Sentences with phrase «wrote scripture»

God inspired individuals, and while inspired, they wrote Scripture.

The Bible is inspired in that it reveals what God was whispering to people who wrote Scripture, and to people in other parts of the world who were also responding to the revelation which they had received from God (whether it be through creation or conscience).

For example, a person could believe that a higher power exists but remain skeptical that the people that wrote scripture had any special knowledge about God.

Right, so that in the way you use the term agnostic theist it is to say that that it refelcts your belief about someone being skeptical about those who wrote scripture have any special knowledge of God.

The apostles and prophets wrote Scripture.

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

I consider scripture to just be the beliefs of the people that wrote scripture.

I believe that St. Augustine had a very fertile imagination along with many that came before him including all the people who wrote scripture.

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

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?

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.

Still the bells and our scrabbling hearts, lay down the palm branches next to the gold spray painted easter eggs and sky - writing Scripture verses and slick direct mail brochures.

Aside from 2 Timothy 3:16, another key text is 2 Peter 1:21 which indicates that men of God were moved, carried, or driven by the Holy Spirit to write Scripture.

The authors were not passive instruments, mechanically recording what God dictated, but the Spirit used their personalities and individuality in the process of writing Scripture.

«And in and through it all, we find the elusive but powerful idea of God's «word,»» he says, «not as a synonym for the written scriptures, but as a strange personal presence, creating, judging, healing recreating» (emphasis mine).

Did Paul know that he was writing Scripture when he wrote his letters to the various churches?

What it revealed was their conviction that Christian theology in its form and substance as well as its function in the church must be determined by God's authoritative Word, the written Scriptures.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

The first is that Paul, having no idea he was writing Scripture, dealt with whatever situation called forth a letter.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

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.

Special revelations — the only sort recognized by this kind of theology — have always needed to be checked by some more general frame of reference: the written Scriptures coolly and historically studied, the tradition and common experience of the church, and the still more general experiences and tested beliefs of mankind.

The traditional Christian view is that Christ founded the Church which wrote the Scriptures, ratified them and gains constant nourishment from them.

Suddenly hitherto illiterate populations were equipped with a written Scripture for the first time, and from the wonder and pride of possessing something new that is also strangely familiar, they burst upon the scene with confidence in the whos and whys of their existence.

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

But whatever happened from from God's side of things in the process of writing Scripture, I'm just not sure it can be called «inspiration of Scripture» as classically defined.

I also think that since there are so many different ways to translate and understand the written scriptures, «sola scriptura» is really not as objective as it might initially seem.

If God was inspiring me to write Scripture, and I included a story from Aesop's Fables, the story is still true, even though the actual events are not.

This is an inlusio or a bracketing technique used in writing scriptures to wrap meaning around the passage in between Jas 1:4 and 3:2.

It was written by men who had something from God to say to their times but who had no idea that they were writing Scripture to be read two or three thousand years later.

The first two Foremen, the Apostles and Prophets, led the way in centuries past by writing Scripture.

An apostle who was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write scripture infinitely out ranks a pope.

Over the centuries, the power of written scriptures and organized religions had unfortunately replaced the power of direct discernment by laymen.

The priests of that time opposed translation of the written scriptures from Latin into the local languages.

I particularly love the Christmas Canvas and other written scriptures you have.

Not exact matches

By contrast, she writes, King «situated the civil rights movement within the broader landscape of history — time past, present, and future — and within the timeless vistas of Scripture.»

«I don't know how many times I've seen the most cluttered resumes... written in seven - point font, no margins, and it's like, «This is scripture,»» says Chu.

The Christian Scripture (New Testament) WAS written in Greek.

Here is another: Romans 15:4, «For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.»

The book we know as Genesis is a Jewish scripture, written in Hebrew, in which God says, «מה - רזאת עשית ותאמר».

The term translated to as with means bed every other time it's used in Leviticus and when Paul referred to that scripture when writing the clobber passage in Corinthians he rewrote bed.

The written Logion — Oracles, the Holy Scripture were committed to Israel's keeping and still to this day exists as the one and only Hebrew text (amidst all the different versions / translations of the Bible).

I'm a Christian myself, but whenever I mention the scripture, I acknowledge who originally wrote it.

TORAH TORAH TORAH > YHWH YHWH YHWH < HAROT HAROT HAROT you get the picture This CAN NOT be done by any man and still retain the meaning of scripture / or the text in which it is written.

This has fostered a suspicion of Scripture that must be addressed before the encounter with the Word made flesh can take place through the Word of God in written form.

Even while the New Testament was being written and codified, their belief that Jesus was the Son of God was a belief that he came according to the Scriptures.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

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.

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.