unscriptural
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I wear pants to work as a seminary president almost every day, and no one has ever accused me of donning transgressive unscriptural attire.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2024
His early memoirs find a balance between outrage and subtle irony—those angry, understated phrases: “an unscriptural institution”; “the thoughtful know the rest”—in describing the wrenching effects of slavery on the human soul.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
So did a new generation of Catholic Augustinian thinkers and the heretical Jansenists of the 17th and 18th centuries, who dismissed limbo as an unscriptural theory too ardently promoted by their enemies the Jesuits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the Apostle James has given us a test which will utterly confound all such unscriptural arguments, viz.:
From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Joseph Bates
This statement of the resurrection of the dead in Christ first disposes completely of the unscriptural view of a general resurrection.
From Studies in Prophecy by Arno C. Gaebelein
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