"scripture" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to sacred texts of a religion or spiritual belief system. For example, you could say "The scripture of Buddhism contains important teachings from the Buddha."
Clinton, a devout Methodist, talked scripture.
And it is true, too, that Islamic scripture, although vague in many matters, is specific about slavery, including such questions as whether sex is permitted.
Such homely behaviour is most heavily correlated with religious belief in the American South and Midwest, which are also the regions with "the most conservative interpretation of scripture," Mr Showers notes, in an article in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion.
This tax base has given the Jaafari clergy both power and independence, while the pressure of constituents' choice has pushed them towards relatively innovative interpretations of scripture.
The hitch, alas, is the believers those folks who say and do such silly things because they follow scripture like it's some sort of rule-book written by God.
(That this military directorate's output will find its way onto America's streets is almost inevitable; it gets far more money than its civilian counterpart, and the Pentagon's leftovers have a fairly direct route into the hands of local police).The JNLWD's principal scripture is Directive 3000.3, a 1996 document titled Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons. Non-Lethal Weapons
The pope presents himself as a reformist in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, and indeed he reveals himself as such in many things in "liturgy, focus on scripture, outreach to the world, compassion for the poor and disenfranchised".
This is odd and, in a way, disturbing.Although the blessedness of peacemakers is much talked of in scripture, in real life the mediators of political conflicts are often cursed by the very people whose conflicts they are trying to resolve.
Wielding scripture to question the commonly held view that apostasy from Islam should be punished by death, Mr Youssef recently pointed out that the Koran suggests no such thing.
Muslim account-holders, Mr Howladar explains, tend to be more concerned with the products and service on offer than with the strictures of sharia (rules based on Muslim scripture).
Moreover, the suicides that do occur in the Bible Samson, Saul and Judas among others are not described in a disapproving manner.The gift of lifeIn any case, both the Jewish and Christian disapproval of suicide dates from the fourth century AD, late in the development of both religions, and does not derive directly from scripture.
