Sentence examples for biblical authors from inspiring English sources

He seems not to appreciate adequately that biblical authors most often do not state their intentions.

As far as I can tell, the biblical authors avoid asserting any such thing.

The biblical authors believed that the divine presence is encountered primarily within history.

The belief that any human mind can grasp enough of God to begin recognizing perfections in him would have struck the biblical authors as a pagan conceit.

"The Episcopal Church over the years has come to, let us say, an understanding of the human person that is more sophisticated, possibly, than the understanding on the part of the Biblical authors".

The biblical authors look upon the national fortunes of Israel as revelations of God's merciful love, his fidelity to his promises, his unfailing power, his exacting justice, and his readiness to forgive the penitent sinner.

The biblical author, by using words more suited to butchery than ritual sacrifice, lets us know that he is as horrified as we are at the brutality of the act that God has asked Abraham to commit.

Does the biblical author mean to imply that the ethical strictures governing family and tribal life fade before the importance of choosing a person capable of carrying the blessing unto the next generation?

The observed order of the universe is further understood by the biblical author as the direct result of a covenantal relationship between the world and God: "So long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease" (Genesis 8 22).

His doctrine was picked up by the biblical author of Ecclesiastes in the 3rd Century BC, whose phrase "There is nothing new under the sun" is repeated more than 20 times.

He wrote some thirty works dedicated to explaining the Bible, in which philosophy served him both as a method and as a compendium of philosophical conclusions which, to his mind, the biblical author had wanted to convey to the reader.