Sentences with phrase «writes on scripture»

Everything every believer thinks, says or writes on Scripture is their «interpretation of the truth of Scripture»; that's the nature of the beast that is man.

Our lord and savior has written it on the scriptures!

Not exact matches

Since Christianity is based on the Bible, it is inconceivable how one can reconcile progressive attitudes towards gender equality with what is written in scripture without being an extreme semantic acrobat and moral contortionist.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

Eventually, I will write about all the Scripture passages on election, showing how they support this idea.

By the way the Quran was written and checked by trust worthy people from trust worthy people who memorized it by heart from the Prophet rather than relaying on men written scriptures..

The scribes who wrote the scriptures you read signed them the same you signed «Isaac» on this post.

I first posted my dream (and all the Scriptures that explained it to me) on a Christian book review site when I wrote a negative review of «Heaven is for Real,» and was subsequently emailed for a year by Thomas Nelson and Crossbow publishing to write a book about it.

«From this history of the Bible in early American history,» Noll writes in his concluding chapter, «the moral judgment that makes the most sense to me rests on a difference between Scripture for oneself and Scripture for others.»

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

While much of Hebrew Scripture focuses on God's covenantal blessing to Israel through biological procreation, «the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus ushered in a host of transformative changes,» writes Matthew.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

Greg Boyd's view on the violence of God in Scripture sounds shockingly similar to the view I have been writing about on this blog.

He said nothing of a book that would combine the old covenant scriptures with the account of His life on earth and letters that were written to people who lived under the law, that people who have never lived under the law would have to try to discern and apply to their lives until He returned, or they died.

Take 10 minutes from patting yourself on the back and take a look at my blog / websites, and / or my comments on other threads here, and you'll be quickly disabused of the notion that I treat the Scriptures «as though they are written directly to 20th Century A.D. Americans» (For what it's worth, I'm not American, so why would I do such a thing).

And so many other wonderful scripture... beautifully written on a 4th grade level in the King James Version.

Faith and sports have long gone hand in hand; many athletes regularly thank God after their team wins, and some even write references to Scripture on their game - day gear.

Two simple verses of scripture and the world turns away from recognizing their true worthiness... Shame on you who vow yourself to be Christians and dare not read the writing on the walls...

Three: If these essays are written to deepen process theology as a mode of systematic theology on the supposition that a theology is truncated if its rootage in Scripture is not clear, then it is crucial to be clear — in ways in which these essays do not make it clear — how process hermeneutics warrants any judgments about what is normative for Christian theology.

The Apostles» successors, next three centuries: die for faith, write liturgies, establish canon of scripture, doctrine, and practice based on that tradition.

The words said to us on Ash Wednesday as our truth, our comfort and our indictment are written in Scripture at the beginning of the history of mankind; they are a statement and a judgment of what man is from the beginning.

These manuscripts were representative of a much larger body of material which has since grown so extensively that today it includes about 70 papyri (portions written on papyrus), about 230 uncials (manuscripts with rounded letters), about 2,500 minuscules (manuscripts with small letters), and about 1,700 lectionaries (portions of Scripture arranged for worship).

And then we interpret the Scripture based on this wrong belief that it was written by a later author with a different audience and for different reasons.

On the question of biblical authority in Reformation theology much has been written but especial note should be taken on A. Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969); Kenneth Kantzer, «Calvin and the Holy Scripture,» in Inspiration and Interpretation, eOn the question of biblical authority in Reformation theology much has been written but especial note should be taken on A. Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969); Kenneth Kantzer, «Calvin and the Holy Scripture,» in Inspiration and Interpretation, eon A. Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor of Sacred Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969); Kenneth Kantzer, «Calvin and the Holy Scripture,» in Inspiration and Interpretation, ed.

YeahRight, no matter how much you want to change His truth written in scriptures, being gay is an abomination and you are on the wide path to destruction.

I am writing a post about this for tomorrow, when I start to focus on the positive things Scripture says about prayer.

We might need a few cues along the way, or a few lines whispered from the wings (more on that later), but in general, if we have a good grasp of the written parts of the play that are in Scripture, it should not be too difficult to improvise our part of the story in epic fashion.

- Genesis 1 (100 % written)- The Unforgivable Sin (Revised and Expanded, 80 % written)- The Gospel According to Scripture (80 % written)- Pastoral Leadership (100 % written)- Close Your Church for Good (100 % written)- The Bible Mirror (20 % written)- Commentary on Esther (100 % written)- Jesus among Other Religions (10 % written)- A «Redeeming God» book series on the topic of divine violence (30 % written)

He also wrote extensive commentaries on the scriptures and encouraged everyone to read and study the Bible.

I find it amazing how non-believers pick and choose scriptures they find deplorable, post them on this venue, yet do not comprehend Jesus» truth as written... showing man who refuses to learn and abide in wisdom the error of his evil ways.

Well, by inference, since the apostles and prophets laid the foundation for the church through writing Scripture, the pastor - teacher should focus on teaching Scripture.

One of the things I strive to do on this blog is explain Scripture in a way that shows how people understood it when it was written, and also showing how the story of Scripture transforms and changes our lives today.

As Don Whitney wrote in his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, «When we meditate on Scripture, it colors our thinking about God, about God's ways and His world, and about ourselves.»

I have decided to return to the original purpose of this website, and focus my writing on the inexhaustible content found within the pages of Scripture.

Instead, I learned it through the careful and prayerful study of Scripture as I seek God's face and listen to His whispering through the words of God on the written page and the Word of God in Jesus Christ.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

On the other hand, we do not ask whether Brunner is right or wrong in denying the absolute authority of the written word in Scripture and creed.

I presented on the scriptural evidence regarding homosexuality, of which Dugan wrote: «There is just one catch [to Gagnon's citation of scripture texts from Jesus]: not one of the passages he quotes from actually mentions gay relationships.»

Noll writes, «the foundational profession of Reformation Protestantism to rely on Scripture before — or even apart from — other authorities faded as Protestant self - identification strengthened.»

Go to google, and search in the «Images» section of google on the words: «Anubis mummification»... then search again on The Book of Abraham, which is the Mormon «scripture» written by Joseph Smith which he claimed was written by Abraham himself!

But I don't really tackle this with the traditional work associated with my spirituality: fasting, prayer, singing, church, bible studies, go and do, memorize Scripture, and write a few more entries on my list of 1000 gifts.

Rather than being excited about some new insight from Scripture or idea about theology which I get to pass on to others, my writing has become more about pageviews, backlinks, ad revenue, email subscriber stats, book sales, and comment counts.

Scripture Union unveiled on Thursday a new free and «accessible» story book, «The First Christmas» [pictured above], which is written by award - winning author, Gemma Willis.

A great light of religion shone on the minds of the hearers of Peter, so that they were not satisfied with a single hearing or with the unwritten teaching of the divine proclamation, but with every kind of exhortation besought Mark, whose Gospel is extant, seeing that he was Peter's follower, to leave them a written statement of the teaching given them verbally, nor did they cease until they had persuaded him, and so became the cause of the Scripture called the Gospel According to Mark (49).

Raymond Brown, the Scripture scholar, once wrote that Tradition was the divinely guided reflection of the Christian community on the mystery of Jesus.

As I add more content, it will not only serve as a place for you to find Scriptures on these various topics, but I will also try to write daily posts which could serve as a daily devotional for you and your family.

It is widely recognized that when Paul wrote to the Corinthians on this subject about the middle of the first century, he was quoting a well - established credal formula which he had received from early Christian tradition and which ran, «Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures; he was buried; he was raised to life on the third day, according to the scriptures.»

Where I come fomr on this is, being that scripture ss God breathed and written by humans, is being open to there being error and therefore for the need of the Spirit in discrning meaning form textx and their application.

If he wants to help the poor, he can reverse the Church's stand on birth control, which is just an old theological paper written by Pope John Paul, that has no basis in scripture.