For one, it corrects the standard portrait of Socinians as rationalists, showing them instead to be biblicists of a sort. |
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In doing so, it misleads its intended audience which will include Biblicists unfamiliar with details of the archaeological debate. |
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One of the clearest expressions of selective morality by Biblicists is shown in their approach to the Old Testament. |
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It seemed that we were Biblicists just like the fundamentalists around us. |
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Subsequent generations of Biblicists have followed suit, and by dint of their efforts they have legitimated and routinized the right of an individual to criticize the sacred. |
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Rather than appearing as esoteric ideas or arbitrary constructs, the disciplines of modern Biblicists are seen as logical, sensible, even exciting. |
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For nearly two thousand years Biblicists have been lecturing people on the importance of adhering to the Bible's teachings on ethics, manners, and morality. |
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