Sentences with phrase «with biblical passages»

Many have found the results of Gottman studies to be compatible with Biblical passages about relationships.

Any woman who is a Christian will always look for the spiritual values of a single man and mostly, see if the man's values match with the biblical passages or commands.

Yeah, I can't agree with all of what you say, but I don't know what to do with Biblical passages like this.

Many Bloomington gays are hoping Blair and other speakers invited to the Gay Awareness Conference will engage in dialogue with ministers and laypersons, both heterosexual and homosexual, in efforts to deal with biblical passages, theological viewpoints, worship, and ethical concerns.

Take any dozen of these people and put them in separate rooms with a biblical passage to interpret for themselves and you'll get twelve different answers.

Not exact matches

And today many are convinced on the basis of various passages in the biblical book of Genesis that all nations will be judged in accordance with how they treat Israel.

But as you mentioned with # 2 and # 4, there are biblical passages that offer support for loving, redemptive, discipline and for controlled anger against sin.

This section will look at the surrounding context of Genesis 6 - 8, and subsequent sections will consider other biblical passages that deal with the flood.

Clinton cited the Scripture Mark 6:30 - 44 - where Jesus instructs his disciples to organize their followers into groups and to feed them with five loaves of bread and two fish - as the central biblical passage of her speech.

All three of the biblical passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands are either directly preceded or followed by instructions for slaves to obey their masters, with phrases like «likewise» and «in the same way» connecting them.

Surely it is with this understanding of Jesus» call that we are to read such difficult biblical passages as Colossians 3:22, which bids slaves be obedient to their masters, as though they were obeying Christ himself.

So the virtues of humility and resignation are rejected as despicable, and every effort is made to show that they have nothing to do with Christianity — in spite of all the biblical passages to the contrary.

By leaving out this important information and by failing to seriously explore those biblical passages that, at least at first glance, don't seem to support his thesis, Bell has left his readers ill - equipped to deal with challenges from those who don't agree with these ideas.

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

My first question has to do with Altizer's interpretations of Biblical passages and of traditional Christian doctrines.

The longest biblical passage on male - male sex is Romans 1:26 - 27: «Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another.»

Granted I'm no biblical scholar but if I remember correctly there were several passages about the love of material possessions being incompatible with love of God.

Biblical passages illustrate, with startling clarity in Job and the Psalms, that the earth's creatures owe their existence to God.

He does so by abstracting principles out of the specific laws of Leviticus and then associating those abstractions with other biblical passages.

It is probable that during the exile, he wrote his treatise Ad Fortunatum, a collection of Biblical passages with commentary on martyrdom.

Not only that, but many of the biblical passages that people find the most troubling, and the most likely to be «mistaken», are affirmed willy - nilly by Jesus and the apostles with complete disregard for any subsequent controversies that might emerge.

This idea also fits with other biblical passages, such at 1 Kings 19:12 and Matthew 10:27 (Luke 12:3).

But a few of the students did, in one case with attention to Hobbes's and Locke's butchering of particular Biblical passages.

If anyone were to read the whole of Lewis's writings with an eye only to discover what biblical passage he most often cites, one would find, I suspect, that it would be «he that loseth his life shall save it.»

In The Fidelity of Betrayal, Rollins goes on to criticize the Western Church's almost frantic attempt at «closing over this traumatic rent in the text» by affirming some biblical narratives over others and by explaining away passages that are inconsistent with favored narratives.

It deals with proper techniques of oral interpretation for a biblical passage.

We just have gay stereotypes and we base our beliefs on a few biblical passages, ignoring passages about things that people in the church really struggle with, like food and other addictions.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

While I know that my proposal wreaks havoc on many traditional ways of reading some biblical passages, please know that just as with Romans 8:34, I am aware of these texts and simply understand them in a different light — in the light of the love and beauty of the crucified Christ.

They want to honor women on Mother's Day, so they turn to the biblical passage most associated with femininity, the one that culminates with what may be the most cross-stitched Bible verse of all time: «Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.»

To answer that question, Justin argues that we have to have «a clear, consistent biblical standard for interpreting the text, a principle we can apply to various passages that will help us to determine, fairly and consistently, how to translate them for our culture... Such a standard would need to be able to differentiate God's eternal laws — such as those dealing with murder, theft, and adultery — from the cultural biblical rules Christians are no longer obligated to follow — such as those dealing with dietary restrictions and head coverings.»

Most scholars and pastors, however, recognize that this admonition needs to be balanced with other biblical passages that suggest individuals will at times face a very clear choice between God and Caesar.

As with preaching, so with Scripture, a biblical passage is as much a communal act as the expression of a single author.

Clinton can be a preacher who connects with his audience (especially in black churches) through biblical passages.

Enns skillfully dismantles some of the common responses to these passages — that the Canaanites were super-duper evil and therefore deserved to be exterminated, that war with the Canaanites was inevitable, that God's bloodthirsty portrait in Joshua is balanced out by more flattering portraits elsewhere in Scripture, that questioning biblical accounts of God - ordained genocide is sinful because God can do whatever God wants to do, etc — before offering his own controversial, yet well - argued, conclusion: «God never told the Israelites to kill the Canaanites.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

There is no doubt, for example, that the late Biblical Book of Proverbs, strongly impregnated with the feeling of Egypto - Grecian Judaism in Alexandria, is largely indebted to The Wisdom of Amenemope, written about 1000 B.C. Indeed, Proverbs 22:17; 23:11 is an almost verbatim translation of the Egyptian book, and in many other passages the similarity is too close to be mistaken.

The Navarre Bible, that wonderful commentary which has done so much to seed the wasteland of contemporary Biblical scholarship, refers in connection with the passage I quoted from Matthew (9:36) to words of St Margaret Mary Alacoque: «This Divine Heart is a great abyss which holds all good, and he commands that all his poor people should pour their needs into it.

For a good non-allegorical discussion of many Bible passages dealing with self defense please check out The Biblical View of Self - Defense.

Whitehead's writings are liberally sprinkled with quotations from, and references and allusions to biblical passages.

In addition to dealing with the biblical text, there may also be a need to show how this one passage is related to the central issues of Scripture.

It may mean printing the text and pointing out specific verses or quoting them with sufficient frequency that it becomes clear that these verses are present, that the ways in which the passage was remembered — the past interpretations brought to the present hearing — have overlooked these verses, that these are not the creation of the preacher but are the biblical text.

A NEW dating agency for Christians is asking members to quote eating favourite Biblical passages and describe their religious beliefs in order to ensure that christian dating agency uk are matched with their perfect partner.

This is the first of five revision sheets, aimed at the OCR GCSE Philosophy (Unit B602) Paper 2, with some key points and some Biblical passages.

This is the final revision sheet in a series of five, aimed at the OCR GCSE Philosophy (Unit B602) Paper 2, with some key points and suggested Biblical passages, looking at what Christians rely on to determine how they should behave.