Sentences with phrase «scriptural teaching»

However different the two ways may have become when Augustine was a bishop fighting heresies, at the period of his conversion his philosophic understanding of scriptural teaching about the divine order is far more in evidence than any appeal to faith.

We have also come to recognize that the practice of owning another human being is morally reprehensible, yet our moral outrage comes not from clear scriptural teaching against the practice, but rather from societal progress.

If we have learned anything from the dispensationalists» repeated warning of an imminent return of Christ that somehow never seems to occur, it is the folly of basing Christian doctrine on current events instead of clear scriptural teaching.

The product of a church history of sex negative hysteria started by deeply disturbed early church fathers bearing little to no basis in honest scriptural teaching.

and what does that have to do with scriptural teachings....

Not so James Barr, for whom contemporary interpreters (but not biblical theologians) have every right to override unacceptable scriptural teachings.

Brunner appeals explicitly to the prologue of John and to certain sayings of Paul, but surely one who is as emphatic as he in rejecting the authority of Scriptural teachings as such does not mean to say that we accept the doctrine of creation because of the presence of these passages in the New Testament.

The teaching of a trinity started around 400 CE many years after the final bible writer how can one proclaim to serve God and Jesus when they believe in these non scriptural teachings?

The task of the liturgist who must be conversant with both biblical and patristic sources is to discern where, when, and how early Christian worship expands scriptural teaching and thus becomes normative.

To say that Christians should allow the biblical world to absorb their own world, Placher explains, is to affirm that Christians should resist viewpoints and ideologies that are incompatible with the central claims of scriptural teaching and that Christians should consider whether scriptural narrative «might be unexpectedly helpful» in understanding their own lives.

All the scriptural teachings about governments apply, but the reality of democratic and participatory governments means that a vocation - centered theology can not view Christians as merely the subjects of the state: By having voice, Christians are participants in the rulership of their state.

With God's eternity as the Fullness of Time, it is possible now to bring back to our awareness the scriptural teaching, ignored by traditional theology, that the whole world is going to be redeemed.

Yet, ironically, Rabbi Soloveichik has only discussed how Christianity radically reinterpreted some scriptural teachings.

No reasons are advanced as to why the scriptural teaching is to be or could be relativised in the light of the insights of sociology and psychology.

But, I can't escape the scriptural teaching that points to it.

Habitat takes the scriptural teaching against interest seriously, but not because its leaders are economically illiterate.

But I do know that we can not ignore the evidence of our experience that interaction with the Jews has helped us to see with fresh clarity the scriptural teaching that Christians have a spiritual kinship with the Jewish people that is unlike our relation to anyone else.

Indeed, to a great extent, the Nicene tradition has been an argument carried forward through many generations about how best to account for the truth of scriptural teaching, Church practice, and proclamation, involving constant restatements, reconsiderations, and revisions.

I agree that pleading the blood of Jesus is not a scriptural teaching, but the shedding of His blood was essential for your salvation.

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