Sentence examples for certain biblical standards from inspiring English sources

So Dr. Gramm is packing up his office at Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts school where everyone signs an agreement to uphold certain biblical standards of behavior, and divorce for reasons other than adultery and abandonment is grounds for firing.

"We try to uphold certain biblical standards and certain standards of order that allow us to maintain a school".

These theologians used as their source certain biblical passages (e.g., Acts 2 22).

This goodness has been based on biblical standards throughout our history and we will strive to follow those morals".

"This is a community composed of many Biblical literalists," Bond said in a recent phone interview, adding that they put a "wrong and wrong-headed" emphasis on certain Biblical references to homosexuality.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known collection of certain biblical texts, are believed to date several centuries later.

Where one or two biblical documents (e.g., the letters to the Romans and to the Galatians) are treated as the norm of biblical doctrine, there is a danger that other parts of the volume (e.g., the Letter to the Hebrews) will be forced to yield the same sense as the "normative" documents; the distinctiveness of certain biblical authors will then be blurred.

And you have to admit that there's a certain biblical logic to having the Kings rather than Santa bear gifts.

In 1613 he wrote a letter to his student Benedetto Castelli (1577 1644) in Pisa about the problem of squaring the Copernican theory with certain biblical passages.

To embrace death, or allow one's child to die, for a questionable reading of certain biblical dietary restrictions will seem to most a pointless pursuit of grief.

Many religious leaders, scholars and others scoff at Smith's claim that God and Christ appeared in modern times, at least by biblical standards.