Sentences with phrase «own sacred scriptures»

Many Christians say that some Mormon beliefs, including that Mormon church leaders are prophets and that the Book of Mormon is sacred scripture, are incompatible with Christianity.

Others, like Protestantism, allow the individual freedom in its interpretation; but in some sense, among all it is the sacred scripture to which appeal must be made if one desires to know the truth.

All alike, however, of the sacred scriptures purport to be in some degree divine in origin.

A growing number of people have by now found inspiration in the sacred scriptures of the world and have been willing to join together in prayer with members of different religions.

Its author lives in another world than the Palestine of Jesus» days — one can scarcely believe that he ever saw Palestine, or knew Judaism and its sacred Scriptures intimately and sympathetically.

We can best do this by looking at what we like to call the pre-literate sacred scriptures.

Second, being the word of God, the sacred scriptures became the foundations upon which the several religions were erected.

The Gregorian sound, and the practice of chanting, whether by specialists or by non-specialists, gives the most perfect context for the hearing of the words of the sacred scripture.

Yet our sacred scripture informs us in Ecclesiastes that there is not only a time for love, but also «a time for hate.»

Not many religions can boast of sacred scriptures that provide support for the opposition party.

He wrote, «We are grateful that Paramount is striving, with this disclaimer, to strike a proper balance between artistic creativity, character development, and honoring the sacred scripture.»

Churches are required to be agents of resistance to genocide or any other kind of social evil, as a basic expression of faithfulness to their God, their sacred scriptures and their social responsibility.

The five books of the law had been accepted as sacred Scripture for four or five centuries, and for two or three centuries the books of the prophets had been recognized as a second body of sacred literature; but the rest of the Old Testament (known to this day simply as Writings or Scriptures) had not yet been «canonized.»

Not all religions have a body of sacred scriptures such as that described in the preceding chapter, not even all of those which had reached the stage of writing.

If you use your Bible very much, then you can pick it up, look at it from the side, and tell what your own sacred scriptures really are.

Religion as the means of well - being for a community and thus for each individual, who has a role in that community, requires a common understanding between like - minded involving faith in a creed, obedience to a moral code set down in sacred Scriptures or participation in a cult.

The whole of the Bible is «canon» in the traditional sense that it constitutes our sacred Scriptures.

This fool... wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.»

Martin Luther had similar thoughts: «Nor can a Christian believer be forced beyond sacred Scriptures,... unless some new and proved revelation should be added; for we are forbidden by divine law to believe except what is proved either through the divine Scriptures or through Manifest revelation.»

Not many religions can boast of sacred scriptures that provide support....

But these are not a part of the sacred scriptures.

Its history predates Christ on earth: the chanting of sacred Scripture is a tradition we have inherited from the Jews.

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

Prof. Levenson notes that, among other differences between traditional Judaism and Christianity ignored by Dabru Emet, Jewish adherents of Judaism do not consider the New Testament to be their sacred scripture, do not believe that Jesus was either Messiah or God, do not believe in a Trinitarian God, and do not believe that Christianity either supersedes or fulfills Judaism.

Finally, it must be said that the concrete hermeneutical difficulties arising in the interpretation of sacred scripture and ecclesial tradition do not in themselves form a problem specific to any tradition or one that should separate Churches.

Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his biography which laid the encounter of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as living everyday life in many contexts.

Preachers who choose to absent themselves from this discourse risk being genuinely sectarian: so out of touch as to miss an entire language in which their parishioners are far more conversant than with their own sacred scripture.

there exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and sacred Scripture.

In this regard, it may be noted that the hermeneutical difficulties are no fewer in the interpretation of the sacred scriptures.

His sole object as a teacher was «to lay down a pathway to the reading of sacred Scripture for the simple and uneducated.»

God has written two books - the book of sacred scripture and the book of creation, the book of his word and the book of his world - and whilst theologians gaze through the window of sacred scripture scientists gaze on the same scene through a different window.

When we turn the pages of sacred scripture we enter into a narrative; the beginning of a story.

This faithfulness stems from the church hearing anew the old time gospel of Jesus Christ in the sacred scriptures, tempered by the communal hearing of that Word, which is its collective memory.

They do not say this unless they think they know what God wants human beings to do — unless they can cite sacred scriptures, or the words of a guru, or the teachings of an ecclesiastical tradition, or something of the sort, in support of their own position (id.

Here, we either to choose to conclude that all sacred scriptures are anything from human naïveté to human conspiracy, or we choose to appreciate the manifold, perennial, and universal attempts to understand and articulate things that are mysterious but important to us.

In all the discoveries made through extended archaeological research, there has never appeared what might be called a sacred scripture of the Babylonians or Assyrians.

Offended at somebody who calls sacred scripture «drivel»?

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.

Anyone who has been taught from the sacred scriptures knows that a Christian is called to examine those around him, first and foremost those professing to be Christian, for their fidelity to a righteous life (1Corinthians 5:11 - 12).

It is evident that Smith's theology is «natural theology», a knowledge of God arrived at by the study of nature alone, without any reliance on «revelation» as recorded in sacred scripture.

It is not «lawful,» he continued, to say that the Jews are ««repudiated or cursed» as if this were taught or could be deduced from the sacred Scriptures of the Old or the New Testament.»

Tradition is subordinate to Scripture, and should be shaped by Scripture, but Scripture, on the other hand, must be read in the context of «a vibrant and ongoing interpretative tradition that serves to provide authoritative parameters for expositing [the] sacred Scriptures.»

Paul Schubert, in a symposium devoted to the The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East writes: «When it comes to the idea of history, it must be said that Israel, through its sacred scripture... has proved to be the strongest and most influential single force observable by the historian in shaping the idea of history throughout two millennia of Western history.»

As with sacred Scripture, so with the exercise of the Petrine ministry: the truth or otherwise of a teaching is based on the authority invested in it — in both cases, by God himself, guaranteed by his Holy Spirit — rather than on the identity, oftentimes unknown, of this or that composer (or composers) of a particular text.

Our new Pope discloses that faith arises from a personal encounter with God's Word that infuses a person's existence with new meaning — but that this encounter is possible only within the faith community, in which are rendered accessible the sacred Scriptures, sacramental grace, fraternity and service to the Lord in others.

For Jews it was desirable that all males study their sacred scriptures, the Torah.

In the worship of the Sufi these sacred scriptures lie upon the altar on which stand seven candlesticks.

Examples are the belief in the Trinity, in Creation, in Incarnation; the concepts of a virgin birth, vicarious suffering, the death and resurrection of the redeemer god; the inspiration of sacred scripture; the sole efficacy of grace; the forgiveness of sin; infused prayer; the imitation of God; the glory of paradise; the fulfilled kingdom of God; the priesthood and monasticism; sacraments and liturgical ceremonies, including the rosary.

First the believers of the various religions listened to the Word of God in the various sacred scriptures of mankind and then in holy silence hearkened to the inner Word of God.

As Christians, these third - century thinkers also held that the best way to contemplate God is through meditation on sacred scripture.