Sentences with phrase «with biblical standards»

No doubt you are also familiar with their position statement on sexuality: «The Salvation Army believes that God's will for the expression of sexual intimacy is revealed in the Bible, and that living fully in accordance with biblical standards calls for chastity outside of heterosexual marriage and faithfulness within it.»

Not exact matches

Alice said: There are no biblical rules as to how to deal with bloggers and the motley crew who visit here can't be held to biblical standards since half of them look at the Bible as a few steps down from the Sunday comics.

If Christians believe that undisciplined sex is a good thing, then they are living by a standard in conflict with biblical teaching.

While most of Barkun's theorists ignore the standard dispensationalist practice of documenting their scenarios with scriptural citations, biblical themes and imagery pervade their work.

The Christian church has not dealt seriously, according to Biblical standard, with the violence and destruction brought by the principalities and powers.

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.»

Putting aside Bentley's sometimes bizarre behaviour and doctrines, the apparent lack of remorse and space to attempt reconciliation with his wife, and then the hurry to divorce and remarry, is clearly contrary to biblical standards of behaviour.

But he was putting a renewed biblical stamp on it, practical, personal and with a mark of violent antithesis to some of the standard conventions.

Richard John Neuhaus rightly denounced the «theonomic temptation» that seeks to impose biblical standards on a society outside of covenant with God.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

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

The more I studied, the more convinced I became that we Christians had applied a different standard to the homosexuality texts than we had to other Scriptural texts, and that condemning Christ - centered relationships solely based on gender was actually inconsistent with biblical teaching.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

Within the Prepare / Enrich model, I am able to work with couples from a standard approach or a biblical or Catholic approach.