Sentences with phrase «scriptural accounts»

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?

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.

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.

Provided the foundation of the aetiology is correctly and fully made use of and provided care is taken to determine what is affirmed on its basis, it is possible to consider that what is actually asserted in the scriptural accounts may be understood to be the outcome of historical aetiology of that kind, such as would be possible at least with the assistance of God's Spirit.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

In the Scriptural record the account of each of the six creative days concludes with the statement: «And there came to be evening and there came to be morning» a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth day.

She writes that «while many modernists saw scriptural discrepancies as evidence that the Bible was not «true,» postmodernists would attribute discrepancies to the pluralistic situatedness of interpretation,» making the Bible a more true - to - life and authentic account of human interaction with the divine.

But since God and divine action permeate the entire biblical account of history, one is obliged to begin with a complicated anatomy of the scriptural word.