposition that some supernatural being intervenes in nature or human affairs, or reveals its will through «Holy Scripture,» is inherently nonfactual.

The Bible is inspired in that it reveals what God was whispering to people who wrote Scripture, and to people in other parts of the world who were also responding to the revelation which they had received from God (whether it be through creation or conscience).

I believe there is a God, as revealed to us through nature, our conscience, Jesus, and Scripture.»

He underscores to such an extent the inadequacy of expressions or formulations of the truth that it remains unclear how he prevents himself from sliding into the position that inadequacy of expression entails inexpressibility of truth, or prevents interpretations endlessly deferring to other interpretations, such that we never have a statement that is simply true — even in Sacred Scripture, and hence that there could be no such thing as revealed (determinate) truth, expressing itself in and through sentences.

As for Muslims whose prophet is dead and buried in Mecca since 632 AD, the Quran rejects Jesus as God's revelation of Himself, fully God and fully man, as revealed through the Christian scriptures.

What he actually does in the preface is lament the ways in which pagan superstition has twisted and distorted the true religion spelled out in what he repeatedly refers to as the sacred books of Scripture and the divine law revealed through the prophets and the apostles.

But that's exactly why we just have to trust what he has revealed to us in plain human language through the Scriptures.

Jesus reveals his will to them through the readings of the Scriptures and in prayer, and doing his will is all that really matters.

Instead, let us humbly admit that we know nothing, and return to sitting at the feet of our Master while He reveals Himself to our spirits and through the pages of Scripture.

Consequently, although four of the six chapters (3 - 6) that make up Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, concentrate on the Scriptures, the document begins (chapters 1 - 2) by setting the Bible in the context of God revealing Himself to man in the history of salvation, in Christ who is the fullness of Revelation, and in the life of the Church through which Revelation is transmitted.

So again, when we talk about discipleship and the unbeliever, we can see that no matter what a person believes or doesn't believe about God, Jesus, sin, Scripture, and a whole host of other Christian teachings, there is always room for us to talk with a person about what they believe (or don't believe) and hopefully bring them to a place that is somewhat closer to the truth revealed through Jesus Christ and in the Scriptures.

I thus suggest that we should read all Scripture «through the lens of the cross,» and when we do this, we can begin to see how even the most horrendous portraits of God in the OT bear witness to the God revealed on the cross.

Through Lady Rose's «scripture», a life of extraordinary love and great injustice emerges, revealing a remarkable young woman of courage, whose only crime was to fall in love.