The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

Liberal Christians tend to regard the Bible as the record of human doings, composed of humans encountering the Divine within their specific historical context.

In the Hebrew Bible, it is written that a human descendant of David will occupy the throne of a restored kingdom and usher in a messianic age.

Following Locke's successful attack on innate ideas, Tindal's " Deist Bible " redefined the foundation of deist epistemology as knowledge based on experience or human reason.

The CJLS has also held that the Talmudic concept of Kavod HaBriyot permits lifting rabbinic decrees ( as distinct from carving narrow exceptions ) on grounds of human dignity, and used this principle in a December 2006 opinion lifting all rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct ( the opinion held that only male-male anal sex was forbidden by the Bible and that this remained prohibited ).

The radicals preached the " sufficientia legis Christi "— the divine law ( i. e. the Bible ) is the sole rule and canon for human society, not only in the church, but also in political and civil matters.

While some Bible scholars suggest the size and habits of the great white shark correspond better to the representations given of Jonah's being swallowed, normally an adult human is too large to be swallowed whole.

Other common leftist concerns such as pacifism, social justice, racial equality, human rights, and the rejection of excessive wealth can be found in the Bible.

In this way, it brings to everyday reality the practice of the mitzvot as presented in the Bible, and aims to cover all aspects of human living, serve as an example for future judgments, and, most important, demonstrate pragmatic exercise of the Biblical laws, which was much needed at the time when the Second Temple was destroyed ( 70 C. E ).

Those who hold a more liberal view of the Bible as a human witness to the glory of God, the work of fallible humans who wrote from a limited experience unusual only for the insight they have gained through their inspired struggle to know God in the midst of a troubled world.

The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, diminishes rapidly thereafter, from almost 1, 000 years to the 120 years of Moses.

He had studied at the School of Antioch where his mentor had been Theodore of Mopsuestia ; Theodore and other Antioch theologians had long taught a literalist interpretation of the Bible and stressed the distinctiveness of the human and divine natures of Jesus.

Satan ( Hebrew: ה ַ ש ָּׂ ט ָ ן ha-Satan ), " the opposer ", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible.

Where satan is used of human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek.

In other Christian beliefs ( e. g. the beliefs of the Christadelphians ) the word " satan " in the Bible is not regarded as referring to a supernatural, personal being but to any " adversary " and figuratively refers to human sin and temptation.

The trial set modernists, who said evolution was consistent with religion, against fundamentalists who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge.

" The " day and hour " when this event shall be, as described in the Bible, is not in the human knowledge domain.

" The Bible of the Deist ", he contends, should not be a human invention such as the Bible, but rather a divine invention — it should be " creation ".

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

We do not, however, hold the Bible – or any other account of human experience – to be either an infallible guide or the exclusive source of truth.

* Though the authors of the Bible were inspired by God, they were humans and therefore subject to human error.

Despite his quotations from Christian authors and from the Bible, William did not place much emphasis on the intervention of God in human affairs, resulting in a somewhat " secular " history.

The TAG argues that, because the triune God of the Bible, being completely logical, uniform, and good, exhibits a character in the created order and the creatures themselves ( especially in humans ), human knowledge and experience are possible.

The university offers 60 academic programs in the arts, sciences, humanities, Bible, teacher education, computers and business and journalism.

There is no biographical information on the prophet Habakkuk ; in fact less is known about him than any other writer of the Bible.

The followers of Jesus became known as Christians ( as in Acts ) because they believed Jesus to be the Messiah ( Christos ) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.

It also considers the Hebrew Bible, which is known as the Old Testament, to be canonical.

Though the Bible is part of the LDS canon and members believe it to be the word of God, they believe that omissions and mistranslations are present in even the earliest known manuscripts.

However, his incomplete work is known as the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, or the Inspired Version.

There are many passages in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, which speak of a time of terrible tribulation such as has never been known, a time of natural and man-made disasters on an awesome scale.

Some descendants of the Catholic Apostolic Church also known as Irvingism, such as Apostelamt Jesu Christi, Apostelamt Juda, Restored Apostolic Mission Church and the Old Apostolic Church also believes in the allegorical interpretation of the Bible.

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

File: Coptic Bible. JPG | Prayer book, known as Book of Psalmodies, written in both Coptic and Arabic

He became well known in conservative Christian circles through a radio program, " The Bible Answer Man ", currently hosted by Hank Hanegraaff.

In particular, his treatment of the Biblical gospels which he titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, but which subsequently became more commonly known as the Jefferson Bible, exhibits a strong deist tendency of stripping away all supernatural and dogmatic references from the Christ story.

As a boy Ethan already excelled at quoting the Bible and was known for disputing the meaning of passages.

According to Matthew Henry a Bible commentator who flourished in the 17th century, Ezekiel is also believed to have been known as Nazaratus Assyrius, a teacher to Pythagorus.

The Ethnologue is published by SIL International ( formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics ), a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies numerous minority languages, to facilitate language development and to work with the speakers of such language communities to translate portions of the Bible in their language.

The oldest known Bible copy of this epistle is in a Fulda manuscript written for Victor of Capua in 546.

The text was almost unanimously considered pseudepigraphal when Biblical canon was decided upon, and does not appear in any Greek copies of the Bible at all, nor is it known in Syriac or other versions.

The first formulation of American fundamentalist beliefs can be traced to the Niagara Bible Conference and, in 1910, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which distilled these into what became known as the " five fundamentals ":

It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable corpus.

He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament.

Almost nothing is known about Habakkuk, aside from what few facts are stated within the book of the Bible bearing his name, or those inferences that may be drawn from that book.

A monotheistic religion originating in the Hebrew Bible ( also known as the Tanakh ) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God established with the Children of Israel.

His major work, the Gutenberg Bible ( also known as the 42-line Bible ), has been acclaimed for its high aesthetic and technical quality.

In 1455 Gutenberg completed his 42-line Bible, known as the Gutenberg Bible.