Sentences with phrase «violent passages»

There are violent passages in all the Holy Books.

Yes, we'll all concede that there are most certainly violent passages within the Bible.

Talk about avoiding violent passages to cherry - pick the Bible!

Now pay attention... in sharp contrast to the Bible, which generally moves from relatively violent passages to far more peaceful ones, the muslim koran travels the exact OPPOSITE path.

We can debate the number or percentage of violent passages that were given by God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times of War.

And don't even get me started on the violent passages in the bible.

Seriously though, this is a tough text in the Bible — maybe the toughest of all the violent passages in the Old Testament.

I knew I needed to re-study all the violent passages of Scripture, but to do that, I needed a framework upon which to build.

Though I have been a student of Scripture all my l life, I have always had difficulty with the violent passages in the Bible, and how to reconcile them with the loving portrait of Jesus in the Gospels.

From all the approaches to dealing with the violent passages of scripture I have benefited from Derek Flood's the most.

Even though the book of revelation may have some violent passages it is always God the father committing the acts and never his followers.

What Jesus accomplished on the cross in destroying the work of the destroyer allows for a vastly new understanding of how to understand the violent passages of God in the Old Testament.

First, the average English translation of this text is fine, and second, I do not want readers of the English Bible to think that the only way they can see Jesus in the violent passages of Scripture is through creative translations from the Greek and Hebrew.

I must confess that although I am currently up to my eyeballs in studying and thinking about all the violent passages in Scripture, it is quite another thing to see some of them on the screen, especially when, right in the midst of the violence, many of the people committing the violence scream something like «In the name of God!»

In my recent series on trying to understand the violent passages of Scripture in the Old Testament in light of the self - sacrificial love of Jesus Christ, I have the nagging sense in the back of my brain that all our theories and ideas on this subject (and in many other areas of theology as well) are about on par with a dog trying to figure out what humans are doing when they sit around talking, playing a card game, or just watching TV.