Sentences with phrase «whole of scripture»

The words came up to me on every side jostling one another and smiling in agreement so that, where before there was hardly any word in the whole of Scripture more bitter tome than penitentia (which I sought to feign in the presence of God — coram Deo — and tried to express with a fictitious and forced love), now nothing sounds sweeter or more gracious to me than penitentia.

It comes rather from his belief that consistent, expository preaching of the whole of Scripture will be used by the Spirit to draw people to the Son.

«This is what we should in short seek in the whole of scripture: truly to know Jesus Christ, and the infinite riches that are comprised in him and are offered to us by him from God the Father.»

His first commentary, published in 1539, was on the Epistle to the Romans, the text Calvin believed to be the door to the whole of scripture.

In the whole of scripture there is perhaps no passage in which is so tightly compressed and interwoven a more various company of massive ideas as in the eighth chapter of Romans.

It is the case if it implies understanding the whole of Scripture in the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but this gospel is either explicit or implicit in every part of Scripture.

Isn't the gospel, indeed the whole of scripture, the story of God's relationship with his creation, in particular humans?

Every text, it is supposed, can be harmonized not only with the whole of Scripture but also with the findings of secular history and natural science.

The additional point can be made that to the extent these people do in fact treat the whole Bible as equally sacred, they are using the whole of Scripture as their compass instead of Jesus of Nazareth.

And when taken in the context of the whole of Scripture, they provide the dialectical nuance that gives even more substance to the central message of the holy books, namely, that God is one who makes and keeps promises.

The Deuteronomic commandment, in other words, is God's inspired revelation to his people - it is trustworthy and authoritative - but it must be understood both in terms of the historical realities of life in ancient Israel (the people's sin) and in terms of God's wider revelation in the whole of Scripture.

Certainly Paul carrries a lot of weight, but read in the gospel (grace) context, the whole of scripture comes together in a unified story.

The whole of Scripture teaches that when you come to believe and it is genuine, you will die to self (the flesh) and live by The Spirit.

The whole of Scripture points to Christ.

But subjecting the whole of Scripture to one agenda — enfolding it in the single adjective green — is, I think, an ill - judged strategy for pursuing a worthwhile goal.

In appealing to the whole of Scripture I do not imagine either that the text is uniformly doctrinalist or that it assumes a simple unity of texture and emphasis.

That is, you're using the whole of Scripture and you have passages that are «proofs,» but you also have passages that are more about what it means to be made in the image of God and, also, a woman.

If you have spent any time with young Evangelical Christians in these first decades of the twenty - first century, you will know that this verse from Micah is the one they are most likely to quote from the whole of Scripture.

It also makes sense to hold every piece of Scripture to the whole of Scripture, and interpret every single passage according to the Spirit of the passage's context, the book in which it is found, and of the entire Bible.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, there is a whole long record of reading scripture for more depth / meaning.

That is the best that I can put into words where I am currently at in my understanding of scripture as a whole, which is evolving at times rather slowly, as is my understanding of God.

There follows from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state of cosmological physics or by....

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

Wesley plumbed the whole of the Christian tradition and the Scriptures but bent this work to practical rather than speculative purposes - to issues of the shape of Christian life and existence.

The Bible Roma Downey and Mark Burnett's epic attempt to tell the whole narrative of scripture in ten hours mostly works and often dazzles.

I think we all like to claim that our theology alone is based on Scripture, etc, when in reality, there is a whole host of other influences that get poured into our theology as well.

You hit the hammer on the nail... Any scripture not Rightly Divided is part of the counsel (Word Of God) not the whole counselof the counsel (Word Of God) not the whole counselOf God) not the whole counsel..

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is really the Parable of the Loving Father, but we seem to always have to make everything, even the Scriptures about us which, of course, causes us to miss the whole point of the story.

When I hear these sorts of arguments for observing Passover and other Jewish feasts, alarm bells begin to sound, and a whole host of Scriptures from the New Testament begin the «Hora» (the Jewish circle dance) inside my head.

And that whole chunk of James 2:1 - 13 — surely that is simply not part of God's scripture, by any means.

In modern times, Christians, upon further analysis of scripture, have come to find out that they were wrong for millennia and that God had been telling us of an ancient, round earth this whole time.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

A recent joint statement by a number of Italian evangelical groups indicts the Roman Catholic Church as an «imperial» church and its call for evangelicals to «unionist initiatives that are contrary to Scripture and instead renew their commitment to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the whole world.»

«For early Christianity Scripture is no longer just what is written, nor is it just tradition; it is the dynamic and divinely determined declaration of God which speaks of His whole rule and therefore of His destroying and new creating, and which reaches its climax in the revelation of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit by the risen Lord... The full revelation in Christ and the Spirit is more than what is written» (TDNT I: 761).

Wright returns to a theme you will find in quite a bit of his writing, and that is that we must understand both Scripture and Jesus in the context of the question — «How is Israel to be rescued, and how is the whole world to be put to rights?»

The whole point of Scripture is to testify to the Living Word, which is Jesus Christ.

No where in Scripture do we find to get a whole chain of people praying and then God will listen.

While there was a certain security to having this infallible roadmap on my nightstand, there was also a deep fear that came along with my belief that if just one thing was out of place in Scripture, if just one thing didn't resolve, the whole thing would fall apart.

The point of this whole discussion, as far as I'm concerned, is that we are ALL selective in our interpretation and application of Scripture.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture and nature, that males are to hold authority over women the whole of their life.

Rice «methodically tied Blanchard in knots over how to interpret the proslavery implications of specific texts» while «Blanchard returned repeatedly to «the broad principle of common equity and common sense» that he found in Scripture, to «the general principles of the Bible» and «the whole scope of the Bible»» rather than specifics.

In other words, when theologians affirm faith in the transcendent God of the scripture, they are affirming faith in the God who has acted in human history to make human beings whole and redeem them from their sins.

A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or life, I will not speak.»»

No less however, does the anti-Calvinist infect their view of Scripture, because the whole concept of election is repugnant to the human mind.

Although, when you mix in a religion that has scripture verses that says whole categories of people are going to hell coupled with the belief that these scripture verses come from God almighty, then you have the situation where some additional percentage of people (say y %) will also tend to be mean and nasty (who otherwise may not have been) because they think that is what God wants them to be.

Do not view the scriptures as a series of independent events but rather as one part of the whole, you need the whole council of the Word.

kermit4jc And maybe the guys who wrote the Jewish scriptures realized that the people knew about mythical god creatures too, and invented YHWH out of whole cloth.

@truth be told: Do not view the scriptures as a series of independent events but rather as one part of the whole, you need the whole council of the Word.

The use of Scripture, however, is not a special property of professional interpreters; it is a function of the whole body of Christ.