: And he used to repeat that sentence from St. Paul “ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ,” and many other verses of Scripture, urging us thereby to awake from the slumber of the soul by thinking in good time of our last hour.

Most Protestants reject the doctrine of Purgatory on the basis that, according to the Protestant interpretation of Scripture, Christ has already made full atonement for our sins on the cross, thereby removing all obstacles which prevent us from coming directly into the presence of God after death.

She contended that this understanding was what enabled the biblical Jesus to heal and accords with the Scripture: " We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us.

: the interpreter of Sacred Scripture, in order to see clearly what God wanted to communicate to us, should carefully investigate what meaning the sacred writers really intended, and what God wanted to manifest by means of their words.

* Say ( O Muhammad ): " O people of the Scripture: Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but God, and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides God.

On that Allah's Apostle said, " Do not believe the people of the Scripture or disbelieve them, but say: " We believe in Allah and what is revealed to us.

Kiernan also presents this side of the coin, noting that Richard " boasts to us of his finesse in dissembling and deception with bits of Scripture to cloak his ' naked villainy ' ( I. iii. 334 – 8 )... Machiavelli, as Shakespeare may want us to realise, is not a safe guide to practical politics ".

" Scripture ... sets before us Christ alone as mediator, atoning sacrifice, high priest, and intercessor.

Joseph is about to break the engagement, but an angel appears to him in a dream and tells him of the child's divine origins, and Matthew 1: 22-23 explains how this is the fulfillment of Scripture: " All this happened to fulfill what had been declared by the Lord through the prophet, who said, ' Look, the virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel ' - which is translated, ' God with us '".

::" Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation ; he is present to us in his body which is the Church.

In referring to Genesis chapter 2, Jerome further argued, " that while Scripture on the first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth days relates that, having finished the works of each, God saw that it was good, on the second day it omitted this altogether, leaving us to understand that two is not a good number because it destroys unity, and prefigures the marriage compact.

If you find that we are speaking contrary to Scripture, then do not listen to us!

But if you find that we are taking our stand upon Scripture, then let no fear or temptation keep you from treading with us the path of faith and obedience to the Word of God, in order that God's people be of one mind upon earth and that we in faith experience what he himself has said: " I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

: Moreover, Holy Scripture most especially highlights this eternal and undeserved grace of our election and brings it out more clearly for us, in that it further bears witness that not all people have been chosen but that some have not been chosen or have been passed by in God's eternal election -- those, that is, concerning whom God, on the basis of his entirely free, most just, irreproachable, and unchangeable good pleasure, made the following decision: to leave them in the common misery into which, by their own fault, they have plunged themselves ; not to grant them saving faith and the grace of conversion ; but finally to condemn and eternally punish them ( having been left in their own ways and under his just judgment ), not only for their unbelief but also for all their other sins, in order to display his justice.

This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; but sacred Scripture tells us 10: 13 that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

" There are 2, 000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed ...

* Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, I, 28, 177: " Rightly therefore the Scripture also in its desire to make us such dialecticians, exhorts us: Be approved moneychangers, disapproving some things, but holding fast that which is good.

The priority of Scripture as the inerrant and authoritative written Word of God that guides us in all matters of faith, learning, and living.

" Say, " O People of the Scripture, come to a word that is equitable between us and you-that we will not worship except Allah and not associate anything with Him and not take one another as lords instead of Allah.

Do you sincerely receive and adopt the < u > essential tenets of the Reformed faith </ u > as expressed in the confessions of our church as authentic and reliable expositions of what Scripture us to believe and do, and will you be instructed.

For ' God had not rained ', says the Scripture, before man was made, and there was no man to till the earth.

Charles Hodge writes that " The subjective change wrought in the soul by the grace of God, is variously designated in Scripture " with terms such as new birth, resurrection, new life, new creation, renewing of the mind, dying to sin and living to righteousness, and translation from darkness to light .< ref name = Hodge1 > Hodge, Charles.

Soon he mastered the language and published his first book Ifintu Fyakwe Lesa ( The Things of God, a Primer of Scripture Knowledge ) in 1917.

* Ifintu Fyakwe Lesa ( The Things of God, a Primer of Scripture Knowledge in Lamba ), 1917.

" Jesus, the only immaculate, was born of a virgin mother, and Christian Science explains that mystic saying of the Master as to his dual personality, or the spiritual and material Christ Jesus, called in Scripture the Son of God and the Son of man — explains it as referring to his eternal spiritual selfhood and his temporal manhood.

" In his book, Sins of the Scripture, Spong claims that " Jesus seemed to understand that no one can finally fit the holy God into his or her creeds or doctrines.

Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Confession reads: " The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the Canon of Scripture ; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.

Furthermore, according to David's apologists, the death of Uriah was not to be considered murder, on the basis that Uriah had committed a capital offence by refusing to obey a direct command from the King. However, in tractate Sanhedrin, David's broken heart pleads and numerous actions for forgiveness are discussed, God ultimately forgives but would not remove his sins from Scripture.

Most congregations also sing hymns, read from the Old and New Testaments of Christian Scripture, hear the word of God proclaimed through sermon or other medium and extend an invitation to become Christ's Disciples.

From these considerations of Scripture comes the simplest way to imitate Christ: an emulation of the moral actions and attitudes that Jesus demonstrated in His earthly ministry becomes the most significant way to feel and have knowledge of God.

* Though Fox used the Bible to support his views, Fox reasoned that, because God was within the faithful, believers could follow their own inner guide rather than rely on a strict reading of Scripture or the word of clerics.

Calvin writes, " For anyone to arrive at God the Creator he needs Scripture as his Guide and Teacher.

When Scripture says, ‘ The Lord rained fire from the Lord out of heaven ,’ the prophetic word indicates that there were two in number: One upon the earth, who, it says, descended to behold the cry of Sodom ; Another in heaven, who also is Lord of the Lord on earth, as He is Father and God ; the cause of His power and of His being Lord and God.

To refute his opponents, he wrote the book in which he endeavored to show that Holy Scripture contains all truth and, being from God, is the only authority.

He tells that as a beginner he was desperate to comprehend the passages dealing with the activities of the divine Word, until by the grace of God he was able to gather the right sense of Scripture, which he then understood.

Both of these branches of Reformation doctrine hold as essential the " Solas " – Scripture alone, Grace alone, Faith alone, Glory to God alone.

Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.

Paragraph four of its summary states: " Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God's saving grace in individual lives.

Some fifteen years earlier, in a letter to the Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück, Luther stated that he could not " forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

Scripture does not compel a mere intellectual assent to its doctrine, resting on logical argumentation, but rather it creates the living agreement of faith.

According to sola scriptura, the Church does not speak infallibly in its traditions, but only in Scripture.

Nevertheless, it does not suggest that these abuses led to a complete state of anarchy and apostate renderings of Scripture within the Early Church.

The LCMS does not believe ordination is divinely instituted or an extension of an episcopal form of apostolic succession but sees the office grounded in the Word and Sacrament ministry of the Gospel, arguing that Scripture makes no distinction between a presbyter ( priest ) and a bishop ( see Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, paragraphs 63, 64, citing St. Jerome ).

He does not, indeed, maintain thereby that the execution of this command is equivalent to the performance of the whole Law ; and in one of his polemic interpretations of Scripture he protests strongly against a contrary opinion allegedly held by Christians, according to which Judaism is " simply morality " ( Mek., Shirah, 3, 44a, ed.

The writers of the Scripture wrote from the perspective of the terrestrial world, and from that vantage point the sun does rise and set.

Scripture does not present even a rudimentarily developed theology of the soul.

1996 ), says " But to the Bible man is not a soul in a body but a body / soul unity ", the Encyclopedia of Judaism ’ ( 2000 ), says " Scripture does not present even a rudimentarily developed theology of the soul ", the New Dictionary of Theology ’ ( 2000 ), and " The notion of the soul as an independent force that animates human life but that can exist apart from the human body — either prior to conception and birth or subsequent to life and death — is the product only of later Judaism ", Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible ( 2000 ), says " Far from referring simply to one aspect of a person, “ soul ” refers to the whole person ", the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says " Possibly Jn.

Biblical inerrancy is the doctrine that the Bible is accurate and totally free of error ( except for errors made in translation or transcription ), that " Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

:" I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to, require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it.

This is done most ceremoniously as the Bishop does this in the midst of the reading of the Scripture ( Evangelion ).

Local congregations are independent and autonomous, but the AMEC believes this does not "… imply autonomy from the Authority of Scripture and its clear teachings …"

According to the Torah ( and ), the criteria for a person to be considered a prophet or speak for God in Judaism are that he must follow the God of Israel ( and no other god ); he must not describe God differently than He is known to be from Scripture ; he must not advocate change to God's word or state that God has changed His mind and wishes things that contradict His already-stated eternal word ; and the things he does speak of must come to pass.

Scripture does not teach philosophy and thus cannot be made to conform with it, otherwise the meaning of scripture will be distorted.

He stated, that " we should simply hold that ( Mary ) remained a virgin after the birth of Christ because Scripture does not state or indicate that she later lost her virginity ".

" Scripture does not teach calling on the saints or pleading for help from them.

Efficacy further means that Holy Scripture is not a dead letter, but rather, the power of the Holy Spirit is inherent in it and that Scripture does not compel a mere intellectual assent to its doctrine, resting on logical argumentation, but rather it creates the living agreement of faith.

‘ The author of Scripture is also the author of Nature: and this visible world, by types indeed, and by symbols, declares the same truths as the Bible does by words.

Maimonides deals with the problem of evil ( for which people are considered to be responsible because of free will ), trials and tests ( especially those of Job and the story of the Binding of Isaac ) as well as other aspects traditionally attached to God in theology, such as providence and omniscience: " Maimonides endeavors to show that evil has no positive existence, but is a privation of a certain capacity and does not proceed from God ; when, therefore, evils are mentioned in Scripture as sent by God, the Scriptural expressions must be explained allegorically.

Kierkegaard put it this way in his Upbuilding Discourses of 1843-1844 and in his Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits 1847: The idea so frequently stressed in Holy Scripture for the purpose of elevating the lowly and humbling the mighty, the idea that God does not respect the status of persons, this idea the apostle wants to bring to life in the single individual for application in his life.

While Paul does not explicitly state that slavery should be abolished, the trajectory seen in Scripture is a progressive liberation of slaves.

Among those he encountered was Desiderus Erasmus, who declared that " The inclemency of the bull ill comports with the moderation of Leo " and also that " Papal bulls are weighty, but scholars attach much more weight to books with good arguments drawn from the testimony of divine Scripture, which does not coerce but instructs.