Sentences with phrase «truth of the text»

And by the end of the year, I'd uncovered so much rich biblical scholarship regarding creation narratives in ancient Near Eastern culture that to demand that Genesis 1 and 2 address modern scientific questions seemed wholly unnecessary to preserving the inherent truth of the text.

This relative truth of texts to the truth of God leads to the second Augustinian concept employed in Beckett's argument — awareness of the opposition and relativity of the civitas terrena to the civitas Dei.

Also, there is a difference between the text and the truth of the text.

(2) Boomershine sees historical criticism as the biblical method of this era, where the truth of the text is achieved by personal study of the text in silence on your own.

The bible became a text to be studied in silence, with the truth of the text becoming increasingly separated from the sound of the text.

Nor is this merely an application of the truth of the text.

The truth of the text is found in the lives of it's believers, past and present, what manner of folk their scriptures have transformed them into.

People's understanding of their religion's scripture greatly affects their demonstration of the «truth of their text» in their daily lives.

The truth of the text is not to be discovered by somehow imaginatively transforming ourselves into ancient Galatian converts or Hebrew tax collectors of the Roman state.

There is more to becoming a Christian than becoming a Marxist (for example): one does not merely become convicted by the truth of a text and then try to convert the world; one must be born into a new life, bodily and spiritually, in baptism.