Sentences with phrase «writing about scripture»

When I started my Till He Comes blog in 2002, I wanted to focus on writing about Scripture and theology.

I will be writing about Scripture, theology, church planting, and monkeys.

Look, along with teaching and writing about Scripture and theology, I also design websites and publish books for other authors, and I get paid a little bit of money to do so.

As I look over the last couple decades of my life, it is when I am studying, teaching, and writing about Scripture that I feel most content, most fulfilled, most at home, most connected with God and with who He made me to be.

A lot of writing about Scripture and theology is boring, and hard to understand.

I imagine that most people who teach or write about Scripture and theology have been condemned as a heretic at least once or twice.

I run this blog to write about Scripture and theology, and to interact with other people around the world who have similar ideas about knowing God, following Jesus, and loving others.

Instead, I wanted to write about the Scriptures.

Not exact matches

Angela Shupe writes a column for RELEVANT about reading Scripture and finding our self - esteem in who God wants us to be instead of who society says we ought to be.

How is it that an inspired woman could write scripture (e.g., Mary's song), and an inspired woman could determine for both a king and a high priest whether something is scripture (e.g., the prophet Huldah in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 34)-- or at least could do these things in the time of the Old Testament — but an inspired woman can not now teach about God?

«polygamy is written about in the earlier days of the old testament to show how people were living then, but it was not condoned and encouraged by scripture.»

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

Considering that it took the Church about 300 years, long after they had made up their minds about theology, to start picking scripture to match that doctrine, and that the oldest known copt of the bible has over 27,000 «corrections» written all over it, how can you be sure that the New Testament isn't full of false doctrine to begin with?

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

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.

Dianna Anderson writes a blog for RELEVANT about how Jesus and Scripture embraced feminism — and why the Church should to.

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.

I knew that it had to have something to do with Scripture and theology, since that is what I enjoy writing about.

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.

It is the intentional, yet not coerced, effort to read or think about, to read and think about, some significant incident in God's way with men as reported in Scripture or in some other piece of writing.

That is, it is not one of the seven feasts which Moses wrote about in the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.

There are a number of great rabbit trails whether you want to look the blood of the «eternal covenant» noted in Hebrews, a covenant which is not written about in scripture anywhere, but implies that the plan of salvation is before all time — and it is the blood of the cross which impelled Christ from the grave.

It is true that Jewish Rabbinic writers often wrote about «the Holy Scriptures,» but it is also true that many Rabbinic writers could be accused of almost deifying the Bible.

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.

I am not writing any of this to argue with anyone about philosophy, Scripture or anything else, nor will I conjecture as to why this topic agitates you so much.

As a spiritual person I am also (in not even a remote way) rejecting the idea of the afterlife, however I am rejecting most ideas as written in scripture since IMO scripture has very little to do with the true msg of Christ or the true msg Christianity once was about.

If for you your faith is only about «worshiping» the words in a book (which are written by man)... think about it... you might be wasting your time and not realize how distant you actually have become (from the true msg) worrying about trivialities or needing to reconcile scripture with science / common sense... simply because your book (and your self - imposed obligation to believe in the words) doesn't leave you another option.

You've highlighted an important point about scripture: There is no way to understand what it means unless you can understand what it meant to the people who wrote it.

«For I tell you,» Jesus continues, «that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, «And he was reckoned with transgressors»; for what is written about me has its fulfilment» (Is 53:12; cf. Mk 15:28).

What makes common sense to me is that this is coming from the same volume of scripture that has within it revelations from the past present and future from the time in which the events that were written about took place.

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).

Given that all of this is about taking scripture in the proper context, would it be correct to assume that when written this applied to temples?

kermit4jc And maybe the guys who wrote the Jewish scriptures realized that the people knew about mythical god creatures too, and invented YHWH out of whole cloth.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

I wrote an extensive article about «Ministry vs Money» here, which takes just about every single scripture that has to do with being paid for Ministry and looks at it IN context:

Scripture's own witness is very clear about the purpose of the written word - «these [signs] are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that befieving you may have life in his name» (John 20:3 i).

But if I look at your own argument «The scripture was not written to us, for us or about us.»

The scripture was not written to us, the scripture was not written for us, the scripture was not written about us.

You gave them scripture, thank you and the complained about your writing structure.

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

Though it might be true that the ancient Israelites had undeveloped cosmology, this is not true of God, and so for this view to be correct, we must either deny inspiration, or have God inspiring the authors of Scripture to write about Himself in inaccurate ways.

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.»

Gordon Johnston wrote the first section, which covers the Messianic prophecies about Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures.

So when Paul writes here about prophets, he is thinking about the people who wrote the Hebrew Scriptures.

As a former prisoner, I can identify with these men in prison and so I write about the plan of salvation and applications to scriptures for their lives, either in prison or for when they get out.

The ones he writes about in this verse were those who wrote Scripture.

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.

Oddly enough, Augustine was writing about the mysteries found within the book of Genesis, when he said, «in matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Rachel Held Evans has written a comprehensive, impeccably researched, heartfelt, whimsical, scripture - honoring book about the role and experience of women in Christian society.

Jeremy i agree with what you have written many of the traditions in the church have come from pagan beliefs.I thought some of the comments were judgemental of others especially towards those who are pagan.There response was respectful we can learn alot about having a good attitude towards others and responding to others kindly.I think using scripture in a legalistic way is no different than what the pharisees did to Jesus in his day and he disarmed them by rebuking them saying you without sin cast the first stone.regards brentnz