about what that means. Biblical scholars now are increasingly convinced that what it means is that humans are designed to be a kind of angled mirror so that you reflect God out into the world-- think of the angled mirror-- and you reflect the world back to God.
Jewish baby names are really, really good. Biblical baby names and I look through any source for names. And anytime I’m reading anything that I come across a really great name, I’ll jot it down, whether it’s a last name or a first name.
So "The Baroque Cycle," internally, is eight books. The biblical Enoch is a curiosity in the Bible, because he is early enough in the Bible
say the Bible offers a whole bunch of everything. My biblical hermeneutic-- that's the churchy word for interpreting the Bible-- is, yeah there is a lot of stuff in there. And part of my job then as a pastor is to interpret the Bible for people, like people in my community.
that's a tradition that your particular faith community would have, not always the tradition that some here are a part of. So biblically based, then you went into strive and to delve more deeply. How did you move from that place with your father and you coming to that understanding?
So we had two separate groups of subjects and we gave them very simple statements to read. The biblical God really exists versus the biblical god is a myth. And so the atheists in our study would answer the factual question the same way as the Christians, and vice-versa.
As you say, the idea of humans becoming gods is very ancient. According to the biblical Book of Genesis, God the creator placed the first humans in the Garden of Eden and told them that they could eat of all the trees except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
it was, that's what really got me to call her and get me out of there. from a biblical perspective.
Everyone in this room. That's the biblical vision.
Everyone in this room. That's the biblical vision.
Everyone in this room. That's the biblical symbolism.
Everyone in this room. In the biblical reading, God is love.
And it all depends on how we react to that information. "The Year of Living Biblically," one of the points of it you said was to demonstrate some of the dangers of fundamentalism.
But with Ron, I felt like he just had this aura of goodness about him. It was kind of biblical for me. Of course, I was looking for that, probably.
his uh apology and his his death um the I mean a biblical story and I think we can illustrate in other ways of Adam and Eve in Paradise
But both men came down transformed. They reached across the biblical rift for a selfish purpose. And if they could, why not her?
I actually try to ask them, have you read a good book? It's biblical. It's in the Koran, as well.
And so, part of what I wanted to do was to take a lot of-- to synthesize a lot of the best insights of academics and biblical scholars, but then re-present them in both a much more accessible form, but also, specifically, within the theological framework that I grew up with.
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. and within the biblical canon itself.
That's not going to cost you a nickel. Cannan is the biblical word for what is now Long Island.
Sort of the biblical version-- don't kill, don't steal.
So there are biblical descriptions of the ages of giants.
"The Year of Living Biblically" is one of my favorites.
It was very biblical.
lovely name biblical yes of course it is that'll be $500 per animal a deal given
of being a Biblical literalist, he would break one of the Ten Commandments when he thought it was the most humane thing to do as when
archaeological or biblical basis for it. But it was simply just taken on faith that Jesus didn't drink, even though wine is written in every single chapter of the Bible other
mean I mean he was totally totally biblical in his political theory in
So he's kind of biblical, but I thought they were really interesting.
it made me think of the biblical verse that goes "ashes to ashes, dust to dust." So it means that humanity, humans start off their life
And we feel that even during the biblical times, St. Thomas came to the south of India-- our church that we belong to, Thampy and I,
they would end their broadcast with biblical versus, the versus of Genesis that spoke of birth.
have two concepts of the almighty a Biblical and a post-biblical concept the biblical concept is the almighty's
He was wicked, so he's dead now. But to be a woman in a biblical culture without attachment to a man was a hugely problematic and dangerous thing. You didn't count at all.
It sort of goes back to the biblical or the Talmud or any religious book talks about a tithe of 10%.
things like that through. And that wall is this biblical interpretation that says, this experience, in order for me to accept its legitimacy in a meaningful enough way to make you rethink what I think, is in conflict with this core aspect of my world-view, which
into what his friends called this almost Biblical-like proportions.
Paintings of Crusades and wars and Biblical scenes were primarily what was painted.
We're still in the Biblical times, and any ideas what is this beautiful fruit or vegetable,
among uh most importantly grounded in the biblical precepts
SCOTTY McLENNAN: Can I describe the Biblical support for my position on abortion? My position, can I do this quickly?
historians, biblical scholars, classicists would argue that the 27 books of the New Testament are written in the 1st century.
And my dad took it upon himself to tell us this Biblical story, which I'm going to completely get wrong.
So he was a guy who wrote "The Year of Living Biblically." You ever read it, where he followed the rules of the Bible
of Quranic dress code that goes back to biblical times.
Everyone in this room. this is the moral wisdom of the great biblical tradition.
And the street running across the center there is the biblical street called Straight, which is the street that St. Paul was
Divine I argue is not heresy but the most biblical thing you can
Whites lived downstairs, and blacks lived upstairs. And to bridge that separation was to heal a biblical wound. Her mother had held a low opinion about her husband going upstairs but was not without resources.
And we're living with a very unfortunate set of biblical-- some people wandering through a desert, saying, do this.