Sentence examples for bible interpreting from inspiring English sources

Most draw their inspiration from the Bible, interpreting it in an intense and literal way.

Moshe Feiglin, a Likud activist who lives in a West Bank settlement and heads the Jewish Leadership bloc within the Party — he controls nearly a hundred and fifty of the Likud central committee's three thousand members — believes that the Bible, interpreted literally, should form the basis of Israel's legal system.

Some other parts of the Bible interpret these passages just this way.

It also seems intellectually indefensible in itself — merely a rather transparent refusal to stop, so to speak, "cooking the books" in favor of the Bible when interpreting it.

In the Bible, Joseph interpreted sheaves of grain and the Moon and stars as symbols of himself and his brethren.

Reluctant to accept the conservatives' insistence that the Bible be interpreted literally and that women submit to their husbands and be barred from serving as pastors, the moderates have set up seminaries and a religious publishing house.

Christians sharing the medievals' confidence that science rightly done cannot conflict with the Bible rightly interpreted can share this joy.

He derives the names of spirits used in ceremonial magic from the Bible as interpreted by the Cabalists.

In the bible Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dream about the seven fatted and lean cows.

I firmly believe the intention of our Lord is for us to read the Bible and interpret the Bible based on our relationship with the Lord.

Instead, it's about actively creating a new theology, one in which the Bible is interpreted through the lens of queer, trans*, and gay/lesbian experience.