Sentences with phrase «scriptural words»

Jesus may also know when it is God who speaks to him through scripture - and when it is the devil who is whispering to him in scriptural words.

Here Milosz is exactly a Christian» the scriptural word is received as a word for him in that moment, together with all those who have believed before him.

It's not a Bible, ie scriptural word....

The word «justify» is not a scriptural word.

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.

If we're to say why we think the scriptural Word of God is inspired, we need to start with the personal Word of God in Jesus Christ.

Not exact matches

Marle is right and what she said is word for word scriptural.

Do we hold up the word of God as a filter, blocking out every scene that does not contain a scriptural equivalent?

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

It is scriptural, baptize is an transliteration of the Greek word, which simply means dunk or immerse.

In other words, because the NALC is not in communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)-- churches they broke away from over significant theological differences regarding the nature of Scriptural authority — the LWF is rejecting the NALC's application.

There is a sense in which the objectivity of the scriptural text in its unchanging wording can be appealed to as a corrective against the most highly fanciful flights of redefinition, but it would be part of the naivete against which the Apostle warns us if we were to take that objectivity as a guarantee.

Because the REAL issue is «whose scriptural mummeries really ARE the words of God?»

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

Barth insisted that to hear scriptural narrative as God's Word has nothing necessarily to do with defending its historical character or some particular historical element within it.

His point was not that scriptural narrative contains no historical elements, but rather that the Bible's historical elements are always mixed with myth, saga and related forms of expression as vehicles of the Word.

This latter practice followed the teaching of the Vatican II constitution Dei Verbum that the Word of God is the «soul of Sacred Theology» (DV, 24), and includes familiarising seminarians with the «four senses» method of scriptural interpretation proposed by Henri de Lubac and developed in Brussels.

Landry regularly raises questions about what difference the scriptural text makes to the hearers as a community and constantly envisions how the congregation can react corporately to the implications of the Word in Scripture.

Such studies assume an important interface between the words of a scriptural passage and the social reality undergirding those words.

Wyschogrod is not certain that the word «incarnation» is the best way to describe God's relation to the Jewish people, but he is sure of the scriptural witness that God dwells in the Tabernacle, the Temple in Jerusalem, and in the Holy Land.

In other words, I am not sure that the typical message which is preached at an Evangelism Crusade is actually the Scriptural gospel.

The Reformers reaffirmed Nicene Orthodoxy because they thought it agreeable to the word of God, and this logically implies the possibility of second thoughts if scriptural exegesis so requires.

Men in ministry are not to go beyond what God has instructed in His word, so likewise should women not go beyond the scriptural calling.

If there is no necessity, and if, even in English, it's possible to speak of propositional particularity in the use of the word «all», why can't the same be true of (say) Scriptural or theological propositions?

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

A brief survey of pertinent scriptural passages must begin with a word about our interpretive principles.

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.

Scriptural references to these sexual practices, both before and after Leviticus, show God's displeasure with them whether or not any ceremony or idolatry is involved.Response # 2: Despite the UFMCC's contention that the word for abomination (toevah) is usually associated with idolatry, it in fact appears in Proverbs 6:16 - 19 in connection with sins having nothing to do with idolatry or pagan ceremony: There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable [an abomination or toevah] to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.Idolatry plays no part in these scriptures; clearly, then, toevah is not limited to idolatrous practices.Response # 3: If the practices in Leviticus 18 and 20 are condemned only because of their association with idolatry, then it logically follows they would be permissible if they were committed apart from idolatry.

And, with a parting word in the scriptural mode, Aerbook's Ron Martinez's led us in an apt benediction: