Sentences with phrase «sacred scripture tells»

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

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

That is the kind of productive license writers can take with sacred stories, the kind of story Tóibín could have told, when the storytelling effort is born of a freedom ordered — and indeed enlivened by the challenge of being ordered — to the realities of tradition, Scripture, teaching, and belief.

«Unless I am convinced by sacred Scripture, or by evident reason, I can not recant,» he told the church authorities in 1521, «for my conscience is held captive by the word of God, and to act against conscience is neither right nor safe.»