Sentences with phrase «thoughts on the scriptures»

Is it not ego that makes you unwilling to admit that some of her thoughts on the scriptures might have merit?

The literature on the recent phase (1970 onward) of evangelical thought on Scripture is abundant and increasing.

Not exact matches

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

If you think of law like scripture — the same thing is going on.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

Many on here may think that I take offense with anyone who holds to a traditional interpretation of scripture stating that * all * homosexual expression is sinful.

Until there are stronger practices of friendship and community and hospitality in the church, I feel an enormous amount of anguish and frustration when I tell young gay Christians that, yes, I do think, on the authority of Scripture, that God is asking you to live without gay sex.

I think we all like to claim that our theology alone is based on Scripture, etc, when in reality, there is a whole host of other influences that get poured into our theology as well.

And before that you posted some scripture where Jesus was talking about anxiety, and you seemed to think it was tips on how to eat.

I've been doing some thinking and reading on all of this, and hope it continues to fit with Scripture as I read and study more.

I argue on my blog from Scripture that adultery is soul rape (http://www.divorceminister.com/adultery-is-soul-rape/) and think how damaging accusing a rape victim of causing their own assault is!

I think the question — comes down to more what is the fruit of life based on what we believe about scripture and the way we interpret it.

Even if you can't see it as clearly in scripture as I do, I hope you can at least be open to the possibility that people who thought they were saved, may find out on that day that they really weren't because they didn't listen to Jesus» and Paul's warnings.

Yes, when we begin to see the crucifixion of Jesus as a supreme act of love and revelation, rather than a punishment from God, this has a domino effect on everything else we think about God and Scripture and ourselves.

The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and holiness.

I think the scriptures are on to something when they suggest that the «enemy» prowls around the community, waiting to see who it can devour.

I think that every Bible should have a big «STOP» sign on the first page along with that passage of scripture letting the reader (or potential reader) know that this book is not for everybody, but only for those that have been enabled by God to read and understand it.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

Claiming to be founded on the Scripture, it has, as a matter of fact, completely surrendered many Scriptural frameworks of thinking and has accepted the Greek counterparts instead.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

So, while it may be problematic to make too much of the distinction between Scripture and Christ, I think that evangelicalism will benefit from a reminder that our faith centers around the living person of Jesus Christ — the World Made Flesh — not on the sacred texts that point to him.

If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.

Think whatever you want about George R. R. Martin and his books, Scripture agrees with him on this one.

It requires leaders and teachers who can challenge us to think critically about our culture and what is going on in the world, as well as engaging Scripture in an active way, and living it out radically.

I think it's you, based on solid research into Scripture from another perspective.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

I am repeating some of what others have already said in this blog but also including scripture which I think is always important when we voice an opinion based on God's word.

(2) I take Scripture to be, on what I think to be good and sufficient evidence, the prescriptive norm and paradigm tradition, the canon and rule of faith and practice.

It's also really illuminating, I think, to realize that very early on our ancestors, meaning the people who created scripture, metaphorized their history, and we have often then historicized their metaphors.

And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us.

Salem Kirban was a biblical - prophecy guru who flourished in the 1970s — think of a minor - league Hal Lindsey — who produced a Bible in which every passage of Scripture relating to the end times was highlighted, magnified, commented on, and surrounded by illustrations.

I have flaws and the lens typically used for me when I criticize, contextualize, or theorize on any scripture is mostly through my own past experiences that shape my methods of thought and reasoning.

On another note, I think the HEART of God can be found in the most vile and deceitful misrepresentations of God whether it relates to scripture or Jesus (God's Word).

While I take issue with your reading of said scriptures, I think that if we focus on Christ's words themselves, he never once promised his followers wealth or perfect health.

Everything every believer thinks, says or writes on Scripture is their «interpretation of the truth of Scripture»; that's the nature of the beast that is man.

well, my take on this whole discussion is that this cartoon was meant to expose the distance between what an scripture says (the whole world being reconciled) and what we actually think (but obviously not those who's lifestyle we disagree with).

I think Neville has provided a very good case for individual choice based on scripture.

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

Moving on, I've quite enjoyed what I've read of your thoughts (and His) on the «holy doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture» — I don't know who I'm quoting, just someone with an air of pious church authority tone!

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

Hi Blake, I don't think the verse is referring to our understanding of the Bible or theology, or that we shouldn't rely on our ability to think or make judgments at all about Scripture.

And yet, in Africa and elsewhere fresh materials are «being introduced into scripture, prayers, hymns and liturgy» which could have an effect on «how people in the West think and speak about the gospel and the church.»

As Don Whitney wrote in his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, «When we meditate on Scripture, it colors our thinking about God, about God's ways and His world, and about ourselves.»

When they teach, they are there to teach, and you better have your thinking cap on because they will challenge the way you read Scripture and live life.

On a completely separate note, the «I read this as» part was meant to imply that I don't think there are any «creeds or confessions [that Scripture makes clear».

Yes, I do think scripture gives us reason to think the misery of hell varies in quality as well as intensity, depending on the patterns and kinds of sin committed.

My own participation in such monastic worship has also sent me back to the scriptures to ponder Mary's place in them — more prominent than I had thought on the basis of her place in the churches that reared me.

But communities of believers kept asking me to come and share my thoughts on God and church, Scripture and theology, and my own church regularly asked me to preach.

They all think it's fine, because he's a pastor, and he's on TV, and he sounds pretty good, and he quotes Scripture.