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It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].
If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.
If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.
If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.
I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".
The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.
You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.
Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.
The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.
A biblical standard of sexuality is not merely a test of evangelical consistency. It is a test of evangelical authenticity and integrity.
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.
The goal of Bible translation is: be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God’s Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.
He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.
You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.