So much of the liturgy of our New Year is a quoting of our scriptures back toward the Divine, as though reminding God of this ancient reassurance and of that one, by way of imploring for the fulfillment, finally, of the visions, and for the actualization, at long last, of the promises of divine sovereignty.
Religious scholars denounced the Taliban's use of Islamic scripture to back their case.
These same people will pick and choose verses from scripture to back up their ill-informed positions.
Mr. Gore's incorrigible running mate, Joe Lieberman, has now taken to invoking Scripture to back up his stands on health care and environmentalism.
The Bestiary then uses scripture to back its case and quotes Jeremiah 12 8: "Mine heritage is become as the hyena's lair".
In the Bhagavad-Gita -- the Hindu Scripture dating back thousands of years -- personality is attributed to a mix of the three inborn personality types called the gunas (sattva, rajas, tamas), plus the karmic traits carried over from previous lives.
Ancient scriptures dating back to around 2000 BC highlight various practices of water treatment by filtration, exposure to sunlight and storage in brass and copper vessels [ 11].
And the Jewish Talmud, represented with a volume from Daniel Bomberg's 16th-century printing, features a web of notes and analysis about law and Scripture incorporating material going back to the second century.
Ingmar Bergman's dark masterpiece effortlessly sees off the revisionists and the satirists; it is a radical work of art that reaches back to scripture, to Cervantes and to Shakespeare to create a new dramatic idiom of its own.
Even the call-and-response singing that is integral to many African-American church services may have been brought to America by illiterate Scottish immigrants who learned Scripture by singing it back to the pastor as he read it to them.
