Sentence examples for biblical claims from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sharon has played down the demographic issue, which settlers spurn as ignoring their biblical claims to the land.

Another possibility is that Spinoza was excommunicated because of his views about the interpretation of the Bible and the truth of biblical claims.

FORTINBRAS: I have biblical claims upon this land, it is empty and barren and my presence here is a fact that has not been invented.

He also has other extreme interpretations of biblical claims: for example, he believes that the Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs were actually vegetarians that lived in the Garden of Eden before the fall of Adam and Eve.

It also includes a tour of the "City of David" settlement in the Palestinian Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, to be led by settler leader David Be'eri, who seeks its transformation, based on biblical claims, into a Jewish area.

Even those who can no longer accept biblical claims – or indeed the relevance of the Bible in the modern world – can appreciate the beauty of the language used, its cadences and its gorgeous, resonant strength.

Jewish nationalists stake a biblical claim to land Israel seized in the 1967 war with its Arab neighbours.

Israel's biblical claim to the land is an important factor in explaining the support of many Americans, according to a Gallup survey.

I have never understood why the historic, biblical claim of the Jewish people, even when seared by the horror of the Holocaust, should usurp the rights of the Arabs who had lived there for hundreds of years.

These Israelis make a biblical claim to annex the West Bank (Judea & Samaria).

Smith later said that the experience helped him understand the biblical claim that no one can see God and live.