Sentences with phrase «than scripture»

So they followed the surrounding scientifically oriented society rather than Scripture.

We should not say more than Scripture does at this point, but neither should we say anything less.

It's a huge difference in validation of authenticity when none of the events are supported by anything other than scripture.

Those beliefs were more informed by culture wars than Scripture.

I just believe that we should be careful in limiting our use of salvation and saved to a more narrow definition than the scriptures would support.

First, God's Word is a greater reality than the scriptures themselves.

He says at the end of his post that when it comes to our connection with the holy, «God promises us no more» than Scripture as a means to knowing and experiencing his presence.

Jeremy believes in a different Jesus than scripture, a Jesus that gives eternal life to anyone that confesses by mouth to believe.

God, they thought, had to do more than the Scriptures revealed, in order to even out the injustices of this world.

This problem is exacerbated when political pundits rather than scripture becomes our source of wisdom.

Frei observed that modern conservative and liberal approaches to the Bible both undermine the authority of scripture by locating the meaning of biblical teaching in some doctrine or worldview that is held to be more foundational than scripture itself.

I think to piggyback off your saying, Yuri, is we need to go back to how the early church received the Truth, allowing God's Character, His Goodness to expand / interpret scripture rather than scripture defining God.

And we need to look no farther than Scripture to know that God can use teenagers to lead people, whole nations even, at critical times in history.

I may have made unsubstantiated claims in your view, which I'm still unclear of other than your previously vague remark that truth is bigger than scripture.

It's Got: A Jesus with gold - coloured contact lenses; exquisite cinematography (by Caleb Deschanel) that often resolves scenes into recognisable painterly tableaux (e.g. the Last Supper, La Pieta); demonic children and a brilliantly androgynous Satan (Rosalinda Celentano) that have much more to do with horror films than the scriptures; and a whole lot of scourging, flaying, beating and nailing.

I accept no authority other than Scripture.

When I asked Assad about her views, she gave me a response that seemed based off a combo of emotion and logic rather than Scripture.

Far more interesting, to me, than scripture's historicity (or lack thereof) is the way we interact with scripture devotionally, and what our continued attachment to this story can teach us.

At the same time, Jesus seems to have enjoyed an authority sourced from something other than Scripture.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

But the religious differences turned on more than Scripture.