Sentences with phrase «of holy text»

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.

At least I give you credit for accepting (partially) this horror as part of your holy text.

This word, typically in the form of a holy text, is clearly written and created by men who are supposedly channeling the will of «god» into written form.

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

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.

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.

this is exacly why we must discuss the meaning of the holy texts of the past and how they may be percieved by people.

Momo, there are many different intepretations of the Holy texts, many different books and often times different ways to view the meaning within the same text.

They use «sweetened up» versions of the holy texts, to get around certain Western values and get more converts.

Questioning the very foundation upon which the beliefs and religion are built requires no knowledge of the holy texts.

Not exact matches

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.

The written Logion — Oracles, the Holy Scripture were committed to Israel's keeping and still to this day exists as the one and only Hebrew text (amidst all the different versions / translations of the Bible).

It doesn't matter to me whether this is «correct» exegesis — either the Bible finds some way of adapting to the modern notions of morality, or it gets left by the wayside on the ever growing dung - heap of rejected holy texts of human history — in my opinion, that's the historical moment we are currently faced with.

The BIble, when interpreted by the Holy Spirit (and all our best efforts to hear the texts as the original hearers would have understood them), is the Word of God.

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.

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..

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

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

The mission text was the «great commission» — «Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit» (Matt.

The concern of Jesus in this particular text is that the unpardonable sin is against the Holy Spirit.

Books like Holy Hilarity help us break out of the box of reading the Bible with straight faces, so that we can see the truth in the text.

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

In this perspective on this key text (John 1:14) we have a remarkable prophetic description not only of the Incarnation but also of the Holy Eucharist and of the Tabernacle, as part of the very plan of God in sending Christ into the world.

Professor Bates helps us see a way in which the New Testament speaks of the Holy Trinity: it recognises the Divine Persons speaking to or about each other in certain Old Testament texts.

I feel that all you could possibly need to know to lead a fruitful life concerning the Holy Spirit could easily fit on fewer than ten pages of text.

I would like to suggest that this important text refers not only to the Incarnation of the Son of God in Bethlehem but also to the Holy Eucharist and that it is prophetic of the Church's development of doctrine, supporting that development, and putting it within a cosmic context.

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».

However, it is not enough to just say «I am trusting the leading of the Holy Spirit to help me understand this text.»

After all the controversy of last week, it's tempting to turn this post into a discussion on gendered language around the Holy Spirit (feminine in Hebrew and Aramaic, typically neuter in Greek, masculine in this particular text), but that's just not how this passage is «singing» to me today, so instead I'd like to focus on Jesus» stirring and tender words in verse 18: «I will not leave you as orphans.»

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.»

This statement is often cited as a universal description of the holy otherness and imperceptibility of God, but anyone familiar with other texts will hear the soft whisper of a reply, «Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God» (Matt.

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.

Gregorian chant gives an elevated tone of voice to the texts of our sacred praises, conveying the special character of the words and the holy nature of what is being enacted and undertaken.

The people, standing at the foot of this mountain, were embraced, says the text, with «a holy fear» that made them receptive to the word of the Lord.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

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.

The Word of God is not necessarily the text but is always that understanding in your heart (soul if you will) which happens through the Holy Spirit.

The «holy» text of my ancestors, the Edda, says the same thing except it has other magic beings involved.

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.»

The authority of the text is a comprehensive one involving theoretical and experiential factors by which God moves us through the Holy Spirit to transform our lives, initially by conversion, then through the discipleship that necessarily follows this.

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?

real people are commiting crimes in the name of religion and backs up there claims in real texts that we claim to be holy.

In spite of all of these, we are not in charge, and it is my sense that too often all that «text» can run interference on the Holy Spirit.

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

However, even independently of their bearing on the Church's interpretation of Jesus» life, death, and resurrection, these texts have been held holy for the simple reason that they give authoritative expression to the central themes of promise and hope that constitute the core of biblical faith.

You have built your faith upon the sand of your contradictory «holy» texts.

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

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 Bible is almost always present, since any medieval text was, no matter what its style, to some degree a continuation or concretization of the Holy Scripture.