Sentences with phrase «scriptural texts on»

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The collect form, based on some scriptural prayers (see Acts 4:24 - 30), dates back to fifth - century Roman texts.

The reflection on this scriptural self - witness and our continuing experience with the text lead to our confession of the nature of Scripture.

Mistakenly for them, but fortunately for the Bible, that statement on child - rearing is not a scriptural text.

He has turned the «curse» in Genesis 3:16 into an eternal principle, and has centered on the role of «homemaker» in the text from Titus, to the exclusion of other Scriptural data.

Whether through an arbitrary selectivity concerning which texts are treated, or through a selectivity regarding which aspects of a text are thought relevant, or through a selectivity according to the literary genre and method of presentation, evangelicals on both sides of the controversy concerning woman's rightful role have too often truncated the Scriptural message.

I presented on the scriptural evidence regarding homosexuality, of which Dugan wrote: «There is just one catch [to Gagnon's citation of scripture texts from Jesus]: not one of the passages he quotes from actually mentions gay relationships.»

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 here concur with Luther who contended that every scriptural text can be law or gospel depending on how we relate it to Jesus Christ.

In this section I intend to illustrate the christological hermeneutic by showing how it bears on scriptural exposition My aim is not to give an exegesis of the texts in question but simply to show the kind of approach I would use in discovering the meaning of Scripture.

The diagram on page 64 presents the basic holism of preaching with its integration of scriptural text, preacher, and community of believers, all set in the surrounding social context.

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.

In the West, Romans 7:2 is scarcely a well - known scriptural text, certainly not a reference that enthusiastic evangelists wave on placards at sports stadiums.

Modern fundamentalists have already made up their minds about the entire Bible, and when you try to explain that some of their favorite Bible - thumping passages have been ripped out of the cultural and Scriptural context in which they were written, the Fundamentalist acts as if you are the stupidest person on the earth for trying to understand a text this way.

The more I studied, the more convinced I became that we Christians had applied a different standard to the homosexuality texts than we had to other Scriptural texts, and that condemning Christ - centered relationships solely based on gender was actually inconsistent with biblical teaching.

But the significance and content of all such views will be defined completely in terms of thinking about them in the view of larger facts of Jesus Christ and the gospel — not primarily by gathering and arranging pieces of scriptural text that seem to be relevant to such topics in order to pinpoint the «biblical view» on them.»