Again a story line that flies in the face of basic Scripture reading like the Gospel of Mathew where "Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, but had no marital relations with her 'until' she had borne a son; and he named him Jesus" (Matthew 1 24-25).
If you're outraged by @PressSec saying God wanted Trump to be President, you lack a basic understanding of scripture.
He is asking us to stray from the most basic tenets of Scripture – that marriage is an institution made by God for man and woman to become one and procreate.
This is a "contrary to fact" condition and so a classic instance calling for the much-neglected subjunctive: "If Europe were as anticapitalist …" [Online summary] Basic differences about Scripture, the afterlife and the nature of God leads many, though not all, Christians to conclude that Mormons cannot be considered Christian.
Sutra, (Sanskrit: "thread" or "string") Pali sutta, in Hinduism, a brief aphoristic composition; in Buddhism, a more extended exposition, the basic form of the scriptures of both the Theravada (Way of Elders) and Mahayana (Greater Vehicle) traditions.
The scriptures according to basic cable don't purport to be historical, but they're about as bad and cynical as TV can be.
The translation of the Holy Scriptures has constituted a basic part of mission.
It happens after walking with him, trying to understand Scripture, and attending to basic human needs of sustenance and community.
He just asserts that jihadi ideology is the "most plausible version of [Islam]... according to an honest reading of the scriptures" and assumes that there's a basic one-way arrow from religious text to jihadi violence.
Here's the basic idea: God speaks to us in the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture, and these two books cannot conflict.
