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Accommodation was used by the Fathers of the Church and many of the sermons of St. Bernard are mosaics of scripture phrases. Typical rules for guidance in the accommodation of scripture are: Accommodated texts should never be used as arguments drawn from revelation. Accommodation should not be farfetched. Accommodations should be reverent
The prophet so transports himself in imagination into the future that he describes the future event as if it had been already seen or heard by him, e.g. Is 5:13 ...; 19:7, Jb 5:20, 2 Ch 20:37. Not infrequently the imperfect interchanges with such perfects either in the parallel member or further on in the narrative." (GKC §106n) [6]
Part of God's grace, disbursed according to His will [82] Sinlessness: Theoretically possible, although unusual [29] [48] Impossible due to the corruption of human nature [81] Salvation: Humans will be judged for their choices [29] Salvation is bestowed by God's grace [83] Predestination: Rejected [84] God decides who is saved and prevents them ...
[47] The verses immediately before verse 24, the verse 24 itself, and the verses following verse 24 show many variations in the surviving manuscripts. An abbreviated history of the passage is that the conclusion of the Epistle to the Romans was known in several different versions: about the year 144, Marcion made radical changes in the ending ...
According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
The idea of the word of God is more that God is encountered in scripture, than that every line of scripture is a statement made by God. [99] While the phrase "the Word of God" is never applied to the modern Bible within the Bible itself, supporters of total inerrancy argue that this is because the Biblical canon was not closed.
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.
According to the International Critical Commentary, "Ps[alm] 15 is a didactic poem, inquiring what sort of man is qualified to be a guest of Yahweh (verse 1); describing him in accordance with a decalogue of duties (verses 2-5b) and declaring such a man secure (verse 5c)." [5] The duties listed emphasise virtues relating to one's neighbor. [6]