Sentences with phrase «revelation in scripture»

In God's revelation in Scripture we come to the recognition that the divine liberation of the oppressed is determined not by our perceptions but by the God of the Exodus, the prophets and Jesus Christ, who calls the oppressed into a liberated existence.

In that sense, Christians do not believe that God sends prophets like Moses any longer, as God's revelation in scripture is closed.

As it happens, when we ask about God's role in violence, later revelation in Scripture makes it pretty clear that God's only activity was to rescue us from our own violence, redeem us from the consequences of violence, and reconcile us to Himself and to one another from the schisms caused by violence.

The problem is most people do not appear to think things through, even many Christians do not comprehend they must examine themselves not only in prayer, but in contemplation of God's self - revelation in Scripture and what His Will is for us at this moment.

Proponents of this view do not argue that Yahweh is both good and evil, but that the term Yahweh represents two different beings, Jesus and Satan, and we must use later revelation in Scripture to determine when Yahweh refers to one or the other.

Williams violently disagreed with the Quakers, charging them with replacing God's revelation in Scripture with their own fancy spun out of the «light within.»

There is no self - conscious theology of revelation in the Scriptures, and the topic receives little formal attention even in the history of doctrine up until about the time of the Enlightenment.

If there is truth found in other religions, it has simply been brought over, or «transferred» from God's true revelation in the Scriptures.

Not exact matches

What is at stake are issues of principle — the role of revelation and Scripture in the formation of conscience — that affect matters of doctrine ranging from the place of the Methodist Quadrilateral in the formation of United Methodist identity to the place of Christ in salvation.

Unless your passion and hobby and degrees are in Christian theology, I seriously doubt most agnostics have a clue about sacred tradition and scripture and the divine revelation.

Prophets and Messengers of God who received his inspirations and revelations and those are just 25 in the Quran but many mentioned in the elder scriptures and many not mentioned at any:

The mainline Reformers of the sixteenth century posited what is called the «formal principle,» which holds that the Scriptures are (in the words of the 2000 Amsterdam Declaration) «the inspired revelation of God... totally true and trustworthy, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.»

In this way, Scripture seems to precede the Church, and the Church seems to be constituted in response to the revelation of the Son of God, a revelation who was seen as the Son of God and not as anyone else because he was according to the ScriptureIn this way, Scripture seems to precede the Church, and the Church seems to be constituted in response to the revelation of the Son of God, a revelation who was seen as the Son of God and not as anyone else because he was according to the Scripturein response to the revelation of the Son of God, a revelation who was seen as the Son of God and not as anyone else because he was according to the Scriptures.

And, unlike Islam, it accepted that source of its moral teaching precisely because it is God's revelation to his people Israel, and it is as Israel has preserved it in Scripture.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

Nowhere does it say in the Bible that God has finished his work or that there will be no more revelation or that the cannon of scripture is complete.

It is claimed that Mormons are wrong because they believe in extra-Biblical revelation and scripture.

Since Latter - day Saints believe in continuing, modern revelation, that means that we follow what is in the canonized scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) AND whatever our current leaders teach.

Among those revelations recorded in 1843 in the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of Mormon scripture, were teachings about plural marriage.

I have learned from scripture that it only mentions creatures in the heavenly (angles and so) and earth (man, animal, plants, etc.) realms, the beginning and end of time of relating to earth, and the narrative of God's mission and revelations revolve around man.

And God's certain revelation is to be found only in Scriptures.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

Liberal Protestants in the last two centuries also claimed to use Scripture as their sole norm, and over time came to distinguish revelation from the words of the Bible.

Do you think that given the supremacy of the revelation in Jesus Christ, the sequence of Scripture can ever go backward?

In this way, we can say that the Hebrew Scriptures are more of a revelation about man than a revelation about God.

When Muhammad received revelation, it sounds more like demon possession than anything I see in the biblical scriptures, in fact, Muhammad was suicidal, and thought he was demon possessed, but His wife convinced him otherwise.

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

In this sense, «the diversity of Scripture — and the tensions that this diversity introduces — bears witness to God's revelation rather than detracts from it.»

We must believe in Angels, the ambassadors of the revelation from Allah to His apostles, and, of necessity, in the Scriptures, His messages to humanity.

«For early Christianity Scripture is no longer just what is written, nor is it just tradition; it is the dynamic and divinely determined declaration of God which speaks of His whole rule and therefore of His destroying and new creating, and which reaches its climax in the revelation of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit by the risen Lord... The full revelation in Christ and the Spirit is more than what is written» (TDNT I: 761).

«In particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquIn particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquin Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquin decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.»

Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»

It clings not only to the divine revelation expressed in the scriptures but also to the exclusively literal truth of the scriptures.

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

What makes common sense to me is that this is coming from the same volume of scripture that has within it revelations from the past present and future from the time in which the events that were written about took place.

The crucivision approach to Scripture allows the revelation of Jesus to be the guide and lens by which we interpret the rest of the revelation about God in Scripture.

Just as the Romans never knew which face of Janus was going to show up at any one time, this is how many people feel about God when they adopt a chronological approach to the revelation of God in Scripture.

Calvinists believe that their understanding of the biblical text is the only proper understanding, and if people disagree, it is because they don't want to submit to God's revelation of Himself in Scripture.

(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us in the revelation of God in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives of the saints, sacred art, miracles of conversion and healing, and in her own very nature.

At this level the question has to be answered primarily in terms of revelation, as it comes to us through Scripture and tradition, interpreted with the guidance of the ecclesiastical magisterium.

The Scriptures are the record of God's progressive revelation of Himself through inspired men, and the story of His righteous purpose in history to bring mankind to final perfection in Christ.

There is great mystery in how this worked for Jesus, but if we read the actions of Jesus back into the actions of God in the Old Testament, and we see there how God took the sins of Israel onto Himself through the inspired revelation of Scripture, then this helps us somewhat understand how Jesus accomplished this for the sins of the whole world on the cross.

So according to this view, whenever we see Yahweh mentioned in Scripture (translated as Lord in most Bibles), we should use the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Gospels to determine whether Yahweh is referring to Jesus or to the devil.

----- Az - Zumar sura 39: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The revelation of the Scripture is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.

Again it must be said, however, that Scripture is not the only source of revelation, in our sense of the word.

«72 For Lindsell, accommodation has to do with the form of revelation, but it in no way impinges on the content of Scripture.

The Deuteronomic commandment, in other words, is God's inspired revelation to his people - it is trustworthy and authoritative - but it must be understood both in terms of the historical realities of life in ancient Israel (the people's sin) and in terms of God's wider revelation in the whole of Scripture.

In the life of the Church, the notion of revelation has come to be closely associated, though not identified, with that of the inspiration of Scripture.

In Scripture, the understanding and application of revelation is a historical process (cf. Mark 10:3 - 5).