Sentences with phrase «sacred books»

Most of our attention will therefore be given to this highly important sacred book.

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

For example, 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.

The British Library is also slated to take up digitization work of the Adi Granth, considered the most sacred book of the Sikhs.

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

Science is committed by definition to empiricism, by which I mean that scientists seek to find truth by observation, experiment, and calculation rather than by studying sacred books or achieving mystical states of mind.

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.

Encased in thick, pale, plastic frames, Mr. Barney's drawings of the past two decades have the look of precious pages from sacred books displayed on iPads.

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

Usually these are regarded as simply extensions of the really sacred books, although in actual fact they may add to or modify in no small degree the content of the canonical books.

But she does have three books which serve some of the purposes which sacred books generally serve, and, particularly in recent times, an attitude has been taken toward their critical study, similar to that manifested when the early higher critical work began to be done on the Bible.

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

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.

Neither is going to happen — the Koran is the Muslim sacred book, and the teaching of christ against gay behavior and gay marriage is a part of Christian teaching and belief — Christians can toleraste all other religions, and they do - but do NOT insult Christians or Muslims by asking them to change their fundamental beliefs...

The original sacred books of people's religious communities have been rediscovered as new ways of communicating new messages among the people.

He would keep sacred the books of the sect and the secret names of the angels.

Like many, I believe that religious symbols, places of worship and sacred books such as the Holy Bible, the Torah and the Koran deserve to be respected.

Well, that would be a first — if its even true; and how about the library of ancient sacred books closed off from the public, will little babyjesus be coveting those all to himself for another 2000 years too?

The Granth, it will have been noted, is not like most other sacred books in that it is exclusively in poetry.

The text is almost identical to that of the modern Quran, shedding light on Islam's earliest period and suggesting its most sacred book has changed little in 14 centuries.

Just because your sacred book is older.

The mind that has read all the sacred books is not a religious mind.

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.

«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.

(CNN)- Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, so holy that people should wash their hands before even touching the sacred book, which is why Quran burning incites such fury.

CNN: Rioting over Quran burning is un-Islamic, scholar argues Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, so holy that people should wash their hands before even touching the sacred book, which is why Quran burning incites such fury.

In Japan when certain modern scholars undertook to study their sacred books upon which was founded the belief in the divine descent of the royal house, they were summarily dismissed from their university teaching positions, and so elsewhere.

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.

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

Perhaps the most striking illustration of her borrowing tendency is the fact that one of her two sacred books is written wholly in Chinese, and the other in a queer mixture of Japanese and Chinese.

Seems like we recently dodged that bullet, but all we need is for some zealot to actually proclaim and evidence his burning the muslem's sacred book.

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.