Sentences with phrase «teachings of scripture»

African Christianity had «won» the people, yet the people still lived in a way contrary to the teachings of Scripture.

This is because those who do not take the Bible seriously claim these clear teachings of Scripture have a «cultural» component.

Its so clear that a person would have to make a decision to ignore the plain teachings of scripture and go with their own preferences.

The way to avoid the damaging and destructive consequences of sin in the life of the believer is simply to avoid sin and follow the teachings of Scripture.

Our last conversation about William Webb's Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals certainly generated a lot of responses, particularly concerning the role of women in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culture.

Why should we apply the teachings of Scripture to our positions on state - sponsored abortion but not to state - sponsored war?

Some background: Rachel Held Evans has made a career out of undermining fidelity to the teachings of Scripture by ridiculing simplistic or non-existent notions of biblical interpretation (hermeneutics), while practicing a flawed hermeneutic of her own that often seems to be little more than an extension of her own ideology.

Lutherans accept these books as authoritative because they understand them to be faithful witnesses to the teachings of Scripture.

But since not all doctrinal statements agree, this means that not all doctrinal statements accurately represent the teachings of Scripture.

When we say that our doctrinal statements just follow the teachings of Scripture, what we really mean is that our doctrinal statements follow our understanding of Scripture.

Yet our understanding of Scripture may not be the actual teachings of Scripture in every case.

The theologian must strive to duplicate the teachings of Scripture even if the latter is written in ordinary language and the theologians own essays are written in a more academic mode.

Craig you said...... If we're not careful we render the clear teachings of scripture void and meaningless in the name of challenging assumptions.

Obviously, any idea of inspiration which implies equal value in the teachings of Scripture, or inerrancy in its statements, or conclusive infallibility in its ideas, is irreconcilable with such facts as this book presents.

If we're not careful we render the clear teachings of scripture void and meaningless in the name of challenging assumptions.

Indeed, the history of the faith, and the teachings of Scripture itself, show that Tim Challies is dead wrong on one very important point:

Now, here's where I suspect Challies and I may agree: Because we believe Scripture to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice and a trustworthy testimony regarding Jesus Christ, we would be right to be highly suspicious of anyone whose claims about their experiences with God run contrary to the teachings of Scripture.

Like «Christian feminists,» «egalitarians» discern and embrace justice for females through the teachings of Scripture where they observe that:

These pronouncements do not invent new dogma not found in the Scriptures; instead, they clearly and carefully reproduce the teachings of Scripture.

«My concern was that the council was acting with seeming disregard for the teachings of Scripture.

Exactly, but, when one chooses to ignore the clear teachings of scripture, you wind up like our professor friend, with a reprobate mind, believing a lie.

Or are you going to tell me that some parts of the Bible shouldn't be taken literally, in which case you are no longer holding to the teachings of the scripture and I guess you need to be stoned to death.

The Catholic Church has a hierarchy in order to function and to sustain its teaching of scripture and Tradition for 2000 years.

It is the preaching and teaching of the Scriptures, and specifically, the Gospel.

Along with 1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalm 96:10, and Psalm 104:5, this was taken to show that Galileo's claim that the earth moved around the sun was contrary to the teaching of the Scriptures.

We reserve the right to test what they say against the teaching of Scripture.

The words of the law of Moses and the teachings of the Scriptures were not in existence before Abraham.

It is in keeping with both the clear teaching of scripture and Jesus» methods that He would have interacted similarly with a person He knew to be engaged in homosexuality, saying to this dear person, «My son / my daughter, do not continue in this.»

It was agreed in the Samaj that «the Vedas, the Upanishads and other ancient writings were not to be accepted as infallible guides, that reason and conscience were to be the supreme authority and the teachings of the scriptures were to be accepted only insofar as they harmonised with the light within us.»

Christian 1 «the plain teaching of the scripture is that it's a square (quotes proof text) and if you don't believe it you are a deceiver.»

The answer seems to be quite simple and in conformity with the total teaching of Scripture.

This is the teaching of the Scripture and the implication of the doctrine of the good creation.

We can't ignore the tense of verbs, making past or present things into future things and then claim we are following the» clear» teaching of scripture.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

(13) The individual views of a teacher should not be considered the teaching of the church and the teaching of the church should not necessarily and automatically be considered the teaching of Scripture.

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.

My church is known in town as a top - notch Bible teaching church and the pastors / speakers are generally very good and stick to solid teaching of scripture.

A true pastor - teacher is one who knows the primary way of feeding and caring for his flock is through faithful and systematic teaching of Scripture, while at the same time, the teaching of Scripture is not an end in itself which is solely an academic pursuit, but is for the purpose of loving and caring for other people.

When making any ethical decision, including the casting of a vote, you should consider (a) your own personal motives, (b) the range of possible, likely, and definite consequences, and (c) trusted counsel, all in light of the teaching of Scripture.

Until this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture.

Martin, you don't believe the plain teaching of scripture, you yank scripture out of context and apply your own meaning, you add to the scripture and you fail to rightly divide the word of truth.

Most of the recorded teaching of Scripture in Jesus is dinner time conversation or travel talk.

As one illustration of how Augustine reasons Dodaro examines his response to Volusian's judgment that non-violence was the teaching of Scripture.

But this is not entirely satisfying, for the theory of development is itself predicated on the fact that the creeds of the Christian religion, however much they seek to declare the teaching of Scripture faithfully, employ language and even concepts absent from Scripture.

It seems clear to me (I have been putting off and coming out of the religion of men for 28 years) that the clear teaching of Scripture is that Man IS a Body AND Spirit in combination — and the experience of this interaction is the ephemeral thing we call Consciousness — «Soul».

To accept evolution is to deny the clear teaching of scripture and to call God a liar.

The One Verse Podcast will feature verse - by - verse expository teaching of Scripture, with a target goal (that will rarely be accomplished) of one verse per episode in five minutes or less.

So the people of India have ignored the core teaching of their scriptures which strongly discourages identifying oneself with any temporary bodily designation whether it be ethnic, gender, or religion based.

If our reading, studying, and teaching of Scripture is not leading us to look, act, and love more like Jesus, then we are not properly understanding or reading the Scriptures and should probably just put them away for a while until we learn to love others more like Jesus.

Its just the teaching of scripture from the Word of God.