Sentences with phrase «through holy scripture»
«Through Holy Scripture, the church's foundational authority, the Lord who possesses all authority authorizes the church to build on that foundation.»
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If you are monotheist and not Polytheist, not Idolater, make or worship partners with God... Guess you in the right Abrahamic track the True Base of Submission within all holy scriptures... (God + HolySpirit + Apostle = The scriptures of the Holy Messages all through Generations from oholy scriptures... (God + HolySpirit + Apostle = The scriptures of the Holy Messages all through Generations from oHoly Messages all through Generations from old).
The only way I learned about God is through the Bible... those scriptures are the only TRULY holy thing on this earth.
In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).
Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.
«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and life as when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures.»
Over time, God has provided more revelation about Himself through the scriptures, Jesus Christ, and the witness of the Holy Spirit.
That said, my church has a Christian Fellowship within it — a group of people whose primary means of encountering the Holy is through Christian scripture, story, teaching and study.
Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).
The experience of the whole man, evaluating Scripture, tradition, and reason, through the vital action of the Holy Spirit, becomes the ultimate authority in religious certainty.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
Our minds must be transformed by grace, and that happens nowhere more powerfully than through reading scripture receptively and trustingly with the aid of the Holy Spirit.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the name of the Triune God, revealed to us by the incarnate Word Himself and the Holy Spirit, through Holy Tradition and Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the first seven Ecumenical Councils.
Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.
[2 Timothy 3:15 - 17] ``... from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Through the Scripture is one way that the Holy Spirit will begin to allow you to hear His voice and follow His leading, and He will also begin to filter your minds from some of these negative thoughts.
It says: «From that time onwards the Church has never failed to come together to celebrate the paschal mystery...» And those celebrations are a description of our liturgy: ``... reading those things «which were in all the scriptures concerning him» (Luke 24:27), celebrating the Eucharist in which «the victory and triumph of his death are again made present», and at the same time giving thanks «to God for his unspeakable gift» (2 Cor 9:15) in Christ Jesus, «in praise of his glory» (Eph 1:12), through the power of the Holy Spirit».
Here Ogden places his second principle that «the sole norm for every legitimate theological assertion is the revealed word of God declared in Jesus Christ, expressed in Holy Scripture, and made concretely present in the proclamation of the church through its word and sacraments.»
As matters stand, we can best come to know this orientation through the study of the holy scriptures.
They speak of» the Gospel of God which He announced beforehand through His prophets in holy Scriptures.»
Timothy Drew, better known as Noble Drew, Ali, a Negro, Founder of The Moorish Science Temple of America, was the medium through whom a new Holy Koran was revealed to serve as the scripture for the group.
Richard recently in Christianity Today: «Only a thinker so well grounded in the Reformation traditions could be an honest broker in bringing faithful evangelicals and believing Catholics to recognize the common source of their life together in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and the great tradition of living faith through the centuries.»
From the Swedish viewpoint, the proposition that some supernatural being intervenes in nature or human affairs, or reveals its will through «Holy Scripture,» is inherently nonfactual.
Raised a Protestant, despite all my thrashing and twisting I eventually couldn't help but believe that the apostolic succession, through Peter as the designated leader and primus inter pares, is in some logical or theological sense prior to everything else — including even Scripture, whose formation was guided and completed by the apostles and their successors, themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit.
What if decisions were made, not based on what other churches or doing, not based on what the church has always done, not based on what the numerous church policies say, but instead only made after people had sought the truth of God through Scripture, the timing of God through prayer, and the leading of God through reliance on the Holy Spirit?
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
With us, He communicates through nature, our conscience, Scripture, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and one another.
2 Timothy 3:15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
When we listen to anyone do we not engage our brain and heart and discern what is being said, then check it out with the Holy Spirit through scripture.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
«The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is... nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture... The belief in the immortality of the soul came to the Jews from contact with Greek thought and chiefly through the philosophy of Plato its principle exponent, who was led to it, through Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries in which Babylonian and Egyptian views were strangely blended» (The Jewish Encyclopedia, article, «Immortality of the Soul»).
This means, according to Allen and Swain, that «pastors may only bind the conscience of the Christian when Holy Scripture so binds, through its clear warrant or by good and necessary inference.»
The grace of God and the work of the Holy Spirit are essential to the renewal of life through the Scriptures.
I am learning to read the Bible with spiritual eyes, and listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit through the words of Scripture so that all of the Bible points to the WORD, that is, Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit tells us through Scripture the list of the 12 disciples (Matthew 10), and the list of the 10 Commandments (Exodus 20); but the Holy Spirit does not tell us through Scripture what is the list of books that form the New Testament.
Remembering God's Mercy draws upon Holy Scripture and the great Catholic spiritual masters — particularly Jesuit saints such as Ignatius of Loyola and Peter Faber — to discuss painful memories through the lens of Christ's Passion.
I believe the one of the primary ways the Holy Spirit speaks to us is through Scripture.
text in Scripture and want to know what it means, we too quickly turn to what others have written about this passage, thereby short - circuiting anything that God might have wanted to teach us through the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit.
We first learn from it and draw our cues from culture, we sift them through the guiding principles of Scripture to see what the Holy Spirit might be doing in our time and location.
Mission Statement: Through the power of the Holy Spirit and the witness of Scripture, Tradition, Experience, and Reason we, the faith community at Genesis United Methodist Church, believe that all people are sacred children of God.
It is only through the understanding provided by the Saints and Holy Fathers that the scriptures have any meaning.
Mission Statement: Through the power of the Holy Spirit and the witness of Scripture, Tradition, Experience, and Reason we, the faith community at Genesis United Methodist Church, believe that all people are sacred children of God.
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