Sentences with phrase «other sacred books»

The other sacred books have been mentioned in

The Granth, the Sikh Bible, is not like most other sacred books in that it is exclusively in poetry.

The Donatists, named for one of their leading spokesmen, condemned the «lapsed,» the «traditores» who bad betrayed their faith during the terror of persecution by fleeing or banding over Bibles or other sacred books.

Not exact matches

I'd burn both, and a US flag, and a crucifex, and the Upanishads, and any other holy book or sacred symbols.

But they did all of them have writings which corresponded closely to various portions of sacred books as found in other religions.

For example, the Torah [the first five books of the Bible] assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

When this was done, copies were sent to various quarters of the world and all other copies were ordered to be burned, thus insuring the correctness of all the extant copies of the sacred book.

Certainly she had materials of the sort that compose sacred scriptures in other faiths, and certainly she had a priesthood who might have been thought of as interested in crystallizing Egypt's religion by means of a preferred set of sacred books.

If we do not see the analogical bond between the other forms of religious discourse and prophetic discourse we generalize in univocal fashion the concept of inspiration derived from the prophetic genre and assume that God spoke to the redactors of the sacred books just as he spoke to the prophets.

Spinoza begins by reading the Bible — not as a sacred text, but in the same way one would read any other book.

In telling us that the Bible (and «other sacred writings») is «just a book» to spread «the faith,» Martel reveals his fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between God and religious practices.

On what grounds can the Bible be proven absolute truth and superior to sacred books of other religions?

He consented, and before going out, sat down and wrote quickly the five thousand characters which constitute what is at once the most delightful, and perhaps also the most baffling of all the sacred books.59 It is translated variously into English as The Canon of Reason and Virtue, The Way and Its Power, and otherwise, but when one compares the translations, they differ greatly one from the other, probably reflecting therein the religious biases of the several translators.

So do the sacred books of every other religion.

In some classes, kids listen to teachers talk about reading far more than they actually read themselves, while in other classes, independent reading is kept sacred and kids have ample time to explore books of their own choosing.

A lot of the anger directed at Amazon in this instance comes from the notion that somehow books are more sacred than other objects that are for sale.

«Non-fiction religion - specific books» include sacred texts (including the Bible, the Qur» an, and others), commentary on those sacred texts, and educational or explanatory books about the specific religion.

It also appears in the Tanakh (the sacred book of Judaism, combining the Torah and other writings) where Samson is known as Shimshon or Simson, which...

His new book, published last month and provocatively titled «Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism,» takes on what Zehner considers the sacred cows of the green movement: solar power, wind power and electric vehicles, among others.