Sentences with phrase «holy texts»

For others its value was more as heritage, not a statement they expected to be implemented but of value as a kind of holy text.

Why do you follow the bible as opposed to other holy texts and oral traditions?

They have hungry souls that may be filled with holy text, holy conversation.

Ancient holy texts have been proven to be scientifically inaccurate.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

Society does cherry pick ideas from holy texts all the time, a thing I am against entirely.

The IPCC's reports are, therefore, to be considered as holy texts with the chairman and authors having taken the first steps towards beatification.

In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible's cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed.

Marvel editors, who probably aren't terribly up to speed on Indonesian political movements or Islamic holy texts, didn't catch any of these references before printing the book, but eagle - eyed Redditors did.

what did it tell us of disease, the universe, relationships, treatment of women... I would hazard a guess that women were treated with more respect before the advent of any of the so called holy texts..

His honest answer would most likely be this: «Because of where I was born and my parents & peers I grew up around told me that the bible was the only true holy text and that I would be shunned if I even looked at another religion with interest.»

Each religion has its own way of interpreting its respective holy text, each has its own set of moral codes, and each has its own creation mythology and apocalyptic eschatology.

now yes there are future prophets but only to elaborate on the bible and things to be, but not to create a «new holy text» but the Word, which was already written.

Religions do not like revising conclusions, because it's hard to revise holy texts without concrete proof that God has submitted edits these days.

Is quoting the more vile passages of holy texts attacking religion?

Absolutely nowhere in any Christian holy text is the Rapture mentioned.

Well most Holy texts are worth reading if you want to learn how to commit genocide, enslave people, smash babies against rocks, and generally do anything worthy of bronze age barbaric mentality.

If cinephilia has a literal holy text, to be referred to and examined in times of joy and stress and sorrow, it is this.

Shauvot (also called Lag B'Omer) commemorates the day God presented the Torah (the Jewish holy text) to the Jewish people and scholarship is also celebrated during the observation, so a book display was especially appropriate.

The Guru Granth (Sikh holy text) preaches that the mouth of a pauper is the mouth of the Guru; in other words, feeding the poor is like catering to the Supreme one.

Nevertheless, Mormons and those who call themselves Mormon Fundamentalists (or FLDS) believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history.

Excerpts from the poem advising on the power and pitfalls of the tongue play on speakers whose forms echo that of a rahlé, a foldable, X-shaped bookstand used for holy texts.

In the ancient world they were taught separately, so it was not uncommon for one to be able to read (at least enough to get by, or those in holy texts) but not write.

Any god who could influence a person's thoughts could even more easily light up the sky with glowing letters of holy text, yet there is nothing supernatural in origin influencing anything in this continuum.

And so we will also see the reclusive Hammons's Holy Bible: Old Testament (2002) in which a 1997 copy of The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwartz is rebound as holy text.

If the bible is the source of it's own truth, and there's errors in it (and there's a BUNCH of things that are inaccurate in the bible, and every other holy text) how are you sure that it's only 0.1 % that's been translated, or passed down in error?

SANDOW BIRK: AMERICAN QUR» AN The artist has created more than 300 gouache paintings in which every verse in the Islamic holy text is transcribed in script based on Los Angeles graffiti.

The evil deeds of ISIS and its commanders will continue, supported by what they claim to be sacred — ancient holy texts.

Men traditionally use calligraphy to transcribe holy texts, while the henna ink Essaydi uses is a common feminine adornment.

Review: If you're interested in, say, running a service that delivers mattresses on the back of a bicycle or becoming an itinerant wedding photographer, here's your holy text.

But if you're interested in, say, running a service that delivers mattresses on the back of a bicycle or becoming an itinerant wedding photographer, here's your holy text.

First of all, I would like to point out that Toby begins his post by writing that, «Christians believe that their holy text, the Bible, is the inerrant word of God.

Quoting Islam's holiest text to make that point was smart, said Hussein Rashid, a religion scholar at Hofstra University in New York.

The holy text continues to state: «The limits of the created universe can not be perceived.

Obviously, abortion is not a big issue to God — not one word about it is mentioned in the entire Bible, or any other holy texts, for that matter.

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.

Every holy text is internally inconsistent.