Sentences with phrase «understanding of biblical teaching»

But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.

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We also affirm that tradition, rightly understood as the proper reflection of biblical teaching, is the faithful transmission of the truth of the gospel from generation to generation through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The biblical teaching, after all, was not aimed at one or another of the various theories developed in the history of modern science but at the cosmological understandings of origins found among surrounding peoples.

Placker presents an appreciative summary of Hans Frei's understanding of biblical narrative as neither moral teachings nor historical accounts, but rather as primarily narrative.

Biblical understanding, in the tradition of Calvin, teaches that the will of man can not choose God without God first choosing the man, and neither once chosen by God can the man ultimately refuse our savior.

But, instead of articulating a new biblical basis, it broadened the understanding of mission using the following key terms: conversion, reconciliation, liberation, sacrificial caring, preaching and teaching.

To say that Christians should allow the biblical world to absorb their own world, Placher explains, is to affirm that Christians should resist viewpoints and ideologies that are incompatible with the central claims of scriptural teaching and that Christians should consider whether scriptural narrative «might be unexpectedly helpful» in understanding their own lives.

In the third paragraph I, upfront, indicated my bias as to what I believe is the Biblical precedence which is that fallen mankind has the inherent - free - will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and gifts which biased my interpretation of John 6:25 - 71 — and my interpretation indicates that section of Scripture can be understood (interpreted) to be consistent with the precedence I mentioned.

Only in recognition of the power of this inheritance can one understand the reception, bordering upon the charge of total irrelevance, with which many even within the churches regard the entire range of biblical eschatological teaching.

2) They should find a qualified counsellor who understands their religious beliefs and work through it toward a biblical and spiritual restoration as defined in the text of the Bible in the letters to the Corinthian church, the church in Rome, or the recorded teachings of Jesus in the Gospels.

A lot of these comments show the lack of biblical teaching and understanding of scripture in the home, of course its hard to teach biblical truth when the home is run by to men.

I grew up in a denomination that taught they were superior to other denomination because of their understanding of «certain Biblical truths» that others «rejected».

Victoria, my book looks at the biblical texts which allegedly teach what you are saying they teach (that Christmas trees are idols, etc) and shows how that understanding is a terrible misunderstanding of those texts.

For Protestants, collective repentance is easiest when we can understand it as recovery of Biblical teaching.

such as «biblical teachings» There is no atheist» bible» and I have no idea nor does it matter to me what other atheists on this site «believe» we are only united in our understanding of reality....

I can understand why many pastors don't teach any of this in their Bible study, but in this day and age there really is no excuse for Christians not to pick up a book from some biblical scholar laying this out.

However, by the end of these posts you will hopefully understand why I believe what I believe about biblical illiteracy and why I still think I should be writing and teaching about Scripture and theology on this website and through my podcast.

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Our Christian counseling includes providing services based on Biblical truths and ethics, as well as applying our God - given gifts of love, understanding, teaching, healing, knowledge, helping and wisdom.