They adduce that the essential ingredient for acquiring values — and for moral action is personal responsibility, that schools will become involved in the teaching of morals when they become communities of people who fully respect each other's right to make choices, and that the only way the schools can become meaningful purveyors of ethical values is if they provide students and adults with real-life experiences that are bearers of moral import.

They adduce that in their schools no one child has ever been forced, pushed, urged, cajoled, or bribed into learning how to read or write, and they have had no dyslexia.

They also use the biblical verse of Romans 10: 9 " That if you confess with your mouth, ' Jesus is Lord ', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

They tend to interpret biblical verses on homosexual acts to mean that the heterosexual family was created by God and that same-sex relationships contradict God ’ s design for marriage and violate his will.

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

They also referred to the year 1666 and its relationship to the biblical Number of the Beast indicating the end of earthly rule by carnal human beings.

They begin with a critique of the past ” such that they review the ways women have been oppressed ; “ they seek alternative biblical and extrabiblical traditions that support ” the ideals Feminists are trying to advance ; and finally “ feminists set forth their own unique method of theology, which includes the revisioning of Christian categories .” Grenz and Olson also mention, however, while all feminists agree there is a flaw in the system, there is disagreement over how far outside of the Bible and the Christian tradition women are willing to go to seek support for their ideals.

They do not impute error to biblical authors, but rather entertain various theories of literary intent which might give credibility to human progress in knowledge of the world, while still accepting the divine inspiration of the scriptures.

They sought to modernize education in light of contemporary scholarship, they rejected claims of absolute divine authorship of the Torah, declaring only those biblical laws concerning ' ethics ' to be binding, and stated that the rest of halakha ( Jewish religious law ) need not be viewed as normative for Jews in wider society.

They argue that while the biblical text acknowledges that Omri built his new capital Samaria, the text may have omitted possible widespread public construction both Omri and his son Ahab commissioned during their reigns.

They derive from biblical chronology, mostly from the ancient genealogies in the books, Genesis to Second Kings, spanning the creation of the universe as the ancients understood it to the fall of Jerusalem with the destruction of its Temple in year 586 BC.

They sought to ban evolution as a topic for study in the schools or, failing that, to relegate it to the status of unproven hypothesis perhaps taught alongside the biblical version of creation.

They embraced evolutionary concepts, asserted the " inherent goodness of man ", and abandoned the doctrine of biblical infallibility, rejecting most of the miraculous events in the Bible ( including the virgin birth ).

They often transport viewers to other worlds or eras: ancient times, biblical times, the Middle Ages, the Victorian era, or turn-of-the-century America.

They sought to ban evolution as a topic for study, or at least relegate it to the status of unproven theory perhaps taught alongside the biblical version of creation.

They also often feature live, full-costume dramatic plays re-enacting biblical accounts, such as Moses and the Plagues of Egypt, and Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah.

They, like Roman Catholics and many Anglicans, see and as biblical evidence for confession.

They believe that “ The emergent ideology is a perversion of the Word of God and the doctrine of the Church of the Nazarene .” The group circulated a petition to members of the denomination, which was presented by 500 members to the Board of General Superintendents in January 2009, with the desire that “ Our fervent hope and prayer is that the General Superintendents will respond by purging our denomination of the emergent cancer before it is too late .” Prior to the most recent General Assembly held in July 2009, the Concerned Nazarenes advocated revising the Articles of Faith to affirm biblical inerrancy: “ Old and New Testaments are inerrant throughout and the supreme authority on everything the scriptures teach .” Further, they are concerned about the teaching of open theism and biological evolution in Nazarene universities ; invitations to emergent church leaders Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, and Doug Pagitt to speak at Nazarene institutions ; and the use of “ experiential works-based techniques for prayer ”, including prayer labyrinths, prayer stations and retreats to Roman Catholic monasteries.

They believe that the fulfillment of biblical prophecies of the coming of Christ came through a forerunner of their own religion, the Báb.

They sought to reaffirm the Westminster Confession of Faith as the fullest and clearest exposition of biblical faith and to call all pastors and leaders to affirm the inerrancy of Scripture.

They use the biblical term " Son of God " rather than the non-biblical " God the Son ".

They believe that other modes either have no biblical basis or are based upon inexact Old Testament rituals, and that their mode is the only one described in the New Testament.

They stressed that the West Bank ( referred to as Judea and Samaria, the biblical terms ) were parts of the ancient kingdom of Israel and kingdom of Judah and hence rightfully belong to modern Israel.

They are written throughout in dodecasyllabic metre, and those published deal mainly with biblical themes, though there are also poems on such subjects as the deaths of Christian martyrs, the fall of the idols and the First Council of Nicaea.

They concluded that they had been chosen to fulfill biblical prophecies, and that they had been given higher-level minds than other people.

They consider the beret and dreadlocks to be symbols of the biblical covenant of God with his chosen people, the " black Israelites ".

They are of two kinds: the " parallel texts ", which are parallel developments of the corresponding passages in the base text, and the speeches of Elihu ( Chapters 32-37 ), which consist of a polemic against the ideas expressed elsewhere in the poem, and so are claimed to be interpretive interpolations.

They contain passages of great literary beauty.

They claim that the errors in the Bible have led to incorrect interpretations of certain passages.

They are by no means mutually exclusive and are often combined to form a more complete and coherent interpretation of prophetic passages.

They often interpret passages of the Bible as being less a record of actual events, but rather stories illustrating how to live ethically and authentically in relation to God.

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They also point to the two ( out of five ) Great Commission passages that speak of baptism.

They most explicitly communicated Heinlein's philosophies and beliefs, and many long, didactic passages of dialog and exposition deal with government, sex, and religion.

They also began, even before the Tridentine reforms, to insert ever-lengthening passages of homophony, to underline important text or points of articulation.

They also found evidence for underground passages and chambers, and drains for spring water.

They point to passages in Book of Kings, Book of Chronicles, and Epistle of Jude 9 which refer to writings such as the Assumption of Moses that are not part of the Bible.

They were used to mark questionable or corrupt words or passages in manuscripts of the Homeric epics.

They base their understanding on key scriptural passages such as Christ's words, " By their fruit you will know them " and " He that endures to the end will be saved.

They also accuse Protestants of distorting Scripture itself to support their own claims, whether by faulty translations, misinterpretations, or ignoring passages of Scripture which support Catholicism or Orthodoxy against Protestantism.

They recruited Kurzweil to voice several tracks, on which he read select passages from the book.

They are notorious for boring into ( and commonly eventually destroying ) wood that is immersed in sea water, including such structures as wooden piers, docks and ships ; they drill passages by means of a pair of very small shells borne at one end, with which they rasp their way through.

The theme of the messiah ushering in an era of global peace is encapsulated in one of the most famous scriptural passages from the Book of Isaiah, " They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks ; nation will not lift sword against nation and they will no longer study warfare ".

They based this recommendation on the passages from the Qur ' an mentioned above.

They have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns, although the nostrils on the albatross are on the sides of the bill.

They can hold their own in a forte tutti but Bruckner generally gives them sustained tones rather than melodic motifs in such passages.

They have been observed feeding in the tidal passages between the lagoon and ocean in Tarawa, Kiribati.

They are often used in long silent passages which are not divided into separate bars to indicate a rest of two bars ( Read 1969, 101 ).

Sozomen describes Pulcheria ’ s and her sisters ' pious ways in his Ecclesiastical History: “ They all pursue the same mode of life ; they are sedulous in their attendance in the house of prayer, and evince great charity towards strangers and the poor ... and pass their days and their nights together in singing the praises of God .” Rituals within the imperial palace also included chanting and reciting passages in the scripture, and fasting twice a week.

They include passages in the Book of Revelation that describe the joint heirship with Christ of those who overcome by faith in Jesus Christ.