Sentence examples for biblical understanding from inspiring English sources

As he saw it, Mr. Santorum's "views line up very well with the biblical understanding of those issues".

He has valiantly defended a biblical understanding of sexuality, marriage and the family from the onslaught of secular society.

The self-revelation of God presupposes, however, a basic biblical understanding of the existing relationship between God and human beings.

"I know Tom Leppert has a very clear biblical understanding that any deviation from one man-one woman for life is wrong," Mr. Jeffress said.

The classical understanding of love, expressed in the Platonic concept of eros, was opposed in the Christian community by the biblical understanding of love, agape.

In Genesis 1 26, 27; 5:1; and 9 6 two terms occur, "image" and "likeness," that seem to indicate clearly the biblical understanding of essential human nature: humans are created in the image and likeness of God.

The crucial issue centred on the manner of understanding biblical authority.

Since 1995, the Ministry of Education has defined the purpose of the subject in the following way: 'The students must achieve knowledge of biblical stories and understanding of the importance of Christianity for the values in our cultural sphere' (Undervisningsministeriet [Ministry of Education], 1995a, 2009a).

That is the mega-model or mega-metaphor underneath the biblical tradition's understanding of its God.

You throw around "religious liberty" as if all Christians agree on these topics, and as if our biblical interpretation and understanding hasn't been evolving for centuries.

But clearly, there is another, and infinitely more biblical, way of understanding the "end" to which Franklin points or "the return of Christ" than the Scofield-driven, "Late-Great Planet Earth," "Left-Behind" Pre-millenial, Dispensational but un-biblical nonsense that millions of Christians actually believe is taught in the Bible.