Sentences with phrase «true meaning of scripture»

Although race was not a major category for Wesley, in a society that defined people's place along racial lines, he might well have agreed that those races who were oppressed had better access to the true meaning of scripture that those that oppressed them.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.

As we mature in our faith, some of us may be able to shake off some of our personal biases and get closer to the true meaning of Scripture.

His balance on this matter of an integral exegesis is so important while we are faced with both a rationalism and a post-modern spiritualism which both denude the true meaning of Scripture.

So let's say you're right that there is only one true meaning of scripture — I'm assuming that only god knows it, being all - knowing and everything.

Yet notice that Jesus tells them over and over in the Gospels that even though they are Bible experts, they know nothing about God, loving others, obeying the law, or the true meaning of the Scriptures themselves.

Not exact matches

It is only here that you will begin to understand the true nature, meaning, and significance of the cross, not just for our understanding of God, but also for our understanding of Scripture, and most importantly, our understanding of ourselves.

But it is also a human word: the human beings who wrote it were also true authors.8 The scriptures therefore share to some extent in the nature of the incarnation: they use human things as the means for God to communicate with us humanly.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

The word of the Lord will always agree with the true meaning and / or the true interpretation of scripture).

They are learning what it means to follow Jesus into the world, to experience true community with other believers, to read Scripture in a new light, and to serve others out of love rather than compulsion.

In this approach, the postliberal answer to the truth question is that scripture is true in the manner of its distinctively mixed genre and that, yes, it is enough to say that biblical truth is the capacity of the text to draw readers into a Christian framework of meaning.

That does not mean that the idea of Purgatory is necessarily true and it must be assessed in the light of scripture as a whole and, in my view, there's simply not enough biblical support to affirm it as an established doctrine.

If one believes the Bible to be inspired or a guide for Christian living but doesn't necessarily believe it is inerrant or the literal word of God, that doesn't have to mean we just throw it all out... it doesn't have to shatter your worldview (i.e. it's either all true or all false — fundamentalists love to think this way and teach others to do the same) Use the Episcopal 3 - legged stool model (Scripture, reason, tradition) or the Wesleyan Quadrilateral (Scripture, tradition, reason, experience).

It is based on the conviction that the Christian scriptures give a unified, consistent account of the nature and destiny of humanity and cosmos, that is at once existentially true (it speaks to our subjective need for order and meaning in our personal existence) and cosmologically true (it gives a true and adequate picture of the way our world objectively is and will be).

Calvin was convinced that the Church of Rome fell into decay when true interpreters of scripture were eclipsed by sophists and deceivers who obscured scripture's true meaning with their distorting glosses.

No part of reading comprehension 101 is you put the scriptures into historical context to get the true meaning of what is written.

What probably he means, for it is certainly true, is that they did have a great many writings which are of the nature of scripture, and might very well have been a part of a canonical selection, had one been made.

Here we find at the beginning the new set over against the old in strong antitheses, in a peculiar interpretation of the Old Testament which evidently aims to establish its true meaning as against the scribal interpretation, thus completely destroying, as we have before observed, the formal authority of Scripture.

Blomberg offers as his definition of inerrancy one penned by Paul Feinberg: «Inerrancy means that when all facts are known, the Scriptures in their original autographs and properly interpreted will be shown to be wholly true in everything that they affirm, whether that has to do with doctrine or morality or with the social, physical, or life sciences.»

If I told this to a devout Christian or Muslim, due to the evangelical nature of religion, they would most likely quickly get into an argument on disputing which form of the Word is the true Word (interestingly enough, the Qur» an mentions the Bible as an incomplete version of the scripture, meaning that it is still scripture).