Sentences with phrase «scriptural account»

That is, the pattern draws our attention to what God is doing in the text with the assumption that what God has done in a particular scriptural account, God may well do again.

That inhospitality and injustice are «the sin of Sodom» is evident when one examines parallel scriptural accounts as well as explicit references to Sodom elsewhere in the Old Testament.

Maybe you could clarify: by «historically» are you taking about the practice of the religion in a perticular time period, or are you references scriptural accounts directly?

Well then, that would make the Rigvedas the most reliable scriptural account of the creation of universe bcoz they have talked of the universe being created and destroyed many times over.

You turned a scriptural account for love and unity in the Church (yes the body of Christ) by Thom into a guilt trip / scare tactic.

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

The novel is a form notoriously unconcerned with fidelity to its sources; nobody praises Flaubert's «Herodias» or Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers for their fidelity to the scriptural accounts they are based upon, and the varyingly revisionist dramatizations of most later writers» the list includes Nikos Kazantzakis, Michel Tournier, Joseph Heller, and Norman Mailer» assert their artistic freedom like rebellious sons.

Many people who have not read the scriptural account will come away from this film with a very false view of what the scripture teaches.

Chapters 17, 18, and 19 were three of the best chapters in the book, and these chapters were focused more on gleaning insights from the Scriptural accounts of Adam and Abraham.

The scriptural account of Acts shows the apostles and early disciples doing exactly that.

Try to reconstruct the «identity» from principles, ideals or whatever, and you end up with something that is very different from the scriptural account of being «in Christ.»

Justification is central to the scriptural account of salvation, and its meaning has been much debated between Protestants and Catholics.

And the scriptural account speaks of the disaster of sin being passed, in the first instance, among the small group that is Adam and Eve.

Furthermore, in view of the state of scientific knowledge today, unless one is prepared simply to reject scientific evidence, adjustments to the interpretation of the scriptural accounts are always necessary.

The converse danger — and to judge from the scriptural accounts of the struggle, the more threatening one — is to tie divinity to masculinity on account of supposedly similar traits, such as transcendence, in contrast to the immanent earth.

The Scriptural account of creation, in my opinion, while not incorrect, is not intended to be a «scientific» explanation, as we understand «scientific».

These essentially linked purposes are clearly indicated in the scriptural accounts of the creation of the sexes and of the institution of marriage.