Sentences with phrase «which distort our understanding»

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There are some things in those [epistles of Paul] that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own [a] utter destruction, just as [they distort and misinterpret] the rest of the Scriptures.

2 Peter3: 15 - 16 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they also do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

The difference that Paul points out is that Jesus had a true understanding of God, and thus Jesus trusted God's faithfulness leading to obedience in contrast to the distorted view of God that Adam had which resulted in disobedience.

Some interests driving a school's practices of governance and self - maintenance will tend to distort ideologically the practices through which it seeks to understand God..

It was not distorted as it was given, nor need it be distorted as we seek to understand it many centuries later in contexts far removed from those in which it was originally given.

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

If we want to see and understand those forces as they truly are, then we must look not to reason (which acts as a distorting lens), but to our more immediate, primordial ways of knowing, that is, aesthetic intuition (the divine inspiration of the artist) and action.

The understanding which an affirmation of the Divine is supposed to convey is distorted by the affirmation itself, but understanding may dawn like an eklampsis (illumination)-- as Plato says in the Seventh Letter — when the affirmation is coupled with its negation.

Knowing that God is using me in some small way to demonstrate Jesus to those whose knowledge and understanding of Him have been distorted or destroyed is an incredible blessing for which I do not deserve.

Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

This conviction is grounded both in our religious faith and in our understanding of the processes by which persons grow, become distorted, and find their way back to wholeness.

His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

The colour palette characterises the motel as a distorted mirror of Disneyland, which reflects the thematic idea that the children are too young to understand the difficulties around them but their enthusiasm for life and each other is never dulled by their limited socioeconomic circumstances.

See also a research study I published about this with a set of colleagues in 2010, titled «Cheating in the first, second, and third degree: Educators» responses to high - stakes testing,» in which we got as close as anyone of whom I am aware to understanding not only the frequencies but also the varieties of ways in which educators distort, sometimes consciously and sometimes subconsciously, their students» test scores.

However, his book «The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World» is not an explanation of his trading strategy but an in - depth study of economics and human nature, the inevitable result of which is the philosophy of building a successful enterprise through the understanding of the roundabout, and learning to delay gratification to gain an advantage down the road.

For noted art historian and author James A. Porter, Charles White was one of the great interpreters of the history and culture of black Americans: «Charles is an artist steeped in life; and his informed artistic vision conduces to an understanding of vivid pictorial symbols which, through large as life itself, are altogether free or false or distorted ideas or shallow and dubious emotion.»

However, not all exhibitions can be represented by photographs so easily, and our understanding of many exhibitions which are undoubtedly also important has been distorted by this, or is even absent altogether.

They produce a Science Report, which virtually nobody reads or can understand, months after they release the grossly distorted Summary for Policymakers (SPM).

I recently dined at my old Oxford college, where in the SCR they whined about the pressure to publish, cackled about how they gamed the system, and generally gave me an impression of a system distorted by a strange point - awarding scheme which I do not understand, but I gather was introduced, probably rightly, to prevent bed - blocking lazybones achieving tenure and sitting tight.