Sentences with phrase «own sacred book»

Just because your sacred book is older.

So, what happens as people read these stories over and over, the conversation simply never comes up... and if someone challenges their faith... and they go to the Bible to look for answers, they are simply never going to find a trace of what I'm trying to say here in the sacred books.

I can see tat a lot of people that don't like that I disagree with the article dismissed my earlier opinion as hate, I certainly don't have as much experience in hate as this people that read about it very often in their sacred books.

Every literary text is essentially borne of The Bible or another, similarly sacred book.

«Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, so holy that people should wash their hands before even touching the sacred book» is really saying something, considering they don't even do that after using the bathroom!

Any relegious book that you burn whether it is bible, bhagavat gita or any sacred book will cause reactions.

You can write your own sacred book, call it, for instance, «Pirripipirripible», and make it teach how awesome is «pirripipirripi».

Again and again German priests and monks insisted that missions among the Slays on their eastern borders must be conducted by them, and opposed the use of translations of the sacred books and the liturgy into Slavonic, presumably because it would encourage Slavic political and ecclesiastical independence of their rule.

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.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

«You can write your own sacred book, call it, for instance, «Pirripipirripible,» and make it teach how awesome is «pirripipirripi,»» this commenter continues.»

Every religion brings out their sacred books, prophets, traditions, revelations, miracles, and authorities.

The sacred book of Zoroastrianism is the Avesta, though often, but improperly, it is called the Zend - Avesta.

«The sacred Book of Mormon is alleged to have been found on ancient golden plates buried in a hill in upstate New Year, just outside of Rochester.

Changed his name to Muhammad when starting his own religion Koran, (Qur «an) the sacred book of Islam.

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

And of course those religions which had not achieved the art of writing had, in a strict sense, no fixed sacred book.

To encounter revelation is not primarily to look back, or to dig into a sacred book or a traditional set of teachings.

We hear of fast - days on the Jewish model, but on different days, and the adoption by the Church of the Old Testament as a sacred book played a large part in forming the prayers as well as the instruction of Christians.

This latter mission marked an important step, as the Samaritans held the Law of Moses as a sacred book but were bitter enemies of the Jewish nation: the Christians in admitting them to the Church were already on the way to acceptance of Gentiles.

It is characteristic of Mahayana and its «henotheizing» and bibliolatrous tendencies that each of the Mahayana sects usually has its own particularly sacred book.

All literate religions have sacred books, but to suggest that the Scriptures of the Christians and Jews are the key element of these religions is mistaken.

Probably no sacred book has been more influential, not alone upon the religion derived from it, but upon the total culture of the people who embrace the faith, than the Koran.

He who in faith shall persevere in listening to the recital of this sacred book shall obtain long life, great renown and the way to heaven.»

While the Koran is the one completely sacred book of the Moslems, there exists alongside it a considerable body of supplementary material which is almost as important as the Koran itself in the determination of Moslem belief and practice.

It is unique among sacred books in several particulars.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

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.

Even if it could be proven that Israel never actually practiced the herem, the problem would still remain that Israel boasts of it in its sacred books.

The sacred book of the Moslems or, as more commonly if less correctly known, the Mohammedans, is the Koran.

In even our best acts, we humans seem to have an inescapable self - centeredness that causes us to deify ourselves, our cultures, our religions, institutions, sacred books, the things we make....

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

Again, it is a sacred book in the making.9

Almost every movement mentioned in the appendix of These Also Believe has something like a sacred book, either already formed, or in the making.

With the coming of the Gentiles to Utah, the political direction of the state has, of course, passed from the church as church, but even today the economic and social life of the Mormon community is still to an amazing degree determined by the principles taught in their sacred book.

It is abundantly evident from the reading of the previous chapters on the sacred books of the various peoples of the world that the definition of a sacred book is not a hard and fast one.

Whenever he saw an opportunity of defaming the Gurus, the sacred book and the religion of the Sikhs, he eagerly availed himself of it.

Here we must recall the definition of a sacred book with which we began.

These cultures developed no sacred books of a canonical sort.

The more recent sacred books are not usually represented in the anthologies.

Neither the Greeks nor the Romans, the Egyptians nor the Babylonians — all highly literate cultures — had what may be termed sacred books with a definitely limited canon, held to be the exclusive basis of religious faith.

Are there, under this definition, any modern sacred books?

Limitation of space precludes an adequate discussion of the cultural role of these numerous modern sacred books.

There remain two modern American sacred books to be considered at somewhat greater length, viz., Science and Health Key to the Scriptures, and the peculiar sacred writings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Thus the Gospel of Mark, though deriving its tradition from Palestine, was the sacred book of tradition of the early Gentile church.

Though there are now a goodly number of anthologies containing selections from most of the sacred books of the world, so far only one that has come to the attention of the writer contains anything from the Granth, the Sikh Bible, and that only a very limited selection.

Tell me that your sacred book, sacred Scriptures, priests or whatever or whomever has decreed what God has said.

I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized by a substantial number of people as the basis of their religious faith, since it is regarded by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.

We must have our dreams, our myths, our prayers, our worship, our angels, our sacred book.

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.