Sentences with phrase «truth about scripture»

Finally we need the truth about scripture and doctrine.

Accordingly, on this night, after the usual period of questions and answers, Nathaniel took Jesus away from the others and asked: «Master, could you trust me to know the truth about the Scriptures?

In the process of digging through the pages of Scripture for an understanding of how the death of Jesus saves the world from sin, I discovered a God I never knew existed, as well as some truths about Scripture, sin, and humanity that I never would have found in any other way.

Not exact matches

Fortunately for us, the argument ought not to be about our personal validity, but to the objective claims we make about the truths of scripture and the essential elements that genuine Christian faith has and does contribute to society.

It's up to us, the regular, everyday people in the trenches of real life to speak the truth and tell our stories about the work God's doing in our lives and what He's saying to us through the Scriptures.

I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

We are seeing several foundational truths from Genesis 2 about how to understand life, theology, Scripture, society, religion, and culture.

Pretending to be this other person, he calls me a liar, twists the truth and scripture and implies that because I told people about his behavior I'm not being forgiving.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

So indeed, if Calvin's words about depravity are the truth, then no man can ever be certain that he has read and understood the Scriptures, including Calvin.

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.

But rather than lengthen this already too - long sermon, I hope your interest has been piqued sufficiently to discover for yourself the wonderful truth the Scriptures teach us about glorification.

The truth is, how we «pick and choose» from Scripture often says as much about us as it says about the Bible.

Now what is ALSO important about Jesus» crucifixion and resurrection is, is that that «He ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES DIED»: «the first day they always had to KILL the passover» and that «Christ ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES THE THIRD DAY, ROSE FROM THE DEAD» --- which is thewhole and the only reason for being of the Christians» Day - of - Worship - Rest and without which Truth «ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES» there «REMAINS», NO «Sabbath Day's - rest for the People of God».

Scripture is about the truth but it is not necessarily factual whereas evolution is about the facts of creation.

I will argue that my experience with Scripture will certainly come to include theoretical knowledge about Scripture but that this only becomes relevant in the fight of my concrete experience with the truth of Scripture, much of which can never be fully articulated.

Do you not recognise that in the scriptures the concepts about the character of God grow in truth beauty and goodness as the generations pass.

O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

Gary Dorrien, the prominent liberal Protestant scholar, describes it like this: «Christian scripture may be recognised as spiritually authoritative within Christian experience, but its word does not settle or establish truth claims about matters of fact.»

It also led to the ascendance of biblical criticism (relativizing, to a certain extent, the Holy Scriptures), which in turn had negative influences on theology, generating a questioning attitude about the objectivity of established truth and the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and institutions.

False preachers / teachers are those that stroke man's ego with 1 or 2 of Jesus» scriptures then go on and on... about what man wants to hear instead of all of Jesus» truth what needs to be heard.

O people of the scripture, do not transgress the limits of your religion, and do not say about GOD except the truth.

In your work on the theology of scripture you have had negative things to say about historical criticism when it's regarded as the lone means of accessing truth about Jesus.

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

If this turns out to be the case (that he has a skewed view of Jesus), then I want to ask him if, in his lifelong quest for truth, he has ever read about Jesus from Scripture, rather than just hearing about Jesus from others.

Though Scripture does talk about «little faith» and «great faith» (e.g., Matt 8:10, 26), this is not a reference to the degree of faith someone has, but to the difficulty of the truth believed.

Great faith believes and is convinced and is persuaded about some of the harder and more difficult truths of Scripture, whereas little faith does not believe or is not convinced or persuaded about these truths.

It is talking about all the truths of Scripture, whatever they may be.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

I am afraid that I have not thought everything through well enough, or that I have misunderstood some central truth in Scripture, or that I did not grasp the right theological proposition in the right way, or that I am wrong about how faith works, or that I am wrong about the consequences of results of faith, or... or... or... or...

Bob this scripture is a scripture prophesy of the future generations, telling the truth of what is going on today, in Jeremiah 50 vs. 37,38, «men will become as women», and «people will be mad about their idols» in the latter days, now days.

If I am wrong about something, I trust that God will teach me the truth as I study Scripture, pray, and listen to the instruction of the Holy Spirit.

You have to study scripture and take a stand on the truth and not be concerned about what others think.

In fact, since Scripture contains so many truths about various aspects of life, a single Christian can have all four types of soil in their life at one time!

In this way, they will truly learn about the truth of Scripture, the significance of death and resurrection, the importance of sanctification and holiness, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Using the themes of giants (such as Nephilim and Goliath) in the Hebrew Scriptures, Taylor Murray shows how this talk of giants in the Bible reveals truths about pride and humility.

I have shared the truth of the Scriptures and told them about Christ and offered, not bullied, Him to them.

God continues to create new life through Jesus Christ wherever Scripture and sacrament reveal the truth about God's intention for the world to the people of God.

But that denial can not be reconciled with the declaration that the Church «does not derive her certainty about revealed truths from the Holy Scriptures alone.»

One of the most important truths you can discover when seeking to learn what God is like and what the Bible teaches about God is the truth that Jesus reveals God to us and explains the Scriptures.

M.D That is why it is important to have his guidance in understanding for yourself the more we walk in the truth of Gods word the more he reveals to us.That is a key to understanding the scriptures its not about how much we know about it but how much we walk in it.Then the word becomes living and real and people should see Jesus in us.brentnz

That is, they sought to determine the truth within and about scripture by translating it into the truer language of their own world.

In the rest of her song, we see some of the truths of Scripture she had learned and was exited about.

Former Muslim Nabeel Qureshi explains how his search for the truth about Jesus in scripture led to his conversion.

However, I did point out that we do have examples of people in Scripture who believed in Jesus and received everlasting life, but did not know about the death and resurrection of Jesus, and even when presented with these truths, did not believe them (cf. Matt 16:31 - 32; Mark 9:31 - 32; Luke 9:44 - 45; 18:31 - 34; 24:19 - 26; John 20:9, 24 - 30).

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I find all of them to be less inspiring than the stories about Jesus and the truths contained in Scripture, even if these things are lies.

Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church about what was truth and what was «heresy.»

Near the beginning of the chapter «Scriptures on Sin,» what two truths are discussed about sin and God's activity in response to sin?