Sentences with phrase «use biblical phrases»

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

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I agree that a lot of these so - called Christian groups use and abuse some Biblical words and phrases.

First of all, responsible liturgical revision can not consist only in the use of more contemporary language or in the avoidance of what are known as «sexist» phrases (which are so dominantly masculine that women often feel excluded from what is going on) or in a return to biblical idiom to replace other (perhaps medieval) terminology.

His criticism of biblical literalism drove him back to an acceptance of «biblical realism» (to use his own phrase), to the biblical answer to sin, and the biblical affirmation of God's grace in Christ.

In later times the biblical phrases yetser tobh and yelser ra» (the good will and the bad will) were much in use in discussions of man's contradictory instincts.

This habit (to use O'Connor's phrase) is present in the biblical tradition and has been lifted into systematic theological method by the United Methodist Church itself.

Everything is in the name of Yahweh; this is one of the most - used phrases in the biblical vocabulary.