Supporters of biblical literalism " deny that Biblical infallibility and inerrancy are limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive themes, exclusive of assertions in the fields of history and science.

Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church theology claim that the Church is infallible, but disagree as to where infallibility exists, whether in doctrines, scripture, or church authorities: see Infallibility of the Church, Papal infallibility, Biblical infallibility and Biblical inerrancy.

In this respect his position may be seen as comparable with the doctrines of Biblical inerrancy and Biblical infallibility held by later Christian Fundamentalism.

#** Biblical infallibility

For Grubb and his friends, the Bible had to be the central source of truth, but SCM could not affirm that its entire membership matched their view of Biblical infallibility.

Many Evangelicals consider biblical inerrancy and / or biblical infallibility to be the necessary consequence of the Bible's doctrine of inspiration ( see, for example, the Westminster Confession of Faith or the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy ).

Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

Nichola Everitt argues that much moral guidance is unattainable, such as the Biblical command to be Christ-like.

This is because there are three different families of Biblical texts, Byzantine, Western, or Alexandrian.

The great majority of Biblical manuscripts support the Byzantine family, from which a single reading for the New Testament is established.

Abijah ( אביה ' aḆiYaH ) or Abiah or Abia, modern Hebrew Aviya, is a Biblical unisex name that means " my Father is Yahweh ".

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

The Biblical Ark of the Covenant is approximately 52. 5 inches long, 31. 5 inches wide, and 31. 5 inches high in the shape of a rectangular chest.

Furthermore, they claim that in the Bible there's no evidence showing that the office must be conveyed by laying on of hands and no Biblical command that it must be by a special class of bishops ( the laying on of hands is repeatedly used to give a commission to some person in scripture.

The chief Biblical text concerning the rite is: " Is any among you sick?

It is one of the Biblical names taken up after the advent of Zionism and which are not attested in earlier Jewish society.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

His Latin is generally clear, but his Biblical commentaries are more technical.

Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem, located in the " hill country " of Judah, may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath, which means " fertile ", as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah.

Biblical tradition holds that Bethlehem is the birthplace of David, the second king of Israel, and the place where he was anointed king by Samuel.

Benjamin is treated as a young child in most of the Biblical narrative, but at one point is abruptly described as the father of ten sons.

The book is written in a complex and poetic Hebrew ( apart from verse 10: 11, curiously written in Biblical Aramaic ).

Hell, however, does not fit modern, humanitarian concepts of punishment because it cannot deter the unbeliever nor rehabilitate the damned, this however, does not affect the Christian belief which places Biblical teaching above the ideas of society.

Several Biblical stories allude to the belief that the Canaanite gods all existed and possessed the most power in the lands that worshiped them or in their sacred objects ; their power was real and could be invoked by the people who patronised them.

It consists of myths and belief statements excerpted from — and, in some cases, synthesized from a number of excerpts from — both Biblical and non-Biblical Jewish texts.

During the late 19th Century there was tension between the " Biblical Unitarianism " of Robert Spears and Samuel Sharpe and those such as James Martineau as Unitarians began to move away from belief in scripture.

Modern thought repudiates the Judeo-Christian belief in the Biblical God as a mere relic of superstitious ages ( Fackenheim 1957, 272-73 ; Husserl 1931, ).

The chief difference between the 19th century Millerite and Adventist movements and contemporary prophecy belief is that William Miller and his followers fixed the time for the Second Coming by calendar calculations based on interpretations of the Biblical apocalypses ; they originally set a date for the Second Coming in 1844.

Sermons address a Biblical, theological, religious, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law or behavior within both past and present contexts.

While sharing the Evangelical belief in Scripture as the sole instrument of salvation, and also like the Evangelicals being a Biblical literalist, he disagreed with the Evangelical party on the applicability of the Mosaic laws to Christians and generally favored a more intellectual approach to religion than most of the Evangelicals of his period.

This was a personal friendship, but accorded with Bullinger's belief in a Biblical distinction between the Church and the Jewish People.

They justify this belief by using the Biblical scripture in 1 Timothy 2: 9 " In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel ..." Additionally, many Oneness organizations proscribe their members from watching secular movies or television.

Today, many conservative evangelicals support Christian Zionism, much to the irritation of Arab Christians, based partly on the Millennialist belief that the modern state of Israel represents the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy.

Randolph was a believer in pre-Adamism ( the belief that humans existed on earth before the Biblical Adam ) he wrote the book Pre-Adamite man: demonstrating the existence of the human race upon the earth 100, 000 thousand years ago!

* Christian Zionism, belief among some Christians that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a significant fulfilment of Biblical prophecy

* Congregations with a strong belief in human reason ( common in churches which reject the view of Biblical inerrancy ) will want to know what modern research has to say regarding the authenticity of the passage.

However, in the 4th century, under the Byzantine Empire, the monastery built there was abandoned in favour of the newer belief that Mount Saint Catherine was the Biblical Mount Sinai ; a new monastery-St. Catherine's Monastery was built at its foot, and the alleged site of the biblical burning bush was identified.

Hanegraaff is noted for his belief that Biblical inerrancy can be proven on a rational basis.

The physical scope of Biblical mythology was limited to the general area of the Middle East but in other parts of the world, Chinese and Aztec religions and cultures emerged as separate and distinct belief systems.

The literal interpretation of Kolob as an actual star or planet has significant formative impact on LDS belief and criticism, leading to conceptions such as that God dwells within this universe, and that the Biblical creation is a creation of the local earth, solar system, or galaxy, rather than the entire known physical reality.

Presuppositionalists claim that a Christian cannot consistently declare his belief in the necessary existence of the God of the Bible and simultaneously argue on the basis of a different set of assumptions that God may not exist and Biblical revelation may not be true.

They took their name from a belief in a world-ruling kingdom to be established by a returning Jesus in which prominently figures the year 1666 and its numerical relationship to a passage in the Biblical Book of Revelation indicating the end of earthly rule by carnal human beings.

But by the time better metrical psalms were made in English, the belief that every hymn sung in church had to be a Biblical translation had been repudiated by the Church of England.

However, a closer reading of the text reveals that Locke relies on Biblical analysis at several key points in his argument, as does study of his spiritual life, mainly influenced by Deism, a belief in which God does not intervene in human affairs.

Peake's commentary states that although Biblical rules regarding ritual purification following bodily discharges clearly have sanitory uses, they ultimately originated from the taboos against contact with blood and semen, due to the belief that these contained life, more than any other bodily fluid, or any other aspect of the body.

Her plain-spoken manner and fervent belief in the Biblical righteousness of her cause gained her a reputation as an electrifying speaker and constant activist of civil rights.