Sentences with phrase «with scripture as»

In the Magnificat, we see that Mary boasted a strong familiarity with scripture as well as a striking prophetic vision for what it meant (Luke 1:16 - 55).

Rt Rev James said: «The threefold sources of authority in the Church of England are scripture, tradition and reason, with scripture as the foundation.

Historical - criticism always deals with Scripture as a series of fragmented works from different periods and by definition remains at the basic level of human hypothesis.

Whether a feminist position is as consistent with Scripture as Hardesty believes is open to further discussion.

Paul «the rabbi» must be countered by Paul «the Christian»; Scripture as human (reflecting the historical limitations of its authors» insight) must be contrasted with Scripture as divine.55

It does not make sense to me and is not in agreement with Scripture as a whole.

I've been doing some thinking and reading on all of this, and hope it continues to fit with Scripture as I read and study more.

But the Wesleyan vision includes a high respect for the tradition of the church as a source for theological formulation and a willingness to be judged by it, though flexibly, with Scripture as the final judge of the value of tradition.

Not exact matches

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

The term translated to as with means bed every other time it's used in Leviticus and when Paul referred to that scripture when writing the clobber passage in Corinthians he rewrote bed.

On Luther's side, the final break with the Church authorities came in the wake of Leo X's bull of November 1518; in that document, as Luther saw it, Leo arrogated to himself the power of defining Church teaching without accountability to Scripture, the Fathers, or the ancient canons.

Confessional Protestants — those whose churches explicitly hold to one of the great Protestant confessions of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and who value classical orthodox formulations as being faithful to scripture — should focus their ecumenical energy in dialoguing and working with those denominations which share their most basic commitments, especially to the Nicene Trinitarian identity of God.

The scripture dealing with Judas having been better off not being born, simply relates to the shame he will feel in due time when he is resurrected on earth to find earth's billions acknowledging him as the betrayer of the world's saviour, yikes!!

As both Kugel and Reno document in detail, Jesus and Paul read their Scriptures with a great deal of interpretative freedom.

I laid with him in his hospital bed when he was still conscious and began reading scripture to him from a little book he had received 80 years earlier as a child in England.

I don't want to gloss over the historical difficulties of the «phenomena of Scripture,» as I agree with Smith that it's important to take those into account.

This, along with the words of Mr. Handspicker, is good advice — as long as we do not miss the eternal aspect of the Scriptures and the absolute directives contained therein.

I love watching all you christians squirm as usual, with your counterarguments of scripture, that as usual have nothing to do with the article.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

Truths slowly totter out with Scripture texts at their elbow, as unable to walk alone.

The above verse of scripture has not a damned thing to do with celestial glories as from what I heard the LDS are leaning towards,,,, Care to explain to us all this celestial rewarding?

As millennials are confronted with this dogmatic truth of Scripture they can either embrace Christ or reject him.

While Greene's project is an ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.

«Îsâ Ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى, translit.: ʿĪsā), known as Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger of God and al - Masih (the Messiah) in Islam [1][2]: 30 who was sent to guide the Children of Israel (banī isrā «īl) with a new scripture, al - Injīl (the Gospel).

In the Jewish scripture, a form of indentured servitude is recognized and strictly controlled with set time limits on such service (seven years) as a method of discharging bankruptcy.

The meaning of the painting, just as with scripture is AUTHORIAL INTENT.

No doubt many a sermon was probably preached the following Sunday with Matthew 24:36 as the central Scripture.

While convergence does happen in religion from the perspective of the human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

If I were advocating for unqualified blessing of same - sex unions in the church, I would hope that I'd have the humility and charity and intellectual honesty to grapple with Scripture and the church's tradition in a way that didn't dismiss it as simply «homophobic» or hopelessly benighted.

Instead of accommodating its usage» and so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.

The Jesus approached scripture with a mythological imagination that relied as much on intuition as logic.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case

As one puts it, «I understand the importance of indissolubility, and I don't know how we'll square changing that with Scripture and tradition, but the present practice is simply not sustainable.

The intention behind the law simply is: caring about others as you care about yourself — this is pleasing an idea to God — Creator of the creation — and basically the scriptures only want us to deal with this delicate balance of «treating others» kindly.

Take the next giant leap, put the Holy Spirit Word of God, Sacred Scripture, down, get up and ask to walk with the Lord from the get - go, that is the beginning and allow Him to make you His own as only He can...

It was received into the New Testament canon with hesitation, considered second - class Scripture by Luther, reluctantly accepted by Calvin, rejected by Erasmus, and now is repudiated as pseudonymous by modern scholarship.

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.»

Mankind was [of] one religion [before their deviation]; then Allah sent the prophets as bringers of good tidings and warners and sent down with them the Scripture in truth to judge between the people concerning that in which they differed.

That scripture is talking about RAPE and has NOTHING to do with the loving saved respectful relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

We have been using at church for the past few years as it has been in development and I have been really happy with how it pursues the truth of scripture, while updating language in a great way.

This will create a generation of people with a false notion of the scriptures and a theology so far from what Christ originally taught so as to be unrecognisable.

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.

In fact, Scripture says not to parade around with a «fasting face,» so it's actually better to brush them off upon leaving so as to avoid the appearance of self - righteousness in front of the world.

As for your converstaion, I don't have many Scriptures memorized (I'm a bit ashamed to admit) but I'm pretty familiar with the Bible and don't off - hand recall any Scripture that says «all men are liars.»

In the next few posts, we will look at four places in Scripture some people find helpful as they learn to converse with God.