Sentences with phrase «understanding of the new revelation»

nor Paul's understanding of the new revelation of the way of life in Jesus is addressed to individuals.

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Is it possible to understand that, somehow, our ability to receive and understand fresh new understanding of who we think God is is inexorably linked to a God who unfolds fresh new revelations of who God actually is?

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

Although they may begin in priestly, mystical or communal religious traditions, fundamentalist - like movements seem to be found more frequently in those religions that claim to have received through revelation or great discovery a grand message of new truth, which must be delivered and which turns all ordinary understandings on their head.

To sum up, I have suggested a few ideas — aspiration (understood as an «outflowing» of the spirit), openness, future - directed revelation, value experiments, objective worth, the mosaic of truth — that I think will be needed to revision Christianity and religious faith in a new axial period and perhaps may also help us find a way between secular drift and fundamentalist retrenchment.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

When we encounter new revelation, we can check to see if that new revelation aligns with what we can consistantly see and understand about God from all the sources of revelation we already have.

This only happens occasionally in the book but prevents the reader sharing in the deeper revelation and love of God that is occurring at that point in salvation history, especially in light of the New Testament, and raises the question that if the person in Scripture who is experiencing this unique relationship with God didn't really understand God, then how can we?

In the new metaphysics that developed as the Church wrestled with the revelation of God's character in Scripture, the communion of divine Persons came to be understood as a «primordial ontological concept and not a notion which is added to the divine substance or rather which follows it.»

Aquinas saw, of course, that Aristotle was not always right, and did not hesitate to correct him, to push his thought further (to original notions of the conscience and the will, for instance), and above all to build an entirely new context — that of the revelation of love in Jesus Christ — for understanding even the things Aristotle got right.

For I can not imagine how we can see and believe the revelation of God's love without being at the same time set free for a new understanding of self.

The biblical understanding of revelation is thoroughly incarnational, and not just in the New Testament.

But just as new understandings of cosmos, history and society have compelled us to revise our views of revelation, so also our new understanding of the world's pluralistic religious situation demands a similar rethinking.

But in its living tradition that art — moving for instance from Rembrandt through Daumier and Van Gogh to Rouault — brings unitive and fresh perception, contemporaneousness of understanding and inventive technique to the ever - new discovery and revelation of man's and nature's faces and forms.

For Reich, the revelations from the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes are probably just the beginning of a new understanding of our evolution.

Equally, Kunath is interested in things left behind — servicing a revelation or truth which occurs in the midst of a transition or powering a new understanding advantaged by distance.

The question of what Facebook permitted — and how everyday users understood those permissions — is under a new spotlight in the wake of the Cambridge revelations.

Sloan Devlin: The biggest revelation that living in Rome provided me was a new understanding of the big scale of many U.S. cities and how dependent we are on automobiles.