Sentences with phrase «with biblical descriptions»

David Strauss questioned the historical accuracy of the New Testament, whilst the findings of Charles Darwin seemed incompatible with the biblical description of the creation of the world in seven days.

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Jeremy's description of biblical adoption is similar to the current cultural practice of adoption in Japan where most adoptees are consenting adults, the favored employees in family firms with no heir.

The story makes innumerable references to the Bible, from the opening parody of biblical language in the description of Astor, to the parody of Pilate's questioning of Christ in the lawyer's interview with a mute Bartleby, to the seriously meant quotation from Job.

Without losing ontological Process doctrine of identity, God undergoes God is compatible growth in God's knowledge and with a Biblical therewith change in God's description of God «being.»

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

Thus, all interpretations of given texts can be productively correlated with wider Biblical attitudes, statements, themes, and descriptions If husbands are to duplicate Jesus» attitude toward leadership (Eph.

Rollins takes this a step further by explaining how the biblical text itself invites us to wrestle with and question its descriptions of God.

Brandon your post is so very true and its great to see in writing a description of a biblical loving God and that he is not angry with us and loves us because he is love.

In the capital town of the Swiss canton of Zurich, the new young parish priest at the Great Minster, Ulrich Zwingli, was getting into his stride with new - style biblical sermons, denunciations of Indulgences, and a reference or two to Luther as a prophet for the times, a description taken from the Introduction in Froben's volume of Luther's writings.

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.