Sentence examples for scriptures as from inspiring English sources

"They're basically all centred around Torah," he explains, "the first five books of Moses in the Christian Bible and in the Hebrew scriptures as well.

The teaching of Jesus requires us to treat Muslims and their scriptures as fairly as we want to be treated.

References to this goddess appear in Hindu scriptures as early as 8th and 9th century BCE, in which she is associated with children as well as the Hindu war-god Skanda.

All Methodist churches accept the Scriptures as the supreme guide to faith and practice.

The Charvakas regard the scriptures as characterized by the three faults: falsity, self-contradiction, and tautology.

She read the scriptures as her mother told her to and learned to challenge received wisdoms as her father did.

The Sufi mystics associated with the spread of Islam often regarded the Hindu scriptures as divinely inspired.

Reading the Hebrew Scriptures as reason rather than revelation, we find a book entirely different from the one many people are taught to expect.

There may be some reason to speak of the conception of God found in the Hebrew Scriptures as monolatry rather than as monotheism, because the existence of other gods is seldom explicitly denied and many times even acknowledged.

Accepting the Hebrew Scriptures as preparatory revelation, Christianity maintains that revelation is brought to its unsurpassable climax in the person of Jesus Christ, who is God's own Son (Hebrews 1 1 2), his eternal Word (John 1 1), and the perfect image of the Father (Colossians 1 15).

In the midst of our global ecological crisis, Jews -- and indeed all people who hold the Hebrew Scriptures as canon -- must turn our attention to the deep connection among Judaism, agriculture and healthy communities.