Sentences with phrase «from holy texts»

The proof is that believers find it necessary to interpret meaning from their holy texts.

This anti-Semitism comes from the holy texts of Islam and from the entire Islamic religious establishment.

In other words, just because a teaching is from a holy text doesn't protect it from becoming disrespectful speech.

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Police arrested Rimsha last month after a neighbor accused her of burning pages containing texts from the Muslim holy book, the Quran.

Read God — and you can read life: The NIrV Seek and Explore Holy Bible is the ideal stepping stone from storybook to full - text Bible — and it's the Bible that our Littlest Girl calls her own and carries everywhere to «read»!

In this key text Jesus links the whole plan of God from the beginning to the Holy Eucharist — «As I who am sent by the living Father... so whoever eats me will draw life from me».

According to Enns, we would do well to learn a few things from the Jewish readers of Scripture whose emphasis in engaging the holy text is «not on solving the problems once and for all but on a community upholding a conversation with Scripture with creative energy.»

Aside from 2 Timothy 3:16, another key text is 2 Peter 1:21 which indicates that men of God were moved, carried, or driven by the Holy Spirit to write Scripture.

But that legislation does nt come from a personal faith or a holy text, and they never say its because god does nt like it.

The chanting of the holy texts raises them up from the mundane and presents them «as on a platter of gold», in the words of Fr Josef Jungmann.

We see many great people of God throughout the Bible at their lowest points and how their faith in God led them to be used for great things (and so despite their grievous sin we see them as holy because they grew and showed great faith and fruit) but what about those in the Bible who are said to have believed but are never heard from again in the text?

5 The biblical quotations are from The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments in Confraternity and Doway Texts, New York: Abradale Press, 1966.

While the basic structure and words of the core components of the liturgy do not change from Sunday to Sunday, there are changes in other texts, particularly the various readings from Holy Scripture appointed for every Sunday and festival day, that give the various times in the Church Year their unique emphases and nuances.

The scribe looked after the integrity of the holy text by comparing manuscripts, and correcting possible errors and deviations from the canonical text.

Those matters are based on principles that can be clearly derived from our traditions and holy texts.

I began studying Islam 16 + years ago, because with all the terrorism going on, I wanted REASSURANCE from authentic Islamic sources (their holy texts) that Islam really WAS a faith of peace and tolerance.

But I have long ago come to the conclusion that the bible, as well as any other holy text, is an imperfect representation of God from a very imperfect human perspective.

People who are «good» religionists tend to ignore the parts of their holy books that talk about genocide and ra - pe and murder and slavery, not because Jesus came along and said «everyone be nice to each other,» considering he plagiarized the golden rule from a text thousands of years before him, but because we understand that these things are not helpful to our species.

If faith in the Word of God can only be the work of the Holy Ghost operating through intelligent decision, it follows that the understanding of the text is attainable only in systematic interpretation, and the terminology which directs this understanding can be acquired only from profane reflection, which is the business of the philosophical analysis of existence.

... In general, We require that future priests, from the time of Seminary onward, be trained to understand and celebrate Holy Mass in Latin as well as to employ Latin texts and use Gregorian chant; nor should great effort be neglected in regard to the faithful themselves, so that they learn thoroughly the commonly known prayers in the Latin language and in an equal degree that they should learn the Gregorian chant of those parts of the liturgy which are sung.

Language and literature play an increasing role as material for their multifaceted work, from the philosophical underpinnings in Bertolt Brecht's War Primer to the sacred texts of the Holy Bible itself, both books having been refashioned and recreated by the artists in their own ambiguous, combatant image.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters)-- The Vatican «Lettergate» scandal came to a head on Saturday when the Holy See, under pressure from the media and conservatives, released a full text by former Pope Benedict...