Sentences with phrase «found in religious texts»

But the one answer that you will not find in any religious text is the one you gave — that acts without faith can achieve salvation.

That is not only ridiculous, but is NOWHERE to be found in the religious text you profess to follow.

Not exact matches

«People who find themselves wanting to insert religious texts and religious authority into public life,» he said, «are in fact recognizing something correct: namely, the nonneutrality of secular reason.»

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

It will examine the relationship between religion and politics in the period of the American Revolution, founding, and early republic by exploring primary sources including charters, constitutions, and legal texts, sermons, pamphlets, essays, speeches, debates, and religious texts.

(As regards the secondary character of intellectual constructions, and the primacy of feeling and instinct in founding religious beliefs, see the striking work of H. Fielding, The Hearts of Men, London, 1902, which came into my hands after my text was written.

In 1996, the Smithsonian Institute issued a statement addressing claims made in the Book of Mormon, stating that the text is primarily a religious text and that archeologists affiliated with the institute found «no direct connection between the archeology of the New World and the subject matter of the book»In 1996, the Smithsonian Institute issued a statement addressing claims made in the Book of Mormon, stating that the text is primarily a religious text and that archeologists affiliated with the institute found «no direct connection between the archeology of the New World and the subject matter of the book»in the Book of Mormon, stating that the text is primarily a religious text and that archeologists affiliated with the institute found «no direct connection between the archeology of the New World and the subject matter of the book».

2) They should find a qualified counsellor who understands their religious beliefs and work through it toward a biblical and spiritual restoration as defined in the text of the Bible in the letters to the Corinthian church, the church in Rome, or the recorded teachings of Jesus in the Gospels.

Because a god might exist... but it isn't the man made religious stupidity found in the fictional bibles and other religious texts on this planet.

An example of the complexity of the problem can be found in the content of many of the religious education text books used in our Catholic schools.

In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».

And in a spot where you might typically find Jehovah's Witnesses smiling silently beside a display of religious texts, Public Advocate Letitia James was loudly and proudly handing out free condoms.

I did turn to religious texts first, when I was trying to find words to use in the choral parts of the score.

You can't fail to be impressed by a game that not only has a distinctive visual style, but one that also finds its inspiration in old religious texts to boot.

Mother of God's religious undertones are amplified by a collaged advertisement for the Catholic Review, found in the lower right corner, which reads «An invaluable spiritual road map...» This bit of text draws together the title of the painting, the maps, and the spiritual allusions of the circle, yet it also walks a line between sincerity and tongue - in - cheek humor.