Sentences with phrase «text at face value»

Noah was probably at least 500 when God first told him to build the boat, and the Flood happened when he was about 600 (taking the text at face value).

Reading receptively and trustingly does not mean accepting everything in the text at face value, as Paul's own critical sifting of the Torah demonstrates.

There are many methods of communication found throughout the New Testament that screw us up if we take the text at face value.

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

Not exact matches

There might be a Buddhist monk who has been in solitary meditation for 30 years who might know but nobody that takes religious texts at literal face value has any idea.

For some time it has been obvious in the academic world that the scriptural texts can not simply be taken at face value but presuppose a thought world that is alien to...

The text may be presented to its readers at face value simply as the literary structure of a linguistic code (langue), but its otherness includes an authorially originated speech performance (parole).

To examine the word fight, texts and images must be deconstructed, and everything should not be taken at face value.