Sentences with phrase «with biblical»

They identified this with the biblical «blessedness.»

With a biblical greeting to Melancthon and his wife, «Farewell to you and your flesh», he dates it «in the land of the birds».

It is up to the person to study, compare Biblical spiritual things with Biblical spiritual things, and ask Jesus Christ to guide in understanding.

Since Noah was commanded to take 2 of every kind of unclean animal and 7 of every clean, a distinction that would not be established until much later, I have a problem with the biblical story violating itself!

Positive mental health is synonymous with the biblical term, «wholeness.»

Really, that's odd, I don't see any religious fanatics stalking mr atheist with biblical propaganda in hand.

«Signal early and signal often,» he counseled, urging that the candidate's speeches be larded with biblical allusions.

This attitude was strongly coupled with biblical warrant for the Christian's obedient acceptance of appropriate political authorities.

I stand with those who accuse organised christianity of messing with the biblical texts.

Now, hundreds of talented Christians have dived into rap and are making great music with biblical content.

The new evolutionary theory seemed to reject both and, of course, to conflict with the biblical account.

The most I have allowed myself by way of contemporary application is to comment at various points on which of our current attitudes and policies seem compatible with the biblical view under consideration, and which do not.

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.

They are doing what is not normally done with biblical things, they are verifying things not just believing.

Indeed, the historical disciplines as a whole had gone their separate way, and process theology no longer had much connection with Biblical studies.

Following this came men like Spurgeon who lit the world on fire with Biblical exposition.

The billboard contrasted that with the biblical injunction to raise up a child in God's way.

If the quote was made in isolation with no biblical contrast then people would have a legitimate point.

In the standard academic view, resurrection is an idea with no biblical roots — a foreign, unprecedented import into Second Temple Judaism.

My use of such an extreme illustration as the Bali incident was so that any of us who wish to engage culture with biblical truth will see the realistic end of modes of contextualization that inadvertently let culture lead in the dance between text and context.

I think we need to be God's missionary people, with a biblical definition of mission, focused on the missio dei.

Compare, for example, Grayling's Genesis with the biblical account.

Cobb argues that it would be consistent with Whitehead's own understanding of God's becoming, as well as with the biblical tradition, to consider God a «living person», an infinite succession of occasions.22 God would be the pre-eminent person in a community of interacting beings.

Many theologians who follow Whitehead and Hartshorne are largely concerned with questions of logical, theodicy, and compatibility with biblical and traditional theology.

Various process theologians who have followed Whitehead and Hartshorne have been largely preoccupied with questions of logic, theodicy, and compatibility with biblical and traditional theology.

The modern genre of historical - critical commentary has become ossified, and the vast majority read like summaries of recent scholarship rather than fresh engagements with the biblical text.

And readers familiar with the biblical tradition are not surprised.

Traditional views are mixed with Biblical views.

When a man with no biblical training whatsoever is considered more qualified to teach than a woman with a PhD in theology or a woman whose work in New Testament scholarship is renowned the world over, we are not seeing complementariaism at work, but patriarchy.

The longing to move out of time (which involves change and so is «bad») into a state of timeless permanence (which is therefore «good»)-- characteristic of most post-Aristotelian philosophy and much contemporary Christianity — is thus seen to have more in common with Platonic dualism than with biblical witness.

Think of reality this way, Origen should be read as saying, and you will be able to enter more fully into the wisdom of the Scriptures because you will be thinking scripturally; you will approach the Bible with a biblical view of reality.

Unfortunately, his colleague and co-founder of the CBMW John Piper recently made a statement that reveals the fact that complementarians are also selective with the biblical text.

Sure our leaders and politicians promote the ideas of «freedom» and «justice,» and they even sprinkle their speeches with biblical references.

It became popular in America mainly through the somewhat softer and less consistent version of John Locke and his followers, a version deliberately designed to obscure the contrast with biblical religion.

I think that in this struggle to figure out what it means to «be the Church», that the only place we CAN start is with biblical principles.

Why do we need to reach a lot of people all at once with biblical truth?

It is not the case that modern biblical study refrains from abstractions and remains intimately engaged with the biblical text.

The deepest cause, no matter what the particular factors contributed to the actual timing, was in my opinion, the inability of utilitarian individualism to provide a meaningful pattern of personal and social existence, especially when its alliance with biblical religion began to sag because biblical religion itself had been gutted in the process.

He instructively shows how human history has constructed a pantheon of nasty gods that contrast sharply with the biblical God of covenantal mercy.

They were familiar from their Scriptures with the biblical stories of David, the shepherd from Bethlehem (I Sam.

Because creation ostensibly ended with the biblical era, we who follow are not considered a part of the ongoing creative process, but are to function as the custodians of religious dogma and ritual, oblivious of Christ's words, «You have a fine way of rejecting the commandments of God, in order to keep your tradition!»

Knowing that he was speaking to theologians, he connected his deconstructionist task with the biblical tradition of unmasking the idols, of lifting the veil that hides sin.

Finally, though they are not as numerous, but still quite important in their influence, there are Reconstructionists, who aspire to replace civil codes with biblical laws, even to the point, among hard - liners, of making homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, propagation of false doctrine, and incorrigible behavior by children punishable by death.

Consonant with all biblical history, this is an interpretation of history, history interpreted in the strong perspectives of the covenant community.

«Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles,» reads the company's mission statement.

Maimonides» attempt to expunge anthropomorphism thus can not be reconciled with this biblical idea of a God who showed an impassioned love for one particular human being and his descendants.

We know that the Big Bang occurred and that in itself is the beginning of our universe - no god required; we know that evolution forms our beginnings - none of which coincides with the biblical story.

Use them along with the Biblical Tools which follow and the information presented earlier on what the Bible says about sexuality and homosexuality in general.

In either case, it results in a flight from religious pluralism and an insistence on rigidity of belief, conformity with biblical literalism, acceptance of often sterile dogma.

But Tillich's acknowledgment of the fundamental difference between what he calls «God» and his understanding of the biblical God implicitly, at least, gives support to my assertion that this use of philosophy is in severe tension with biblical faith.