extra-Biblical love

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  • adjective Pertaining to information or content outside the Bible.

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Examples

  • I had no clue where all this new material came from until I began to research the extra-Biblical mentions of Noah.

    Some New Kind of Slaughter » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • The Passion of the Christ made lots of money for Gibson and his associates but it was a flawed filmed that took the four basic gospel stories and made them into a composite story – and then added extra-Biblical material never heard in the Bible.

    Film 2009

  • Those truths have many times been re-enforced by archaeological finds, like the"House of David" inscription dating from 850 BC found in the ancient Israelite city of Dan which provides the first extra-Biblical evidence of a Davidic dynasty and perhaps of David himself.

    Angela Himsel: Faith Floats: Collecting Noah's Ark Angela Himsel 2010

  • The Protestant tradition of solo scriptura* has cut down on extra-Biblical scholarship in non-Catholic Christian circles.

    Why all those SCOTUS Catholics and Jews? 2010

  • Those truths have many times been re-enforced by archaeological finds, like the "House of David" inscription dating from 850 BC found in the ancient Israelite city of Dan which provides the first extra-Biblical evidence of a Davidic dynasty and perhaps of David himself.

    Angela Himsel: Faith Floats: Collecting Noah's Ark 2010

  • That honor belongs to a library of extra-Biblical Jewish, Christian and Gnostic texts written between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200 that present a cosmos teeming with angelic activity.

    Angels 2008

  • “Creation” - partisans have dug in their heels so that they now insist that extra-Biblical traditions (you can see my Restoration Movement bias here) trump both our observations of the material world and the Scriptures themselves, and anyone who denies this is damned.

    Intelligent Design and Rhetoric Richard Nokes 2005

  • This would mean abandoning centuries of Catholic tradition and endanger the basic Catholic doctrine that the Church possesses a set of extra-Biblical traditions and teachings that are uniquely valuable.

    Vatican Policy: Not Evolving - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The movement makes extra-Biblical demands, has a theology based on unsound Bible interpretations.

    Cult push for ‘living sacrifices’ 2004

  • The movement makes extra-Biblical demands, has a theology based on unsound Bible interpretations.

    Cult investigated over kidney donations 2004

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