Sentence examples for original scriptures from inspiring English sources

A group of Amish visitors to the old library once broke into song when they saw the tattered papyrus fragments, because the pieces of manuscript were the closest they had ever come to the original Scriptures, Charles Horton, curator of Western collections, said.

A story is circulating that in a recent dream the Pope saw original scripture writers in the act, and this might enlighten us.

The original scripture said "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a 7yo boy to do 1 hour of homework".

I edited a chapter once about how the original Buddhist scriptures were written in China.

The fact of its existence — an original American scripture — mattered more to its early audience than the narrative it contained.

Nevertheless, the Pope's decision that doctrinal matters be given precedence prevailed, and, in its early sessions, the Council of Trent hammered out decrees on the canon of the Scriptures, original sin, justification, and the sacraments, as well as on reform.

Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, added, "With the exception of Islam, all the major religions emerged before Christianity, so there is no place for Jesus in their original foundations and scriptures.

(According to Professor Hendel, some fundamentalists account for such apparent slips by holding that the original version of scripture was all literally true, but that the Bible we now have is corrupted in a few places).Philo of Alexandria, a Hellenistic Jew who was born at the end of the first century BC, was one of the most inventive discoverers of cryptic messages in the Bible.

We also leave aside a variety of important but less-discussed topics in philosophical theology, such as the nature of divine revelation and scripture, original sin, the authority of tradition, and the like.

Lucretia Mott countered those who would put her in her place by quoting other Bible passages, or by challenging the original interpretation of the scripture.

This was, after all, one of the word's original meanings, referring to books of scripture meeting ecclesiastical approval.