Sentences with phrase «teaching from scripture»

If they listen to my teaching from scripture, they will eventually get it.

Healthy teaching does provide teaching from Scripture, but then, is followed up by leading people into the world to put what was learned into practice.

Joseph, Perhaps David wasn't implying that the Scripture was wrong as much as he was implying that our interpretation of the teachings from Scripture have been wrong.

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).

«Far from being easily deceived, women were the first to make the connection between Christ's teachings from Scripture and his resurrection, and the first to believe these teachings when they mattered the most.

I believe people today are fully capable of being taught from Scripture the beautiful significance of baptism for believers.

Far from being easily deceived, women were the first to make the connection between Christ's teachings from scripture and his resurrection, and the first to believe these teachings when they mattered the most.

Now, the Church has ever taught, does and will to the end teach from Scripture, that a man may not marry his deceased wife's sister, or, which is the same thing, a woman may not marry her sister's husband.

Not exact matches

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).

Hebrews outlines a version of the atonement that exists nowhere else in NT scripture — namely from Jesus» own teachings.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

The Reformers vigorously protested what they viewed as deviations from biblical teaching, but they never used Scripture to undermine the Trinitarian and Christological consensus of the early Church embodied in the historic creeds that had come down from patristic times.

The Qur «an never asks a Christian or Jew to accept it because their own scripture has become corrupt, rather they are asked to accept the Qur «an because the Qur «an claims, 1 / to confirm the teaching of the Bible, 2 / that Muhammad is foretold in the Torah and Gospel, 3 / the Qur «anic teaching makes clear what the Jews and Christians could not understand properly from their own scriptures.

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

First Scot, by «what scripture actually teaches» it's important for us to keep in mind that what it teaches you is quite often different from what it teaches someone else.

I am a Mormon who has actually read the Book of Mormon, and I encourage anyone with doubts or questions to actually read it for themselves and study the churches teachings from primary sources — the scriptures, words of the prophets, the church itself — rather than trusting 3rd party interpretations or claims of understanding Mormonism.

This will create a generation of people with a false notion of the scriptures and a theology so far from what Christ originally taught so as to be unrecognisable.

That additional data, derived from the twin sources of Revelation (Tradition and Scripture), is impressive and enriching, and fills in for Christians the full rationale for the teaching against homosexual acts.

If one was willing and able, he could teach from any portion of Scripture — not just the Pentateuch.

The verse that is most widely used to defend the modern practice of preaching where a person gets up on stage on Sunday morning to teach for 30 - 40 minutes from Scripture is 2 Timothy 4:2.

Once, my chapel lecture was boycotted by the Bible faculty who believe that Scripture prohibits women from preaching or teaching men, even while whole communities embraced the Gospel through their female graduates.

Bible translations are not «two steps removed from inspired Scripture» (as I was taught in Seminary: 1.

Using this knowledge, we can show that Jesus really did live, teach, die, and rise from the dead, as Scripture reveals.

Jeremy thanks for taking the the time to go over your notes from seminary and reevaluate what you were taught as opposed to what scripture really has to say.

It does not take much interaction with lay readers to see how enormously different are the problems they see in Scripture from those theologians are taught to see.

Because Jesus was Jewish, He obeyed the Mosaic Law, worshipped God in the Jewish Temple, attended a Jewish Synagogue, taught from the Jewish Scriptures, and even obeyed many of the Jewish oral traditions.

Now again, we are not under the Mosaic law, but I find it so ironic that churches and pastors want to teach the tithe from the Hebrew Scriptures, but then ignore what some of the tithe was supposed to be used for.

Of course our doctrine of inspiration does not grow out of our experience with the Bible, but from the teaching of Scripture itself But that truth does not become actual apart from a real interaction between the text and my experience.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

If our critical readings lead us away from trusting the grace of God in Jesus Christ, then something is amiss, and we would do well to interrogate the methods and presuppositions that have taught us to distance ourselves arrogantly or fearfully from the text and to miss scripture's gracious word of promise.

Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.

I have often wanted to get back to the Bible, to just what the Scriptures teach, to strip theology from the pagan philosophical influences that have crept in over the years.

Many process writings in the field of theology approach biblical teaching from the outside, whereas Wesley approached all questions from a point of view that was immersed in scripture.

The scriptures teach that the Christ is to be descended from David and to come out of Bethlehem» (7:40 - 41, AP).

While I have been to Bible college and Seminary, I would say that the vast majority of what I have learned about God and Scripture did not come from what they taught me in seminary.

The presence of so many wrong perceptions and teachings of the Bible undoubtedly flow forth from this lack of education of believers in just basic principles of Scripture interpretation.

«39 Remove the probability of error as one's starting point and instead substitute a «scientific» (inductive) approach to Scripture, one beginning with the Bible's own teaching concerning its infallibility, and building criticism of it from there, and even these more difficult problems dissipate.

Any authority we hold in teaching Scripture comes from Scripture itself, not from our own credentials.

Teaching children about the Scriptures was a revered calling, unlike today when it is given to people with no support or confidence from the church.

The Copelands also teach that they have unlocked the formula — a combination of words and Scriptures — to guide believers from optimistic faith to tangible results.

Furthermore, if we consider the teachings of «original» Buddhism to be identical with the nucleus of the older sources of the Himayana scriptures, then we must immediately admit that these teachings, as well as the whole «religion of Buddha,» underwent a marked change in their later development; and we can readily understand how, from the standpoint of the «classical ideal» this development might be viewed as nothing but deprivation and decline.

And while some evangelicals retain a belief that scripture prohibits women from either teaching or leading church congregations, most no longer object.

And since Mormon doctrine and scripture teaches that brown things are bad, stay away from our chocolate ice cream!

If you are not feeding daily on Scripture, and listening to Biblically based sermons as often as you can, and attending Bible studies, and then, living out what God teaches you from His Word, you will never produce an abundant harvest.

Jeremy, It's apparent from my earlier comments that I don't believe there is anything sinful about a woman teaching scripture in any setting or a man learning from her.

So until then, I recognize that what I was taught in these areas might be wrong, and I also recognize that over the past thirty years, I have learned many valuable lessons and insights from women about Scripture, and hope that I will continue to do so.

We could even go before the time of Christ and go back, for example, to Nehemiah 8, and see that when Ezra wants to teach the people the Word of God, he gathers the people, and then he and several other Levites took turns reading from Scripture and explaining what it meant.

These questions are not without significance, touching on the person of Christ and the nature of faith, and the answers will only come from an engaged discussion of the authority of Scripture, the historical witness of the church, and the clarity with which the councils, creeds, and confessions give expression to the teaching of the Bible.

I don't have too many answers, but I do think all of us who teach Scripture need to think far beyond just the spoken words from our mouths (and the typed words on the website).