Sentences with phrase «statement on scripture»

Interestingly enough, not «theology proper» but a statement on Scripture appears as the first item in the formal doctrinal statement of the Assemblies of God (AG).

In the 1960s, for example, it adopted an inerrancy clause in its statement on Scripture in a show of solidarity.

As Evangelicals and Catholics we are agreed on what we have said together in the statement «The Gift of Salvation» and on what we have been able to say together in the present statement on Scripture and tradition.

The key issue for the fundamentalists was the inerrancy of the Scriptures, and one may trace under NAE and ETS influence a rush to beef up Holiness and Pentecostal statements on Scripture.

Not exact matches

This being said, when gay and lesbians want to promote their views as normal or that would be permissible for a priest or bishop to be a practising homosexual, I disagree based on the clear statements of Scripture.

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

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

This accounts for the ecclesiastical opposition to Charles Darwin's work on evolution and to the arguments of critical Biblical scholars, which implied that not all statements in scripture were factually correct.

The author quotes scripture and closes with the following statement: «Maybe this Christmas season, we can reflect not so much on whether or not Jesus was white and instead consider what it meant for him to be called the «light» of the world.»

The «Galileo affair» itself is notoriously complicated — as Brooke brings out — and Galileo's condemnation by Pope Urban VIII was in the main a reaction against his statements on the use of Scripture, more than his advocacy of Copernican astronomy.

This has a bit of merit from Scripture (depending on how you understand Abraham's bosom in Luke 16:19 - 31, and the statement in 1 Peter 3:19 about how Jesus preached to the spirits in prison), but again, this view is highly speculative.

The words said to us on Ash Wednesday as our truth, our comfort and our indictment are written in Scripture at the beginning of the history of mankind; they are a statement and a judgment of what man is from the beginning.

She then referred me to the Antiochian Orthodox statement on the atonement, which also neglects references to Scripture.

A great light of religion shone on the minds of the hearers of Peter, so that they were not satisfied with a single hearing or with the unwritten teaching of the divine proclamation, but with every kind of exhortation besought Mark, whose Gospel is extant, seeing that he was Peter's follower, to leave them a written statement of the teaching given them verbally, nor did they cease until they had persuaded him, and so became the cause of the Scripture called the Gospel According to Mark (49).

Similarly, other points from doctrinal statements often represent key teachings from Scripture and can help guide our own study into Scripture, keeping us within the doctrinal boundaries of Christians from the past (See The Shape of Sola Scriptura for more on this idea).

Our methodology in crafting «The Gift of Salvation» was to study the Bible together and to formulate a statement on salvation derived from and based upon the evidence of Holy Scripture alone.

In many other documents of the Council there are statements of Catholic truths which draw on traditions that very evidently are not found in the scriptures, for example the existence of seven sacraments, the perpetual virginity of Mary.

The latter is to be noted in the quadrilateral definition in the Disciplinary statement that insists on scripture, tradition, reason, and experience as elements of our theological work.

On this level, there can be direct contradictions between the statements of different theologies.63 Thus, Boff's social notion of the Trinity could offer a double criticism to Panikkar's Cosmotheandrism: in regard to Scripture and Tradition, Panikkar has shifted away from the Trinitarian revelation.

In The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter suggests a key to characters» inner thoughts and motivations which would be helpful even to the inexperienced reader of Scripture: first, external details (appearance, clothing, gestures); second, «one character's comments on another»; third, «direct speech by the character»; fourth, «inward speech... quoted as interior monologue»; and fifth, «statements by the narrator about the attitudes and intentions of the personages» (pp.116 - 117).

Both of these points, that early statements were based primarily on the narrative of Scripture and the behavior of believers, will become critical later in this chapter for understanding how we as twenty - first century followers of Jesus can stand up for the truth without the damaging and destructive statements of doctrine that have divided Christianity for so long.

Throughout history, people disagree on what Scripture actually teaches, and so doctrinal statements were written to serve as a guide for the proper interpretation and understanding of Scripture.

The mistake consists in supposing that formulations of this kind are either directly revealed by God or composed out of divinely guaranteed statements in creeds or scripture, and that they are therefore perfect, inerrant and unchangeable: and therefore that man's salvation turns on whether or not he assents to them.

There should probably also be a statement about the authority of Scripture (even if we didn't necessarily all agree on the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture).

It was prefaced by a statement insisting on his loyalty to Rome and making the common and theologically proper distinction between, on the one hand, Scripture and its interpretation in canonical statements from Rome and, on the other, the opinions, however venerable, of Aquinas and other Fathers of the Church.

Billed as «a Catholic response to «End Times» fever,» this is a popular, easy to read, and theologically reliable statement of what the Catholic Church, on the basis of Scripture, does and does not teach about the consummation of history.

«Growing Kids the Ezzo Way» by Dr. Philip Ryken, 10th Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia «Preparation for Behavioral Pediatrics» by Rebecca Prewett «A Critique of GKGW» by Dr. Kent McClain, contains a list of out of context or misapplied Scriptures Focus on the Family statement touches briefly on misapplication of Scripture