Sentence examples for take scripture from inspiring English sources
After all, Jesus did not take scripture literally either.
For instance, we can take scripture seriously without taking it literally.
For evangelicals who take Scripture so seriously, the heart of Christian faith is that we are called to love one another.
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And personally, I thank God (and A&E) that we still welcome long-haired, tattoo-wearing mouth-breathers into fellowship without requiring haircuts and tattoo removal as a sign that they're willing "to take scripture seriously" -- I mean, being myself a long-haired, tattoo-wearing mouth-breather and all.
The only difference in the world of religion is that they take scriptures like Ephesians 5 22 and misquote, misinterpret and twist them for the purpose of control, silence and oppression to keep an outdated patriarchic order intact.
"At this point, lifelong Republicans are not surprised by Judge Moore's association with a book that takes scripture out of context and preaches invalid beliefs," Tynes told me.
The theology of Huldrych Zwingli was based on the Bible, taking scripture as the inspired word of God and placing its authority higher than human sources such as the Ecumenical councils and the church fathers.
Taking scripture seriously means trying to understand what the original authors intended and, through literary, linguistic, or historical criticisms, either redeeming these texts from modern misinterpretations or, in the most extreme cases, condemning them.
The problem, here, is that not only is this a very recent development in the way to read the Bible (last 100 years or so), but it also, ironically, means that the literalist is not taking Scripture seriously enough.
Apart from the general incivility of such dismissiveness, claiming that Christians who don't read the Bible as innerant are cynically attempting to circumvent taking scripture seriously is captive to its own set of prejudices, which are most often transparent to the speaker.
