Sentences with phrase «other holy texts»
Why do you follow the bible as opposed to other holy texts and oral traditions?
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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 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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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 «holy» text of my ancestors, the Edda, says the same thing except it has other magic beings involved.
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.
If you abort this process of yelling at God about why this text is so difficult to understand, you will never experience the joy that comes when God, by His Holy Spirit, opens your mind and eyes to the meaning of the text, and without this joy of having God teach the text to you, you will never be able to have true joy in teaching the text to others.
The Holy Bible is the Holy Bible which is the word of God; and yes, interpretations of the greek to English or other language may have changed the wording, meaning, etc. of the text.
Such a charge is not unfounded, for when the actual calls for violence and bloodshed are tallied, the Bible has more bloody texts than the Muslim Qur» an or any other religious holy book.
No, what seems most likely in light of other uses of anathema in the Bible (See my Gospel Dictionary Course for explanation of these texts) is that certain Corinthian teachers were saying (while supposedly under the influence of the Holy Spirit) that the reason Jesus died is because He was suffering the consequences for sin, or for living in a sinful, human body.
Didn't we hear alot of this after 9/11 But what are they gonna do with THE TEXT in their holy book commanding them to kill others?????? Will they remove it??
Donald Bloesch, on the other hand, gives the Holy Spirit a more explicit discussion, seeing the theologians task as discovering not only «the intent of the author but also the way in which the Spirit uses this text to reveal the saving work of Jesus Christ.»
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.
Truth be told there are about 20 credible texts other than the Holy Bible that reference Jesus, some are entire books contesting the doctrines of Christianity.
True, too, of other «holy texts».
text in Scripture and want to know what it means, we too quickly turn to what others have written about this passage, thereby short - circuiting anything that God might have wanted to teach us through the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit.
In other words, just because a teaching is from a holy text doesn't protect it from becoming disrespectful speech.
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.
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.