Sentences with phrase «with biblical stories»

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

I could find similar common themes with biblical stories in Grimm's Fairy Tales.

The producers haven't played fast and loose with the biblical story, they've respected it.

after much thinking the calts called the Denisova the Elves (the children o Danu) and the Neanderthal the Fomorii (children of Danu) we were hums (the children of MIll) in their mythological text making the pretanic religion older and with a biblical story of the creation making them closer to the true religion,... what the mahabharata is an older text what the book of Tets has an even older creation

Those who were more concerned with the biblical story, and those whose theology required Jesus» full humanity, insisted that Jesus was not lacking in any human feature.

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.

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!

If you're familiar with the biblical story of the tower of Babel, you may recall that the attempt of humanity to do such a thing resulted in their language being garbled by God.

I picked up this book because I loved Barton's first novels (Brookland, The Testament of Yves Gundron) and because I'm currently working on a new project that plays with the biblical story of Queen Esther.

First, utilizing four key features of attachment theory — secure base, exploration, attachment behaviors, and safe haven — we attempt to integrate the «circle of attachment» with the biblical story of creation.

I think this would be a wonderful visual message, along with the biblical story, to help them see the wonderful gift of the Baby Jesus.

Not exact matches

There's a fairly long list of recent messiah claimants, a number of which, like Vissarion, who are still living and have far more followers than the number usually associated with Jesus during his life in the biblical stories.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The problem is not with biblical Revelation, the problem is when the Church or individuals within the Church interpret it as either a metaphysical treatise or a moral manual rather than the greatest Love Story ever told.

The Haggadah contains numerous rabbinical liturgical inventions coupled with literary (midrashic) renderings of biblical verses, all focused on the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt.

What the camels in Genesis reveal, in fact, has nothing to do with the «truth» of the biblical story at all.

Their advisory panel consisted of many people from varied backgrounds familiar with sharing the stories of the Bible rather than of a «who's who» of Biblical academics.

(2) Evolution has often been taught with the implication that it was a rejection of the biblical creation account, by ignoring or dismissing the creation stories as prescientific myths surpassed by superior modern versions.

The best preachers, I have observed, are those who can see stories in everyday life and can tell them in sermons, carefully linking up the contemporary story with the biblical text.

Frankly, I think the story of the biblical god starts with Abraham.

This morning, I'll be sharing some pictures and stories from my year of biblical womanhood with the students at Baylor University.

Now the director, who was raised culturally Jewish, has made a full - fledged biblical epic with Noah, a $ 125 million - budget film that puts an unorthodox spin on one of the most familiar stories from Scripture.

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.

Evolution, with its evidence of transitional fossils, geological column, DNA evidence, vestigial organs etc., is very damning to the biblical Creation Story.

I said:» Evolution, with its evidence of transitional fossils, geological column, DNA evidence, vestigial organs etc., is very damning to the biblical Creation Story.»

and Pete Enns with «Aha Moments: Biblical Scholars Tell Their Stories» Best Challenge: Efrem Smith with «The Privileged and The Poor»

The entire biblical story of Christ's birth has been shown to conflict with actual history.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

Several pastors and authors say King displays a sophisticated grasp of theology in his books, and his stories are stuffed with biblical references and story lines taken straight from the Bible.

This could be the biblical story with the tallest mountain of evidence against it.

Berry's essays are peppered with biblical references and quotes, and his stories are drenched in the Bible.

Frei believed that those who develop theology that way, beginning with existential questions arising out of the human situation, will start reading the biblical stories as either historical raw material or timeless truths and moral lessons.

I shall then use as a model or paradigm the biblical story of Jesus» sending out the twelve to preach and to heal, with some attention also to the story of he seventy.

There's no need to justify such thoughts with a biblical background story.

the biblical story of creation was written by men with no scientific training whatsoever.

The temple was finished in Genesis 2:17, which means that beginning with Genesis 2:18, the biblical story really begins.

creationism is far from an adult theory, its a child like story with fantasy elements based on myth and NO science, we always hear about these crazy people trying to outlaw evolution.But has you stated we have billions of years of evidence, thanks for helping us evolutionists out, unfortunately you have none, just a book, no science, no artifacts, no garden of eden, no bones of adam or eve or even the snake for that matter, no ark, no proof of a biblical flood, no proof of a created world by a higher power, no nothing..

He disagreed with the biblical creation story.

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.

For the Japanese, still very conscious of important feudal families, use of these motifs suggests the association of biblical stories with important personages.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

That it also provides a basis for criticizing scholarly assumptions that undercut acceptance of much in the biblical stories would also register positively with him.

Timpson follows Pope John Paul II in using the story of Tobit as a biblical base for his argument, but does not discuss the Pope's theology of the body with its rich idea of sexuality as a gift.

we still have to deal with the relationship of these issues to the work of God and the church, to the biblical stories, and to the consequences for Christian living.

We can contrast these experiences with the classic biblical story of children as a cause for sorrow, which follows immediately after Hannah's story.

«Rachel's disarming and inviting sense of storytelling coupled with her sharp wit makes for delightful re-tellings of biblical stories.

To bring some biblical examples to Wright's point, Hebrews 11 and 2 Peter / Jude employ the strategy of fitting the readers and their circumstances into the ongoing story — complete with a future ending.

But if you have the Story firmly in your head, with a good grasp of various biblical ways of telling it, what you teach by opportunity will, over time, exhibit a visible coherence that it wouldn't otherwise have.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

But as with Evolving in Monkey Town and A Year of Biblical Womanhood, it's important for me to not only share my own story, but also the stories of friends, family, and readers, in an effort to broaden the scope of the project and introduce new perspectives.