... exercise. Everyone who reads the Bible is an interpreter whether they like it or not. People tend to think that our understanding of the Bible is the same as the Holy Spirit's and the human author's intent. We fail to see that everyone brings to the Bible their own culture, personal experiences, pre-understandings of words and ideas and their own theological ... Bible should always be approached with the assumption that it is inspired, inerrant and authoritative. Total reliance on the Holy Spirit is essential for correct interpretation. Just as human authors are the best authority conce...

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... redemption from sin, and its consequences."1 For Christians he is the savior of humanity and part of the holy Trinity. The idea of God as a trinity comprising the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is unique to Christianity. "Christianity posits that God is a trinity; in this view God exists as three ... who protects and loves his followers and believers. The Son is Jesus, God made flesh and brought to Earth to atone for humanity's sins. The Holy Spirit is seen as the essence of God that permeates all things. "Judaism sees God as a unity, and views trinitarianism as both incomprehensi...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of faith itself. Those theologians who treat faith simply as a transcendental experience of God, taking place in the inwardness of the human spirit, then to minimize the historical element in the Christian religion and to overlook the crucial role of mediation, through the living community of ... say that the chief criterion for a viable religious faith is its ability, or apparent ability, to satisfy those hungers for the human spirit which cannot be satisfied apart from faith. Granted the insufficiency of the two approaches just outlined, we are left with the apparent irrationality ....

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... eternal principle, then I do not want to apply his advice about women beyond what he intended. We must break down these verses and other scriptures to find out what the Holy Spirit is saying through Paul to us about women's speech in the church. First, let's look at the message in context. Going back to the troubling verses by Paul in 1 Corinthians ... ...

• Word Count: 2588
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• Has Bibliography
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