Sentences with phrase «scriptural reading»

Interestingly enough, recent study of the physico - chemical world seems to be producing results that are on the side of the scriptural reading of the matter.

The scriptural readings for the day are carefully chosen to reflect the Three - in - One doctrine: God as Creator, Christ and Holy Spirit.

The scriptural readings for the day...

The scriptural readings provide Biblical backup for a nonscriptural word: Trinity.

Perhaps in more fundamentalist congregations where so much emphasis is given to the written word and what the preacher makes of it, it make weaken his hold on the largely ignorant, but in the Catholic and Episcopaelian congregations, it is much more about pomp and ceremony — where the scriptural readings take on much more of a musical resonance than a study group — it will have little impact.

Not exact matches

If you read the article a little closer you will see that the scriptural reference used comes from the Bible's New Testament, where Paul having a discussion regarding the resurrection, asks why would followers of Christ at his time perform baptisms for dead if there were to be no resurrection.

Seriously, Get Real, if you are going to engage in scriptural interpretation you might want to do some reading about the historical - critical method of interpretation.

The readings and prayers are scriptural taken from the Holy Bible.

The argument was made according to a classic liberationist reading of the scriptural mandate.

For example, he rightly points out that Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was said» instead of his usual expression, «have you not read» or «as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.

Since the Bible is written in androcentric, grammatically masculine language that can function as generic inclusive or as patriarchal exclusive language, feminist interpretation must develop a hermeneutics of critical evaluation for proclamation that is able to assess theologically whether scriptural texts function to inculcate patriarchal values, or whether they must be read against their linguistic «androcentric grain» in order to set free their liberating vision for today and for the future.

The real distinction between some philosophical ideas, which are nonbiblical in their implications, and the scriptural picture is exactly what I urged above: that between history read in terms of nature and nature read in terms of history.

Even where Scriptural evidence seems on first reading to contradict this bias toward the needy, closer inspection reveals that no real inconsistency exists.

Other scriptural books, the Rigveda for example, from closer to the same time period, and also written by dark skinned people, also use the language that you are reading on your terms.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

I was reading the thread here, and happened to notice as the other posters began to dismantle your arguments with their strongly supported assertions, you, as most often «believers» tend to do, began to get less and less specific, and... began to skate past their points, while bringing in more and more «fluffy» scriptural references.

The so - called scriptural basis for saying gay people aren't ok is mostly based on a very few readings taken out - of context with added interpretations that aren't in the text at all.

Throughout this process, literalist readings that may appear conservative in terms of their approach to scriptural authority have practical consequences that are socially progressive, if not revolutionary.

Calvin was confident that the true meaning of even the most difficult scriptural passages would emerge from contextual reading.

It is hard to read because it contains a lot of the Scriptural backgrounds and exegetical research for what is written about in the other two books.

The Most Important Thing If there was one bit of wisdom, one rule of thumb, one useful tip I could offer to help you solve the riddle of Scriptural meaning, it's this: Never read a Bible verse.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

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Meanwhile, his fans pick up more scriptural knowledge from his uncompromisingly gospel - centred lyrics than a typical Bible - reading programme might achieve.