Sentences with phrase «scripture than the religious»

Atheists on this blog have repeatedly shown they are more aware of scripture than the religious.

As to the texts, Jesus was a Jew and he had a better understanding of the scriptures than the religious leaders of his time.

Not exact matches

The key question for theology is whether Kant can make any sense out of who the scriptures say Jesus is rather than abjuring the task and simply correcting the apostolic witness in light of some higher «religious» principle.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

The only people stupider than religious fundamentalists are secular fundamentalists who can't conceive that some scriptures were meant as metaphors.

You take someone else's explanation for scripture because: a) Everyone else does, b) The person explaining is a religious «leader», or c) It's easier than thinking for yourself.

Psalm 10: 3 - 4 — This talks about the wicked men, how they do nt have God in their hearts or in their minds, which is a fine piece of scripture but it can hardly be used for either myself or the maker of the video since we both seem to advocate a deep and personal relationship with the Lord rather than letting a group of «religious» people ruin it for you.

Where there is no love, the study of Scripture is nothing more than an empty religious exercise.

These two, much more than Luther, narrowed the forms of religious communication almost entirely to the Word as expressed through Scripture and sermon.

More than 20 religious leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds around Gainesville had the same Quran passage read - along with Christian and Hebrew scriptures — at their congregations over the weekend.

I have done a LOT of comparative religious study (and why is it that Pagans tend to be better able to quote scripture than Christians?).

Nonetheless, I should like to suggest that the form of the holy scriptures of Himayana, conforming to the more introverted nature of Himayana piety, is significantly more «subjective» than that of the Mahayana writings — a religious literature that constructs a monstrously rich, manifold, variegated, and complicated «objective» world.

Catholic modernists, believing that religion is a greater mystery than reason can comprehend, accepted the Enlightenment's intellectual indictments of religious dogma, traditional interpretations of scripture, and church history but held onto the church's ritual and symbols.

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

In this sense, I think it is pretty clear that the scriptures are a better guide to Christian religious ideas than, for example, the Bhagavad Gita.

And the determination of what is appropriate for Christian theology involves more than interpretation of «scripture and tradition»; it also involves consideration of how and in what direction the Spirit that animated Christian existence in the past will move in the new situational context, in which consideration insights are also drawn from other sources, religious and secular.

• finally, Luther's insistence on sola scnptura unleashed religious anarchy, since others, much to his dismay, read scripture differently than he did.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Many religious liberals, historians, and secularists have concluded that the Hebrew Scripture's Ten Commandments were based on this earlier document, rather than vice-versa.»

But the religious differences turned on more than Scripture.

Many appear to be much concerned about it, but nothing is more evident, both in reason, and in the holy Scripture, than that religion is ever a matter between God and individuals; and therefore no man or men can impose any religious test without invading the essential prerogatives of our Lord Jesus Christ....