Sentences with phrase «through scripture passages»

Not exact matches

As I was reading through this section of scripture today I felt compelled to look up another opinion of what it meant to compare it to my understanding of the passage.

From there, Andy goes through other key passages and texts in Scripture, proving that grace is the foundation of everything God does and says.

Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's inherent - free - will capacity), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence; and I interpret difficult passages that can possibly be interpreted to appear contradictory to that precedence (of mankind having inherent - free - will) in light of mankind having inherent - free - will capacity.

Another passage of Scripture often cited by Catholic philosophers and theologians down through the ages is from the opening chapter of St. Paul's Letter to the Romans:

First, the average English translation of this text is fine, and second, I do not want readers of the English Bible to think that the only way they can see Jesus in the violent passages of Scripture is through creative translations from the Greek and Hebrew.

I've committed a year of my life to exploring and wrestling with every passage of Scripture that deals with women, painstakingly wading through commentary after commentary, struggling to figure out how to apply these passages to my life!

It could be through a group's study of a passage of Scripture from which the text was to be selected.

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.