That scripture means those who have made their God to be money will find it hard to be Heaven because their hearts are not in the right place.
According to Wright, «to affirm «the authority of scripture» is precisely not to say, «We know what
scripture means and don't need to raise any more questions.»
This is why they attempt to nail down exactly what
Scripture means (for everyone) and assume what God is / wants / demands (from everyone) and become dogmatic (and sometimes downright mean) in the process (toward everyone except maybe their spouses and doctors and accountants).
... the merely objective presence of the world's events in the everlasting memory of God is not what
Scripture means by resurrection... (CG 95 - 6)
Remember in Ephesians 1:5 - 6, it says that God's predestination is to the adoption as sons, which we saw from history and from
Scripture means that He has promised to make us His heirs?
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that scripture means is that someone wrote it down.
Any time you reason the answer to scripture from your opinion and once you say this is what
the scripture means then you can find other scripture to back up what you say because you just up and changed the meaning of the original text.
Honoring the authority of
scripture means living in dialog with previous readings and respecting tradition, Wright says.
Honoring reason in the reading of
scripture means «giving up merely arbitrary or whimsical readings of texts, and paying attention to lexical, historical considerations,» says Wright.
-------- Interesting take... Please explain how I have injected my opinion as to what
the scripture means?
He believed and wrote that in.Just because someone wrote something down (
scripture means it was written down) does not make it reality.
Yet even those who follow this guideline do not always agree on what
Scripture means.
We all use sources outside Scripture to help us try to understand / interpret what
Scripture means.
Some believe this is what happened to Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1 - 11), or what
Scripture means when it refers to «the sin unto death» (Rom 6:16; 1 John 5:16).
Forgetting the direction toward honesty, many Christians seem to believe that what
Scripture means by «pure» and by «lovely» is merely the pleasant and the naive, the Hallmark Channel, not the reality of a world in need of redemption.
But, now that the Kingdom is here you have all you need in the Holy Ghost to show you anything you want to know about what
the scripture means.
The sermon follows as a faithful exposition of what
the Scriptures mean for our time.
I agree that precept upon precept and line upon line is just what it means that God wants us to teach and preach his word just like that line upon line and precept upon precept explaining what
the scriptures means so that people can understand and giving them a little hear and there because you might give them more than they can comprehend.
And by
scripture I mean the apostolic authority of Peter, Paul et al..
His interpretation of scripture, while it does have a foundational truth, is not what
the scriptures mean.
This pompous arrogant pseudo intellectual has to tell anyone that will listen or read what he KNOWS
the scriptures mean not just for him but for everyone.
Honouring
the scriptures means taking language, literary style, genre, context, form, perspective and theology seriously.
I do not think
those scriptures mean what you think they mean.
which makes the words of
the Scripture mean whatever they may happen to mean to the naive contemporary reader.
Quoting bible
scriptures mean nothing to non christians.
While stories and illustrations would often be a part of such teaching, the primary goal was to clearly explain what
the Scriptures meant, and provide instruction on how to live out and apply the Scriptures to their daily lives.
So what does
Scripture mean when it speaks of the God of darkness?
Only then do we really know what
the Scriptures mean by «repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,» for it is this name alone that sustains us on that day.
Not exact matches
If NO man knows the date etc. as it says in
scripture and their is always a whackadoo somewhere in the world saying the world will end tomorrow, would that
mean that somebody is bound to know the day?
You also seemed to assume that because Jeannie was going to relax and enjoy where she is
means she is going to stop reading or searching out
scripture.
The Bible teaches that to truly believe in and trust God
means to trust in His Word, and all
scripture is inspired by God, so all
scripture comes from him (2 Timothy 3:16).
Scripture has ONE
meaning.
Meanwhile, there is a whole long record of reading
scripture for more depth /
meaning.
(Based on experience, I interpret
scripture to
mean any work that resonates the sacred — not just the Bible.)
But that does not
mean that the ecumenical creeds are finished, or the
scriptures upended.
The term translated to as with
means bed every other time it's used in Leviticus and when Paul referred to that
scripture when writing the clobber passage in Corinthians he rewrote bed.
Regarding
scripture, to really know what it is saying, we need to realize that it is made up of several kinds of literature and that its
meaning is reflected in those genres.
That is not to say we should not take the journey for ourselves; it simply
means that there are maps drawn by those who have gone before — from the saints in
Scripture to the Fathers of the Church.
TORAH TORAH TORAH > YHWH YHWH YHWH < HAROT HAROT HAROT you get the picture This CAN NOT be done by any man and still retain the
meaning of
scripture / or the text in which it is written.
So let's say you're right that there is only one true
meaning of
scripture — I'm assuming that only god knows it, being all - knowing and everything.
Scripture is already a theological reality identifiable with Christ, and so the «material text should not be called Holy
Scripture strictly speaking, since these manuscripts are only sacred to the extent that the sacred
meaning accompanies them.»
We who are Evangelicals recognize the need to address the widespread misunderstanding in our community that sola scriptura (
Scripture alone)
means nuda scriptura (literally,
Scripture unclothed; i.e., denuded of and abstracted from its churchly context).
Scripture was given to the prophets by God and it was
meant that those
scriptures should be interpreted by prophets of God.
I am not sure what you
mean by saying «twisting
scripture» as the only way to read it is to interpret it, and everyone does this subjectively.
The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a
means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of
Scripture.
I do think that maintaining the normativity of
Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our
means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with
Scripture is within the context of worship.
To all of you quoting
scripture, your not supposed to read a sentence in the bible and look for
meaning to understand it's
meaning you need the context which is the entire bible.
I would like you to read the
Scriptures I posted for you and tell me if they did speak to you, and what
meaning did you see in them?
CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «
scripture» of sorts in American public life, each of which contemplate the
meaning and ends of war
Jim has possibly experienced
Scripture as a
means of Grace, not as a moral manual or a dogmatic dissertation.