Sentences with phrase «speaking through scripture»

The letter to the Hebrews speaks glowingly of God speaking through scripture in time past, but insists thatnow, at last, God has spoken through his own son (1:1 - 2).

(Hebrews 7:2) The Most High speaks through scriptures, his Word.

But Wright points to Scripture itself to make the point, as he had earlier, that «God does indeed speak through scripture.

First, in order to read scripture rightly, we must trust the God who speaks through scripture.

As God has spoken his word in diverse cultural situations, the church is confident that he will continue to speak through the Scriptures in a changing world and in every form of human culture.

Not exact matches

We are the chosen because God speaks through out prophet, No, scripture says that God stopped doing that therefore we are the chosen because we know scripture better, the ONLY way God speaks.

Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.

It's up to us, the regular, everyday people in the trenches of real life to speak the truth and tell our stories about the work God's doing in our lives and what He's saying to us through the Scriptures.

But we've tested the spirits enough times to know that it is very often the case that God has, in fact, been speaking to us through Scripture.

Believing God speaks to us through Scripture, of course, often begs the question of interpretation.

Again Scripture says: «In many and various ways God spoke to our fathers by the prophets of old, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.»

Viseral you could argue that Jesus did speak about homosexuality and bestiality as its in the word and scripture is the inspired word of God Jesus is God As God he inspired that word so he did speak it.or spoke it through others?

I would argue that Scripture is read because God speaks to his people assembled to hear his Word through the readings as well as through the sermon.

I have argued that 2 Timothy 3:16 applies to «All Scripture,» not just the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, and that it has nothing to do with how Scripture was written, but has everything to do with how God speaks to us through Scripture to make it profitable, meaningful, and inspiring in our lives.

If in this connection we would only refer to the testimony of the Spirit who speaks in and through Scripture, this would indeed be correct and would be acknowledged also in Catholic theology; but we would not yet have reached the question where the dialogue touches the human dimension as such.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

Preachers must be aware of the diversity of persons in their congregation, yet try to speak so that the Spirit, through scripture, addresses many hearts in ways that will be fitting to each, as different as these hearers are known to be from one another.

As long as the pastor is an accurate teacher of scripture and you find God speaking to you through that person, it is worth being a part of.

God speaks for himself through Scripture.

As I look back over my life, becoming a Christian is nothing compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Jesus on a day to day basis, sitting at His feet to learn from Him, and letting Him speak to me by His Spirit and through Scripture.

She said she read the Scripture I sent her, and that God had spoken unto her through it, and asked me if I would pray for her.

Later that day God spoke unto me through a Scripture that I emailed to Stella.

They speak of» the Gospel of God which He announced beforehand through His prophets in holy Scriptures.»

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character andScripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character andscripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

Also, as to the persons God sometimes prefers to speak through — as His «mouthpiece», so to say — I was reminded of the following Scripture.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

This idea of external justification has no basis in Scripture which consistently speaks of the «new creation» or «new man» brought about through baptism.

The problem of the relation of Scriptures to revelation, of the Word of God spoken through the prophets and incarnate in Jesus Christ to the living Word, is one that has greatly concerned theology especially since the days of the Reformation.

To begin with, the church had the fact of the historical Jesus, and the fact of the one God who spoke through the Hebrew scripture.

It is therefore a broader term than prayer, for one may worship not only through prayer but through music and song, the reverent reading or repetition of scripture and creed, the spoken word of the sermon.

I am not saying God can not speak to us through Scripture.

It seems that what Peter is saying is that while God does speak to us through Scripture, He speaks to us in the context of community.

In fact, few places in Scripture speak to the Christian conversion experience through any method other than relational metaphor.

I believe the one of the primary ways the Holy Spirit speaks to us is through Scripture.

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.

I think God still can and does speak to us through Scripture, but we have to listen and obey.

Lewis wrote, He's either a lunatic for making such outrageous claims, yet every other thing about his life was very sane.In addition, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide proof that the words we see in Scripture today are the same words written in the Bible thousands of years ago.God spoke through His people to write the Bible and it's still changing lives every single day for those who meditate on it.

Sometimes we can hear Him speaking through the voice of a stranger, a friend, the words of a song, a thought from a book, a verse of Scripture.