( Vatican City ) 1951 ; the results were assessed in Roger T. O ' Callaghan, " Recent Excavations underneath the Vatican Crypts ", in The Biblical Archaeologist 12 ( 1949: 1-23 ) and " Vatican Excavations and the Tomb of Peter ", The Biblical Archaeologist 16. 4 ( December 1953: 70-87 ).</ ref > Construction of Constantine's Old St. Peter's Basilica and of foundations for Bernini's Baldacchino destroyed most of the vaulting of these semi-subterranean burial chambers.

These included the " Death of God " movement, which attacked the linguistic and cultural foundations of all previous theology, and a renewal of interest among Biblical scholars in the so-called " historical Jesus ," something which neo-orthodox theologians largely dismissed as irrelevant to serious Christian faith.

" According to the national organization's platform page " The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.

( This work, considered a primer for those wanting to study the Biblical foundations for social gospel, was republished in a Special Edition in 2010 by WordStream Publishing

His work is considered to have laid the foundations for scholarly Biblical exegesis Harv Glatzer 1964.

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.

Christian author and counselor Joe Dallas says that the Biblical passages relating to homosexual acts uniformly prohibit that behavior.

* Analysis of historic, current and Biblical Christian views on Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage

In addition, some Christian denominations observe some Biblical food laws, for example see Ital.

* The Pontifical Biblical Commission: The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible

In this desire to seek to establish Biblical truth and test out orthodox Christian beliefs through independent scriptural study he was not alone and, amongst other churches, he also had links with Adventist movement and with Benjamin Wilson ( who later set up the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith in the 1860s ).

Over the last 100 years some mainstream Christian theologians and Biblical scholars have gradually been developing beliefs which the Christadelphian community has historically held.

Some Protestant Christian denominations prohibit the drinking of alcohol based upon Biblical passages which condemn drunkenness ( such as Proverbs 23: 21, Isaiah 28: 1, Habakkuk 2: 15 ), but others allow moderate use of alcohol.

In Biblical myth, the archetype is alluded to in the descendants of Adam crushing the head of the Serpent, and in Christian mythology, this was interpreted as corresponding to Christ as the " New Adam " crushing the Devil.

Feminist historical theologians study the roles of women in periods throughout history that have impacted religion: the Biblical period, the early Christian era, medieval Europe, and any period of import to a particular religion.

All professors and lecturers in the Department of Biblical Studies must subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith, and all full-time faculty and staff members must submit a written statement confessing faith in Jesus Christ and the Christian religion.

The Biblical canon is the set of books Christians regard as divinely inspired and thus constituting the Christian Bible.

Supporters of the Judeo-Christian concept point to the Christian claim that Christianity is the heir to Biblical Judaism, and that the whole logic of Christianity as a religion is that it exists ( only ) as a religion built upon Judaism.

Resnicoff reported that Falwell supported the idea of using the Biblical verse that teaches that " God hears the words of our mouths and the meditations of our heart " as a basis for allowing Christian chaplains to offer " inclusive " prayers, because they could offer denominational words, such as " In Jesus's name ," silently, as a " meditation of the heart.

In some instances mosques have been established on the places of Jewish or Christian sanctuaries associated with Biblical personalities who were also recognized by Islam.

Panentheistic Christian Universalists often believe that all creation's subsistence in God renders untenable the notion of final and permanent alienation from Him ; they point to Biblical scripture passages such as Ephesians 4: 6 (" is over all and through all and in all ") and Romans 11: 36 (" from and through him and to him are all things ") to justify both panentheism and universalism.

Some Biblical verses often used as sources for Christian beliefs in predestination are below.

Periodically, Christian reform movements that have aimed at rebuilding Christian doctrine based on the Bible alone ( sola scriptura ) have at least temporarily accepted polygyny as a Biblical practice.

* Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender, Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University Press, 2000

See also Biblical law in Christianity, Antinomianism, Progressive revelation ( Christian ), and Marcionism.

Seventh Day Baptists are Christian Baptists who observe Sabbath on the seventh-day of the week in accord with their understanding of the Biblical Sabbath for the Judeo-Christian tradition ( Genesis 2: 2 – 3, Exodus 20: 8 ).

Later medieval Christian Biblical scholars took this vowel substitution for the actual spelling of YHVH and transliterated the name of God literally as Jehovah.

It is sometimes claimed, however, that the Jewish analogue of Christian theological discussion would more properly be Rabbinical discussion of Jewish law and Jewish Biblical commentaries.

In Italy the Biblical Unitarian Movement is represented by the churches associated with the Christian Church in Italy.

As the three cardinal doctrines of Judaism, Abba Mari accentuates: ( 1 ) That of the recognition of God's existence and of His absolute sovereignty, eternity, unity, and incorporeality, as taught in revelation, especially in the Decalogue ; ( 2 ) that of the world's creation by Him out of nothing, as evidenced particularly by the Sabbath ; ( 3 ) that of the special providence of God, as manifested in the Biblical miracles.

Christadelphians believe the doctrines they reject were introduced into Christendom after the first century in large part through exposure to pagan Greek philosophy, and cannot be substantiated from the Biblical texts.

Full preterism is sometimes viewed as heretical, based upon the historic creeds of the church ( which would exclude this view ), and also from Biblical passages that condemn a past view of the Resurrection or the denial of a physical resurrection or transformation of the body — doctrines which most Christians believe to be essential to the faith.

In the view of Protestants, these are new doctrines and they take Roman Catholicism further from the Protestant understanding of Biblical Christianity, even though Catholics provide the Bibilical citations supporting their views.

The doctrines, religious and ethical, of Biblical Judaism are, he claimed, the positive contents of Judaism ; and a truly historical reform must, for the sake of these positive doctrines, liberate Judaism from Talmudism.

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.

The cornerstones of this culture were anti-clericalism and a strong emphasis on Biblical study, but there were specific heretical doctrines that had “ an uncanny persistence .” There was a rejection of Predestination, and an embrace of Millenarianism, mortalism, anti-Trinitarianism, and Hermeticism.

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

In 1903 Leo established a Pontifical Biblical Commission to oversee those studies and ensure that they were conducted with respect for the Catholic doctrines on the inspiration and interpretation of scripture.

The Cathedral of His Glory operates out of a simple cell group program where the cell leaders must undergo nearly an " encounter " retreat followed by an entire year of training and studying the Biblical doctrines before they graduate from SoL or the School of Leaders.

He also wrote several works of Biblical exegesis, primarily of volumes in the Old Testament, which are preserved in excerpts regarding the Book of Genesis, the Song of Solomon, and Psalms.

* Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise ( c. 586 BC ), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolemaic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependent kingdom and a Roman province

For more information regarding these books, see the articles Biblical apocrypha, Biblical canon, Books of the Bible, and Deuterocanonical books.

Comparatively, the UMC stands to the right of liberal and progressive Protestant groups such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church on certain issues ( especially regarding sexuality ), but to the left of historically conservative evangelical traditions such as the Southern Baptists and Pentecostalism, in regard to theological matters such as social justice and Biblical interpretation.

Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan discusses this as an inaccuracy regarding Mordecai's age.

* The literal nature of the Biblical accounts, especially regarding Christ's miracles and the Creation account in Genesis.

The Biblical commands regarding the treatment of the brute ( Ex.

The Church of the Nazarene, an evangelical Christian denomination, sees " knowledge acquired by science and human inquiry equal to that acquired by divine revelation ," and, while the church "' believes in the Biblical account of creation ' and holds that God is the sole creator, it allows latitude ' regarding the " how " of creation.

In this regard, the Biblical texts regarding Jeconiah are especially important, because the time of his reign in Jerusalem was fixed by Donald Wiseman's 1956 publication, and this is consistent with his thirty-seventh year of captivity overlapping the accession year of Amel-Marduk, as mentioned above.

A consensus has yet to be achieved regarding the Biblical source of the " blue " dye.

* 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.

The Biblical law regarding Passover is said to be a " perpetual ordinance " (), to some degree also applicable to Proselytes (), but what it means to observe Biblical law in Christianity is disputed.

Then in his 80s, Hailey believed that those who were not Christians were not subject to Biblical commands regarding divorce.

Many Mennonites chose the civilian service alternative because of their beliefs regarding Biblical pacifism and nonresistance.

Such a ger toshav receives certain legal protections and privileges from the community, the rules regarding Jewish-Gentile relations are modified, and there is a Biblical obligation to render him aid when in need.

The disappearance of the Pelusian arm of the Nile led to much confusion regarding the Biblical geography of Sinai.

His doctrine taught that his life fulfilled all Biblical prophecies about the second coming, regarding himself as Jesus Christ reborn.

The influential Haredi Posek ( decisor ) Moshe Feinstein held that a mechitza is required as a matter of Biblical law, holding that the statement in Zechariah 12: 12-14 represents not a prophecy about future circumstances but binding Sinaitic law, Halacha LeMoshe MiSinai, regarding present circumstances.

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.

The stories are presented in what is regarded as Biblical chronological order in an attempt to allow the listener to connect the stories together to form one frame of reference regarding the Bible rather than just a series of unrelated stories.

Because of its interpretation of Biblical principles regarding interracial dating, Bob Jones University completely excluded black applicants until 1971, and from 1971 until 1975, admitted black students only if they were married.

The Biblical law regarding Passover is said to be a " perpetual ordinance " (), to some degree also applicable to Proselytes (), but what it means to observe Biblical law in Christianity is disputed.