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Sentence Examples It is difficult to find a Father who does not quote the Apocrypha and treat it as Scripture. There were questions about the papacy and apostolic succession, about sin and grace, about the authority of Scripture and tradition. It was a memorable sermon, lacking any clear outline or notable linkage to the Scripture readings. Many are ignorant concerning what evidence will satisfy the quest for assurance, despite the fact that it is clear in Scripture. As sacrament of the word of God, Scripture is more than the words on the page. These range from evangelistic sermons to in-depth expositions of various parts of Scripture. The issue hinges not on the authority of Scripture but on differing interpretations of sacred texts. As Lutherans we believe Jesus Christ is the integrative center of Scripture and its definitive interpreter. The emotions had no part in this, and neither did the central authority of the evangelical tradition, Scripture. But the Talmud in its own way is just as radical in its reinterpretation of Scripture as is the New Testament. Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture. Remarkably the literary product of such disputatiousness eventually became Scripture, that is, books with normative quality for the community. There are many traditional dispensationalists in the churches and many of them are very devout students of Scripture. True teachings have their foundation in Sacred Scripture and are understood to be neither diminishable nor reversible. It was here that the monk spent much of the day reading and meditating on Scripture and other edifying texts. The generosity of Hooker's reading of Scripture made it accessible to those who could never belong to Puritan society. Both Calvin and the Puritans held to a view of Scripture that created its own difficulties. Does Scripture imply an omnipotent deus ex machina who intervenes in the historical world to put a stop to all human evil? The preparation of a sermon begins with the selection of a passage of Scripture from the gospel, epistle, or Old Testament readings for the day. The Gospels record Jesus speaking of Scripture as being completed and one unit. Show More Sentences I'm sure I could even dig out a few gobbets of Scripture to support my pious stance. Because it is filled with stories tied to Scripture, preachers will find it a rich resource. For our part, all we have to do is sit down and read Scripture prayerfully. Scripture exhorts us to praise God and we should keep this in mind when we approach this God in prayer. As a collection of texts, Scripture is capable of holding both a point and its countermand. As I see it, the way forward is to develop and test particular narrative construals of Scripture. My understanding of both Scripture and Platonic philosophy is far too limited to provide a sufficient response. On confirmation Sunday at our church, each confirmand's Scripture passage was printed in the bulletin. The Protestant principle suggests that the authority of Scripture does not ultimately rest with any quality that inheres within it as such. We believe that the Scripture is from beginning to conclusion the very word of God, inerrant and inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Scripture states clearly that the triune Godhead operates coequally, coeternally, and coexistently, as one Being. Are we placing the early patristic development upon a level of authority equal to that of Scripture? Rather than imposing their own agenda onto Scripture, the scholastics were following long-standing patristic traditions of interpretation. The council could have communicated the polemical aspects of the Gospels and the facts of modern Scripture research. In fact, many are direct paraphrases of the Psalms and other important Scripture texts. Similarly, the parables in Scripture are stories meant to help us think and act with Jesus. It appeared that he was not really willing to submit to the authority of Scripture. Now, moving backwards through Scripture, we will see the outworking of this plan through history. These individuals take the Scripture seriously and stubbornly advocate freedom of belief for all. Hooker explicitly rejects the Puritan position, as he understands it, on the omnicompetence of Scripture. Show More Sentences Scripture was vetted and canonized, and a creed adopted and reaffirmed against those who would challenge, alter, or undermine it. We do not, therefore, believe that the Church can now be an organ of revelation, since the canon of Scripture has been completed. Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue. Listen quietly in your heart and see if an encouraging phrase, or a Scripture verse, or a specific action starts to impress itself upon you. The ultimate authority in the church is the Spirit speaking through Scripture. Scripture does not decide it, Spirit being feminine in Hebrew, neuter in Greek, and masculine in Latin. The Puritan charges to which Hooker felt obliged to respond were at times quite specific, either contrary to Scripture or unscriptural. Scripture is made up of propositional truth statements, but the natural realm has no such statements. There is nothing said idly and unmeaningly in the Scripture, and such a declaration as this especially demands attention. He quotes abundantly from Scripture, medieval mystics and gifted contemporary writers. Scripture used in this way, with supposed supernatural authority, is unchallengeable. There's also the blessings of a regular prayer time and the habit of prayerful Scripture reading. Among the People of the Scripture is he who, if entrusted with a Qintar, will readily pay it back. Here, in the words of the Scripture, is desolation of abomination, or at any rate its beginnings. However, in the textual criticism of the books of Scripture this is problematic in several ways. I think it's good when the Senator speaks of God and quotes Old Testament Scripture. After the Gospel is read, the priest delivers a homily based on the Scripture readings. Using paraphrasis to heighten the isolation and futility of the venture, two Scripture passages are quoted in Latin. There are many ways, but today let's focus on two, both of which are related to the Scripture readings we will hear at Mass. There was seven weeks of Scripture readings and the children showed a genuine interest and appreciation towards the course. Show More Sentences This makes the course particularly appropriate for people who do the Scripture readings in their local church. In addition to the seven devotions, the CD has Scripture readings, prayers, hymns and church information. There the famous chants are sung, interspersed with Scripture readings and periods of silence. The combined choirs will sing the traditional carols of the Christmas season and in addition there will be readings from Sacred Scripture. Vedic Scripture proclaims ahimsa, nonhurtfulness, is a primary religious obligation in fulfillment of dharma, divine law. Such vigilance is to witness to the power of Scripture and of Christ, as led by the Spirit. We note when historical figures expound the meaning of Scripture in ways that are consistent with the biblical text, and times when they do not. There is a close relationship in Scripture between the animal world and the demonic. I'm outta here early this week so's I can make the haj to Kalamazoo and yak about Making Senses Out of Scripture. If the moral resourcefulness of Scripture was obvious to medieval exegetes, it was even more so to Protestants. Where are the readings of Scripture by theologians, attempting to wrestle with exegesis of texts? That the question turns on the meaning of a passage from Scripture is not insignificant. Yet thousands of churches see empty altars week after week and year after year and cover this sterile situation by misapplying the Scripture. Thus it is more like a volume of patristic exegesis of Scripture than a modern work of history or theology. So the apostle unveils Christ as Lord and unlocks the truth of Scripture, and lives a credible godly life in his ministry. Still, various groups differ in their understanding of what specific texts have been explicitly or doctrinally judged as constituting Scripture. Because of this expectation that the accepter will somehow requite the gift, Scripture tells us to be very selective in accepting gifts. Or, as another scholar has said, the creed is an epitome and summary that guides and directs a proper reading of Scripture. The third section of the book deals with the important concept of anthropomorphism and how Scripture itself is to be handled. But Scripture is not the only source of divine revelation to the attentive ear. Show More Sentences Of course, when the likes of Miller reject God's propositional revelation in Scripture, they are misleading themselves. By contrast, in Scripture, God used his undeniable miracles to authenticate his divine revelation. Scripture lessons, read by the master of the house, occurred twice a day, in the morning and evening. In part this intense study of Scripture was connected with a conviction that his lifework lay in the service of the gospel. The fact that we have been forgiven by God ought to heap coals of fire on our head, as the Scripture says. However, Scripture also affirms to singles, couples and the parents of future single adults that being single can be just as honourable, and frequently preferable. May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds. Today, I need to put aside the Scripture readings appointed for today. Jesus Christ, as he is testified to us in the Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God, whom we are to hear, whom we are to trust and obey in life and in death. Even before there was a script for my last film, Noah, I was interested in the environmental message in Scripture. The equivalence between comic books and Scripture is telling of how seriously canon is taken by these fans. It was rather they, the renewers, with their appeal to Scripture and the patristic and to some extent medieval patrimony, who were the true traditionalists. His discussions of the doctrine of Scripture and angelology in Theology of the Community of God were also ground-breaking as far as Evangelical thinking was concerned. Likewise, Scripture reveals that God himself exists in the Trinity. As we open ourselves to God through prayer, Scripture, and the sacramental life of the church, God's life is able to penetrate our beings more fully. The Cainan difference is not an error in the original autographs of Scripture, but one of the extremely few copyist's errors in the manuscripts available today. Bishops who deny the authority of Scripture and declare that God has changed his mind on matters of sexual ethics, they say, are heretics, not just schismatics. If there was no Scripture translated into that language, might God grant the gift of tongues to a missionary so that the people would be able to hear the gospel? Some of the freer churches don't even ask their ministerial candidates to commit themselves formally to any belief about Scripture, let alone creation. Though confessing Father, Son and Spirit, the tritheist does not confess the true and living God, for three distinct Gods is a totally foreign idea to Scripture. Show More Sentences As soon as exegesis of the Old Testament becomes an issue necessary to daily reading of Scripture, typology becomes of far greater importance than tropology. Those were moments when Scripture verses would come to her unbidden. Christ, in his defeat of the unconsolable one, consoles his disciples and Mary and, in the process, defends Scripture against Satan's attack upon it. Encouraged by these developments, we rejoice in a greater measure of common catechesis based on Scripture and the ecumenical creeds that we share. Early in his first premiership, Francesco Crispi changed an 1859 compulsory education law mandating that students take lessons in Scripture and catechism. Psalm-singing, catechism and Scripture were taught daily in school. The following illustration might help us see how archaeological information can bring greater understanding to specific incidents and their outworking in Scripture. When this hermeneutic was applied consistently, the whole of Scripture became a vast panorama of interrelated events that pointed towards the final consummation of all things. His books and essays on the Fathers of the Church focused on the theological struggles of the early Church to define the faith and the truth of Revelation in Sacred Scripture. In some communions the clergy are the sole enunciators of Scripture. Nor does the completion of the canon of Scripture rule out the use of credal statements as tests of orthodoxy and summaries of Scriptural teaching. In fact, my biggest concern with dispensationalism is its misuse of Scripture in the service of seriously flawed forms of Christology and ecclesiology. All knowledge, he consistently maintained, proceeded from Scripture. How Wyclif conceives of the very essence of Scripture must always be borne in mind when assessing both his exegetical principles and the theological conclusions they produce. If, then, we are to expound Scripture rightly, we must study it. Zwingli insisted that he was not an innovator and that the sole basis of his teachings was Scripture. In England, the House of Commons returned the document to the Assembly with the requirement to compile a list of proof texts from Scripture. In fact, such churches hold to the belief that seminaries are an institution of man and not supported by Holy Scripture. Some may bristle at his claim that Scripture contradicts and even represents human fallenness. Scripture readings are drawn from the Old and New Testaments, but especially the gospel accounts. Show More Sentences The literal sense of understanding scripture is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture. Human beings could learn about God only through divine revelation, he believed, and Scripture therefore became increasingly important to him. Usually, music is performed and Scripture is read during the receiving of the elements. Lay down your arms, for we are told in Scripture not to render evil for good but to overcome evil by good. In reality, Gregory was forced to rely on Scripture because he could not read the untranslated Greek authoritative works. It gave birth to a new interest in Scripture, being the first definite commentary in the language. Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer. The perfection and sufficiency of Scripture has been shewn, as also the defectibility of that particular tradition. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. Other works earlier held to be Scripture, such as 1 Clement, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Diatessaron, were excluded from the New Testament. In Hooker's model, Scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine, and things stated plainly in Scripture are accepted as true. The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture. The Church of Ireland undertook the first publication of Scripture in the Irish language. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. The Holy Spirit, then, is the infallible guide for the Church to the interpretation of Scripture. Though not infallible like holy Scripture, tradition may serve as a lens through which Scripture is interpreted. The historic Methodist understanding of Scripture is based on the superstructure of Wesleyan covenant theology. The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world. A bit of Scripture, a prayer, something to help him get through his day. What is to be said of the authorship of the Epistles is in the end a matter for the Scripture scholar, not the stylometrist. Show More Sentences No doctrine...contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis. Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed. Archbishop Gomez has said Gene Robinson's ordination is incompatible with Scripture. Holy Scripture is not a dead letter, but rather, the power of the Holy Spirit is inherent in it. He held that every passage of Scripture has one straightforward meaning, the literal sense as interpreted by other Scripture. The priests had to understand the Holy Scripture well enough to preach and explain the Gospel and the Epistles for their congregations. Scripture does not compel a mere intellectual assent to its doctrine, resting on logical argumentation, but rather it creates the living agreement of faith. Brief treatments of standpoint theory, liberationism, and feminism introduce the book, but her interlocutors' incisive interpretations of Scripture take center stage. Lutherans confess that Scripture is united with the power of the Holy Spirit and with it, not only demands, but also creates the acceptance of its teaching. Scripture was also viewed as a unified whole, which led to a covenantal theology of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper as visible signs of the covenant of grace. While individuals are encouraged to understand Scripture, and may challenge the current institutional understanding, theology is carried out by the community as a whole. They rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof. In England, Charles Haddon Spurgeon fought against modernistic views of the Scripture in the Downgrade Controversy and severed his church from the Baptist Union as a result. This was Rome's power in England to decide disputes concerning Scripture. Puritanism combined Calvinism with teaching that conversion was a prerequisite for church membership and a stress on the study of Scripture by lay people. An example of such unanimity can be found in the acceptance in the 5th century of the lists of books that comprise Holy Scripture, a true canon without official stamp. Holiness, apparently, is the operative principle here, and this explains the precedence for the priests and Levites, both of whom are assigned extra holiness by Scripture. Together, these three persons are sometimes called the Godhead, although there is no single term in use in Scripture to denote the unified Godhead. The decision of the council was that Zwingli would be allowed to continue his preaching and that all other preachers should teach only in accordance with Scripture. Show More Sentences The Book of Concord, published in 1580, contains ten documents which some Lutherans believe are faithful and authoritative explanations of Holy Scripture. Bede wrote scientific, historical and theological works, reflecting the range of his writings from music and metrics to exegetical Scripture commentaries. Such is the record of Scripture. Nor can you daff it aside by saying that local and temporary conditions condemned women to silence and private life. The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms. Holy Scripture forms the primary and authoritative written witness of Holy Tradition and is essential as the basis for all Orthodox teaching and belief. That faith is expressed most fundamentally in Scripture and in worship, and the latter most essentially through the mystery of Baptism and in the Divine Liturgy. Chaucer imagines Custance's language as existing at a time before clerics were relied upon as the authoritative translators and glossers of Latin Scripture in England. They sought to recreate the pattern of church life recorded in Scripture, without vestments and prelates, when church government was in the hands of presbyters. For one thing, the Campbellites disfavored the Baptist's confessions and missionary alliances, both of which they thought were unwarranted by Scripture. But in no Periode through the whole Scripture is there to be found a twofold rotundation, one in the beginning, and another in the end of a Periode. On Sundays and solemnities, three Scripture readings are given. One method, employed often by Fairbank, was to use a Magic Lantern or its improved form, the Sciopticon, to provide visual illustrations to a Scripture story. The visions also challenged the denial of the spiritual and miraculous element of Scripture by opponents of the revival, who held liberal and critical theological positions. Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture. A careful reading of Scripture, patristic authors, and the decrees of ancient church councils would provide a proper understanding of what the church should be. Examples from Classical Literature They used God's name and quoted Scripture ad nauseam even in State correspondence. As for the Texts of Scripture, which seem to confirm the conceit, duly perpended, they add not thereunto. Such Quotations of Places to be marginally set down, as shall serve for the fit reference of one Scripture to another. Above and beyond all is that divine something to which divine Scripture leads, either in allegory or tropology. What is not in Scripture is legendary and unartistic, because necessarily at variance with scriptural truth. In a purely astronomic question the appeal lies, not to Scripture, but to astronomic science. Through all the rest of Scripture the scape-goat is unmentioned, and Azazel is ignored. Scripture points out to our warning in opposite ways the fortunes of Sennacherib, Nabuchodonosor, and Antiochus. His airy play with the texts of Holy Scripture had been too venturesome for many. And this is opinioned, because in holy Scripture it is recorded he sometimes wept, but never that he laughed. Think on his pride and vainglory, whilk Scripture says shall be brocht low. Hence, by theological or bibliographic purists, these books were not regarded as genuine Scripture. The advocates of biogenesis in Religion have founded their argument hitherto all but exclusively on Scripture. The State or fruit of Holy Scripture is the plentitude of eternal felicity. The devil can quote Scripture, and law, and morality and reason and practicality. They would also learn, with Peter, that Scripture is the work and word of the preexistent Christ. The preexistent or antemortal state of man is as plainly affirmed by Scripture as is the fact of life beyond the grave. This creed formulates its relation to Scripture over and over, as the one regula by which all dogmata are to be tried. It has lately been attempted to prove that the reem of Scripture was the animal now known as the nhyl-gau. I pray you teach my cure the Scripture of God, and that may be to edification. Show More Sentences He put every one right in politics, divinity, medicine, exegesis of Scripture. We cannot tell the moment in which some exigence may present itself for which Scripture has already provided. In the morning he is shown the curiosities, chiefly Scripture relics, in the palace. He was no match for Csar in worldly logic, or at fencing with texts of Scripture. Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. Or reading sermons, and being catechised by their manservant, and set to learn a column of Scripture names, if they don't answer properly? I have said that Haggadah is interpretation of Scripture in all directions except that of precept. It may here be mentioned that the bulrush of Scripture is undoubtedly the papyrus. Now Scripture as well as Smriti declares that immortality is not to be reached but through the knowledge of the highest Self. The bulrush of Scripture is found here, and is used by coopers to stanch their work. He could quote Scripture by the fathom, and when in his cups used to do so copiously. Scripture is not a congeries of earth-born fragments, but an organism, pulsating with divine life. What an insult to the dignity of Scripture to imagine that any human seal or guarantee is necessary to accredit it to the soul! The mass, he said, was idolatry, and according to Scripture the idolater must die. A tale for the young, illustrative of the preciousness of Scripture promises. Such a teacher must believe in the inerrancy of the autographs of Scripture. It could only be refuted by doubting the infallibility of the Scripture itself. Nothing can be more absurd than the fiction that the power of judging Scripture Isin the Church. One of his invasions of juda occupies a large part of the Scripture narrative. To philosophise on that teaching of Scripture is not my business here. Show More Sentences The Scripture is exposed to the scorn and confutation of infidels. Do then these words of Scripture teach the doctrine of consubstantiation? If we find every fact of life at cross-purpose with Scripture, what then? The decretal letters of the popes were put on a par with Scripture. The hymn, the portion of Scripture, and the prayer of Brother Buster. Our knowledge of Scripture must then be looked for in Scripture only. There was no need for this cause to change the text of Scripture. The eleventh chapter of the Hebrews is a pre-eminent Scripture. The Socinian conception of Scripture corresponds to their idea of faith. This, of the Socinian's Plea concerning the Scripture on his side. Yes, sir, but it turns a man's stomach t' hear the Scripture misused i' that way. But when he begins to put on a long face, and snuffle, and quote Scripture, I incline to think he isn't much better than he should be. The use of a Scripture lesson is, of course, optional with the pastor. These illusions spring from misinterpretation of Scripture language. The first two hymns and the Scripture reading passed off uneventfully. Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin all made their appeal directly to Scripture. In Scripture we find the word honour often and diversely used. The attempt to rationalise the narrative of Scripture was no new one. To Tess's sense there was, just at first, a ghastly BIZARRERIE, a grim incongruity, in the march of these solemn words of Scripture out of such a mouth. Find more words! 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