Prayer and
the reading of sacred texts, for example, are prescribed ways of drawing closer to God.
The reading of the sacred text [AA.
Not exact matches
He loved coming in each week knowing that
readings had been assigned, and that he, like millions
of others, would be submitting himself to the
sacred texts, not subjecting it to his own consumeristic impulse.
This is fascinating — I think a lot
of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense —
reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.
Paul was writing to Christians whom he had never seen, but expected soon to see, and he sets forth the common faith which he is sure they already hold — «the gospel
of God, (See Mark 1:14 — though the
text may originally have
read, «the gospel
of the Kingdom
of God,» as in the A. V.) which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the
sacred writings,
valerie0423 Have you ever taken the time to
read any
of the mythologies or other
sacred texts of rival religions to prove them false?
The
sacred text was
read with the Fathers
of the Church, accompanied by commentaries and catenae, with frequent glosses explaining the meaning
of difficult....
Progressive religious folks
of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward
reading our
sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings
of justice.
We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways
of understanding divinity and
sacred text, especially when the old ways
of understanding them (e.g. antiquated
readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.
In recent decades, this pneumatological and ecclesial way
of reading the Scriptures is being widely recovered, thus protecting the
sacred text from individualistic exegesis and those critical methodologies that are indifferent, or even hostile, to God's saving and sanctifying truth.
However, when we actually
read the
text of The Five Wounds, we find there that Rosmini concludes: «Putting the
sacred rites into the vernacular would induce greater problems than the remedies imposed,» and would be «a cure worse than the disease».
I have also
read as many
of the
sacred texts of other religions as I can find, something a True Believer would not, as a rule, do, since they have found the One True Religion, just as the followers
of all other religions have.
As a community
of faith gathers to
read, hear and study
sacred texts, as it sings hymns
of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts
of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.
Yes your obervation about is is very correct.Sharia law is a
sacred part
of our
text, If you want to know
read the Const.itution and learn about this yourself.
The article has been well written by the author and yes Sharia law is a
sacred part
of our
text, If you want to know
read the Const.itution and learn about this yourself.
It is thought that those in this bardo are very sensitive to the thoughts
of those they knew in life, and consequently chants, prayers,
reading sacred texts and other rituals may guide those in this confused state.