The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.
We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.
The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart instead of closing it? To bear witness is not a passive act. It's an act of consequence that leads to consciousness. It matters. I am curious. I want to know why. I was raised with a scripture that says, "The glory of God is intelligence. " And to me our greatest intelligence is following our instincts, trusting our intuition.
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.