Sentence examples for previous scriptures from inspiring English sources

In Bahá'í belief, each consecutive messenger prophesied of messengers to follow, and Bahá'u'lláh's life and teachings fulfilled the end-time promises of previous scriptures.

Converts will flock; I can't help but miss the previous scripture.

As in Mr Barry's previous book, "The Secret Scripture", which narrowly lost the 2008 Man Booker prize, age has "laid her hand" on his new narrator, who struggles to untangle and record her story before it's too late.

The Quran is the central religious book of Islam, believed to be the unadulterated word of God and the culmination of all previous Christian and Jewish scripture.

The followers of the Book of Mormon incorporated the Old and New Testaments into their canon just as the New Testament Christians incorporated the entire scripture of a previous tradition and then supplied reinterpretations.

Some scriptures also mention her previous birth being Vedavati, a woman Ravana tries to molest.

Some of these previous lives are recorded in the Buddhist scripture, the Jakata.

Wisdom is not merely a matter of belief, doctrine, dogma, scripture, or received knowledge from previous generations.

Early sections present key aspects of the Qur'an, such as its references to previous prophets (including Abraham and Moses) and continuity with earlier monotheistic scriptures, and themes including revelation, Judgment Day and the mercy of God.

Handel had turned out the full-length oratorio, whose ersatz plot quotes Scripture, in just over three weeks the previous autumn.

The prefect replied simply: "Mister Fitzmyer, we are putting you into Scripture"—an area virtually ignored in his previous years of Jesuit formation.